Virtual Machines Jobs in England

Virtual Machine (VM)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 416 355 557
Rank change year-on-year -61 +202 -6
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 480 861 724
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.56% 0.93% 0.55%
As % of the System Software category 4.40% 6.05% 3.03%
Number of salaries quoted 400 276 292
10th Percentile £33,725 £32,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,125 £41,438 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +15.00% -9.09%

All System Software Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 10,908 14,231 23,901
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.79% 15.40% 18.04%
Number of salaries quoted 8,839 9,650 13,984
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,977 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,117
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,050
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -0.09% +0.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% +1.82%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in England

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Virtual Machines in England

Virtual Machines
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Virtual Machines in England

Virtual Machines
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 Machines within the England region over the 6 months to 3 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
South East -42 126 £60,000 +10.09% 18
London +72 107 £75,000 +3.45% 45
North of England -44 89 £52,500 -4.55% 13
Midlands -55 60 £46,250 -14.55% 12
South West -78 50 £56,250 +50.00% 17
North West -42 40 £57,500 -6.12% 6
Yorkshire +22 37 £41,250 -13.16% 6
West Midlands -33 37 £48,750 -8.45% 4
East of England -9 36 £55,000 +69.23% 7
East Midlands -28 23 £46,250 -31.48% 8
North East +1 12 £55,000 -4.35% 1
Virtual Machines
UK

