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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 398 457
Rank change year-on-year -40 +59 +11
Permanent jobs citing VMS 19 22 18
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.076% 0.13% 0.083%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.22% 1.21% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2 14 6
10th Percentile - £39,700 £36,250
25th Percentile - £46,563 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £52,250 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -11.96% +1.95% -6.82%
75th Percentile - £70,625 £64,375
90th Percentile - £73,750 £71,375
UK median annual salary £48,911 £63,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -22.36% +32.63% -13.64%

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 1,563 1,812 2,868
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.28% 10.90% 13.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,212 969 1,701
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £33,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.25%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.43% -17.00% -4.76%

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
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 12 (63.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 16 (84.21%) Azure
2 13 (68.42%) Azure DevOps
2 13 (68.42%) Azure Monitor
3 12 (63.16%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 12 (63.16%) Azure Functions
3 12 (63.16%) Azure Key Vault
3 12 (63.16%) GitHub
3 12 (63.16%) IaaS
3 12 (63.16%) PaaS
3 12 (63.16%) Serverless
4 1 (5.26%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (63.16%) VPN
2 2 (10.53%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (10.53%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (63.16%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (63.16%) Git
General
1 15 (78.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 15 (78.95%) Social Skills
2 12 (63.16%) Law
3 3 (15.79%) Telecoms
4 2 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (63.16%) Analyst
1 12 (63.16%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 10 (52.63%) Senior
3 6 (31.58%) Senior Analyst
3 6 (31.58%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Windows Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (68.42%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 12 (63.16%) Podcast
1 12 (63.16%) Public Cloud
1 12 (63.16%) Security Posture
2 6 (31.58%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (15.79%) CCTV
3 3 (15.79%) IoT
3 3 (15.79%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
4 2 (10.53%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (68.42%) Windows
2 3 (15.79%) Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) CI/CD
1 13 (68.42%) Cloud Security
1 13 (68.42%) DevOps
1 13 (68.42%) Infrastructure as Code
1 13 (68.42%) Root Cause Analysis
2 12 (63.16%) Agile
2 12 (63.16%) AI
2 12 (63.16%) Analytics
2 12 (63.16%) API Management
2 12 (63.16%) Computer Science
2 12 (63.16%) DevSecOps
2 12 (63.16%) Generative AI
2 12 (63.16%) Log Analytics
2 12 (63.16%) Observability
2 12 (63.16%) Performance Tuning
2 12 (63.16%) Scrum
2 12 (63.16%) Task Automation
3 9 (47.37%) Mentoring
4 7 (36.84%) Incident Management
5 6 (31.58%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 14 (73.68%) PowerShell
2 13 (68.42%) Bash
3 12 (63.16%) Bicep
3 12 (63.16%) Kusto Query Language
3 12 (63.16%) SQL
4 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (63.16%) Azure Certification
1 12 (63.16%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (15.79%) DBS Check
2 3 (15.79%) Degree
System Software
1 13 (68.42%) Active Directory
1 13 (68.42%) VMware Infrastructure
1 13 (68.42%) vSphere
2 12 (63.16%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Ansible
1 1 (5.26%) Grafana
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
1 1 (5.26%) SCCM
1 1 (5.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (78.95%) VMware
2 13 (68.42%) Microsoft
3 12 (63.16%) ScienceLogic
4 3 (15.79%) Veeam
5 2 (10.53%) Dell