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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 410 470 478
Rank change year-on-year +60 +8 +343
Permanent jobs citing VMS 15 25 36
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.093% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.78% 0.82% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 9 14 22
10th Percentile £47,250 £40,000 £36,669
25th Percentile £52,250 £49,375 £42,819
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £79,500 £73,925 £96,250
UK median annual salary £63,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% +5.00% -16.67%

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 1,913 3,034 3,909
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.81% 13.04% 15.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,057 1,885 3,288
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £34,000 £39,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -7.89% +3.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,751 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £42,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.00% -4.76% -

VMS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing VMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

VMS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

VMS
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing VMS

VMS
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing VMS over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

VMS salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) TPMS
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (80.00%) Azure
2 7 (46.67%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (40.00%) Entra ID
4 5 (33.33%) GitHub
5 4 (26.67%) Azure App Service
5 4 (26.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (13.33%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (13.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (13.33%) Azure Stack
6 2 (13.33%) PaaS
7 1 (6.67%) AWS
7 1 (6.67%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (6.67%) Mimecast
7 1 (6.67%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) Firewall
2 5 (33.33%) DNS
3 4 (26.67%) VPN
4 2 (13.33%) Network Security
5 1 (6.67%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Artifactory
1 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Advertising
3 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Azure Engineer
1 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) Senior
3 4 (26.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Lead
3 4 (26.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Lead Project Manager
5 2 (13.33%) Project Manager
5 2 (13.33%) Security Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Lead Programmer
6 1 (6.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Anaconda
1 1 (6.67%) Pandas
1 1 (6.67%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (6.67%) VAX
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Linux
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) DevOps
2 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
3 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
4 5 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 5 (33.33%) Migration
5 4 (26.67%) Asset Management
5 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
5 4 (26.67%) Coaching
5 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (26.67%) SDLC
6 3 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
6 3 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 3 (20.00%) Email Management
6 3 (20.00%) Incident Management
6 3 (20.00%) ITIL
6 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 8 (53.33%) Python
3 7 (46.67%) SQL
4 4 (26.67%) Bash
4 4 (26.67%) Bicep
5 1 (6.67%) COBOL
5 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) APMP
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) GDPR
1 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (13.33%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) Terraform
2 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.67%) FortiGate
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (6.67%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Fortinet
2 1 (6.67%) Veeam