Virtual Machines Job Trends in the East Midlands

Virtual Machine (VM)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Virtual Machines skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 142 162
Rank change year-on-year -30 +20 -45
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 2 4 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.034% 0.17% 0.26%
As % of the System Software category 0.70% 1.33% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 9
10th Percentile - - £32,500
25th Percentile £38,438 £56,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,194 £57,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.84% +35.29% -37.04%
75th Percentile £39,949 £58,750 £48,750
90th Percentile - - £55,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £55,000 £60,918
% change year-on-year +36.36% -9.71% +1.53%

All System Software Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 285 300 446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.82% 12.98% 10.72%
Number of salaries quoted 245 227 370
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £26,475
25th Percentile £31,250 £26,500 £33,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £32,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -23.53% -10.53%
75th Percentile £53,750 £42,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £56,900 £65,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -10.71%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Virtual Machines job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Virtual Machines.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Virtual Machines

Virtual Machines
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Machines within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 August 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
Nottinghamshire -22 1 £39,194 - 1
Derbyshire - 1 - -
Virtual Machines
England

Virtual Machines
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) NX-OS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Law
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Availability Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Culture Change
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Forensics
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Product Management
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Server Management
2 1 (50.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) MCSE
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) VMware