Virtual Machines
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 59 (12.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 40 (8.33%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.29%) IIS
4 9 (1.88%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.67%) Apache
6 7 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (1.25%) Skype for Business
8 5 (1.04%) Confluence
8 5 (1.04%) Solana
9 3 (0.63%) CloudStack
9 3 (0.63%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.42%) Resin
10 2 (0.42%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
Applications
1 20 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.21%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.21%) Misys Opics
2 1 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 354 (73.75%) Azure
2 112 (23.33%) Microsoft 365
3 76 (15.83%) Power Platform
4 69 (14.38%) AWS
4 69 (14.38%) Entra ID
5 68 (14.17%) Azure DevOps
6 54 (11.25%) IaaS
7 50 (10.42%) Serverless
8 43 (8.96%) SaaS
9 41 (8.54%) Azure Monitor
10 36 (7.50%) Azure Storage
11 35 (7.29%) Azure Functions
12 30 (6.25%) PaaS
13 29 (6.04%) Azure AKS
13 29 (6.04%) GitHub
14 26 (5.42%) Azure App Service
14 26 (5.42%) Nutanix
15 25 (5.21%) Amazon S3
16 22 (4.58%) AWS Lambda
16 22 (4.58%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 92 (19.17%) Firewall
2 89 (18.54%) DNS
3 65 (13.54%) Broadband
4 64 (13.33%) VPN
5 49 (10.21%) DHCP
6 25 (5.21%) LAN
7 24 (5.00%) VLAN
8 23 (4.79%) WAN
9 19 (3.96%) SAN
10 17 (3.54%) HTTP
10 17 (3.54%) Network Security
11 16 (3.33%) 5G
11 16 (3.33%) VoIP
12 15 (3.13%) Internet
13 14 (2.92%) Wireless
14 13 (2.71%) TCP/IP
15 12 (2.50%) NetScaler
16 10 (2.08%) iSCSI
17 9 (1.88%) Unified Communications
18 8 (1.67%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (22.50%) SQL Server
2 82 (17.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 71 (14.79%) Power BI
4 17 (3.54%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.46%) Apache Hive
6 7 (1.46%) Presto
7 6 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.04%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.83%) BigQuery
9 4 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.63%) Big Data
10 3 (0.63%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.42%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.42%) MySQL
11 2 (0.42%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (10.21%) Git
2 31 (6.46%) Jenkins
3 20 (4.17%) JIRA
4 12 (2.50%) GitLab
5 10 (2.08%) Trac
6 8 (1.67%) Octopus Deploy
6 8 (1.67%) TeamCity
7 5 (1.04%) eggPlant
8 4 (0.83%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.63%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.63%) JUnit
9 3 (0.63%) Selenium
9 3 (0.63%) Subversion
9 3 (0.63%) TestNG
9 3 (0.63%) Travis CI
10 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.21%) Burp Suite
General
1 184 (38.33%) Social Skills
2 86 (17.92%) Finance
3 36 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (4.58%) Telecoms
5 17 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (3.33%) Banking
6 16 (3.33%) Games
7 15 (3.13%) Automotive
8 14 (2.92%) Manufacturing
9 11 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (2.29%) Electronics
10 9 (1.88%) Retail
11 7 (1.46%) Law
11 7 (1.46%) Marketing
11 7 (1.46%) Public Sector
12 6 (1.25%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.25%) Local Government
13 4 (0.83%) Back Office
13 4 (0.83%) Legal
13 4 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (17.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 65 (13.54%) DBA
2 65 (13.54%) SQL DBA
3 51 (10.63%) Senior
4 38 (7.92%) Cloud Engineer
5 36 (7.50%) Architect
5 36 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
6 32 (6.67%) Lead
7 25 (5.21%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 24 (5.00%) IT Support
9 23 (4.79%) Azure Engineer
9 23 (4.79%) Support Engineer
10 19 (3.96%) IT Engineer
11 18 (3.75%) Infrastructure Architect
12 16 (3.33%) Analyst
13 15 (3.13%) Azure Specialist
13 15 (3.13%) Linux Engineer
13 15 (3.13%) Support Specialist
14 14 (2.92%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 14 (2.92%) Active Directory Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (8.75%) ARM Templates
2 40 (8.33%) .NET
3 18 (3.75%) JWT
4 17 (3.54%) RESTful
5 10 (2.08%) http4s
5 10 (2.08%) Lambda Expressions
6 7 (1.46%) REST
7 5 (1.04%) React
8 4 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.63%) Azure Blueprints
9 3 (0.63%) Flash
10 2 (0.42%) ADO
10 2 (0.42%) JSON
10 2 (0.42%) OpenAPI
10 2 (0.42%) SOAP
10 2 (0.42%) Swagger
10 2 (0.42%) XML
11 1 (0.21%) Bazel
11 1 (0.21%) Keycloak
11 1 (0.21%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.63%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (5.21%) Data Centre
2 25 (5.21%) Management Information System
3 24 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 23 (4.79%) Mobile App
5 21 (4.38%) PKI
6 19 (3.96%) Cloud Native
