Virtual Machines Jobs with Work from Home Options

Virtual Machine (VM)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Virtual Machines skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Machines over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 453 520
Rank change year-on-year +133 +67 -76
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 289 214 376
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.85% 0.53% 0.53%
As % of the System Software category 6.80% 3.55% 2.78%
Number of salaries quoted 251 142 172
10th Percentile £41,250 £32,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £42,593 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £63,750 £84,375 £81,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £99,125 £88,625
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +15.00% -4.76%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

Virtual Machines is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,252 6,025 13,535
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.58% 14.85% 18.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,354 4,459 7,695
10th Percentile £31,325 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% -2.40% +8.70%
75th Percentile £70,500 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £86,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Virtual Machines
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Virtual Machines as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Virtual Machines trend for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Virtual Machines.

Virtual Machines salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Machines
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Virtual Machines over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Virtual Machines salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Machines
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 31 (10.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (5.19%) SharePoint
3 10 (3.46%) IIS
4 3 (1.04%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 230 (79.58%) Azure
2 80 (27.68%) Power Platform
3 52 (17.99%) Microsoft 365
4 46 (15.92%) AWS
5 38 (13.15%) Entra ID
5 38 (13.15%) SaaS
6 29 (10.03%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (10.03%) Serverless
7 28 (9.69%) GitHub
8 23 (7.96%) Azure Functions
8 23 (7.96%) Azure Storage
9 22 (7.61%) Amazon S3
9 22 (7.61%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (7.27%) Azure Monitor
11 18 (6.23%) IaaS
12 17 (5.88%) Azure App Service
12 17 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
13 16 (5.54%) Amazon ECS
13 16 (5.54%) Amazon EKS
13 16 (5.54%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 74 (25.61%) Broadband
2 64 (22.15%) DNS
3 58 (20.07%) Firewall
4 48 (16.61%) VPN
5 30 (10.38%) DHCP
6 19 (6.57%) HTTP
7 18 (6.23%) WAN
8 16 (5.54%) 5G
9 15 (5.19%) LAN
10 12 (4.15%) VLAN
11 8 (2.77%) Internet
11 8 (2.77%) TCP/IP
12 6 (2.08%) IPv4
12 6 (2.08%) SAN
12 6 (2.08%) VoIP
13 5 (1.73%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (1.73%) Wireless
14 4 (1.38%) FTP
14 4 (1.38%) NAS
14 4 (1.38%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (34.95%) SQL Server
2 82 (28.37%) Azure SQL Database
3 80 (27.68%) Power BI
4 8 (2.77%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (2.08%) BigQuery
5 6 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.69%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.69%) MySQL
6 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.69%) Tableau
7 1 (0.35%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (11.42%) Git
2 17 (5.88%) JIRA
3 11 (3.81%) Jenkins
4 10 (3.46%) Trac
5 5 (1.73%) eggPlant
6 2 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.35%) GitLab
General
1 145 (50.17%) Social Skills
2 28 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
2 28 (9.69%) Finance
3 21 (7.27%) Telecoms
4 16 (5.54%) Automotive
5 11 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.38%) Back Office
7 4 (1.38%) Banking
7 4 (1.38%) Law
7 4 (1.38%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.04%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.69%) Advertising
9 2 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.69%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.69%) Retail
10 1 (0.35%) Billing
10 1 (0.35%) French Language
10 1 (0.35%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 74 (25.61%) DBA
1 74 (25.61%) SQL DBA
2 51 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 40 (13.84%) Senior
4 28 (9.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 25 (8.65%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (7.27%) Lead
7 20 (6.92%) Architect
7 20 (6.92%) Infrastructure Architect
8 17 (5.88%) Support Specialist
9 14 (4.84%) Active Directory Specialist
9 14 (4.84%) Active Directory Support
9 14 (4.84%) Azure Specialist
9 14 (4.84%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (4.15%) Analyst
11 11 (3.81%) AWS DevOps
12 10 (3.46%) Consultant
13 9 (3.11%) Lead DevOps
14 8 (2.77%) Project Consultant
14 8 (2.77%) Unix Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (8.30%) .NET
2 18 (6.23%) JWT
3 17 (5.88%) ARM Templates
4 16 (5.54%) RESTful
5 5 (1.73%) REST
6 3 (1.04%) Flash
7 2 (0.69%) ADO
7 2 (0.69%) JSON
7 2 (0.69%) OAuth
7 2 (0.69%) SOAP
7 2 (0.69%) XML
8 1 (0.35%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.35%) OpenAPI
8 1 (0.35%) Swagger
8 1 (0.35%) TensorFlow
8 1 (0.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.03%) Self-Motivation
2 23 (7.96%) Data Centre
3 18 (6.23%) PKI
4 16 (5.54%) Mobile App
5 14 (4.84%) IoT
6 12 (4.15%) Cloud Native
7 10 (3.46%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.42%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.42%) Replication
9 5 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.04%) IBM Storwize
12 2 (0.69%) FlexPod
12 2 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.69%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.69%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.69%) Security Posture
13 1 (0.35%) Onboarding
13 1 (0.35%) Operational Technology
13 1 (0.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 130 (44.98%) Windows
2 79 (27.34%) VMS
3 74 (25.61%) Windows Server
4 62 (21.45%) Linux
5 29 (10.03%) Windows Server 2016
6 27 (9.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 22 (7.61%) Unix
8 8 (2.77%) AIX
8 8 (2.77%) Solaris
9 7 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (2.42%) Windows 10
10 6 (2.08%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (1.04%) Android
11 3 (1.04%) Debian
11 3 (1.04%) SUSE
11 3 (1.04%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.35%) CentOS
12 1 (0.35%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (40.83%) Disaster Recovery
2 92 (31.83%) DevOps
3 84 (29.07%) High Availability
4 83 (28.72%) Collaborative Working
5 81 (28.03%) Business Intelligence
6 74 (25.61%) Performance Tuning
7 57 (19.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 44 (15.22%) CI/CD
9 42 (14.53%) Agile
10 38 (13.15%) ITIL
11 36 (12.46%) Problem-Solving
12 32 (11.07%) Microservices
13 30 (10.38%) Network Virtualisation
14 29 (10.03%) Containerisation
15 25 (8.65%) Configuration Management
16 24 (8.30%) Actionable Insight
16 24 (8.30%) Infrastructure as Code
17 21 (7.27%) Continuous Improvement
18 20 (6.92%) Project Management
19 19 (6.57%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 96 (33.22%) T-SQL
2 93 (32.18%) SQL
3 53 (18.34%) PowerShell
4 35 (12.11%) Python
5 28 (9.69%) C#
6 19 (6.57%) Bash
6 19 (6.57%) Bicep
6 19 (6.57%) Java
7 17 (5.88%) Perl
8 15 (5.19%) VB
9 14 (4.84%) VBScript
10 6 (2.08%) VB.NET
11 5 (1.73%) Go
12 3 (1.04%) Ruby
13 2 (0.69%) JavaScript
13 2 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.69%) Lua
13 2 (0.69%) Rust
Qualifications
1 78 (26.99%) Microsoft Certification
2 33 (11.42%) Security Cleared
3 31 (10.73%) Degree
4 23 (7.96%) SC Cleared
5 14 (4.84%) DV Cleared
5 14 (4.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 7 (2.42%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.73%) ISEB
7 5 (1.73%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.38%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.35%) CISM
10 1 (0.35%) CISSP
10 1 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.35%) ISACA
10 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.35%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.84%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.73%) QA
4 2 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.69%) PMO
System Software
1 70 (24.22%) Active Directory
2 60 (20.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 46 (15.92%) Hyper-V
4 32 (11.07%) Docker
5 21 (7.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 17 (5.88%) vSphere
7 16 (5.54%) pfSense
8 13 (4.50%) Firmware
9 10 (3.46%) NFS
10 9 (3.11%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (1.04%) Ceph
11 3 (1.04%) Gluster
11 3 (1.04%) KVM
11 3 (1.04%) oVirt
12 1 (0.35%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 40 (13.84%) Kubernetes
2 32 (11.07%) Terraform
3 29 (10.03%) Ansible
4 23 (7.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (7.61%) ZABBIX
6 16 (5.54%) Grafana
7 15 (5.19%) SCCM
8 14 (4.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 14 (4.84%) SCOM
8 14 (4.84%) WSUS
9 10 (3.46%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 10 (3.46%) SCDPM
10 4 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.04%) Graylog
11 3 (1.04%) Observium
11 3 (1.04%) Prometheus
11 3 (1.04%) Puppet
11 3 (1.04%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.69%) PowerCLI
12 2 (0.69%) vRealize
Vendors
1 168 (58.13%) Microsoft
2 84 (29.07%) VMware
3 20 (6.92%) Fortinet
4 18 (6.23%) Juniper
5 16 (5.54%) ForgeRock
5 16 (5.54%) Sitecore
5 16 (5.54%) Veeam
6 11 (3.81%) Cisco
6 11 (3.81%) Oracle
6 11 (3.81%) Red Hat
7 10 (3.46%) McAfee
8 8 (2.77%) Google
9 7 (2.42%) HP
9 7 (2.42%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.38%) Citrix
11 3 (1.04%) Apple
11 3 (1.04%) F5
11 3 (1.04%) IBM
11 3 (1.04%) Meraki
12 2 (0.69%) Brocade