Virtual Infrastructure Jobs in England

Virtual Infrastructure
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Virtual Infrastructure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Infrastructure over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 742 850 1068
Rank change year-on-year +108 +218 -277
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 105 76 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.084% 0.063%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.088% 0.066%
Number of salaries quoted 78 33 57
10th Percentile £40,995 £40,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £48,125 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -15.38% +23.81%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £87,900 £87,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% -15.38% +23.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Virtual Infrastructure is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,372 86,501 127,461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.52% 95.63% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 53,935 51,101 73,310
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Virtual Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Virtual Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Infrastructure in England

Virtual Infrastructure
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Virtual Infrastructure in England

Virtual Infrastructure
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure in England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Virtual Infrastructure in England

Virtual Infrastructure
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure within the England region over the 6 months to 8 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
London +149 34 £65,000 -22.16% 5
South East +1 22 £62,500 +47.06% 2
West Midlands +13 20 £55,000 -13.73% 2
Midlands +5 20 £55,000 -13.73% 3
South West -8 19 £32,500 -29.35% 6
North of England +37 4 £48,500 -11.82% 3
Yorkshire +75 2 £47,000 -14.55%
East of England - 2 £55,000 -
North West +6 1 £47,000 +18.26% 3
North East - 1 £50,000 -
Virtual Infrastructure
UK

