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 6 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 153 123
Rank change year-on-year +6 -30 +87
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 5 29 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.12% 0.83% 0.66%
As % of the System Software category 1.82% 5.65% 3.40%
Number of salaries quoted 4 23 9
10th Percentile £36,773 £46,900 £47,250
25th Percentile £42,808 £49,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,160 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.08% -4.55% +57.14%
75th Percentile £50,558 £58,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £58,473 £63,250 £63,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%

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 275 513 441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 6.61% 14.62% 19.45%
Number of salaries quoted 206 291 349
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £30,406 £30,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +8.57% -7.89%
75th Percentile £60,250 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £48,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% -

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 6 January 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 6 January 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
Cambridgeshire +6 2 £33,500 -39.09% 4
Hertfordshire -4 2 £46,160 -16.07% 4
Essex -14 1 £62,500 +25.00% 3
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (40.00%) IaaS
2 2 (40.00%) PaaS
2 2 (40.00%) SaaS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Server Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DBA
2 1 (20.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) SQL DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) AI
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Environments
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bicep
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
1 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (40.00%) vSphere
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) NVIDIA
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Apple
3 1 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto