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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 330 430 534
Rank change year-on-year +100 +104 -82
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 294 213 388
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.85% 0.55% 0.52%
As % of the System Software category 6.90% 3.86% 2.69%
Number of salaries quoted 253 144 178
10th Percentile £41,300 £31,625 £35,875
25th Percentile £53,750 £42,500 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,029 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% -1.49% +11.13%
75th Percentile £63,750 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,375 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +15.00% -

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 4,262 5,512 14,406
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.27% 14.33% 19.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,299 4,287 7,753
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £70,199 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% -0.90% +0.91%

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 1 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 34 (11.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (5.44%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.06%) IIS
4 3 (1.02%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.68%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 233 (79.25%) Azure
2 79 (26.87%) Power Platform
3 55 (18.71%) Microsoft 365
4 47 (15.99%) Entra ID
5 44 (14.97%) AWS
6 37 (12.59%) SaaS
7 34 (11.56%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (10.54%) Azure Storage
9 30 (10.20%) Serverless
10 28 (9.52%) GitHub
11 26 (8.84%) Azure Monitor
12 23 (7.82%) Azure Functions
13 22 (7.48%) Amazon S3
13 22 (7.48%) AWS Lambda
14 18 (6.12%) IaaS
15 17 (5.78%) Azure App Service
16 16 (5.44%) Amazon EKS
16 16 (5.44%) Azure AKS
16 16 (5.44%) Matillion
16 16 (5.44%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 74 (25.17%) Broadband
2 67 (22.79%) DNS
3 60 (20.41%) Firewall
4 48 (16.33%) VPN
5 34 (11.56%) DHCP
6 19 (6.46%) HTTP
7 17 (5.78%) WAN
8 16 (5.44%) 5G
9 15 (5.10%) LAN
10 12 (4.08%) VLAN
11 8 (2.72%) Internet
11 8 (2.72%) TCP/IP
12 6 (2.04%) IPv4
12 6 (2.04%) VoIP
13 5 (1.70%) SAN
13 5 (1.70%) Wireless
14 4 (1.36%) FTP
14 4 (1.36%) SSL
14 4 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (1.36%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (34.35%) SQL Server
2 82 (27.89%) Azure SQL Database
3 79 (26.87%) Power BI
4 8 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (2.04%) BigQuery
5 6 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.68%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.68%) MySQL
6 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.68%) Tableau
7 1 (0.34%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.34%) Redis
7 1 (0.34%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.34%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 39 (13.27%) Git
2 17 (5.78%) JIRA
3 13 (4.42%) Jenkins
4 10 (3.40%) Trac
5 3 (1.02%) eggPlant
6 2 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.34%) GitLab
General
1 147 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 32 (10.88%) Finance
3 28 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (6.80%) Telecoms
5 16 (5.44%) Automotive
6 11 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.36%) Back Office
8 4 (1.36%) Banking
8 4 (1.36%) Law
8 4 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.02%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.02%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.68%) Advertising
10 2 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.68%) Retail
11 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 74 (25.17%) DBA
1 74 (25.17%) SQL DBA
2 51 (17.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 37 (12.59%) Senior
4 28 (9.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 25 (8.50%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (7.14%) Lead
7 20 (6.80%) Architect
7 20 (6.80%) Infrastructure Architect
7 20 (6.80%) Support Specialist
8 17 (5.78%) Active Directory Specialist
8 17 (5.78%) Active Directory Support
8 17 (5.78%) Azure Specialist
9 16 (5.44%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (4.08%) Analyst
11 11 (3.74%) AWS DevOps
12 10 (3.40%) Consultant
13 9 (3.06%) Lead DevOps
14 8 (2.72%) Azure Engineer
14 8 (2.72%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (9.18%) ARM Templates
2 24 (8.16%) .NET
3 16 (5.44%) JWT
3 16 (5.44%) RESTful
4 6 (2.04%) YAML
5 4 (1.36%) REST
6 3 (1.02%) Flash
7 2 (0.68%) ADO
7 2 (0.68%) JSON
7 2 (0.68%) SOAP
7 2 (0.68%) XML
8 1 (0.34%) ActiveMQ
8 1 (0.34%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.34%) CSS
8 1 (0.34%) Flask
8 1 (0.34%) HTML
8 1 (0.34%) jQuery
8 1 (0.34%) OpenAPI
8 1 (0.34%) Swagger
8 1 (0.34%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 32 (10.88%) Self-Motivation
2 23 (7.82%) Data Centre
3 19 (6.46%) PKI
4 16 (5.44%) Mobile App
5 14 (4.76%) IoT
6 12 (4.08%) Cloud Native
7 10 (3.40%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.38%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.38%) Replication
9 4 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.02%) IBM Storwize
10 3 (1.02%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.68%) FlexPod
12 1 (0.34%) AS400
12 1 (0.34%) Client/Server
12 1 (0.34%) Smartcard
12 1 (0.34%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 131 (44.56%) Windows
2 79 (26.87%) VMS
3 74 (25.17%) Windows Server
4 67 (22.79%) Linux
5 33 (11.22%) Windows Server 2016
6 31 (10.54%) Windows Server 2019
7 22 (7.48%) Unix
8 9 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (2.72%) AIX
9 8 (2.72%) Solaris
10 7 (2.38%) Windows 10
11 6 (2.04%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (1.02%) Android
12 3 (1.02%) Debian
12 3 (1.02%) SUSE
12 3 (1.02%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.68%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.34%) CentOS
14 1 (0.34%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (40.14%) Disaster Recovery
2 99 (33.67%) DevOps
3 84 (28.57%) High Availability
4 83 (28.23%) Collaborative Working
5 79 (26.87%) Business Intelligence
6 74 (25.17%) Performance Tuning
7 57 (19.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 51 (17.35%) CI/CD
9 45 (15.31%) Agile
10 41 (13.95%) ITIL
11 39 (13.27%) Problem-Solving
12 34 (11.56%) Microservices
13 32 (10.88%) Containerisation
14 30 (10.20%) Infrastructure as Code
15 29 (9.86%) Network Virtualisation
16 25 (8.50%) Configuration Management
17 24 (8.16%) Actionable Insight
18 22 (7.48%) Analytics
18 22 (7.48%) Continuous Improvement
18 22 (7.48%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 96 (32.65%) T-SQL
2 91 (30.95%) SQL
3 62 (21.09%) PowerShell
4 35 (11.90%) Python
5 30 (10.20%) C#
6 27 (9.18%) Bicep
7 20 (6.80%) Bash
8 18 (6.12%) Java
8 18 (6.12%) VB
9 17 (5.78%) Perl
9 17 (5.78%) VBScript
10 6 (2.04%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (2.04%) VB.NET
11 3 (1.02%) Go
12 1 (0.34%) C
12 1 (0.34%) C++
12 1 (0.34%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 79 (26.87%) Microsoft Certification
2 36 (12.24%) Degree
3 35 (11.90%) Security Cleared
4 26 (8.84%) SC Cleared
5 17 (5.78%) DV Cleared
5 17 (5.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 7 (2.38%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.38%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.02%) ISEB
7 3 (1.02%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.34%) CCNA
9 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.34%) CISM
9 1 (0.34%) CISSP
9 1 (0.34%) ISACA
9 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.34%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.34%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.36%) QA
4 2 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.68%) GDPR
4 2 (0.68%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.68%) PMO
4 2 (0.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 78 (26.53%) Active Directory
2 59 (20.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 47 (15.99%) Hyper-V
4 35 (11.90%) Docker
5 29 (9.86%) Virtual Desktop
6 18 (6.12%) vSphere
7 16 (5.44%) pfSense
8 12 (4.08%) Firmware
9 10 (3.40%) NFS
9 10 (3.40%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (1.36%) KVM
11 3 (1.02%) Ceph
11 3 (1.02%) Gluster
11 3 (1.02%) oVirt
12 1 (0.34%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 45 (15.31%) Kubernetes
2 40 (13.61%) Terraform
3 29 (9.86%) Ansible
4 26 (8.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (7.48%) ZABBIX
6 17 (5.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 17 (5.78%) SCCM
6 17 (5.78%) SCOM
6 17 (5.78%) WSUS
7 16 (5.44%) Grafana
8 10 (3.40%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 10 (3.40%) SCDPM
9 3 (1.02%) Graylog
9 3 (1.02%) Observium
9 3 (1.02%) Prometheus
9 3 (1.02%) Puppet
10 2 (0.68%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.68%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.68%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 168 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 82 (27.89%) VMware
3 19 (6.46%) Fortinet
4 17 (5.78%) Juniper
5 16 (5.44%) ForgeRock
5 16 (5.44%) Sitecore
5 16 (5.44%) Veeam
6 11 (3.74%) Cisco
6 11 (3.74%) Oracle
6 11 (3.74%) Red Hat
7 10 (3.40%) McAfee
8 8 (2.72%) Google
8 8 (2.72%) HP
9 7 (2.38%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.70%) Citrix
11 3 (1.02%) Apple
11 3 (1.02%) IBM
11 3 (1.02%) Meraki
12 2 (0.68%) 3PAR
12 2 (0.68%) Nimble Storage