Hybrid/Remote VMS Job Trends

VMS
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring VMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 390 456
Rank change year-on-year +15 +66 +129
Permanent jobs citing VMS 17 18 121
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.095% 0.13% 0.37%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.19% 0.96% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 15 16 97
10th Percentile £61,500 £53,750 -
25th Percentile £64,375 £60,938 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +30.43% +15.29%
75th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £93,250 £90,000 £65,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% +8.70% +21.05%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

VMS falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,426 1,879 4,523
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.96% 14.04% 13.92%
Number of salaries quoted 973 1,440 3,712
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,442 £36,250 £38,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.84% -7.27%
75th Percentile £74,987 £70,000 £66,000
90th Percentile £92,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £48,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -7.22% +7.78% -14.29%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

VMS job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

VMS
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

VMS
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing VMS over the 6 months to 23 April 2026.

VMS salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

VMS
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 3 (17.65%) OpenStack
2 1 (5.88%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 11 (64.71%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (17.65%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon S3
4 2 (11.76%) AWS
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Functions
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Storage
4 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
4 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
4 2 (11.76%) SaaS
4 2 (11.76%) Serverless
5 1 (5.88%) Azure App Service
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (5.88%) Datadog
5 1 (5.88%) Firebase
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub
5 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
5 1 (5.88%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) SQL Server
2 4 (23.53%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (17.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (11.76%) Power BI
5 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
5 1 (5.88%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 3 (17.65%) Legal
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Back Office
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Senior
2 6 (35.29%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) DBA
4 3 (17.65%) Lead
4 3 (17.65%) SQL DBA
4 3 (17.65%) Team Leader
5 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Reliability Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Reliability Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Support Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Support Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) .NET Developer
6 1 (5.88%) .NET Web Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) .NET
2 2 (11.76%) .NET Core
2 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 1 (5.88%) OAuth
3 1 (5.88%) OAuth2
3 1 (5.88%) OpenID
3 1 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (5.88%) React
3 1 (5.88%) React Native
3 1 (5.88%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Cloud Native
1 4 (23.53%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (17.65%) Clustering
2 3 (17.65%) Data Centre
2 3 (17.65%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Legacy Code
3 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Linux
1 6 (35.29%) Windows
2 3 (17.65%) CentOS
2 3 (17.65%) Debian
2 3 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) CI/CD
2 10 (58.82%) DevOps
3 7 (41.18%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (29.41%) Runbook
6 4 (23.53%) Benchmarking
6 4 (23.53%) Observability
7 3 (17.65%) Agile
7 3 (17.65%) Analytics
7 3 (17.65%) Change Control
7 3 (17.65%) Coaching
7 3 (17.65%) ITIL
7 3 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (17.65%) Roadmaps
8 2 (11.76%) Budget Management
8 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
8 2 (11.76%) Incident Response
8 2 (11.76%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) SQL
2 4 (23.53%) PowerShell
2 4 (23.53%) T-SQL
3 3 (17.65%) Bicep
3 3 (17.65%) C#
4 2 (11.76%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (5.88%) Bash
5 1 (5.88%) Python
5 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
2 3 (17.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 2 (11.76%) VMware NSX
3 2 (11.76%) vSphere
4 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
4 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Kubernetes
2 7 (41.18%) Terraform
3 5 (29.41%) Ansible
4 4 (23.53%) Grafana
5 3 (17.65%) Puppet
5 3 (17.65%) ZABBIX
6 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) AppDynamics
1 3 (17.65%) New Relic
1 3 (17.65%) VMware
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Foundry