Virtual Environments
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Virtual Environments skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Environments 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 816 828 888
Rank change year-on-year +12 +60 -132
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Environments 80 142 353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.14% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.095% 0.14% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 58 89 186
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,250 £26,590
25th Percentile £31,750 £34,250 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £43,712 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.78% -2.86% +12.50%
75th Percentile £49,375 £58,750 £57,188
90th Percentile £57,500 £67,750 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £37,000 £42,000
% change year-on-year +1.35% -11.90% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Virtual Environments 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Virtual Environments
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Virtual Environments as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Environments in the UK

Virtual Environments
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Virtual Environments in the UK

Virtual Environments
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Environments over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Virtual Environments in the UK

Virtual Environments
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Environments within the UK 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
England +60 75 £40,000 -4.43% 28
UK excluding London -11 70 £37,500 +1.35% 18
South East +28 26 £39,000 +56.00% 7
Work from Home +55 20 £48,000 +15.66% 13
North of England +37 17 £37,500 +7.14% 4
Midlands +4 10 £50,000 -4.76% 2
West Midlands +26 9 £50,000 +5.26% 2
South West +6 9 £33,500 -6.94% 3
North East - 8 £42,500 -
London +104 7 £70,000 +21.74% 12
Yorkshire +68 5 £37,500 +7.14% 1
North West +15 4 £30,500 -46.96% 3
East of England +6 4 £50,000 +25.00%
Wales - 3 £27,000 - 1
East Midlands -18 1 £29,000 -44.76%
Scotland -67 1 £33,500 -39.09% 1

Virtual Environments
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 29 (36.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (18.75%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (16.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 31 (38.75%) Azure
2 30 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.75%) AWS
4 3 (3.75%) SaaS
5 2 (2.50%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.25%) GitHub
6 1 (1.25%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.25%) IaaS
6 1 (1.25%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.25%) PaaS
6 1 (1.25%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 41 (51.25%) Firewall
2 25 (31.25%) DNS
3 24 (30.00%) DHCP
4 22 (27.50%) LAN
4 22 (27.50%) WAN
5 16 (20.00%) SAN
6 12 (15.00%) NAS
6 12 (15.00%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (11.25%) TCP/IP
7 9 (11.25%) VoIP
7 9 (11.25%) VPN
8 8 (10.00%) Internet
8 8 (10.00%) Network Security
8 8 (10.00%) VLAN
9 7 (8.75%) SSL
10 5 (6.25%) Wireless
11 2 (2.50%) BGP
11 2 (2.50%) IP Telephony
11 2 (2.50%) LTE
11 2 (2.50%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.25%) MySQL
3 1 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Artifactory
1 1 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (1.25%) Bitbucket
1 1 (1.25%) GitLab
1 1 (1.25%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.25%) JIRA
1 1 (1.25%) Zephyr
General
1 24 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
4 8 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
4 8 (10.00%) Legal
4 8 (10.00%) Marketing
5 5 (6.25%) Finance
5 5 (6.25%) Manufacturing
5 5 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (5.00%) Welsh Language
7 2 (2.50%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.50%) Automotive
7 2 (2.50%) Electronics
7 2 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (26.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (12.50%) IT Support
2 10 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 9 (11.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 9 (11.25%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 8 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
4 8 (10.00%) Technical Support
4 8 (10.00%) Technical Support Engineer
5 7 (8.75%) Analyst
5 7 (8.75%) IT Engineer
6 6 (7.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) IT Support Technician
7 5 (6.25%) IT Technician
7 5 (6.25%) Network Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Senior
7 5 (6.25%) SOC Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Support Technician
8 4 (5.00%) Lead
8 4 (5.00%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.50%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.25%) .NET
2 1 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.25%) Kafka
2 1 (1.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.00%) Management Information System
2 10 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 9 (11.25%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (7.50%) CCTV
4 6 (7.50%) Onboarding
5 5 (6.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (5.00%) Replication
7 3 (3.75%) Clustering
7 3 (3.75%) Life Science
7 3 (3.75%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (2.50%) CMDB
8 2 (2.50%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (2.50%) Molecular Biology
8 2 (2.50%) PKI
8 2 (2.50%) Smartcard
9 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.25%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 49 (61.25%) Windows
2 30 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 20 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 19 (23.75%) Linux
5 17 (21.25%) Windows Server 2016
6 12 (15.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 11 (13.75%) Windows 10
8 2 (2.50%) Android
8 2 (2.50%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (26.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 17 (21.25%) Service Delivery
4 16 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 12 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
6 11 (13.75%) Mentoring
7 10 (12.50%) Biotechnology
7 10 (12.50%) Customer Service
7 10 (12.50%) Time Management
8 9 (11.25%) ITIL
9 8 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
9 8 (10.00%) Creative Thinking
9 8 (10.00%) Energy Management
9 8 (10.00%) Operations Management
9 8 (10.00%) Risk Management
10 7 (8.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (8.75%) Proactive Monitoring
11 6 (7.50%) Client Onboarding
11 6 (7.50%) Communications Security
11 6 (7.50%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 26 (32.50%) SQL
2 7 (8.75%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.25%) Bash
3 1 (1.25%) C++
3 1 (1.25%) Java
3 1 (1.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.25%) Perl
3 1 (1.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 24 (30.00%) Degree
2 16 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (16.25%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (13.75%) CCNA
6 7 (8.75%) JNCIA
6 7 (8.75%) MCP
6 7 (8.75%) MCSA
6 7 (8.75%) MCSE
7 5 (6.25%) CISA
7 5 (6.25%) CISSP
7 5 (6.25%) GIAC
7 5 (6.25%) SC Cleared
7 5 (6.25%) Security Cleared
8 4 (5.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (3.75%) DV Cleared
9 3 (3.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (2.50%) CCIE
10 2 (2.50%) CCNP
10 2 (2.50%) GCSC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.25%) SLA
2 7 (8.75%) Good Clinical Practice
3 5 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 43 (53.75%) Active Directory
2 28 (35.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (20.00%) Hyper-V
4 6 (7.50%) vSphere
5 4 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.50%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (1.25%) Docker
7 1 (1.25%) Terminal Services
7 1 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (10.00%) SCOM
2 7 (8.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (7.50%) SCCM
4 4 (5.00%) WSUS
5 3 (3.75%) FortiGate
6 2 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (2.50%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.25%) Ansible
7 1 (1.25%) Autotask
7 1 (1.25%) Grafana
7 1 (1.25%) Kibana
7 1 (1.25%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.25%) logstash
7 1 (1.25%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.25%) Puppet
7 1 (1.25%) Salt
7 1 (1.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 37 (46.25%) Microsoft
2 28 (35.00%) VMware
3 6 (7.50%) Splunk
4 5 (6.25%) Juniper
5 4 (5.00%) Cisco
5 4 (5.00%) Veeam
6 3 (3.75%) Draytek
6 3 (3.75%) Meraki
6 3 (3.75%) NETGEAR
6 3 (3.75%) Ubiquiti
7 2 (2.50%) BMC
7 2 (2.50%) Citrix
7 2 (2.50%) Verint
7 2 (2.50%) WatchGuard
8 1 (1.25%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.25%) Google
8 1 (1.25%) NetApp
8 1 (1.25%) Red Hat