7 17 (3.54%) IoT
8 11 (2.29%) Driving Licence
9 10 (2.08%) Replication
10 9 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.46%) Cyberattack
12 6 (1.25%) CCTV
12 6 (1.25%) Onboarding
13 5 (1.04%) Blockchain
13 5 (1.04%) Clustering
13 5 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
14 3 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
14 3 (0.63%) EPoS
14 3 (0.63%) IBM Storwize
Operating Systems
1 219 (45.63%) Windows
2 129 (26.88%) Windows Server
3 98 (20.42%) Linux
4 89 (18.54%) VMS
5 43 (8.96%) Windows Server 2019
6 35 (7.29%) Windows Server 2016
7 25 (5.21%) Windows 10
8 15 (3.13%) Unix
9 13 (2.71%) Ubuntu
10 11 (2.29%) Windows Server 2012
11 9 (1.88%) Debian
11 9 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 8 (1.67%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.83%) Apple iOS
14 3 (0.63%) Android
14 3 (0.63%) CentOS
14 3 (0.63%) SUSE
14 3 (0.63%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 2 (0.42%) Mac OS
16 1 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (33.75%) DevOps
2 126 (26.25%) Disaster Recovery
3 95 (19.79%) CI/CD
4 93 (19.38%) Problem-Solving
5 92 (19.17%) High Availability
5 92 (19.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 84 (17.50%) Collaborative Working
7 71 (14.79%) Business Intelligence
8 69 (14.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 68 (14.17%) Performance Tuning
10 67 (13.96%) Agile
11 63 (13.13%) Network Virtualisation
12 58 (12.08%) Containerisation
13 57 (11.88%) ITIL
14 52 (10.83%) Configuration Management
15 45 (9.38%) Microservices
16 35 (7.29%) Computer Science
16 35 (7.29%) Software Engineering
17 34 (7.08%) Artificial Intelligence
18 31 (6.46%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 110 (22.92%) PowerShell
2 109 (22.71%) SQL
3 87 (18.13%) T-SQL
4 70 (14.58%) Python
5 57 (11.88%) Bash
6 39 (8.13%) C#
7 36 (7.50%) Bicep
8 34 (7.08%) Java
9 19 (3.96%) Perl
10 15 (3.13%) VB
11 14 (2.92%) VBScript
12 10 (2.08%) Kotlin
12 10 (2.08%) Scala
13 9 (1.88%) Go
14 8 (1.67%) Ruby
15 6 (1.25%) VB.NET
16 5 (1.04%) TypeScript
17 4 (0.83%) JavaScript
18 3 (0.63%) Rust
19 2 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 86 (17.92%) Microsoft Certification
2 67 (13.96%) Degree
3 56 (11.67%) Security Cleared
4 36 (7.50%) SC Cleared
5 25 (5.21%) Azure Certification
5 25 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.92%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 10 (2.08%) DBS Check
8 9 (1.88%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (1.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 6 (1.25%) MCP
11 5 (1.04%) ISEB
11 5 (1.04%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.63%) CCNA
12 3 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.63%) CISSP
12 3 (0.63%) MCSE
13 2 (0.42%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.38%) Cyber Essentials
2 15 (3.13%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.13%) QA
3 10 (2.08%) GDPR
3 10 (2.08%) PMO
4 7 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 7 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.46%) SLA
5 2 (0.42%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.21%) GRC
6 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 139 (28.96%) Active Directory
2 87 (18.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 64 (13.33%) Hyper-V
4 56 (11.67%) Docker
5 29 (6.04%) vSphere
6 27 (5.63%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (3.33%) pfSense
8 13 (2.71%) NFS
8 13 (2.71%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (2.29%) Virtual Servers
10 10 (2.08%) Firmware
11 7 (1.46%) XenApp
12 6 (1.25%) XenDesktop
13 5 (1.04%) Ceph
13 5 (1.04%) KVM
14 3 (0.63%) Gluster
14 3 (0.63%) oVirt
14 3 (0.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 3 (0.63%) VirtualBox
15 1 (0.21%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 79 (16.46%) Kubernetes
2 75 (15.63%) Terraform
3 36 (7.50%) Ansible
3 36 (7.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 31 (6.46%) SCCM
5 25 (5.21%) ZABBIX
6 22 (4.58%) SCOM
7 21 (4.38%) Grafana
8 20 (4.17%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 16 (3.33%) SCDPM
9 16 (3.33%) WSUS
10 14 (2.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 14 (2.92%) Puppet
11 10 (2.08%) Progress Chef
12 9 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
13 8 (1.67%) vCenter Server
14 6 (1.25%) Nagios
15 5 (1.04%) FortiGate
15 5 (1.04%) Prometheus
16 4 (0.83%) QRadar
Vendors
1 271 (56.46%) Microsoft
2 107 (22.29%) VMware
3 34 (7.08%) Veeam
4 26 (5.42%) Cisco
5 25 (5.21%) Fortinet
6 20 (4.17%) Citrix
7 18 (3.75%) Google
8 17 (3.54%) Juniper
9 15 (3.13%) ForgeRock
9 15 (3.13%) Sitecore
10 14 (2.92%) HP
11 12 (2.50%) Commvault
12 10 (2.08%) McAfee
13 8 (1.67%) ServiceNow
14 7 (1.46%) Databricks
14 7 (1.46%) Dell
14 7 (1.46%) Meraki
14 7 (1.46%) Red Hat
15 6 (1.25%) Dell Compellent
15 6 (1.25%) Epicor