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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 445 289 563
Rank change year-on-year -156 +274 -3
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 540 1,227 928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 1.25% 0.57%
As % of the System Software category 4.50% 8.00% 3.09%
Number of salaries quoted 441 316 356
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,750 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.00% -3.38%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £96,875 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £54,882 £45,000
% change year-on-year +4.77% +21.96% -

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 11,994 15,343 30,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.88% 15.58% 18.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,423 10,001 15,538
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £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 23 May 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 23 May 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 -92 485 £57,500 -4.17% 114
UK excluding London -201 408 £57,500 +4.77% 94
Work from Home +107 291 £57,500 -4.17% 54
South East -50 124 £60,000 +4.35% 31
London +70 117 £80,000 +10.34% 36
North of England -75 88 £55,000 +0.22% 15
Midlands -94 57 £46,250 -14.55% 13
South West -77 55 £55,000 +46.67% 17
North West -66 41 £57,500 -11.54% 6
West Midlands -47 36 £48,750 -8.45% 7
East of England -22 35 £55,000 +69.23% 14
Yorkshire +4 34 £42,500 -3.48% 8
Wales -24 30 £45,000 +0.84%
East Midlands -41 21 £46,250 -31.48% 6
Scotland -162 19 £57,500 +4.55% 5
North East 0 13 £56,250 -2.17% 1

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 (12.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 44 (8.15%) SharePoint
3 17 (3.15%) Apache Spark
4 13 (2.41%) Apache
4 13 (2.41%) IIS
5 11 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.11%) Skype for Business
7 5 (0.93%) Confluence
7 5 (0.93%) Solana
8 4 (0.74%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.56%) CloudStack
10 2 (0.37%) Resin
10 2 (0.37%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
Applications
1 23 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.19%) Misys Opics
Cloud Services
1 387 (71.67%) Azure
2 124 (22.96%) Microsoft 365
3 85 (15.74%) Power Platform
4 82 (15.19%) AWS
4 82 (15.19%) Entra ID
5 69 (12.78%) Azure DevOps
6 51 (9.44%) SaaS
6 51 (9.44%) Serverless
7 47 (8.70%) IaaS
8 42 (7.78%) Azure Monitor
9 39 (7.22%) Azure Storage
10 38 (7.04%) Azure Functions
11 32 (5.93%) GCP
12 29 (5.37%) Amazon S3
12 29 (5.37%) Azure AKS
13 28 (5.19%) GitHub
14 26 (4.81%) Azure App Service
15 25 (4.63%) AWS Lambda
16 24 (4.44%) Nutanix
17 23 (4.26%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 104 (19.26%) Firewall
2 92 (17.04%) DNS
3 76 (14.07%) Broadband
4 70 (12.96%) VPN
5 52 (9.63%) DHCP
6 29 (5.37%) LAN
7 26 (4.81%) VLAN
7 26 (4.81%) WAN
8 21 (3.89%) SAN
9 20 (3.70%) HTTP
10 19 (3.52%) Wireless
11 18 (3.33%) Internet
11 18 (3.33%) Network Security
12 16 (2.96%) 5G
13 15 (2.78%) TCP/IP
13 15 (2.78%) VoIP
14 11 (2.04%) NetScaler
15 10 (1.85%) iSCSI
15 10 (1.85%) NAS
15 10 (1.85%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (22.96%) SQL Server
2 90 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 81 (15.00%) Power BI
4 16 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (2.04%) Apache Hive
5 11 (2.04%) Presto
6 8 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (1.11%) BigQuery
9 4 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.74%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.56%) Big Data
10 3 (0.56%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.37%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.37%) MySQL
11 2 (0.37%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 51 (9.44%) Git
2 29 (5.37%) Jenkins
3 24 (4.44%) JIRA
4 10 (1.85%) Trac
5 9 (1.67%) GitLab
6 5 (0.93%) eggPlant
6 5 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (0.93%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.74%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.56%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.56%) JUnit
8 3 (0.56%) Selenium
8 3 (0.56%) Subversion
8 3 (0.56%) TestNG
8 3 (0.56%) Travis CI
9 2 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.19%) Burp Suite
General
1 218 (40.37%) Social Skills
2 97 (17.96%) Finance
3 37 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (4.26%) Telecoms
5 21 (3.89%) Banking
5 21 (3.89%) Games
6 16 (2.96%) Automotive
6 16 (2.96%) Electronics
6 16 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (2.41%) Manufacturing
8 11 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (1.85%) Retail
10 6 (1.11%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.11%) Law
10 6 (1.11%) Local Government
11 5 (0.93%) Marketing
11 5 (0.93%) Public Sector
12 4 (0.74%) Back Office
12 4 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 88 (16.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 74 (13.70%) DBA
2 74 (13.70%) SQL DBA
3 66 (12.22%) Senior
4 43 (7.96%) Architect
5 40 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
6 39 (7.22%) Lead
7 34 (6.30%) DevOps Engineer
8 30 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 28 (5.19%) IT Support
10 24 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
10 24 (4.44%) Software Engineer
11 23 (4.26%) Support Engineer
12 22 (4.07%) IT Engineer
13 20 (3.70%) Infrastructure Architect
14 18 (3.33%) Support Specialist
15 17 (3.15%) Linux Engineer
16 16 (2.96%) Analyst
16 16 (2.96%) IT Technician
17 15 (2.78%) Active Directory Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (7.96%) ARM Templates
2 40 (7.41%) .NET
3 19 (3.52%) JWT
4 17 (3.15%) http4s
4 17 (3.15%) Lambda Expressions
4 17 (3.15%) RESTful
5 6 (1.11%) REST
6 5 (0.93%) React
7 4 (0.74%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.56%) Azure Blueprints
8 3 (0.56%) Bazel
8 3 (0.56%) Flash
9 2 (0.37%) JSON
9 2 (0.37%) Middleware
9 2 (0.37%) OAuth
9 2 (0.37%) OpenAPI
9 2 (0.37%) SOAP
9 2 (0.37%) Swagger
9 2 (0.37%) XML
9 2 (0.37%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.22%) Data Centre
2 36 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
3 29 (5.37%) Management Information System
4 28 (5.19%) Hybrid Cloud
5 22 (4.07%) PKI
6 21 (3.89%) Cloud Native
6 21 (3.89%) Mobile App
7 16 (2.96%) IoT
8 12 (2.22%) Replication
9 11 (2.04%) Driving Licence
10 8 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.30%) Cyberattack
11 7 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (1.11%) CCTV
12 6 (1.11%) Onboarding
13 5 (0.93%) Blockchain
13 5 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
15 3 (0.56%) IBM Storwize
15 3 (0.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 225 (41.67%) Windows
2 133 (24.63%) Windows Server
3 119 (22.04%) Linux
4 98 (18.15%) VMS
5 43 (7.96%) Windows Server 2019
6 39 (7.22%) Windows Server 2016
7 28 (5.19%) Windows 10
8 24 (4.44%) Unix
9 17 (3.15%) Ubuntu
10 11 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 11 (2.04%) Windows Server 2012
11 10 (1.85%) AIX
11 10 (1.85%) Debian
12 9 (1.67%) Solaris
13 8 (1.48%) CentOS
13 8 (1.48%) Windows Server 2008
14 6 (1.11%) Android
14 6 (1.11%) Apple iOS
15 3 (0.56%) SUSE
15 3 (0.56%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (29.81%) DevOps
2 148 (27.41%) Disaster Recovery
3 106 (19.63%) CI/CD
4 102 (18.89%) High Availability
5 97 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
6 95 (17.59%) Collaborative Working
7 94 (17.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 87 (16.11%) Infrastructure as Code
9 82 (15.19%) Business Intelligence
10 77 (14.26%) Performance Tuning
11 76 (14.07%) Agile
12 67 (12.41%) Network Virtualisation
13 64 (11.85%) Containerisation
14 63 (11.67%) ITIL
15 54 (10.00%) Microservices
16 49 (9.07%) Configuration Management
17 45 (8.33%) Computer Science
17 45 (8.33%) Software Engineering
18 41 (7.59%) Project Management
19 37 (6.85%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 125 (23.15%) SQL
2 115 (21.30%) PowerShell
3 98 (18.15%) T-SQL
4 75 (13.89%) Python
5 59 (10.93%) Bash
6 42 (7.78%) Java
7 41 (7.59%) C#
8 37 (6.85%) Bicep
9 19 (3.52%) Perl
10 17 (3.15%) Kotlin
10 17 (3.15%) Scala
11 16 (2.96%) VB
12 15 (2.78%) VBScript
13 12 (2.22%) Go
14 8 (1.48%) Rust
15 7 (1.30%) C
15 7 (1.30%) C++
15 7 (1.30%) Ruby
16 6 (1.11%) VB.NET
17 5 (0.93%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 95 (17.59%) Microsoft Certification
2 83 (15.37%) Degree
3 60 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 36 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 30 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (5.00%) Azure Certification
7 15 (2.78%) DV Cleared
7 15 (2.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 10 (1.85%) DBS Check
9 9 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (1.11%) MCP
11 5 (0.93%) ISEB
11 5 (0.93%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.56%) CCNA
12 3 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.56%) CISSP
13 2 (0.37%) CISM
13 2 (0.37%) Linux+ Certification
13 2 (0.37%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.26%) Cyber Essentials
2 22 (4.07%) QA
3 14 (2.59%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.04%) GDPR
5 10 (1.85%) PMO
6 7 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 7 (1.30%) SLA
7 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.19%) GRC
8 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.19%) NCSC
8 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 144 (26.67%) Active Directory
2 96 (17.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 72 (13.33%) Hyper-V
4 53 (9.81%) Docker
5 33 (6.11%) Virtual Desktop
6 28 (5.19%) vSphere
7 18 (3.33%) Firmware
8 16 (2.96%) pfSense
9 15 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
10 14 (2.59%) NFS
11 12 (2.22%) Virtual Servers
12 9 (1.67%) Ceph
13 7 (1.30%) XenApp
14 6 (1.11%) KVM
14 6 (1.11%) XenDesktop
15 4 (0.74%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 3 (0.56%) Gluster
16 3 (0.56%) oVirt
16 3 (0.56%) VirtualBox
17 1 (0.19%) LXC
Systems Management
1 94 (17.41%) Terraform
2 84 (15.56%) Kubernetes
3 57 (10.56%) Ansible
4 39 (7.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 30 (5.56%) SCCM
6 25 (4.63%) ZABBIX
7 23 (4.26%) Grafana
8 20 (3.70%) SCOM
9 18 (3.33%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 16 (2.96%) SCDPM
10 16 (2.96%) WSUS
11 15 (2.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 13 (2.41%) Puppet
13 11 (2.04%) Progress Chef
14 9 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
15 7 (1.30%) CASB
15 7 (1.30%) Nagios
15 7 (1.30%) Prometheus
15 7 (1.30%) QRadar
15 7 (1.30%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 301 (55.74%) Microsoft
2 124 (22.96%) VMware
3 31 (5.74%) Veeam
4 27 (5.00%) Cisco
4 27 (5.00%) Google
5 25 (4.63%) Fortinet
6 18 (3.33%) Citrix
7 17 (3.15%) Juniper
7 17 (3.15%) Red Hat
8 16 (2.96%) ForgeRock
8 16 (2.96%) Sitecore
9 14 (2.59%) Oracle
10 11 (2.04%) Databricks
10 11 (2.04%) HP
11 10 (1.85%) McAfee
11 10 (1.85%) ServiceNow
12 9 (1.67%) Commvault
13 8 (1.48%) IBM
14 7 (1.30%) Kenna
14 7 (1.30%) Rapid7