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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 155 163
Rank change year-on-year -3 +8 +55
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 7 3 25
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 0.16% 0.13% 0.70%
As % of the System Software category 3.17% 0.99% 5.48%
Number of salaries quoted 7 2 24
10th Percentile £68,500 £81,875 £62,075
25th Percentile £72,500 £82,813 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £86,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.14% +7.81% +23.08%
75th Percentile £93,000 £90,313 £99,375
90th Percentile £96,000 £91,625 £107,500
London median annual salary £112,500 £90,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% +5.88% +21.43%

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 221 303 456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 4.94% 13.28% 12.68%
Number of salaries quoted 164 244 380
10th Percentile £33,500 £36,250 £35,000
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% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £99,625 £105,000
London median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% +3.70% -

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -13 6 £76,250 - 2
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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) Azure AKS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) IaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (14.29%) PaaS
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Lead
4 1 (14.29%) Lead Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Native
1 4 (57.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (71.43%) Migration
3 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
3 4 (57.14%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (57.14%) Observability
3 4 (57.14%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) AI
5 2 (28.57%) DevOps
6 1 (14.29%) API Design
6 1 (14.29%) API Integration
6 1 (14.29%) Cutover Planning
6 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
6 1 (14.29%) E-Discovery
6 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
6 1 (14.29%) Time Management
6 1 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) VMware