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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 429 474
Rank change year-on-year -9 +45 +45
Permanent jobs citing VMS 18 9 35
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.081% 0.054% 0.13%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.16% 0.43% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 6 9 22
10th Percentile £61,875 £51,300 £37,125
25th Percentile £64,688 £52,500 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% +20.60%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £74,563
90th Percentile £77,500 £93,500 £88,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +20.00% +10.53%

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 1,547 2,090 3,358
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.96% 12.64% 12.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,209 1,223 2,509
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £33,375 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.04%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% -9.52%

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 1 August 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 12 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (16.67%) OpenStack
3 1 (5.56%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 14 (77.78%) Azure
2 13 (72.22%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (66.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 12 (66.67%) Azure Functions
3 12 (66.67%) Azure Key Vault
3 12 (66.67%) Azure Monitor
3 12 (66.67%) GitHub
3 12 (66.67%) IaaS
3 12 (66.67%) PaaS
3 12 (66.67%) Serverless
4 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
4 1 (5.56%) Datadog
4 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (66.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 12 (66.67%) Git
General
1 12 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 12 (66.67%) Law
1 12 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (66.67%) Analyst
1 12 (66.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 8 (44.44%) Senior
3 6 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
3 6 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Lead
4 3 (16.67%) Team Leader
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (66.67%) Podcast
1 12 (66.67%) Public Cloud
1 12 (66.67%) Security Posture
2 6 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 13 (72.22%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Linux
3 3 (16.67%) CentOS
3 3 (16.67%) Debian
3 3 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (94.44%) CI/CD
2 16 (88.89%) DevOps
3 15 (83.33%) Agile
4 13 (72.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (72.22%) Observability
5 12 (66.67%) AI
5 12 (66.67%) Analytics
5 12 (66.67%) API Management
5 12 (66.67%) Cloud Security
5 12 (66.67%) Computer Science
5 12 (66.67%) DevSecOps
5 12 (66.67%) Generative AI
5 12 (66.67%) Log Analytics
5 12 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
5 12 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 12 (66.67%) Scrum
5 12 (66.67%) Task Automation
6 9 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
7 6 (33.33%) FinOps
Programming Languages
1 14 (77.78%) PowerShell
2 13 (72.22%) Bash
3 12 (66.67%) Bicep
3 12 (66.67%) Kusto Query Language
3 12 (66.67%) SQL
4 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (66.67%) Azure Certification
1 12 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 13 (72.22%) Active Directory
1 13 (72.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (66.67%) Virtual Desktop
2 12 (66.67%) vSphere
3 3 (16.67%) Docker
3 3 (16.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 14 (77.78%) Terraform
2 4 (22.22%) Grafana
3 3 (16.67%) Ansible
3 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (16.67%) Puppet
3 3 (16.67%) ZABBIX
4 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (72.22%) Microsoft
1 13 (72.22%) VMware
2 12 (66.67%) ScienceLogic