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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 416 464
Rank change year-on-year +10 +48 +83
Permanent jobs citing VMS 12 11 121
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.062% 0.074% 0.36%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.86% 0.52% 2.72%
Number of salaries quoted 8 9 99
10th Percentile £62,625 £59,500 -
25th Percentile £64,688 £66,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +21.74% +24.43%
75th Percentile £72,500 £88,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,500 £93,500 £65,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.66% +15.22% +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 1,395 2,117 4,443
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.21% 14.22% 13.17%
Number of salaries quoted 994 1,235 3,541
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,250 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 6 June 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 (25.00%) OpenStack
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (8.33%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Azure Functions
2 4 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 4 (33.33%) Serverless
3 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Storage
4 2 (16.67%) GitHub
4 2 (16.67%) IaaS
4 2 (16.67%) PaaS
4 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 2 (16.67%) SaaS
5 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
5 1 (8.33%) Datadog
5 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
5 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (16.67%) Power BI
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (16.67%) Law
2 2 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Lead
2 3 (25.00%) Team Leader
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) DBA
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Reliability Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Reliability Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Support Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) SQL DBA
3 2 (16.67%) Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) .NET
1 2 (16.67%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Clustering
2 2 (16.67%) Podcast
2 2 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Security Posture
3 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
2 3 (25.00%) CentOS
2 3 (25.00%) Debian
2 3 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
2 6 (50.00%) DevOps
2 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (41.67%) Agile
3 5 (41.67%) Runbook
4 4 (33.33%) Analytics
4 4 (33.33%) Log Analytics
4 4 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (25.00%) Coaching
5 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (25.00%) ITIL
5 3 (25.00%) Observability
6 2 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
6 2 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
6 2 (16.67%) Incident Response
6 2 (16.67%) Service-Level Objective
6 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 6 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
3 3 (25.00%) Bash
4 2 (16.67%) Bicep
4 2 (16.67%) C#
4 2 (16.67%) T-SQL
5 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
1 3 (25.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
1 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Grafana
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
2 3 (25.00%) Ansible
2 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (25.00%) Puppet
2 3 (25.00%) ZABBIX
3 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (25.00%) VMware
2 2 (16.67%) ScienceLogic