Virtual Machines Jobs in the East of England

Virtual Machine (VM)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Virtual Machines skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Machines over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 187 169
Rank change year-on-year +18 -18 +48
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 14 35 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.42% 0.57% 1.25%
As % of the System Software category 3.09% 4.14% 7.58%
Number of salaries quoted 13 30 7
10th Percentile £49,750 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £38,438 £30,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +69.23% -35.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £47,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £62,500 £48,000
England median annual salary £57,836 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.58% -4.17% +20.00%

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 453 846 857
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 13.55% 13.71% 16.51%
Number of salaries quoted 292 706 592
10th Percentile £25,500 £24,807 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £26,375 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -13.98% +6.90%
75th Percentile £59,438 £57,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £72,450 £66,250 £73,625
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in the East of England

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Virtual Machines in the East of England.

Salary trend for Virtual Machines in the East of England

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 18 May 2025.

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 18 May 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
Hertfordshire +29 8 £52,500 -4.55% 10
Cambridgeshire +40 4 £67,500 +14.89% 5
Essex +18 1 £57,500 - 3
Bedfordshire -10 1 £55,000 -4.35% 2
Suffolk -18 1 £57,500 +4.55% 2
Virtual Machines
England

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (50.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 7 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2013
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (50.00%) Skype for Business
2 1 (7.14%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) Cohesity
2 5 (35.71%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) Azure
3 4 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 2 (14.29%) IaaS
4 2 (14.29%) PaaS
4 2 (14.29%) Serverless
5 1 (7.14%) Azure AI
5 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (7.14%) GCP
5 1 (7.14%) OneDrive
5 1 (7.14%) Power Automate
5 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) IMAP
1 7 (50.00%) SAN
1 7 (50.00%) Skype
1 7 (50.00%) SMTP
2 2 (14.29%) Firewall
3 1 (7.14%) DNS
3 1 (7.14%) LAN
3 1 (7.14%) SD-WAN
3 1 (7.14%) VPN
3 1 (7.14%) WAN
3 1 (7.14%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.14%) GIS
2 1 (7.14%) MySQL
2 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
General
1 3 (21.43%) Advertising
2 1 (7.14%) Aviation
2 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Messaging Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) IT Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Applications Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Applications Support
3 1 (7.14%) Applications Support Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior IT Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Support Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Blackberry
2 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (7.14%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Windows
2 3 (21.43%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Capacity Management
1 7 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 3 (21.43%) API Management
2 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
2 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (21.43%) Project Delivery
3 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 2 (14.29%) Project Management
3 2 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (14.29%) Server Building
3 2 (14.29%) Service Management
4 1 (7.14%) Agile
4 1 (7.14%) B2B
4 1 (7.14%) ITIL
4 1 (7.14%) ITSM
4 1 (7.14%) Migration
4 1 (7.14%) PRINCE2
4 1 (7.14%) Service Delivery
4 1 (7.14%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) Bash
2 2 (14.29%) C#
2 2 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) Bicep
3 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.14%) DBS Check
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) MCSA
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 3 (21.43%) Docker
3 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.14%) SCCM
2 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 9 (64.29%) VMware
3 7 (50.00%) NetApp
4 2 (14.29%) Oracle
5 1 (7.14%) Databricks
5 1 (7.14%) Meraki
5 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto