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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 401 435 588
Rank change year-on-year +34 +153 +175
Permanent jobs citing VMS 16 151 89
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.45% 0.21%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.87% 3.20% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 14 98 73
10th Percentile £53,250 - £31,250
25th Percentile £60,313 £53,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% +15.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £88,750 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,500 £65,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,750 £57,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.17% +21.05% -31.65%

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 1,832 4,718 6,586
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.08% 13.95% 15.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,386 3,674 4,833
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -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 3 May 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 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) AWS
3 4 (25.00%) GCP
4 3 (18.75%) Azure AKS
4 3 (18.75%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (18.75%) Entra ID
4 3 (18.75%) IaaS
4 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (18.75%) PaaS
4 3 (18.75%) SaaS
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (12.50%) GitHub
5 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (12.50%) Google Workspace
5 2 (12.50%) Sentry
5 2 (12.50%) Slack
6 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (6.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Network Security
2 2 (12.50%) OpenVPN
2 2 (12.50%) VPN
3 1 (6.25%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (12.50%) Data Mining
2 2 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Git
2 3 (18.75%) GitLab
3 2 (12.50%) Artifactory
3 2 (12.50%) JIRA
3 2 (12.50%) JUnit
3 2 (12.50%) Selenium
3 2 (12.50%) TeamCity
3 2 (12.50%) TestNG
4 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
4 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (31.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Senior
2 5 (31.25%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Security Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Administrator
5 2 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 2 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Test Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Azure Blueprints
2 2 (12.50%) Anaconda
2 2 (12.50%) OpenFin
2 2 (12.50%) Pandas
2 2 (12.50%) scikit-learn
3 1 (6.25%) ARM Templates
3 1 (6.25%) RESTful
3 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Management Information System
2 4 (25.00%) Mobile App
3 3 (18.75%) Security Posture
4 2 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
5 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
5 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Linux
2 5 (31.25%) Windows
3 2 (12.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) DevOps
2 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
3 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (25.00%) Machine Learning
6 3 (18.75%) Cloud Security
6 3 (18.75%) DevSecOps
6 3 (18.75%) Forensic Analysis
6 3 (18.75%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (18.75%) Incident Response
6 3 (18.75%) Penetration Testing
6 3 (18.75%) Security Architecture
6 3 (18.75%) Service Delivery
6 3 (18.75%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
6 3 (18.75%) Threat Detection
6 3 (18.75%) Vulnerability Management
6 3 (18.75%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 3 (18.75%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 2 (12.50%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) PowerShell
2 7 (43.75%) Bash
2 7 (43.75%) Python
3 5 (31.25%) SQL
4 2 (12.50%) Java
4 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
5 1 (6.25%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 3 (18.75%) AWS Certification
1 3 (18.75%) CCSP
1 3 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (18.75%) CISSP
2 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) GDPR
1 3 (18.75%) NIST
1 3 (18.75%) PCI DSS
1 3 (18.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (31.25%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (12.50%) Docker
3 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 8 (50.00%) Terraform
3 3 (18.75%) CASB
3 3 (18.75%) Istio
3 3 (18.75%) linkerd
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (18.75%) Packer
4 2 (12.50%) Ansible
4 2 (12.50%) Grafana
4 2 (12.50%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 2 (12.50%) Puppet
4 2 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (6.25%) Consul
5 1 (6.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) Google
3 2 (12.50%) Cisco
3 2 (12.50%) Meraki
3 2 (12.50%) New Relic
3 2 (12.50%) VMware
4 1 (6.25%) Citrix
4 1 (6.25%) PagerDuty
4 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds