Virtualisation Engineer Job Trends in Cheltenham

Virtualization Engineer
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The median Virtualization Engineer salary in Cheltenham is £56,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 48 -
Rank change year-on-year +21 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Virtualisation Engineer 2 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 1.39% 0.33% -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.41% 0.34% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £49,875 - -
25th Percentile £51,563 £51,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £52,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -
75th Percentile £59,063 £53,750 -
90th Percentile £59,625 - -
Gloucestershire median annual salary £56,250 £52,500 -
% change year-on-year +7.14% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cheltenham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cheltenham. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Cheltenham with a recognized job title 142 292 339
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.61% 97.33% 93.91%
Number of salaries quoted 101 175 192
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,750 £31,334
25th Percentile £42,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £93,750 £70,000 £72,813
90th Percentile £100,000 £84,000 £80,675
Gloucestershire median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +10.00%

Virtualisation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Job postings that featured Virtualisation Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Job vacancy trend for Virtualisation Engineer in Cheltenham

Virtualisation Engineer
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

Salary distribution trend for Virtualisation Engineer job vacancies in Cheltenham.

Salary distribution trend for Virtualisation Engineer job vacancies in Cheltenham

Virtualisation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham

For the 6 months to 13 September 2025, Virtualisation Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Cheltenham region featuring Virtualisation Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) McAfee
1 2 (100.00%) SCVMM
1 2 (100.00%) Time Management
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) CentOS
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) McAfee ePO
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) VSAN
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019

Virtualisation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VSAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
General
1 2 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) CentOS
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (50.00%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Time Management
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) McAfee ePO
1 2 (100.00%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) McAfee
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat