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 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 384 499
Rank change year-on-year +4 +115 +143
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Servers 14 33 48
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.085% 0.22% 0.17%
As % of the System Software category 1.04% 1.38% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 12 17 43
10th Percentile - £44,500 £36,298
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £41,036
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +10.53% -17.39%
75th Percentile £58,750 £86,000 £63,000
90th Percentile - £88,900 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £43,190
% change year-on-year +15.00% +15.77% -20.02%

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 1,341 2,383 4,177
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.15% 16.10% 14.68%
Number of salaries quoted 950 1,530 3,597
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £31,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,156 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +10.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,875 £113,875 £87,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%

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 5 (35.71%) IIS
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (21.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) Azure
2 10 (71.43%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (35.71%) AWS
3 5 (35.71%) Azure Storage
4 3 (21.43%) GCP
4 3 (21.43%) Mimecast
5 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (71.43%) WAN
2 9 (64.29%) Firewall
3 8 (57.14%) VPN
4 5 (35.71%) LAN
4 5 (35.71%) SD-WAN
4 5 (35.71%) SSL
5 4 (28.57%) DHCP
5 4 (28.57%) DNS
6 2 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (14.29%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (14.29%) Unified Communications
6 2 (14.29%) VLAN
6 2 (14.29%) WebEx
7 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Law
3 2 (14.29%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Marketing
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 2 (14.29%) Retail
3 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (92.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (57.14%) Cloud Engineer
2 8 (57.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Support Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 3 (21.43%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (21.43%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Support
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Collaboration Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Systems Support
6 1 (7.14%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) CMDB
2 3 (21.43%) Driving Licence
3 2 (14.29%) FlexPod
3 2 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (14.29%) Onboarding
3 2 (14.29%) Replication
3 2 (14.29%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (35.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (78.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (57.14%) Capacity Planning
4 6 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (42.86%) DevOps
4 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (35.71%) Migration
5 5 (35.71%) Proactive Monitoring
5 5 (35.71%) Storage Management
6 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
7 3 (21.43%) Business Continuity
7 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
7 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Management
7 3 (21.43%) ITIL
7 3 (21.43%) Preventative Maintenance
7 3 (21.43%) Proactive Management
7 3 (21.43%) Task Automation
7 3 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) PowerShell
2 8 (57.14%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) A+ Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 1 (7.14%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Hyper-V
2 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
4 2 (14.29%) Docker
4 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (14.29%) vSphere
5 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (71.43%) Terraform
2 5 (35.71%) Ansible
2 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (14.29%) Cisco CUCM
3 2 (14.29%) Grafana
3 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 5 (35.71%) SonicWALL
3 3 (21.43%) IFS
3 3 (21.43%) Oracle
4 2 (14.29%) Cisco
4 2 (14.29%) Fortinet
4 2 (14.29%) NetApp
4 2 (14.29%) Palo Alto
4 2 (14.29%) Splunk
4 2 (14.29%) VMware