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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 350 454 454
Rank change year-on-year +104 0 +271
Permanent jobs citing VMS 26 15 33
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.17% 0.075% 0.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.98% 0.54% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 18 7 9
10th Percentile £39,100 £36,250 £46,564
25th Percentile £46,563 £38,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,750 £49,104 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.50% -10.72% +10.00%
75th Percentile £73,125 £88,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,000 - £99,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £50,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +28.71% -8.18% -1.79%

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 1,310 2,756 3,374
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.59% 13.87% 16.04%
Number of salaries quoted 967 1,710 2,856
10th Percentile £28,150 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,998 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -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 26 November 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 (7.69%) TPMS
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (80.77%) Azure
2 11 (42.31%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (38.46%) Entra ID
4 6 (23.08%) PaaS
5 5 (19.23%) Azure App Service
5 5 (19.23%) GitHub
6 4 (15.38%) AWS
6 4 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (15.38%) IaaS
7 3 (11.54%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (11.54%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
8 2 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (7.69%) Azure Stack
8 2 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
8 2 (7.69%) PowerApps
9 1 (3.85%) ShareGate
9 1 (3.85%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 10 (38.46%) Firewall
2 6 (23.08%) DNS
3 5 (19.23%) VPN
4 2 (7.69%) Network Security
5 1 (3.85%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 2 (7.69%) MySQL
3 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
General
1 6 (23.08%) Finance
2 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Advertising
4 1 (3.85%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Azure Engineer
1 11 (42.31%) Senior
2 9 (34.62%) Cloud Engineer
2 9 (34.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (23.08%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (23.08%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (23.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) Lead
6 3 (11.54%) Support Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Analyst
7 2 (7.69%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Lead Project Manager
7 2 (7.69%) Security Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) .NET
2 3 (11.54%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (7.69%) WCF
4 1 (3.85%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 1 (3.85%) OAuth
4 1 (3.85%) OAuth2
4 1 (3.85%) OpenID
4 1 (3.85%) React
4 1 (3.85%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.54%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (11.54%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (11.54%) Security Posture
3 2 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.85%) Legacy Code
4 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.85%) VAX
Operating Systems
1 8 (30.77%) Windows
2 3 (11.54%) Linux
3 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (65.38%) DevOps
2 14 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 11 (42.31%) CI/CD
5 9 (34.62%) Cloud Security
6 8 (30.77%) ITIL
7 7 (26.92%) Migration
8 6 (23.08%) Cloud Operations
8 6 (23.08%) Identity Access Management
9 5 (19.23%) Collaborative Culture
9 5 (19.23%) GitOps
9 5 (19.23%) Root Cause Analysis
10 4 (15.38%) Asset Management
10 4 (15.38%) Coaching
10 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
10 4 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (15.38%) Project Management
10 4 (15.38%) SDLC
10 4 (15.38%) Task Automation
11 3 (11.54%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 13 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (30.77%) Bicep
2 8 (30.77%) SQL
3 7 (26.92%) Python
4 3 (11.54%) Bash
5 1 (3.85%) C#
5 1 (3.85%) COBOL
5 1 (3.85%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
1 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) APMP
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (7.69%) GDPR
2 2 (7.69%) NIST
2 2 (7.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (34.62%) Active Directory
2 6 (23.08%) Docker
3 2 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (7.69%) VMware NSX
3 2 (7.69%) vSphere
4 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (61.54%) Terraform
2 8 (30.77%) Kubernetes
3 4 (15.38%) Ansible
4 1 (3.85%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) VMware
3 2 (7.69%) AppDynamics
3 2 (7.69%) New Relic
4 1 (3.85%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.85%) Foundry
4 1 (3.85%) Veeam