Virtual Infrastructure Job Trends in Cheshire

Virtual Infrastructure
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Virtual Infrastructure skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.40% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £82,550 - -
25th Percentile £82,625 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,500 - -
75th Percentile £88,625 - -
90th Percentile £88,850 - -
North West median annual salary £85,500 £40,500 £39,744
% change year-on-year +111.11% +1.90% -21.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Virtual Infrastructure falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 666 809 490
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 89.88% 71.15% 93.69%
Number of salaries quoted 307 509 343
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,900 £23,850
25th Percentile £35,750 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,720 £47,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.57% -1.04% +6.67%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,854 £66,924
90th Percentile £77,500 £68,484 £81,050
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,309 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.61% -8.53% +4.76%

Virtual Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Virtual Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Infrastructure in Cheshire

Virtual Infrastructure
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Virtual Infrastructure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Virtual Infrastructure

Virtual Infrastructure
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 13 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
Knutsford - 3 £85,500 - 1
Virtual Infrastructure
North West

Virtual Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) OpenStack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) HTTP
1 2 (66.67%) SSL
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) DPDK
1 2 (66.67%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) KVM
1 2 (66.67%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) SaltStack