Virtual Machines Job Trends in the City of London

Virtual Machine (VM)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Virtual Machines skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 153 163
Rank change year-on-year +27 +10 +114
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 2 17 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.12% 0.59% 0.80%
As % of the System Software category 0.99% 4.29% 4.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2 15 24
10th Percentile - £63,500 £22,000
25th Percentile - £68,875 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +33.33% -31.43%
75th Percentile - £107,500 £70,000
90th Percentile - £113,500 £85,000
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +33.33% -28.36%

All System Software Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 203 396 639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 12.00% 13.67% 19.00%
Number of salaries quoted 164 258 579
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,775 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £52,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +11.11% -6.90%
75th Percentile £81,250 £92,500 £89,375
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £105,000
Central London median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £66,250
% change year-on-year -11.11% +1.89% -5.36%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Virtual Machines as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in the City of London

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Virtual Machines.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Virtual Machines

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNA
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Forcepoint
1 2 (100.00%) ForeScout
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper
1 2 (100.00%) LogicMonitor
1 2 (100.00%) Meraki
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow