Virtual Machines Job Trends in Central London

Virtual Machine (VM)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Virtual Machines skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 140 166
Rank change year-on-year +12 +26 +1
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 12 2 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 0.36% 0.10% 0.52%
As % of the System Software category 7.14% 0.78% 3.97%
Number of salaries quoted 11 2 16
10th Percentile - - £59,625
25th Percentile £26,250 - £70,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -12.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £86,125 - £107,500
90th Percentile £95,000 - £109,375
London median annual salary £112,500 £90,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% +5.88% +25.93%

All System Software Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 168 258 428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 5.10% 12.93% 13.07%
Number of salaries quoted 123 209 299
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £36,150
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £114,000 £95,000 £107,500
London median annual salary £70,000 £67,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year +4.09% -3.93% +5.26%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Virtual Machines job vacancy trend in Central London

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Virtual Machines.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Virtual Machines

Virtual Machines
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in Central London over the 6 months to 17 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Virtual Machines in Central London

Virtual Machines
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Machines within the Central London region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
City of London +14 11 £52,000 -25.71% 4
City of Westminster - 4 £27,500 - 1
Virtual Machines
London

Virtual Machines
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 3 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (16.67%) IaaS
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (16.67%) OneDrive
4 2 (16.67%) PaaS
4 2 (16.67%) SaaS
5 1 (8.33%) AWS
5 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) DHCP
1 5 (41.67%) DNS
1 5 (41.67%) VPN
2 4 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 4 (33.33%) Wireless
3 2 (16.67%) Network Security
4 1 (8.33%) Firewall
4 1 (8.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) IT Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) IT Support
1 4 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) IT Support Technician
1 4 (33.33%) IT Technician
1 4 (33.33%) Junior
1 4 (33.33%) Junior IT Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Junior IT Support
1 4 (33.33%) Junior IT Technician
1 4 (33.33%) Junior Support Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Junior Support Technician
1 4 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Support Technician
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) IT Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) IoT
3 1 (8.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Windows
2 5 (41.67%) Windows 10
3 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (41.67%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 4 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (33.33%) Migration
4 3 (25.00%) AI
5 2 (16.67%) Business Continuity
5 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 2 (16.67%) Cutover Planning
5 2 (16.67%) E-Discovery
5 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (16.67%) ITSM
5 2 (16.67%) Observability
5 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
6 1 (8.33%) Customer Experience
6 1 (8.33%) Customer Service
6 1 (8.33%) RBAC
6 1 (8.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 3 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) C#
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
2 4 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (8.33%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (8.33%) FortiGate
3 1 (8.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) SolarWinds
3 1 (8.33%) Sophos
3 1 (8.33%) Veeam