Virtual Machines Jobs in Birmingham

Virtual Machine (VM)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 145 97
Rank change year-on-year +48 -48 +74
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 11 2 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.78% 0.072% 2.00%
As % of the System Software category 6.96% 0.82% 14.45%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 15
10th Percentile - £53,875 £68,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £54,063 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £56,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.22% -25.00% +30.43%
75th Percentile £48,000 £59,688 £77,500
90th Percentile £77,700 £60,625 £82,000
West Midlands median annual salary £46,000 £48,750 £53,250
% change year-on-year -5.64% -8.45% +29.88%

All System Software Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 158 243 263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.26% 8.76% 13.83%
Number of salaries quoted 108 217 210
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,750 £26,975
25th Percentile £39,000 £32,000 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +1.85%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £85,545 £81,375
West Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -1.07%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in Birmingham

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Virtual Machines in Birmingham

Virtual Machines
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in Birmingham over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Virtual Machines in Birmingham

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (9.09%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) AWS
2 7 (63.64%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (54.55%) Azure
4 5 (45.45%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (45.45%) Entra ID
5 4 (36.36%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (36.36%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 4 (36.36%) Amazon S3
5 4 (36.36%) AWS KMS
5 4 (36.36%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (36.36%) Route 53
5 4 (36.36%) Serverless
5 4 (36.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (27.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (27.27%) Amazon ELB
6 3 (27.27%) Amazon Glacier
7 2 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (9.09%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (81.82%) Firewall
2 6 (54.55%) VPN
3 5 (45.45%) SD-WAN
3 5 (45.45%) WAN
4 4 (36.36%) HTTPS
4 4 (36.36%) SSL
4 4 (36.36%) VLAN
5 1 (9.09%) DNS
5 1 (9.09%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
2 1 (9.09%) MySQL
2 1 (9.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 3 (27.27%) Vagrant
3 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 4 (36.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Legal
2 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Strategy Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 1 (9.09%) IoT
1 1 (9.09%) NHS
1 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Windows
2 4 (36.36%) Linux
2 4 (36.36%) Ubuntu
2 4 (36.36%) Windows Server
3 3 (27.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Agile
1 5 (45.45%) DevOps
1 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (36.36%) Capacity Management
2 4 (36.36%) Collaborative Culture
2 4 (36.36%) Cost Management
2 4 (36.36%) Cost Optimisation
2 4 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (36.36%) Identity Management
2 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Management
2 4 (36.36%) Key Management
2 4 (36.36%) Load Balancing
2 4 (36.36%) Patch Management
2 4 (36.36%) Privileged Identity Management
2 4 (36.36%) Proactive Management
2 4 (36.36%) Problem Management
2 4 (36.36%) Security Operations
2 4 (36.36%) Threat Management
2 4 (36.36%) Zero Trust
3 3 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) PowerShell
2 4 (36.36%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) Shell Script
3 3 (27.27%) Groovy
3 3 (27.27%) Java
3 3 (27.27%) Perl
3 3 (27.27%) Ruby
4 2 (18.18%) SQL
5 1 (9.09%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Azure Certification
2 4 (36.36%) AWS Certification
2 4 (36.36%) CompTIA Security+
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (9.09%) DBS Check
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Active Directory
2 4 (36.36%) Docker
2 4 (36.36%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Ansible
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (36.36%) Nessus
1 4 (36.36%) Proxmox
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
2 3 (27.27%) Nagios
3 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) Juniper
3 1 (9.09%) Databricks
3 1 (9.09%) Meraki