Hybrid/Remote Virtual Servers Job Trends

Virtual Servers
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Virtual Servers skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 397 460
Rank change year-on-year +44 +63 +179
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Servers 11 43 33
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.073% 0.26% 0.15%
As % of the System Software category 0.91% 1.67% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 11 19 26
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,700 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +10.53% -13.64%
75th Percentile £58,750 £73,750 £60,837
90th Percentile - £86,000 £64,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% +5.26% -10.38%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

Virtual Servers falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,212 2,569 3,487
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.05% 15.59% 16.20%
Number of salaries quoted 876 1,582 2,991
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £42,899
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £74,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,722 £88,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -1.79%

Virtual Servers
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Virtual Servers and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Virtual Servers job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Virtual Servers
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Virtual Servers.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Virtual Servers

Virtual Servers
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (54.55%) IIS
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) Azure
2 7 (63.64%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (54.55%) Azure Storage
4 3 (27.27%) AWS
4 3 (27.27%) GCP
5 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (9.09%) Mimecast
6 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (81.82%) VPN
1 9 (81.82%) WAN
2 8 (72.73%) Firewall
3 6 (54.55%) SD-WAN
3 6 (54.55%) SSL
4 4 (36.36%) DHCP
4 4 (36.36%) DNS
5 3 (27.27%) LAN
6 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (27.27%) Law
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (81.82%) Cloud Engineer
2 9 (81.82%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Systems Support
4 1 (9.09%) Systems Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) CMDB
2 1 (9.09%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (54.55%) Windows Server
3 3 (27.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Disaster Recovery
1 10 (90.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (63.64%) Capacity Planning
3 6 (54.55%) Migration
3 6 (54.55%) Proactive Monitoring
3 6 (54.55%) Storage Management
4 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (36.36%) DevOps
4 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
7 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
7 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Management
7 1 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
7 1 (9.09%) Preventative Maintenance
7 1 (9.09%) Proactive Management
7 1 (9.09%) Software Licensing
7 1 (9.09%) Task Automation
7 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) PowerShell
2 7 (63.64%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) A+ Certification
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) MCP
1 1 (9.09%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Hyper-V
2 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
3 2 (18.18%) Docker
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (81.82%) Terraform
2 6 (54.55%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (27.27%) Ansible
4 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) SonicWALL
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) IFS
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle