Virtual Infrastructure Jobs in the UK excluding London

Virtual Infrastructure
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 683 696 805
Rank change year-on-year +13 +109 -151
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 76 66 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.11% 0.057%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.12% 0.060%
Number of salaries quoted 43 23 34
10th Percentile £43,400 £40,100 £31,750
25th Percentile £46,625 £41,250 £44,764
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year - +7.32% +42.36%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile - - £73,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £61,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.04% -5.77% +30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,897 56,215 68,306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.40% 95.59% 94.19%
Number of salaries quoted 41,311 28,973 41,132
10th Percentile £27,300 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Virtual Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Virtual Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Infrastructure in the UK excluding London

Virtual Infrastructure
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Virtual Infrastructure in the UK excluding London

Virtual Infrastructure
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Virtual Infrastructure in the UK excluding London

Virtual Infrastructure
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 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 West +8 25 £32,500 -29.35%
South East -3 24 £62,500 +47.06% 2
West Midlands +7 18 £55,000 -15.38% 4
Midlands -12 18 £55,000 -15.38% 4
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -
North of England +57 3 £44,000 -20.00% 2
North West +9 2 £43,750 +10.08% 2
East of England - 2 £55,000 -
Yorkshire +72 1 £44,000 -20.00%
Virtual Infrastructure
UK

Virtual Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (7.89%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.63%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 29 (38.16%) Azure
2 14 (18.42%) IaaS
2 14 (18.42%) Nutanix
3 13 (17.11%) AWS
3 13 (17.11%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (11.84%) OneDrive
5 5 (6.58%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (6.58%) Power Automate
5 5 (6.58%) Power Platform
6 4 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 38 (50.00%) Firewall
2 26 (34.21%) DNS
2 26 (34.21%) WAN
3 18 (23.68%) SD-WAN
4 13 (17.11%) Cisco ASA
4 13 (17.11%) Software-Defined Networking
5 11 (14.47%) SAN
5 11 (14.47%) VSAN
6 8 (10.53%) LAN
7 7 (9.21%) NAS
8 6 (7.89%) VLAN
9 5 (6.58%) Unified Communications
10 4 (5.26%) Cisco Firepower
10 4 (5.26%) DHCP
10 4 (5.26%) Fibre Channel
10 4 (5.26%) Remote Desktop
10 4 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (2.63%) VPN
11 2 (2.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.58%) Power BI
General
1 24 (31.58%) Aerospace
2 20 (26.32%) Finance
3 14 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (9.21%) Social Skills
5 5 (6.58%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (5.26%) Police
7 2 (2.63%) Fire and Rescue
7 2 (2.63%) Law
7 2 (2.63%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 28 (36.84%) Senior
2 24 (31.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 23 (30.26%) Network Engineer
4 20 (26.32%) Administrator
4 20 (26.32%) VMWare Administrator
5 14 (18.42%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (17.11%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 13 (17.11%) Senior Network Engineer
7 11 (14.47%) Systems Administrator
8 5 (6.58%) IT Administrator
9 4 (5.26%) Architect
9 4 (5.26%) Azure Architect
9 4 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (5.26%) Cloud Solutions Architect
9 4 (5.26%) Server Administrator
9 4 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (3.95%) IT Engineer
10 3 (3.95%) Lead
10 3 (3.95%) Team Leader
11 2 (2.63%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 24 (31.58%) Data Centre
2 15 (19.74%) PKI
3 14 (18.42%) IoT
4 9 (11.84%) Replication
5 7 (9.21%) Management Information System
6 5 (6.58%) PMI
7 4 (5.26%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (5.26%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.63%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.32%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 35 (46.05%) Windows
2 24 (31.58%) Linux
3 11 (14.47%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.26%) CentOS
4 4 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (5.26%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (39.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 26 (34.21%) Agile
3 25 (32.89%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (31.58%) Collaborative Working
4 24 (31.58%) ITIL
5 20 (26.32%) Disaster Recovery
5 20 (26.32%) Task Automation
6 19 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
6 19 (25.00%) DevOps
6 19 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
7 18 (23.68%) Cloud Enablement
8 15 (19.74%) Actionable Insight
9 14 (18.42%) Decision-Making
9 14 (18.42%) Infrastructure Automation
9 14 (18.42%) Network Virtualisation
9 14 (18.42%) Performance Analysis
9 14 (18.42%) Storage Management
10 11 (14.47%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (10.53%) Asset Management
11 8 (10.53%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 18 (23.68%) Bash
2 14 (18.42%) Perl
2 14 (18.42%) Python
3 4 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 28 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 13 (17.11%) DV Cleared
3 8 (10.53%) CCNA
3 8 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (6.58%) PMI Certification
5 4 (5.26%) MCSE
5 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (5.26%) Network+ Certification
5 4 (5.26%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.63%) Degree
6 2 (2.63%) MCSA
6 2 (2.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (18.42%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.58%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 5 (6.58%) QA
3 4 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (5.26%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.63%) NIST
5 1 (1.32%) GDPR
System Software
1 55 (72.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (44.74%) Active Directory
3 28 (36.84%) VMware NSX
4 20 (26.32%) vSphere
5 15 (19.74%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (18.42%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (10.53%) Firmware
8 4 (5.26%) VMware Server
9 2 (2.63%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (1.32%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (5.26%) vCenter Server
2 2 (2.63%) SCCM
3 1 (1.32%) SCOM
Vendors
1 55 (72.37%) VMware
2 23 (30.26%) Cisco
3 22 (28.95%) Microsoft
4 7 (9.21%) Fortinet
5 5 (6.58%) Avaya
5 5 (6.58%) BT
5 5 (6.58%) Mitel
5 5 (6.58%) SolarWinds
5 5 (6.58%) Veeam
5 5 (6.58%) Zscaler
6 3 (3.95%) HP
7 1 (1.32%) Sophos