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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 354 450 448
Rank change year-on-year +96 -2 +256
Permanent jobs citing VMS 28 17 31
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.18% 0.089% 0.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.14% 0.63% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 20 9 8
10th Percentile £39,700 £36,250 £51,000
25th Percentile £47,188 £41,250 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £55,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £74,688 £88,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,625 - £100,125
UK median annual salary £63,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -4.55% -3.08%

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 1,308 2,703 3,285
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.57% 14.18% 15.98%
Number of salaries quoted 956 1,689 2,792
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -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
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing VMS over the 6 months to 3 December 2025.

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 2 (7.14%) TPMS
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (78.57%) Azure
2 12 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (35.71%) Entra ID
4 6 (21.43%) PaaS
5 5 (17.86%) AWS
5 5 (17.86%) Azure App Service
5 5 (17.86%) GitHub
6 4 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (14.29%) IaaS
7 3 (10.71%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (10.71%) Amazon S3
7 3 (10.71%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (10.71%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (7.14%) Azure Stack
8 2 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
8 2 (7.14%) PowerApps
9 1 (3.57%) Firebase
9 1 (3.57%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 11 (39.29%) Firewall
2 6 (21.43%) DNS
3 5 (17.86%) VPN
4 2 (7.14%) Network Security
5 1 (3.57%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 2 (7.14%) MySQL
3 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
General
1 6 (21.43%) Finance
2 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Advertising
4 1 (3.57%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 13 (46.43%) Senior
2 12 (42.86%) Azure Engineer
3 10 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (32.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (25.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (21.43%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (17.86%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 3 (10.71%) Lead
9 3 (10.71%) Support Engineer
10 2 (7.14%) Analyst
10 2 (7.14%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 2 (7.14%) Lead Project Manager
10 2 (7.14%) Project Manager
10 2 (7.14%) Security Engineer
10 2 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
10 2 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 2 (7.14%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) .NET
2 3 (10.71%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (7.14%) WCF
4 1 (3.57%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 1 (3.57%) OAuth
4 1 (3.57%) OAuth2
4 1 (3.57%) OpenID
4 1 (3.57%) React
4 1 (3.57%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Cloud Native
2 4 (14.29%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (10.71%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (10.71%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (10.71%) Security Posture
4 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.57%) Legacy Code
5 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.57%) VAX
Operating Systems
1 10 (35.71%) Windows
2 4 (14.29%) Linux
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (67.86%) DevOps
2 16 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (53.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 13 (46.43%) CI/CD
5 9 (32.14%) Cloud Security
6 8 (28.57%) ITIL
7 7 (25.00%) Migration
8 6 (21.43%) Cloud Operations
8 6 (21.43%) GitOps
8 6 (21.43%) Identity Access Management
9 5 (17.86%) Collaborative Culture
9 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Automation
9 5 (17.86%) Performance Tuning
9 5 (17.86%) Root Cause Analysis
10 4 (14.29%) Asset Management
10 4 (14.29%) Coaching
10 4 (14.29%) Project Management
10 4 (14.29%) SDLC
10 4 (14.29%) Task Automation
11 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (46.43%) PowerShell
2 9 (32.14%) Bicep
3 8 (28.57%) SQL
4 7 (25.00%) Python
5 3 (10.71%) Bash
6 1 (3.57%) C#
6 1 (3.57%) COBOL
6 1 (3.57%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
1 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) APMP
3 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (7.14%) GDPR
2 2 (7.14%) NIST
2 2 (7.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (32.14%) Active Directory
2 7 (25.00%) Docker
3 3 (10.71%) VMware NSX
3 3 (10.71%) vSphere
4 2 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.57%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (64.29%) Terraform
2 10 (35.71%) Kubernetes
3 5 (17.86%) Ansible
4 1 (3.57%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.29%) VMware
3 3 (10.71%) AppDynamics
3 3 (10.71%) New Relic
4 1 (3.57%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.57%) Foundry
4 1 (3.57%) Veeam