Virtual Machines Jobs in the South West

Virtual Machine (VM)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 233 178 274
Rank change year-on-year -55 +96 -10
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 49 107 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.54% 1.53% 0.48%
As % of the System Software category 4.06% 9.08% 2.74%
Number of salaries quoted 41 18 19
10th Percentile £38,750 £27,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £31,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £37,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +53.33% -19.35% +32.86%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £81,875 £71,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +15.00% -9.09%

All System Software Skills
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,206 1,179 1,387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 13.18% 16.84% 17.48%
Number of salaries quoted 983 731 879
10th Percentile £27,370 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% +16.67%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £79,750 £81,250 £85,000
England 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 the South West

Job postings citing Virtual Machines as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in the South West

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Virtual Machines in the South West

Virtual Machines
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Virtual Machines in the South West

Virtual Machines
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Machines within the South West region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Devon +5 15 £59,209 +57.89% 3
Bristol -28 14 £56,250 -15.09% 3
Wiltshire -29 11 £55,000 +57.14% 1
Somerset +9 4 £57,500 - 1
Gloucestershire -42 4 £57,500 +91.67% 1
Dorset -17 1 £57,500 - 1
Virtual Machines
England

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (18.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (12.24%) Skype for Business
3 4 (8.16%) SharePoint
4 3 (6.12%) CloudStack
5 2 (4.08%) Jupyter
6 1 (2.04%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 22 (44.90%) Azure
2 11 (22.45%) Power Platform
3 8 (16.33%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (12.24%) Entra ID
5 5 (10.20%) Nutanix
6 3 (6.12%) AWS
6 3 (6.12%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (6.12%) OCI
6 3 (6.12%) SaaS
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.08%) Azure Storage
7 2 (4.08%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.04%) Azure App Service
8 1 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.04%) Matillion
8 1 (2.04%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 11 (22.45%) Broadband
2 6 (12.24%) Skype
2 6 (12.24%) Unified Communications
3 5 (10.20%) NAS
4 4 (8.16%) Internet
4 4 (8.16%) LAN
4 4 (8.16%) WAN
5 3 (6.12%) iSCSI
6 2 (4.08%) DNS
6 2 (4.08%) Firewall
6 2 (4.08%) TCP/IP
7 1 (2.04%) DHCP
7 1 (2.04%) HTTP
7 1 (2.04%) Network Security
7 1 (2.04%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (2.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (24.49%) SQL Server
2 11 (22.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 11 (22.45%) Power BI
3 3 (6.12%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Git
2 1 (2.04%) GitLab
2 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (40.82%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (6.12%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.04%) Finance
4 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (34.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (22.45%) DBA
2 11 (22.45%) SQL DBA
3 9 (18.37%) Linux Engineer
4 7 (14.29%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 7 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Architect
5 3 (6.12%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (4.08%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Research Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Software Architect
6 2 (4.08%) Wintel Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) Digital Architect
7 1 (2.04%) IT Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) Network Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.12%) .NET
2 1 (2.04%) JWT
2 1 (2.04%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.41%) Data Centre
2 7 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.08%) PKI
3 2 (4.08%) Smartcard
4 1 (2.04%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 22 (44.90%) Windows
2 19 (38.78%) VMS
3 18 (36.73%) Linux
4 17 (34.69%) Windows Server
5 9 (18.37%) Ubuntu
6 7 (14.29%) Debian
7 6 (12.24%) Windows 10
8 4 (8.16%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (8.16%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (6.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (6.12%) SUSE
9 3 (6.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (42.86%) Collaborative Working
2 19 (38.78%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (34.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 15 (30.61%) Disaster Recovery
5 13 (26.53%) High Availability
5 13 (26.53%) Security Patching
6 12 (24.49%) DevOps
7 11 (22.45%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (22.45%) Containerisation
7 11 (22.45%) Performance Tuning
8 10 (20.41%) B2B
8 10 (20.41%) Configuration Management
9 7 (14.29%) Coaching
9 7 (14.29%) Computer Science
9 7 (14.29%) Mathematics
9 7 (14.29%) OWASP
9 7 (14.29%) Physics
9 7 (14.29%) Release Management
9 7 (14.29%) Test Automation
9 7 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (26.53%) Python
2 12 (24.49%) T-SQL
3 11 (22.45%) SQL
4 9 (18.37%) Bash
5 6 (12.24%) PowerShell
6 3 (6.12%) Go
6 3 (6.12%) Perl
6 3 (6.12%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (32.65%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (26.53%) Degree
3 7 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (8.16%) DBS Check
5 3 (6.12%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (24.49%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (14.29%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (30.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (20.41%) Active Directory
2 10 (20.41%) vSphere
3 6 (12.24%) Docker
4 3 (6.12%) Ceph
4 3 (6.12%) Gluster
4 3 (6.12%) KVM
4 3 (6.12%) oVirt
5 2 (4.08%) NFS
5 2 (4.08%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (2.04%) Firmware
6 1 (2.04%) Terminal Server
6 1 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (16.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (10.20%) Ansible
3 3 (6.12%) Graylog
3 3 (6.12%) Observium
3 3 (6.12%) Prometheus
3 3 (6.12%) Puppet
3 3 (6.12%) ZABBIX
4 2 (4.08%) Grafana
4 2 (4.08%) Nagios
5 1 (2.04%) SCCM
5 1 (2.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 15 (30.61%) VMware
3 5 (10.20%) Veeam
4 4 (8.16%) ServiceNow
5 3 (6.12%) Oracle
6 1 (2.04%) Citrix