Virtual Infrastructure
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 779 902 1094
Rank change year-on-year +123 +192 -280
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 115 87 102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.083% 0.066%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.087% 0.069%
Number of salaries quoted 92 41 77
10th Percentile £41,375 £31,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £49,375 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -15.38% +26.83%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £47,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +21.69% -10.00% +40.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,476 100,576 147,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.05% 95.63% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,789 58,947 82,930
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,476
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,700 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.86% +2.83% +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 Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Infrastructure in the UK

Virtual Infrastructure
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Virtual Infrastructure in the UK

Virtual Infrastructure
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Virtual Infrastructure in the UK

Virtual Infrastructure
Top 14 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 25 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 +138 111 £62,500 +13.64% 14
UK excluding London +3 72 £57,500 +21.69% 10
London +154 39 £65,000 -9.89% 6
Work from Home +102 33 £62,500 +13.64% 46
South East +6 26 £62,500 +66.67% 2
West Midlands +19 21 £55,000 -6.38% 1
Midlands +8 21 £55,000 -6.38% 1
South West -7 15 £32,500 -29.35% 5
North of England +37 4 £48,500 -11.82% 1
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -
Yorkshire +81 2 £47,000 -14.55%
East of England - 2 £55,000 -
North East - 1 £50,000 -
North West - 1 £47,000 - 1

Virtual Infrastructure
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 10 (8.70%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.61%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.74%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 61 (53.04%) Azure
2 40 (34.78%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (21.74%) AWS
4 21 (18.26%) IaaS
5 16 (13.91%) Nutanix
6 9 (7.83%) OneDrive
7 7 (6.09%) Power Platform
7 7 (6.09%) SaaS
8 6 (5.22%) Power Automate
9 5 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (4.35%) PaaS
10 4 (3.48%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (3.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (1.74%) Azure App Service
11 2 (1.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.74%) GCP
12 1 (0.87%) Entra ID
12 1 (0.87%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 48 (41.74%) Firewall
2 31 (26.96%) DNS
3 29 (25.22%) SAN
4 21 (18.26%) WAN
5 20 (17.39%) VLAN
6 18 (15.65%) VPN
7 11 (9.57%) SD-WAN
8 10 (8.70%) LAN
9 9 (7.83%) Wireless
10 8 (6.96%) NAS
10 8 (6.96%) VSAN
11 7 (6.09%) DHCP
12 6 (5.22%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (5.22%) Software-Defined Networking
13 5 (4.35%) IP Telephony
13 5 (4.35%) Network Security
13 5 (4.35%) TCP/IP
13 5 (4.35%) Unified Communications
14 4 (3.48%) Fibre Channel
14 4 (3.48%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.43%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.35%) Power BI
3 2 (1.74%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (1.74%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.74%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.74%) MSBuild
General
1 33 (28.70%) Social Skills
2 27 (23.48%) Finance
3 23 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (12.17%) Aerospace
4 14 (12.17%) Billing
5 9 (7.83%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (6.96%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.35%) Banking
7 5 (4.35%) Law
7 5 (4.35%) Marketing
7 5 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.48%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.48%) Police
9 3 (2.61%) Fire and Rescue
9 3 (2.61%) Local Government
10 1 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.87%) Legal
Job Titles
1 40 (34.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 27 (23.48%) Senior
3 23 (20.00%) Administrator
4 19 (16.52%) Network Engineer
5 18 (15.65%) Architect
5 18 (15.65%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 17 (14.78%) VMWare Administrator
7 14 (12.17%) Infrastructure Architect
7 14 (12.17%) Systems Administrator
8 7 (6.09%) Lead
8 7 (6.09%) Security Engineer
9 6 (5.22%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
9 6 (5.22%) Senior Network Engineer
10 5 (4.35%) IT Administrator
10 5 (4.35%) SOC Engineer
11 4 (3.48%) Azure Architect
11 4 (3.48%) Cloud Architect
11 4 (3.48%) Cloud Solutions Architect
11 4 (3.48%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
11 4 (3.48%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.74%) .NET
1 2 (1.74%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 44 (38.26%) Data Centre
2 23 (20.00%) Replication
3 22 (19.13%) Public Cloud
4 17 (14.78%) Management Information System
5 16 (13.91%) IoT
6 12 (10.43%) PKI
7 7 (6.09%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (4.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (4.35%) PMI
9 4 (3.48%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.74%) Enterprise Storage
11 1 (0.87%) CCTV
11 1 (0.87%) Clustering
11 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.87%) Fixed Income
11 1 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.87%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 67 (58.26%) Windows
2 56 (48.70%) Linux
3 30 (26.09%) Windows Server
4 18 (15.65%) Ubuntu
5 15 (13.04%) Windows Server 2012
6 14 (12.17%) SUSE
7 6 (5.22%) Mac OS
8 5 (4.35%) Windows 10
9 4 (3.48%) Android
9 4 (3.48%) Apple iOS
9 4 (3.48%) CentOS
9 4 (3.48%) DC/OS
9 4 (3.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (2.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 34 (29.57%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (26.09%) ITIL
4 28 (24.35%) Task Automation
5 26 (22.61%) Disaster Recovery
6 24 (20.87%) DevOps
7 22 (19.13%) Asset Management
8 21 (18.26%) Agile
8 21 (18.26%) Capacity Planning
8 21 (18.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (18.26%) Technical Leadership
9 20 (17.39%) Cloud Enablement
9 20 (17.39%) Collaborative Working
10 19 (16.52%) Network Monitoring
11 18 (15.65%) Presales
12 17 (14.78%) Cybersecurity
12 17 (14.78%) Project Delivery
13 16 (13.91%) Decision-Making
13 16 (13.91%) Infrastructure Automation
13 16 (13.91%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 35 (30.43%) PowerShell
2 26 (22.61%) Bash
3 22 (19.13%) Perl
3 22 (19.13%) Python
4 19 (16.52%) SQL
5 6 (5.22%) C#
6 4 (3.48%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.74%) PHP
Qualifications
1 26 (22.61%) Microsoft Certification
2 23 (20.00%) Degree
3 22 (19.13%) MCSE
4 18 (15.65%) MCSA
4 18 (15.65%) Security Cleared
5 16 (13.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 8 (6.96%) CCNA
6 8 (6.96%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (6.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (5.22%) DV Cleared
9 5 (4.35%) CISA
9 5 (4.35%) CISSP
9 5 (4.35%) GIAC
9 5 (4.35%) JNCIA
9 5 (4.35%) PMI Certification
10 4 (3.48%) Master's Degree
10 4 (3.48%) Network+ Certification
10 4 (3.48%) SC Cleared
11 1 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.91%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.09%) PCI DSS
3 5 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 5 (4.35%) QA
4 4 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.48%) NCSC
5 3 (2.61%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.61%) NIST
6 1 (0.87%) GDPR
6 1 (0.87%) SLA
System Software
1 72 (62.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 56 (48.70%) Active Directory
3 36 (31.30%) vSphere
4 18 (15.65%) VMware NSX
5 16 (13.91%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (12.17%) vCloud
7 12 (10.43%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (6.09%) Firmware
9 4 (3.48%) Docker
9 4 (3.48%) VMware Server
10 2 (1.74%) Hyper-V
10 2 (1.74%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.87%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 8 (6.96%) SCCM
2 4 (3.48%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (3.48%) vCenter Server
2 4 (3.48%) vRealize
2 4 (3.48%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 3 (2.61%) SCOM
4 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 72 (62.61%) VMware
2 50 (43.48%) Microsoft
3 28 (24.35%) Veeam
4 18 (15.65%) HP
5 16 (13.91%) Cisco
6 14 (12.17%) Fujitsu
7 7 (6.09%) Fortinet
8 5 (4.35%) Avaya
8 5 (4.35%) BT
8 5 (4.35%) Juniper
8 5 (4.35%) Mitel
8 5 (4.35%) SolarWinds
8 5 (4.35%) Splunk
8 5 (4.35%) Zscaler
9 4 (3.48%) Google
10 2 (1.74%) Remedy
11 1 (0.87%) Aderant
11 1 (0.87%) Citrix
11 1 (0.87%) iManage
11 1 (0.87%) Sophos