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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 437 406 478
Rank change year-on-year -31 +72 +10
Permanent jobs citing VMS 20 15 30
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.086% 0.091% 0.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.29% 0.73% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 7 11 18
10th Percentile £46,000 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,000 £52,375 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -3.85% +24.11%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £79,438
90th Percentile £76,500 £91,250 £88,750
UK median annual salary £51,772 £62,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -17.16% +19.05% +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 1,546 2,046 3,146
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.63% 12.40% 12.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,218 1,172 2,135
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £33,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.04%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £82,725 £85,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -16.00% -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 29 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 (60.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (15.00%) OpenStack
3 1 (5.00%) CMS
Business Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) Azure
1 13 (65.00%) Azure DevOps
2 12 (60.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 12 (60.00%) Azure Functions
2 12 (60.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 12 (60.00%) Azure Monitor
2 12 (60.00%) GitHub
2 12 (60.00%) IaaS
2 12 (60.00%) PaaS
2 12 (60.00%) Serverless
3 1 (5.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (5.00%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 12 (60.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (60.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 12 (60.00%) Git
General
1 15 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 15 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (60.00%) Law
3 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Analyst
1 12 (60.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 10 (50.00%) Senior
3 6 (30.00%) Senior Analyst
3 6 (30.00%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
4 3 (15.00%) Lead
4 3 (15.00%) Team Leader
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (65.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 12 (60.00%) Podcast
1 12 (60.00%) Public Cloud
1 12 (60.00%) Security Posture
2 6 (30.00%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (15.00%) CCTV
3 3 (15.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (15.00%) IoT
3 3 (15.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (60.00%) Windows
2 4 (20.00%) Linux
3 3 (15.00%) CentOS
3 3 (15.00%) Debian
3 3 (15.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 16 (80.00%) DevOps
2 15 (75.00%) Agile
3 13 (65.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (65.00%) Observability
4 12 (60.00%) AI
4 12 (60.00%) Analytics
4 12 (60.00%) API Management
4 12 (60.00%) Cloud Security
4 12 (60.00%) Computer Science
4 12 (60.00%) DevSecOps
4 12 (60.00%) Generative AI
4 12 (60.00%) Log Analytics
4 12 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
4 12 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 12 (60.00%) Scrum
4 12 (60.00%) Task Automation
5 9 (45.00%) Mentoring
5 9 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (30.00%) FinOps
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) Bash
1 13 (65.00%) PowerShell
2 12 (60.00%) Bicep
2 12 (60.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 12 (60.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (60.00%) Azure Certification
1 12 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (15.00%) DBS Check
2 3 (15.00%) Degree
System Software
1 13 (65.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (60.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 12 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (60.00%) vSphere
3 3 (15.00%) Docker
3 3 (15.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Grafana
2 3 (15.00%) Ansible
2 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.00%) Puppet
2 3 (15.00%) ZABBIX
3 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 12 (60.00%) ScienceLogic
1 12 (60.00%) VMware