Virtual Machines Job Trends in the East of England

Virtual Machine (VM)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Virtual Machines skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 167 142
Rank change year-on-year -31 -25 -7
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 7 7 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.097% 0.20% 0.64%
As % of the System Software category 1.64% 1.80% 6.38%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 20
10th Percentile - £36,625 -
25th Percentile £32,500 £44,875 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £61,250 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -26.53% +13.95% +19.44%
75th Percentile £63,125 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £75,125 £62,875
England median annual salary £75,000 £55,000 £60,918
% change year-on-year +36.36% -9.71% +1.11%

All System Software Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 427 388 470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 5.91% 11.28% 9.98%
Number of salaries quoted 331 273 347
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,400 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £28,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £64,750 £58,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £72,000 £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 of England

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

Virtual Machines job vacancy trend in the East of England

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Virtual Machines

Virtual Machines
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in the East of England over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Virtual Machines in the East of England

Virtual Machines
Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
Essex -14 4 £35,000 -53.95%
Hertfordshire -28 2 £60,000 +56.86% 3
Cambridgeshire -21 1 - - 11
Virtual Machines
England

Virtual Machines
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (28.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Storage
3 1 (14.29%) OneDrive
3 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) DHCP
1 5 (71.43%) DNS
1 5 (71.43%) TCP/IP
2 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) VLAN
2 3 (42.86%) VPN
3 1 (14.29%) LAN
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Police
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
1 3 (42.86%) Senior Cloud Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Head of IT
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Driving Licence
2 2 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 5 (71.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Mentoring
2 5 (71.43%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (42.86%) Customer Service
4 3 (42.86%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) Project Delivery
4 3 (42.86%) Remote Monitoring and Management
5 2 (28.57%) Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
5 2 (28.57%) Cost Management
5 2 (28.57%) High Availability
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (28.57%) Log Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (28.57%) RBAC
6 1 (14.29%) Budget Management
6 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
6 1 (14.29%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
2 2 (28.57%) Bicep
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (85.71%) Hyper-V
2 6 (85.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (71.43%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (85.71%) VMware
3 3 (42.86%) ConnectWise
3 3 (42.86%) Ubiquiti