VMS Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

VMS
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring VMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited VMS over the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 469 444 565
Rank change year-on-year -25 +121 +270
Permanent jobs citing VMS 8 149 76
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.041% 0.42% 0.21%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.31% 3.19% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7 99 56
10th Percentile £50,350 £53,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £52,375 £53,750 £32,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +9.52% -19.23%
75th Percentile £80,000 £61,250 £68,125
90th Percentile £95,750 £65,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £57,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -0.87% +21.05% -26.92%

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 2,568 4,675 5,650
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.06% 13.05% 15.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,241 3,519 4,224
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,150
Median % change year-on-year - -9.34% +0.27%
75th Percentile £69,000 £65,603 £75,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £44,720 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.62% -14.29% -

VMS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing VMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

VMS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

VMS
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing VMS.

VMS salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

VMS
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing VMS over the 6 months to 20 June 2025.

VMS salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
2 3 (37.50%) PaaS
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Stack
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub
3 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (12.50%) IaaS
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (12.50%) SaaS
4 1 (12.50%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Data Mining
1 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Artifactory
1 2 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 1 (12.50%) Advertising
1 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Lead
3 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Administrator
4 1 (12.50%) Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) COBOL Programmer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Programmer
4 1 (12.50%) Programmer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior COBOL Programmer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Programmer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 1 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Anaconda
1 2 (25.00%) Pandas
1 2 (25.00%) scikit-learn
2 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) VAX
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (37.50%) Machine Learning
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (25.00%) Data Science
2 2 (25.00%) Forensic Analysis
2 2 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (25.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Security Patching
2 2 (25.00%) SIEM
2 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (25.00%) Threat Detection
2 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) Bash
3 2 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (12.50%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Packer
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) Grafana
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
3 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) New Relic