Virtual Machines Jobs in the Thames Valley

Virtual Machine (VM)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 222 179 225
Rank change year-on-year -43 +46 -13
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 31 81 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.46% 1.32% 0.70%
As % of the System Software category 2.95% 7.91% 4.76%
Number of salaries quoted 30 16 34
10th Percentile £53,750 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile - £35,313 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £57,500 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% +26.37% -24.17%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £76,500 -
South East median annual salary £60,000 £54,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% +13.68% -18.79%

All System Software Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,051 1,024 1,029
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.58% 16.70% 14.78%
Number of salaries quoted 837 662 727
10th Percentile £27,750 £24,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,750 £30,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,125 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £85,000 £81,250
South East median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in the Thames Valley

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for Virtual Machines in the Thames Valley

Virtual Machines
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Virtual Machines in the Thames Valley

Virtual Machines
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Machines within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 30 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
Berkshire +7 21 £59,000 +2.61% 4
Oxfordshire +5 5 £61,250 +44.12% 1
Buckinghamshire -43 5 £65,000 +85.71% 4
Virtual Machines
South East

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 14 (45.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 28 (90.32%) Azure
2 17 (54.84%) Azure Monitor
2 17 (54.84%) Azure Storage
2 17 (54.84%) Entra ID
2 17 (54.84%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (12.90%) Power Platform
4 3 (9.68%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (9.68%) Azure Stack
5 2 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (6.45%) AWS
6 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.23%) IaaS
6 1 (3.23%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (61.29%) Firewall
2 16 (51.61%) DNS
3 14 (45.16%) DHCP
4 5 (16.13%) VPN
5 4 (12.90%) Broadband
6 3 (9.68%) Network Security
7 1 (3.23%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.81%) SQL Server
2 7 (22.58%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (12.90%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (12.90%) Power BI
4 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) JIRA
2 1 (3.23%) Git
General
1 23 (74.19%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Back Office
2 4 (12.90%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.23%) Finance
4 1 (3.23%) Law
Job Titles
1 14 (45.16%) Active Directory Specialist
1 14 (45.16%) Active Directory Support
1 14 (45.16%) Azure Specialist
1 14 (45.16%) Support Specialist
2 4 (12.90%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 4 (12.90%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (12.90%) DBA
2 4 (12.90%) Developer
2 4 (12.90%) Senior
2 4 (12.90%) Senior Developer
2 4 (12.90%) Senior SQL Developer
2 4 (12.90%) SQL DBA
2 4 (12.90%) SQL Developer
3 2 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (3.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) Graduate Software Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (45.16%) ARM Templates
2 5 (16.13%) .NET
3 3 (9.68%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (3.23%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (45.16%) PKI
1 14 (45.16%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (12.90%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (12.90%) Management Information System
2 4 (12.90%) Replication
3 3 (9.68%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) CMDB
4 1 (3.23%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 18 (58.06%) Windows
2 16 (51.61%) Linux
2 16 (51.61%) Windows Server
3 14 (45.16%) Windows Server 2016
3 14 (45.16%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (12.90%) VMS
5 1 (3.23%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (58.06%) Release Management
2 17 (54.84%) Analytics
2 17 (54.84%) DevOps
2 17 (54.84%) Identity Management
2 17 (54.84%) Log Analytics
2 17 (54.84%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 15 (48.39%) Agile
3 15 (48.39%) CI/CD
4 14 (45.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (45.16%) ITIL
4 14 (45.16%) Privileged Identity Management
4 14 (45.16%) RBAC
4 14 (45.16%) Service Management
5 7 (22.58%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (16.13%) High Availability
6 5 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (12.90%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (12.90%) Kalman Filter
7 4 (12.90%) Network Virtualisation
7 4 (12.90%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 19 (61.29%) C#
2 17 (54.84%) PowerShell
3 14 (45.16%) Bicep
3 14 (45.16%) VB
3 14 (45.16%) VBScript
4 11 (35.48%) SQL
5 8 (25.81%) T-SQL
6 4 (12.90%) VB.NET
7 1 (3.23%) Java
Qualifications
1 17 (54.84%) Degree
2 14 (45.16%) DV Cleared
2 14 (45.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 14 (45.16%) Security Cleared
3 7 (22.58%) SC Cleared
4 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) QA
System Software
1 19 (61.29%) Active Directory
2 14 (45.16%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (48.39%) Kubernetes
2 14 (45.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 14 (45.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (45.16%) SCCM
2 14 (45.16%) SCOM
2 14 (45.16%) WSUS
3 3 (9.68%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (6.45%) Ansible
4 2 (6.45%) Terraform
5 1 (3.23%) IBM BigFix
Vendors
1 20 (64.52%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.45%) Dell
2 2 (6.45%) VMware
3 1 (3.23%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.23%) CheckPoint
3 1 (3.23%) Google
3 1 (3.23%) HP
3 1 (3.23%) NVIDIA