Virtual Machines Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Virtual Machine (VM)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Virtual Machines skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 75 -
Rank change year-on-year +13 - -
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 2 7 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.23% 0.80% -
As % of the System Software category 4.26% 6.25% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32,750 £52,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £55,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -39.09% - -
75th Percentile £34,250 £64,375 -
90th Percentile - £68,500 -
East of England median annual salary £46,160 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.08% -4.55% +57.14%

All System Software Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 47 112 171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 5.37% 12.80% 24.60%
Number of salaries quoted 34 56 113
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,375 £27,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £29,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,500 £45,625 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.47% -3.95% -5.00%
75th Percentile £64,375 £63,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £79,375 £92,500
East of England median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% -10.53%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Virtual Machines relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Virtual Machines job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Virtual Machines.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Virtual Machines

Virtual Machines
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Machines within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Peterborough -6 1 £33,500 -39.09%
Virtual Machines
East of England

Virtual Machines
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (50.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Apple
2 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto