Virtual Machines Jobs

Virtual Machine (VM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 452 278 569
Rank change year-on-year -174 +291 -16
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 551 1,240 946
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 1.31% 0.56%
As % of the System Software category 4.58% 8.49% 3.03%
Number of salaries quoted 447 314 365
10th Percentile £34,500 £31,250 £30,200
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,889 £99,625 £85,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £53,250 £45,000
% change year-on-year +7.98% +18.33% -

All System Software Skills
UK

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 requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 12,037 14,602 31,259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.44% 15.40% 18.49%
Number of salaries quoted 9,350 9,782 15,548
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,638 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,687
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.23% +1.25%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Virtual Machines as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in the UK

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Virtual Machines.

Salary trend for Virtual Machines in the UK

Virtual Machines
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Virtual Machines in the UK

Virtual Machines
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Machines within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -103 498 £57,500 -4.17% 117
UK excluding London -212 411 £57,500 +7.98% 71
Work from Home +113 294 £57,500 -10.20% 45
London +66 126 £80,000 +12.28% 50
South East -73 126 £60,000 +4.35% 17
North of England -86 90 £55,000 +15.79% 13
Midlands -98 56 £46,250 -13.15% 11
South West -90 55 £55,000 +46.67% 15
North West -79 42 £57,500 -11.54% 4
East of England -34 36 £55,000 +41.94% 12
West Midlands -64 36 £48,750 -8.45% 7
Yorkshire -13 34 £42,500 -1.59% 7
Wales -35 28 £45,000 +5.88%
East Midlands -53 20 £46,250 -31.48% 4
Scotland -166 20 £57,500 +4.66% 3
North East -4 14 £56,250 -2.17% 2

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 67 (12.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 43 (7.80%) SharePoint
3 17 (3.09%) Apache Spark
4 14 (2.54%) Apache
5 12 (2.18%) IIS
6 11 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (1.09%) Skype for Business
8 5 (0.91%) Confluence
8 5 (0.91%) Solana
9 4 (0.73%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.54%) CloudStack
11 2 (0.36%) Resin
11 2 (0.36%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 21 (3.81%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.18%) Misys Opics
Cloud Services
1 394 (71.51%) Azure
2 123 (22.32%) Microsoft 365
3 88 (15.97%) Entra ID
4 85 (15.43%) Power Platform
5 83 (15.06%) AWS
6 74 (13.43%) Azure DevOps
7 53 (9.62%) Serverless
8 50 (9.07%) SaaS
9 48 (8.71%) IaaS
10 47 (8.53%) Azure Storage
11 46 (8.35%) Azure Monitor
12 38 (6.90%) Azure Functions
13 32 (5.81%) GCP
14 29 (5.26%) Amazon S3
14 29 (5.26%) Azure AKS
14 29 (5.26%) Azure App Service
15 28 (5.08%) GitHub
16 25 (4.54%) AWS Lambda
17 24 (4.36%) Nutanix
17 24 (4.36%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 103 (18.69%) Firewall
2 96 (17.42%) DNS
3 76 (13.79%) Broadband
4 69 (12.52%) VPN
5 56 (10.16%) DHCP
6 29 (5.26%) LAN
7 26 (4.72%) VLAN
7 26 (4.72%) WAN
8 22 (3.99%) SAN
9 20 (3.63%) HTTP
10 17 (3.09%) Internet
10 17 (3.09%) Wireless
11 16 (2.90%) 5G
11 16 (2.90%) Network Security
11 16 (2.90%) TCP/IP
12 15 (2.72%) VoIP
13 10 (1.81%) iSCSI
13 10 (1.81%) Unified Communications
14 9 (1.63%) NAS
14 9 (1.63%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (22.32%) SQL Server
2 92 (16.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 80 (14.52%) Power BI
4 15 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (2.00%) Apache Hive
5 11 (2.00%) Presto
6 8 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (1.09%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (1.09%) BigQuery
9 4 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.73%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.54%) Big Data
10 3 (0.54%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.36%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.36%) MySQL
11 2 (0.36%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 60 (10.89%) Git
2 31 (5.63%) Jenkins
3 24 (4.36%) JIRA
4 10 (1.81%) GitLab
4 10 (1.81%) Trac
5 6 (1.09%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (1.09%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.73%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.54%) CircleCI
7 3 (0.54%) eggPlant
7 3 (0.54%) JUnit
7 3 (0.54%) Selenium
7 3 (0.54%) Subversion
7 3 (0.54%) TestNG
7 3 (0.54%) Travis CI
8 2 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.18%) Burp Suite
General
1 218 (39.56%) Social Skills
2 96 (17.42%) Finance
3 38 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (3.99%) Telecoms
5 20 (3.63%) Banking
6 19 (3.45%) Games
7 16 (2.90%) Automotive
7 16 (2.90%) Electronics
7 16 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.18%) Manufacturing
9 11 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (1.81%) Retail
11 6 (1.09%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.09%) Law
11 6 (1.09%) Local Government
12 4 (0.73%) Back Office
12 4 (0.73%) Marketing
12 4 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.73%) Public Sector
13 3 (0.54%) Legal
Job Titles
1 87 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 74 (13.43%) DBA
2 74 (13.43%) SQL DBA
3 65 (11.80%) Senior
4 44 (7.99%) Architect
5 43 (7.80%) Lead
6 41 (7.44%) Cloud Engineer
7 37 (6.72%) DevOps Engineer
8 30 (5.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 28 (5.08%) IT Support
10 27 (4.90%) Azure Engineer
11 26 (4.72%) Software Engineer
12 24 (4.36%) IT Engineer
13 22 (3.99%) Support Engineer
14 20 (3.63%) Infrastructure Architect
14 20 (3.63%) Support Specialist
15 18 (3.27%) Linux Engineer
16 17 (3.09%) Active Directory Specialist
16 17 (3.09%) Active Directory Support
16 17 (3.09%) Azure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (9.07%) ARM Templates
2 42 (7.62%) .NET
3 19 (3.45%) http4s
3 19 (3.45%) Lambda Expressions
4 17 (3.09%) JWT
4 17 (3.09%) RESTful
5 6 (1.09%) YAML
6 5 (0.91%) React
6 5 (0.91%) REST
7 4 (0.73%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.54%) ASP.NET
8 3 (0.54%) Azure Blueprints
8 3 (0.54%) Bazel
8 3 (0.54%) Flash
8 3 (0.54%) Keycloak
8 3 (0.54%) Middleware
9 2 (0.36%) .NET Framework
9 2 (0.36%) ADO
9 2 (0.36%) SOAP
9 2 (0.36%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.08%) Data Centre
2 38 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
3 29 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 28 (5.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 22 (3.99%) Mobile App
5 22 (3.99%) PKI
6 21 (3.81%) Cloud Native
7 16 (2.90%) IoT
8 12 (2.18%) Replication
9 11 (2.00%) Driving Licence
10 8 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.27%) Cyberattack
12 6 (1.09%) CCTV
12 6 (1.09%) Onboarding
13 5 (0.91%) Blockchain
13 5 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
14 3 (0.54%) Greenfield Project
14 3 (0.54%) IBM Storwize
14 3 (0.54%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 225 (40.83%) Windows
2 131 (23.77%) Windows Server
3 123 (22.32%) Linux
4 99 (17.97%) VMS
5 46 (8.35%) Windows Server 2019
6 42 (7.62%) Windows Server 2016
7 28 (5.08%) Windows 10
8 26 (4.72%) Unix
9 18 (3.27%) Ubuntu
10 14 (2.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 12 (2.18%) AIX
11 12 (2.18%) Windows Server 2012
12 11 (2.00%) Solaris
13 10 (1.81%) Debian
14 8 (1.45%) CentOS
14 8 (1.45%) Windows Server 2008
15 7 (1.27%) Android
16 6 (1.09%) Apple iOS
17 3 (0.54%) SUSE
17 3 (0.54%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (30.31%) DevOps
2 149 (27.04%) Disaster Recovery
3 115 (20.87%) CI/CD
4 100 (18.15%) High Availability
5 99 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
6 98 (17.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 93 (16.88%) Collaborative Working
7 93 (16.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 80 (14.52%) Business Intelligence
9 79 (14.34%) Agile
10 78 (14.16%) Performance Tuning
11 66 (11.98%) Network Virtualisation
12 64 (11.62%) Containerisation
12 64 (11.62%) ITIL
13 57 (10.34%) Microservices
14 51 (9.26%) Configuration Management
15 49 (8.89%) Software Engineering
16 48 (8.71%) Computer Science
17 43 (7.80%) Project Management
18 36 (6.53%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 125 (22.69%) SQL
2 121 (21.96%) PowerShell
3 98 (17.79%) T-SQL
4 76 (13.79%) Python
5 61 (11.07%) Bash
6 43 (7.80%) Bicep
6 43 (7.80%) C#
6 43 (7.80%) Java
7 20 (3.63%) Perl
8 19 (3.45%) Kotlin
8 19 (3.45%) Scala
9 18 (3.27%) VB
10 17 (3.09%) VBScript
11 11 (2.00%) Go
12 7 (1.27%) C
12 7 (1.27%) C++
12 7 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (1.27%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.09%) Ruby
13 6 (1.09%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 96 (17.42%) Microsoft Certification
2 88 (15.97%) Degree
3 62 (11.25%) Security Cleared
4 38 (6.90%) SC Cleared
5 32 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (5.44%) Azure Certification
7 17 (3.09%) DV Cleared
7 17 (3.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 10 (1.81%) DBS Check
9 9 (1.63%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (1.09%) MCP
11 4 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.54%) CCNA
12 3 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.54%) CISSP
12 3 (0.54%) ISEB
12 3 (0.54%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.54%) Linux+ Certification
12 3 (0.54%) RHCE
13 2 (0.36%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
1 23 (4.17%) QA
2 14 (2.54%) Data Quality
2 14 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (2.18%) GDPR
4 10 (1.81%) PMO
5 8 (1.45%) SLA
6 7 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.36%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.36%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.18%) GRC
8 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 149 (27.04%) Active Directory
2 95 (17.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 72 (13.07%) Hyper-V
4 56 (10.16%) Docker
5 37 (6.72%) Virtual Desktop
6 30 (5.44%) vSphere
7 17 (3.09%) Firmware
7 17 (3.09%) VMware ESXi
8 16 (2.90%) pfSense
9 14 (2.54%) NFS
10 12 (2.18%) Virtual Servers
11 9 (1.63%) Ceph
12 7 (1.27%) KVM
13 5 (0.91%) XenApp
14 4 (0.73%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 4 (0.73%) XenDesktop
15 3 (0.54%) Gluster
15 3 (0.54%) LXC
15 3 (0.54%) oVirt
15 3 (0.54%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 105 (19.06%) Terraform
2 89 (16.15%) Kubernetes
3 59 (10.71%) Ansible
4 40 (7.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 30 (5.44%) SCCM
6 25 (4.54%) ZABBIX
7 24 (4.36%) Grafana
8 21 (3.81%) SCOM
9 18 (3.27%) WSUS
10 17 (3.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 17 (3.09%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 16 (2.90%) SCDPM
12 14 (2.54%) Puppet
13 12 (2.18%) Progress Chef
14 10 (1.81%) Prometheus
15 7 (1.27%) CASB
15 7 (1.27%) Nagios
15 7 (1.27%) QRadar
15 7 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
16 6 (1.09%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 304 (55.17%) Microsoft
2 124 (22.50%) VMware
3 30 (5.44%) Veeam
4 29 (5.26%) Google
5 26 (4.72%) Cisco
6 23 (4.17%) Fortinet
7 20 (3.63%) Red Hat
8 17 (3.09%) Juniper
9 16 (2.90%) Citrix
9 16 (2.90%) ForgeRock
9 16 (2.90%) Oracle
9 16 (2.90%) Sitecore
10 12 (2.18%) HP
11 11 (2.00%) Databricks
12 10 (1.81%) IBM
12 10 (1.81%) McAfee
12 10 (1.81%) ServiceNow
13 9 (1.63%) Splunk
14 7 (1.27%) Kenna
14 7 (1.27%) Rapid7