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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 120 106
Rank change year-on-year -12 -14 +46
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 1 11 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.039% 0.48% 0.79%
As % of the System Software category 0.52% 4.07% 4.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £32,746
25th Percentile £51,250 - £36,455
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £40,000 £43,734
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -8.54% +9.33%
75th Percentile £53,750 - £49,915
90th Percentile - - £52,966
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,836 £60,500
% change year-on-year -0.58% -4.40% +10.00%

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 191 270 294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 7.48% 11.69% 17.81%
Number of salaries quoted 163 145 242
10th Percentile £25,375 £26,100 £27,000
25th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £42,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% -19.05% +16.67%
75th Percentile £39,375 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £53,750 £71,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -

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 28 December 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
Leicestershire - 1 £52,500 - 4
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) IT Audit
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware