Virtual Machines Jobs with Work from Home Options

Virtual Machine (VM)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Virtual Machines skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Machines over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 322 421 537
Rank change year-on-year +99 +116 -87
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 310 219 396
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.87% 0.58% 0.52%
As % of the System Software category 7.23% 4.10% 2.69%
Number of salaries quoted 259 150 185
10th Percentile £42,300 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £42,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,029 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% -1.49% +8.33%
75th Percentile £63,750 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £91,000 £92,125 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% +4.48%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

Virtual Machines falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,288 5,345 14,697
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.06% 14.26% 19.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3,269 4,225 7,788
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £56,325
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.35% +2.41%

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 12 June 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 38 (12.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (5.81%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.90%) IIS
4 3 (0.97%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.65%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 248 (80.00%) Azure
2 79 (25.48%) Power Platform
3 60 (19.35%) Microsoft 365
4 55 (17.74%) Entra ID
5 45 (14.52%) AWS
6 41 (13.23%) SaaS
7 36 (11.61%) Azure Storage
8 34 (10.97%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (10.32%) Serverless
10 30 (9.68%) Azure Monitor
11 28 (9.03%) GitHub
12 27 (8.71%) IaaS
13 23 (7.42%) Azure Functions
14 22 (7.10%) Amazon S3
14 22 (7.10%) AWS Lambda
14 22 (7.10%) Nutanix
15 19 (6.13%) Azure Data Factory
16 18 (5.81%) Azure App Service
17 16 (5.16%) Azure AKS
17 16 (5.16%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 76 (24.52%) DNS
2 74 (23.87%) Broadband
3 61 (19.68%) Firewall
4 47 (15.16%) VPN
5 37 (11.94%) DHCP
6 19 (6.13%) HTTP
7 18 (5.81%) WAN
8 16 (5.16%) 5G
8 16 (5.16%) LAN
9 12 (3.87%) VLAN
10 9 (2.90%) TCP/IP
11 8 (2.58%) Internet
12 6 (1.94%) IPv4
13 5 (1.61%) SAN
13 5 (1.61%) VoIP
13 5 (1.61%) Wireless
14 4 (1.29%) FTP
14 4 (1.29%) SSL
14 4 (1.29%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (1.29%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (33.23%) SQL Server
2 82 (26.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 79 (25.48%) Power BI
4 8 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (1.94%) BigQuery
5 6 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.97%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.97%) Redis
6 3 (0.97%) TimescaleDB
7 2 (0.65%) MariaDB
7 2 (0.65%) MySQL
7 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.65%) Tableau
8 1 (0.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 42 (13.55%) Git
2 16 (5.16%) JIRA
3 14 (4.52%) Jenkins
4 10 (3.23%) Trac
5 1 (0.32%) eggPlant
5 1 (0.32%) GitLab
5 1 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 149 (48.06%) Social Skills
2 39 (12.58%) Finance
3 34 (10.97%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (6.45%) Telecoms
5 16 (5.16%) Automotive
6 11 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.29%) Back Office
8 4 (1.29%) Law
8 4 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.97%) Aerospace
9 3 (0.97%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.65%) Advertising
10 2 (0.65%) Banking
11 1 (0.32%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 74 (23.87%) DBA
1 74 (23.87%) SQL DBA
2 56 (18.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 43 (13.87%) Senior
4 31 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 25 (8.06%) DevOps Engineer
6 23 (7.42%) Lead
7 22 (7.10%) Cloud Engineer
7 22 (7.10%) Support Specialist
8 20 (6.45%) Architect
9 19 (6.13%) Active Directory Specialist
9 19 (6.13%) Active Directory Support
9 19 (6.13%) Azure Specialist
9 19 (6.13%) Infrastructure Architect
10 13 (4.19%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (3.87%) Analyst
12 11 (3.55%) AWS DevOps
13 10 (3.23%) Consultant
14 9 (2.90%) Developer
14 9 (2.90%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (10.00%) ARM Templates
2 24 (7.74%) .NET
3 16 (5.16%) JWT
3 16 (5.16%) RESTful
4 7 (2.26%) YAML
5 3 (0.97%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (0.97%) CSS
5 3 (0.97%) Flash
5 3 (0.97%) Flask
5 3 (0.97%) HTML
5 3 (0.97%) jQuery
5 3 (0.97%) Plotly
5 3 (0.97%) REST
6 2 (0.65%) ADO
6 2 (0.65%) JSON
6 2 (0.65%) SOAP
6 2 (0.65%) XML
7 1 (0.32%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.32%) Swagger
7 1 (0.32%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 34 (10.97%) Self-Motivation
2 23 (7.42%) Data Centre
3 21 (6.77%) PKI
4 20 (6.45%) IoT
5 16 (5.16%) Mobile App
6 13 (4.19%) Cloud Native
7 9 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.26%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.94%) Replication
10 5 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.61%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (0.97%) IBM Storwize
13 1 (0.32%) AS400
13 1 (0.32%) FlexPod
13 1 (0.32%) Greenfield Project
13 1 (0.32%) Onboarding
13 1 (0.32%) Operational Technology
13 1 (0.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 135 (43.55%) Windows
2 79 (25.48%) VMS
3 75 (24.19%) Windows Server
4 72 (23.23%) Linux
5 35 (11.29%) Windows Server 2016
6 33 (10.65%) Windows Server 2019
7 19 (6.13%) Unix
8 10 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (2.58%) AIX
9 8 (2.58%) Solaris
10 7 (2.26%) Windows 10
11 6 (1.94%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (1.29%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.97%) Android
13 3 (0.97%) Debian
13 3 (0.97%) SUSE
13 3 (0.97%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.32%) CentOS
14 1 (0.32%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (39.68%) Disaster Recovery
2 107 (34.52%) DevOps
3 85 (27.42%) High Availability
4 84 (27.10%) Collaborative Working
5 79 (25.48%) Business Intelligence
6 74 (23.87%) Performance Tuning
7 62 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 55 (17.74%) CI/CD
9 53 (17.10%) ITIL
10 49 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
11 46 (14.84%) Agile
12 36 (11.61%) Infrastructure as Code
13 35 (11.29%) Containerisation
13 35 (11.29%) Microservices
13 35 (11.29%) Network Virtualisation
14 30 (9.68%) Task Automation
15 26 (8.39%) Analytics
16 25 (8.06%) Configuration Management
16 25 (8.06%) Storage Management
17 24 (7.74%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 96 (30.97%) T-SQL
2 91 (29.35%) SQL
3 68 (21.94%) PowerShell
4 45 (14.52%) Python
5 35 (11.29%) C#
6 30 (9.68%) Bash
6 30 (9.68%) Bicep
7 23 (7.42%) Perl
8 20 (6.45%) Java
8 20 (6.45%) VB
9 19 (6.13%) VBScript
10 7 (2.26%) Kusto Query Language
11 6 (1.94%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.97%) C
12 3 (0.97%) C++
12 3 (0.97%) Go
12 3 (0.97%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 80 (25.81%) Microsoft Certification
2 43 (13.87%) Degree
3 37 (11.94%) Security Cleared
4 28 (9.03%) SC Cleared
5 19 (6.13%) DV Cleared
5 19 (6.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 9 (2.90%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.26%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.32%) CCNA
10 1 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.32%) CISM
10 1 (0.32%) CISSP
10 1 (0.32%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.32%) ISEB
10 1 (0.32%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.32%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.32%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.32%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.45%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (0.97%) GDPR
3 3 (0.97%) HIPAA
3 3 (0.97%) QA
3 3 (0.97%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.65%) PMO
System Software
1 92 (29.68%) Active Directory
2 65 (20.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 49 (15.81%) Hyper-V
4 38 (12.26%) Docker
5 35 (11.29%) Virtual Desktop
6 18 (5.81%) vSphere
7 16 (5.16%) pfSense
8 12 (3.87%) Firmware
8 12 (3.87%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (3.23%) NFS
10 6 (1.94%) KVM
11 3 (0.97%) Ceph
11 3 (0.97%) Gluster
11 3 (0.97%) oVirt
12 1 (0.32%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 48 (15.48%) Kubernetes
2 43 (13.87%) Terraform
3 29 (9.35%) Ansible
4 27 (8.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (7.10%) ZABBIX
6 19 (6.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 19 (6.13%) SCCM
6 19 (6.13%) SCOM
6 19 (6.13%) WSUS
7 16 (5.16%) Grafana
8 10 (3.23%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 10 (3.23%) SCDPM
9 3 (0.97%) Graylog
9 3 (0.97%) Observium
9 3 (0.97%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.97%) Puppet
10 2 (0.65%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.65%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.65%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 174 (56.13%) Microsoft
2 87 (28.06%) VMware
3 19 (6.13%) Fortinet
4 17 (5.48%) Juniper
5 16 (5.16%) ForgeRock
5 16 (5.16%) Sitecore
5 16 (5.16%) Veeam
6 11 (3.55%) Oracle
6 11 (3.55%) Red Hat
7 10 (3.23%) McAfee
8 9 (2.90%) Cisco
9 8 (2.58%) Google
10 7 (2.26%) HP
10 7 (2.26%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.61%) Citrix
12 3 (0.97%) Apple
12 3 (0.97%) IBM
12 3 (0.97%) Meraki
13 2 (0.65%) Nimble Storage
13 2 (0.65%) Salesforce