Virtual Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 9 (8.57%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.86%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.90%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 47 (44.76%) Azure
2 29 (27.62%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (17.14%) AWS
4 17 (16.19%) IaaS
5 12 (11.43%) Nutanix
6 7 (6.67%) Power Platform
7 6 (5.71%) Power Automate
7 6 (5.71%) SaaS
8 5 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (4.76%) OneDrive
8 5 (4.76%) PaaS
9 4 (3.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.90%) Azure App Service
11 2 (1.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.90%) GCP
12 1 (0.95%) Entra ID
12 1 (0.95%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 46 (43.81%) Firewall
2 25 (23.81%) SAN
3 22 (20.95%) DNS
3 22 (20.95%) WAN
4 18 (17.14%) VLAN
5 16 (15.24%) VPN
6 13 (12.38%) SD-WAN
7 10 (9.52%) VSAN
8 9 (8.57%) LAN
9 8 (7.62%) Cisco ASA
9 8 (7.62%) Software-Defined Networking
10 7 (6.67%) NAS
11 6 (5.71%) DHCP
11 6 (5.71%) Network Security
11 6 (5.71%) TCP/IP
12 5 (4.76%) Unified Communications
12 5 (4.76%) Wireless
13 4 (3.81%) Cisco Firepower
13 4 (3.81%) Fibre Channel
13 4 (3.81%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.57%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.76%) Power BI
3 2 (1.90%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (1.90%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.90%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.90%) MSBuild
General
1 30 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 18 (17.14%) Aerospace
2 18 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (17.14%) Finance
3 12 (11.43%) Billing
4 8 (7.62%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.71%) Marketing
5 6 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (4.76%) Banking
6 5 (4.76%) Law
6 5 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.81%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.81%) Police
8 2 (1.90%) Fire and Rescue
8 2 (1.90%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 31 (29.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 25 (23.81%) Administrator
2 25 (23.81%) Senior
3 22 (20.95%) Network Engineer
4 19 (18.10%) VMWare Administrator
5 16 (15.24%) Systems Administrator
6 14 (13.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (11.43%) Architect
7 12 (11.43%) Infrastructure Architect
8 8 (7.62%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 8 (7.62%) Security Engineer
8 8 (7.62%) Senior Network Engineer
9 7 (6.67%) Lead
10 6 (5.71%) SOC Engineer
11 5 (4.76%) IT Administrator
12 4 (3.81%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
12 4 (3.81%) IT Engineer
12 4 (3.81%) Network Security Engineer
12 4 (3.81%) Server Administrator
12 4 (3.81%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.90%) .NET
1 2 (1.90%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 36 (34.29%) Data Centre
2 17 (16.19%) Replication
3 16 (15.24%) Management Information System
3 16 (15.24%) Public Cloud
4 14 (13.33%) PKI
5 12 (11.43%) IoT
6 8 (7.62%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (5.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (4.76%) PMI
9 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.95%) CCTV
10 1 (0.95%) Clustering
10 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.95%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 59 (56.19%) Windows
2 54 (51.43%) Linux
3 27 (25.71%) Windows Server
4 16 (15.24%) Ubuntu
5 12 (11.43%) SUSE
5 12 (11.43%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (3.81%) Android
6 4 (3.81%) Apple iOS
6 4 (3.81%) CentOS
6 4 (3.81%) DC/OS
6 4 (3.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (3.81%) Windows 10
7 3 (2.86%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (35.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 30 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (22.86%) Agile
3 24 (22.86%) Collaborative Working
3 24 (22.86%) Task Automation
4 21 (20.00%) ITIL
5 20 (19.05%) Asset Management
6 19 (18.10%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (18.10%) DevOps
7 17 (16.19%) Capacity Planning
7 17 (16.19%) Network Monitoring
7 17 (16.19%) Technical Leadership
8 15 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
8 15 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
9 14 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
9 14 (13.33%) Project Delivery
10 13 (12.38%) Mentoring
11 12 (11.43%) Decision-Making
11 12 (11.43%) Infrastructure Automation
11 12 (11.43%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 32 (30.48%) PowerShell
2 22 (20.95%) Bash
3 18 (17.14%) Perl
3 18 (17.14%) Python
4 17 (16.19%) SQL
5 6 (5.71%) C#
6 4 (3.81%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.90%) PHP
Qualifications
1 24 (22.86%) Microsoft Certification
2 22 (20.95%) Security Cleared
3 21 (20.00%) Degree
4 20 (19.05%) MCSE
5 16 (15.24%) MCSA
6 14 (13.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 8 (7.62%) CCNA
7 8 (7.62%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (7.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (7.62%) DV Cleared
8 6 (5.71%) CISA
8 6 (5.71%) CISSP
8 6 (5.71%) GIAC
8 6 (5.71%) JNCIA
9 5 (4.76%) PMI Certification
10 4 (3.81%) Master's Degree
10 4 (3.81%) Network+ Certification
10 4 (3.81%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.43%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 5 (4.76%) QA
3 4 (3.81%) NCSC
4 2 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.90%) NIST
5 1 (0.95%) GDPR
5 1 (0.95%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 62 (59.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 44 (41.90%) Active Directory
3 35 (33.33%) vSphere
4 22 (20.95%) VMware NSX
5 14 (13.33%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (11.43%) vCloud
6 12 (11.43%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (6.67%) Firmware
8 4 (3.81%) Docker
8 4 (3.81%) VMware Server
9 2 (1.90%) Hyper-V
9 2 (1.90%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.95%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 8 (7.62%) SCCM
2 4 (3.81%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.81%) vCenter Server
2 4 (3.81%) vRealize
2 4 (3.81%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (2.86%) SCOM
4 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 62 (59.05%) VMware
2 39 (37.14%) Microsoft
3 23 (21.90%) Veeam
4 18 (17.14%) Cisco
5 15 (14.29%) HP
6 12 (11.43%) Fujitsu
7 7 (6.67%) Fortinet
8 6 (5.71%) Juniper
8 6 (5.71%) Splunk
9 5 (4.76%) Avaya
9 5 (4.76%) BT
9 5 (4.76%) Mitel
9 5 (4.76%) SolarWinds
9 5 (4.76%) Zscaler
10 4 (3.81%) Google
11 2 (1.90%) Remedy
12 1 (0.95%) Aderant
12 1 (0.95%) Citrix
12 1 (0.95%) iManage
12 1 (0.95%) Sophos