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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 460 449 557
Rank change year-on-year -11 +108 +282
Permanent jobs citing VMS 7 150 70
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.034% 0.44% 0.19%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.27% 3.33% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 7 100 51
10th Percentile £50,350 £51,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £52,375 £53,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +15.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £80,000 £61,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,750 £65,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +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 2,563 4,499 5,542
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.43% 13.22% 15.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,265 3,385 4,177
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £30,702
25th Percentile £33,250 £38,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,603 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,000 £83,750 £91,250
UK median annual salary £42,500 £45,996 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.60% -12.39% -

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 6 July 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 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
2 3 (42.86%) PaaS
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Stack
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) AWS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (14.29%) IaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Artifactory
1 2 (28.57%) Git
General
1 1 (14.29%) Advertising
1 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) COBOL Programmer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Programmer
3 1 (14.29%) Programmer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior COBOL Programmer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Anaconda
1 2 (28.57%) Pandas
1 2 (28.57%) scikit-learn
2 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) VAX
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
2 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (28.57%) Data Science
2 2 (28.57%) Data Security
2 2 (28.57%) Forensic Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
2 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
2 2 (28.57%) Patch Management
2 2 (28.57%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Security Patching
2 2 (28.57%) SIEM
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Threat Detection
2 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Bash
3 2 (28.57%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
4 1 (14.29%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (28.57%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Packer
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft