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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 408 418
Rank change year-on-year +50 +10 +218
Permanent jobs citing VMS 24 21 113
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.15% 0.14% 0.41%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.70% 0.95% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 17 13 85
10th Percentile £38,800 £46,965 -
25th Percentile £47,500 £60,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +21.74% +35.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £88,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £93,000 - -
UK median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +21.74% - +12.20%

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 1,411 2,209 4,039
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.61% 14.41% 14.54%
Number of salaries quoted 987 1,419 3,461
10th Percentile £28,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,940 £86,250 £83,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +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 22 February 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:

Cloud Services
1 21 (87.50%) Azure
2 8 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 5 (20.83%) AWS
5 4 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (16.67%) IaaS
5 4 (16.67%) PaaS
5 4 (16.67%) Power Platform
6 3 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (12.50%) Amazon S3
6 3 (12.50%) Azure App Service
6 3 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (12.50%) GitHub
7 2 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (8.33%) Azure Functions
7 2 (8.33%) Azure Storage
7 2 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (8.33%) PowerApps
7 2 (8.33%) SaaS
7 2 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (29.17%) Firewall
2 3 (12.50%) DNS
2 3 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (45.83%) SQL Server
2 4 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
4 2 (8.33%) MySQL
4 2 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Finance
2 3 (12.50%) Legal
3 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.17%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 13 (54.17%) Senior
2 10 (41.67%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (20.83%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (20.83%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (20.83%) Support Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) DBA
5 3 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) SQL DBA
6 2 (8.33%) Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Reliability Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Reliability Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Support Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Support Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (33.33%) .NET
2 3 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (8.33%) .NET Core
3 2 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (8.33%) WCF
4 1 (4.17%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 1 (4.17%) OAuth
4 1 (4.17%) OAuth2
4 1 (4.17%) OpenID
4 1 (4.17%) React
4 1 (4.17%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Cloud Native
2 4 (16.67%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (12.50%) Clustering
3 3 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (4.17%) Legacy Code
5 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
5 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (33.33%) Windows
2 3 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) DevOps
2 12 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (45.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (29.17%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
5 6 (25.00%) ITIL
6 5 (20.83%) Cloud Security
6 5 (20.83%) Migration
6 5 (20.83%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (20.83%) Runbook
7 4 (16.67%) Analytics
7 4 (16.67%) GitOps
8 3 (12.50%) Benchmarking
8 3 (12.50%) Change Control
8 3 (12.50%) Containerisation
8 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
8 3 (12.50%) Log Analytics
8 3 (12.50%) Observability
8 3 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) PowerShell
2 9 (37.50%) SQL
3 7 (29.17%) Bicep
4 4 (16.67%) T-SQL
5 3 (12.50%) C#
5 3 (12.50%) Python
6 2 (8.33%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (4.17%) Bash
7 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (8.33%) PCI DSS
1 2 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Docker
2 4 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 3 (12.50%) VMware NSX
3 3 (12.50%) vSphere
4 2 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (62.50%) Terraform
2 8 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 5 (20.83%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.83%) VMware
3 3 (12.50%) AppDynamics
3 3 (12.50%) New Relic
4 1 (4.17%) Foundry