Virtual Machines Jobs in Berkshire

Virtual Machine (VM)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Virtual Machines skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Machines over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 139 143
Rank change year-on-year +26 +4 +9
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 12 22 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.75% 0.72% 1.39%
As % of the System Software category 6.38% 3.98% 8.33%
Number of salaries quoted 7 22 14
10th Percentile - £54,125 -
25th Percentile - - £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £59,000 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% -11.94% -13.55%
75th Percentile £90,000 £61,250 £77,625
90th Percentile £112,500 £68,750 £111,875
South East median annual salary £55,000 £59,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.56% +3.48% +21.05%

All System Software Skills
Berkshire

Virtual Machines falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 188 553 516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 11.68% 18.09% 16.63%
Number of salaries quoted 126 482 306
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,175 £25,000
25th Percentile £43,438 £36,313 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £95,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% - -5.00%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Virtual Machines as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in Berkshire

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend in Berkshire

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

Salary trend for Virtual Machines in Berkshire

Virtual Machines
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in Berkshire over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Virtual Machines in Berkshire

Virtual Machines
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Machines within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 16 May 2025. 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
Reading +37 6 £65,000 +10.17% 5
Bracknell - 4 £50,000 -
Wokingham - 2 £105,000 - 1
Virtual Machines
South East

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (8.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) AWS
3 4 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 4 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 4 (33.33%) AWS KMS
3 4 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (33.33%) Serverless
3 4 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (25.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (16.67%) Azure AKS
6 1 (8.33%) Azure AI
6 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (8.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
6 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
6 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (91.67%) Firewall
2 6 (50.00%) DNS
3 5 (41.67%) DHCP
3 5 (41.67%) WAN
4 4 (33.33%) LAN
4 4 (33.33%) SSL
5 1 (8.33%) iSCSI
5 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
5 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
5 1 (8.33%) VLAN
5 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (8.33%) MySQL
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Security Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (8.33%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (8.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Linux
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
2 4 (33.33%) Ubuntu
2 4 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) Change Control
2 5 (41.67%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) Capacity Management
3 4 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 4 (33.33%) Key Management
3 4 (33.33%) Patch Management
4 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (25.00%) RBAC
5 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
5 2 (16.67%) GitOps
5 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (16.67%) ITIL
5 2 (16.67%) Observability
5 2 (16.67%) Service Management
5 2 (16.67%) Software Delivery
5 2 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
1 4 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (8.33%) Bicep
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) CISSP
3 1 (8.33%) DBS Check
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) VCAP
3 1 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 10 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 6 (50.00%) Docker
3 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (8.33%) NFS
5 1 (8.33%) vCloud
5 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Terraform
2 5 (41.67%) vCenter Server
3 4 (33.33%) Ansible
3 4 (33.33%) Nessus
3 4 (33.33%) Proxmox
3 4 (33.33%) WSUS
4 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 1 (8.33%) PowerCLI
4 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (8.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) VMware
2 4 (33.33%) Cisco
2 4 (33.33%) Juniper
3 1 (8.33%) Databricks
3 1 (8.33%) Meraki