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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 419 439
Rank change year-on-year +82 +20 +227
Permanent jobs citing VMS 28 21 29
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.19% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.16% 0.83% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 20 13 6
10th Percentile £39,700 £46,965 £51,250
25th Percentile £47,188 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +19.15% +6.82%
75th Percentile £74,688 £88,750 £66,563
90th Percentile £92,625 - £73,125
UK median annual salary £62,500 £56,509 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.60% +2.74% -2.65%

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 1,299 2,519 3,180
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.59% 14.79% 15.57%
Number of salaries quoted 930 1,570 2,675
10th Percentile £28,750 £30,000 £30,388
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £44,000 £50,242 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% +0.48% -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 1 January 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 2 (7.14%) TPMS
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 23 (82.14%) Azure
2 12 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (28.57%) Entra ID
4 5 (17.86%) AWS
4 5 (17.86%) Azure App Service
4 5 (17.86%) GitHub
5 4 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (14.29%) IaaS
5 4 (14.29%) PaaS
6 3 (10.71%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (10.71%) Amazon S3
7 2 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
7 2 (7.14%) PowerApps
8 1 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.57%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (32.14%) Firewall
2 6 (21.43%) DNS
3 5 (17.86%) VPN
4 1 (3.57%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (32.14%) SQL Server
2 4 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (10.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (7.14%) MongoDB
4 2 (7.14%) MySQL
General
1 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Legal
4 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.57%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Azure Engineer
1 12 (42.86%) Senior
2 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (25.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 7 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) DBA
6 3 (10.71%) SQL DBA
6 3 (10.71%) Support Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Analyst
7 2 (7.14%) Lead
7 2 (7.14%) Lead Project Manager
7 2 (7.14%) Project Manager
7 2 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 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%) Clustering
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
Operating Systems
1 8 (28.57%) Windows
2 4 (14.29%) Linux
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (67.86%) DevOps
2 14 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (46.43%) CI/CD
3 13 (46.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 8 (28.57%) ITIL
4 8 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
5 7 (25.00%) Cloud Security
5 7 (25.00%) Migration
6 6 (21.43%) Cloud Operations
6 6 (21.43%) GitOps
7 5 (17.86%) Collaborative Culture
7 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Automation
7 5 (17.86%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (14.29%) Asset Management
8 4 (14.29%) Coaching
8 4 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
8 4 (14.29%) Project Management
8 4 (14.29%) SDLC
8 4 (14.29%) Task Automation
9 3 (10.71%) Benchmarking
Programming Languages
1 11 (39.29%) PowerShell
2 9 (32.14%) Bicep
2 9 (32.14%) SQL
3 7 (25.00%) Python
4 4 (14.29%) T-SQL
5 3 (10.71%) Bash
6 1 (3.57%) C#
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 2 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (7.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 7 (25.00%) Docker
2 3 (10.71%) VMware NSX
2 3 (10.71%) vSphere
3 2 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.57%) Hyper-V
4 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 8 (28.57%) 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