Virtual Servers Job Trends in the East of England

Virtual Servers
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Virtual Servers skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 176 158
Rank change year-on-year -15 -18 +6
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Servers 6 2 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.082% 0.057% 0.34%
As % of the System Software category 1.39% 0.51% 3.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £49,441 - -
25th Percentile £51,995 - £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - £43,750
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.78%
75th Percentile £58,750 - £51,750
90th Percentile - - £52,200
England median annual salary £52,620 £43,500 £40,478
% change year-on-year +20.96% +7.47% -19.04%

All System Software Skills
East of England

Virtual Servers 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 433 391 462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 5.90% 11.23% 9.87%
Number of salaries quoted 336 277 341
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £64,813 £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% -9.91%

Virtual Servers
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Virtual Servers job vacancy trend in the East of England

Virtual Servers
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

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

Virtual Servers
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 Servers within the East of England region over the 6 months to 17 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 - 3 - - 2
Cambridgeshire -22 2 £57,500 -
Suffolk - 1 £47,739 - 1
Virtual Servers
England

Virtual Servers
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 5 (83.33%) SharePoint
2 3 (50.00%) SAS
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (66.67%) Azure
3 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (33.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
2 5 (83.33%) DHCP
2 5 (83.33%) DNS
3 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (50.00%) VPN
4 2 (33.33%) HTTPS
4 2 (33.33%) IP Telephony
4 2 (33.33%) NAS
4 2 (33.33%) SAN
4 2 (33.33%) SSL
4 2 (33.33%) VLAN
4 2 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (33.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) IT Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) IT Support
1 3 (50.00%) IT Support Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Support Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Head of IT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (33.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 3 (50.00%) Preventative Maintenance
2 3 (50.00%) Service Management
3 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 2 (33.33%) Contract Management
3 2 (33.33%) Cyber Resilience
3 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (33.33%) High Availability
3 2 (33.33%) Mobile Device Management
3 2 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Project Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) SIEM
3 2 (33.33%) Software Deployment
3 2 (33.33%) Storage Management
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 3 (50.00%) A+ Certification
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (83.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco
3 3 (50.00%) SonicWALL
4 2 (33.33%) Apple