Virtual Environments Job Trends in England

Virtual Environments
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Virtual Environments skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 556 578 568
Rank change year-on-year +22 -10 +256
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Environments 53 97 99
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.10% 0.20% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.22% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 35 55 65
10th Percentile £37,500 £29,900 £27,250
25th Percentile £45,580 £35,000 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +23.53% -10.53%
75th Percentile £56,250 £77,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £106,000 £91,250 £88,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +23.53% -15.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Virtual Environments falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,885 44,702 41,515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.30% 90.14% 91.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25,602 22,418 32,186
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Virtual Environments
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Virtual Environments job vacancy trend in England

Virtual Environments
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Virtual Environments.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Virtual Environments

Virtual Environments
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Environments in England over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Virtual Environments in England

Virtual Environments
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Environments within the England region over the 6 months to 30 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
London +37 14 £52,500 -31.37% 30
East of England +27 9 £46,160 -16.07% 12
North of England +21 9 £47,500 +1.06% 31
South East +14 9 £45,000 +28.57% 35
South West +14 8 £29,000 -10.77% 15
Yorkshire +6 7 £47,500 +1.06% 18
West Midlands +24 4 £77,500 +90.18% 9
Midlands +14 4 £77,500 +53.47% 19
North West +26 2 £41,375 -29.61% 12
Virtual Environments
UK

Virtual Environments
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 12 (22.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.66%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.89%) Kinematics
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.89%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 20 (37.74%) Azure
2 15 (28.30%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (13.21%) SaaS
4 6 (11.32%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (11.32%) IaaS
4 6 (11.32%) PaaS
5 4 (7.55%) AWS
5 4 (7.55%) Azure AKS
5 4 (7.55%) GitHub
6 3 (5.66%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.77%) Cohesity
7 2 (3.77%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.89%) GCP
8 1 (1.89%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.89%) Mimecast
8 1 (1.89%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.89%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 17 (32.08%) Firewall
2 10 (18.87%) Wi-Fi
3 9 (16.98%) DHCP
3 9 (16.98%) DNS
4 8 (15.09%) LTE
4 8 (15.09%) VSAT
5 6 (11.32%) TCP/IP
5 6 (11.32%) VPN
6 4 (7.55%) Network Security
6 4 (7.55%) WAN
7 3 (5.66%) BGP
7 3 (5.66%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (5.66%) MPLS
7 3 (5.66%) NAS
7 3 (5.66%) SAN
7 3 (5.66%) SD-WAN
7 3 (5.66%) VLAN
7 3 (5.66%) Wireless
7 3 (5.66%) Wireshark
8 2 (3.77%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.77%) Power BI
1 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.89%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (15.09%) Git
2 6 (11.32%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.89%) GitLab
General
1 24 (45.28%) Social Skills
2 12 (22.64%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (16.98%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (7.55%) Manufacturing
4 4 (7.55%) Telecoms
5 3 (5.66%) Finance
5 3 (5.66%) Legal
5 3 (5.66%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.77%) Advertising
6 2 (3.77%) Retail
7 1 (1.89%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.89%) Aviation
7 1 (1.89%) Banking
7 1 (1.89%) Law
7 1 (1.89%) Military
7 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (22.64%) Technical Support
2 11 (20.75%) Support Engineer
3 8 (15.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (15.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (15.09%) Technical Engineer
3 8 (15.09%) Technical Support Engineer
4 6 (11.32%) Senior
5 5 (9.43%) 3rd Line Support
6 4 (7.55%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) 3rd Line Technical Support
6 4 (7.55%) Hardware Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) IT Support
7 3 (5.66%) Lead
7 3 (5.66%) Network Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Architect
8 2 (3.77%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (3.77%) IT Support Technician
8 2 (3.77%) Junior
8 2 (3.77%) Server Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.32%) ARM Templates
2 4 (7.55%) ModSecurity
3 1 (1.89%) Middleware
3 1 (1.89%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.87%) Data Centre
2 4 (7.55%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.77%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.77%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.89%) Clustering
4 1 (1.89%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.89%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.89%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.89%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.89%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 20 (37.74%) Windows
2 15 (28.30%) Linux
3 12 (22.64%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.77%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.89%) CentOS
5 1 (1.89%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (1.89%) VMS
5 1 (1.89%) VxWorks
5 1 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.89%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (37.74%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (28.30%) Mentoring
3 12 (22.64%) Proactive Monitoring
4 10 (18.87%) Incident Management
5 9 (16.98%) CI/CD
5 9 (16.98%) DevOps
6 8 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (15.09%) Customer Service
6 8 (15.09%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (15.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (15.09%) Kalman Filter
6 8 (15.09%) Web Filtering
7 7 (13.21%) DevSecOps
7 7 (13.21%) Network Monitoring
7 7 (13.21%) Roadmaps
7 7 (13.21%) Task Automation
7 7 (13.21%) Validation
8 6 (11.32%) AI
8 6 (11.32%) Containerisation
8 6 (11.32%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 14 (26.42%) PowerShell
2 7 (13.21%) C++
3 6 (11.32%) Python
4 5 (9.43%) C
5 3 (5.66%) Bash
6 1 (1.89%) C#
6 1 (1.89%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.89%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (28.30%) Security Cleared
2 11 (20.75%) SC Cleared
3 9 (16.98%) CCNA
3 9 (16.98%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (15.09%) JNCIA
5 3 (5.66%) DBS Check
5 3 (5.66%) Degree
6 1 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.89%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (1.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.77%) QA
1 2 (3.77%) SLA
2 1 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.89%) ECSS
2 1 (1.89%) GDPR
2 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (28.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (22.64%) Active Directory
3 10 (18.87%) Hyper-V
4 5 (9.43%) Docker
4 5 (9.43%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (9.43%) vSphere
5 4 (7.55%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (1.89%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (18.87%) Terraform
2 6 (11.32%) Kubernetes
3 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (7.55%) vCenter Server
4 3 (5.66%) FortiGate
5 2 (3.77%) Ansible
5 2 (3.77%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.89%) Grafana
6 1 (1.89%) Nagios
6 1 (1.89%) RSA Archer
6 1 (1.89%) WMI
Vendors
1 17 (32.08%) Microsoft
2 15 (28.30%) VMware
3 7 (13.21%) Cisco
4 4 (7.55%) Aruba
4 4 (7.55%) Freshdesk
4 4 (7.55%) NVIDIA
4 4 (7.55%) Red Hat
5 3 (5.66%) Fortinet
5 3 (5.66%) Juniper
5 3 (5.66%) Veeam
6 2 (3.77%) Datto
7 1 (1.89%) Cvent
7 1 (1.89%) Google
7 1 (1.89%) IFS
7 1 (1.89%) Oracle
7 1 (1.89%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.89%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.89%) Splunk
7 1 (1.89%) Ubiquiti