Virtual Machines Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Virtual Machine (VM)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Virtual Machines skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 99 74
Rank change year-on-year +8 -25 +60
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 7 3 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 0.57% 0.25% 1.39%
As % of the System Software category 7.00% 1.88% 9.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile £37,800 £69,000 -
25th Percentile £42,000 £78,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £95,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -52.63% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £45,900 - -
South East median annual salary £55,000 £63,750 £61,500
% change year-on-year -13.73% +3.66% +11.82%

All System Software Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 100 160 124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 8.16% 13.18% 14.32%
Number of salaries quoted 77 85 98
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £37,500 £38,750
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -3.23% +10.71%
75th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £52,563
90th Percentile £77,500 £63,750 £67,500
South East median annual salary £45,000 £54,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -17.43% +9.00% -

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in Buckinghamshire

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Virtual Machines.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Virtual Machines

Virtual Machines
Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Machines within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 27 September 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
Milton Keynes +17 7 £45,000 -52.63% 1
Virtual Machines
South East

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) DHCP
1 4 (57.14%) DNS
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
1 4 (57.14%) NAS
1 4 (57.14%) SAN
1 4 (57.14%) TCP/IP
1 4 (57.14%) VLAN
1 4 (57.14%) Wireless
2 3 (42.86%) SSL
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) AS400 Operator
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) AS400 Support
3 1 (14.29%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Cloud
1 3 (42.86%) IBM Storwize
2 2 (28.57%) AS400
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Business Continuity
2 4 (57.14%) Collaborative Working
2 4 (57.14%) Dashboard Development
2 4 (57.14%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (57.14%) High Availability
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 4 (57.14%) Proactive Monitoring
2 4 (57.14%) Sprint Planning
2 4 (57.14%) Sprint Retrospective
3 3 (42.86%) Key Management
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Management
3 3 (42.86%) Proactive Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Hyper-V
1 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (57.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) LogicMonitor
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
1 4 (57.14%) Palo Alto
1 4 (57.14%) VMware
2 3 (42.86%) IBM