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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 385 453 471
Rank change year-on-year +68 +18 +290
Permanent jobs citing VMS 22 17 33
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.13% 0.083% 0.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.23% 0.63% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 14 5 15
10th Percentile £39,700 - £42,819
25th Percentile £46,563 £36,250 £45,159
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,250 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.94% -22.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £70,625 £62,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £71,650 £102,000
UK median annual salary £63,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +26.00% -9.09% -4.35%

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 1,792 2,719 3,650
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.95% 13.35% 15.65%
Number of salaries quoted 957 1,677 3,052
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -6.25% +1.82%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £88,675
UK median annual salary £41,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -17.00% -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 17 October 2025.

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 (9.09%) TPMS
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (81.82%) Azure
2 9 (40.91%) Entra ID
3 8 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (27.27%) PaaS
5 4 (18.18%) Azure App Service
5 4 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (18.18%) GitHub
5 4 (18.18%) IaaS
6 3 (13.64%) AWS
7 2 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (9.09%) Azure Stack
7 2 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
7 2 (9.09%) PowerApps
8 1 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (4.55%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (36.36%) Firewall
2 5 (22.73%) DNS
2 5 (22.73%) VPN
3 2 (9.09%) Network Security
4 1 (4.55%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.55%) MySQL
2 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
General
1 5 (22.73%) Finance
1 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.55%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Azure Engineer
1 9 (40.91%) Cloud Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) Senior
3 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (27.27%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (18.18%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (18.18%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 4 (18.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Lead
6 3 (13.64%) Support Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Analyst
7 2 (9.09%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Lead Project Manager
7 2 (9.09%) Project Manager
7 2 (9.09%) Security Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Support Analyst
8 1 (4.55%) Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) .NET
1 1 (4.55%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (4.55%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (13.64%) Security Posture
2 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) VAX
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Windows
2 2 (9.09%) Linux
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) DevOps
2 11 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 8 (36.36%) Cloud Security
4 8 (36.36%) ITIL
5 7 (31.82%) CI/CD
6 6 (27.27%) Cloud Operations
6 6 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
6 6 (27.27%) Migration
7 5 (22.73%) Collaborative Culture
7 5 (22.73%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (18.18%) Asset Management
8 4 (18.18%) Coaching
8 4 (18.18%) GitOps
8 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (18.18%) Project Management
8 4 (18.18%) SDLC
8 4 (18.18%) Task Automation
9 3 (13.64%) Agile
9 3 (13.64%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) PowerShell
2 7 (31.82%) Python
2 7 (31.82%) SQL
3 6 (27.27%) Bicep
4 3 (13.64%) Bash
5 1 (4.55%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
1 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) APMP
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (9.09%) GDPR
2 2 (9.09%) NIST
2 2 (9.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (40.91%) Active Directory
2 5 (22.73%) Docker
3 2 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (4.55%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.55%) VMware NSX
4 1 (4.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (59.09%) Terraform
2 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
3 3 (13.64%) Ansible
4 1 (4.55%) FortiGate
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) VMware
3 1 (4.55%) Fortinet
3 1 (4.55%) Veeam