Virtual Machines Jobs in England

Virtual Machine (VM)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 9 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 501 424 295
Rank change year-on-year -77 -129 +293
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 191 509 978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.39% 0.54% 1.18%
As % of the System Software category 3.23% 4.70% 7.62%
Number of salaries quoted 138 414 273
10th Percentile £37,125 £34,125 £32,200
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,813 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,836 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.58% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £83,750 £71,875 £78,750
90th Percentile £96,625 £98,474 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,836 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.58% -4.17% +14.29%

All System Software Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 5,911 10,825 12,837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.93% 11.53% 15.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,375 8,482 8,854
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £86,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -1.79%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in England

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Virtual Machines in England

Virtual Machines
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Virtual Machines in England

Virtual Machines
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 Machines within the England region over the 6 months to 9 June 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 +49 57 £87,500 +6.06% 79
South East +19 56 £55,000 -8.33% 57
North of England +21 51 £57,836 +5.16% 36
North West -7 32 £57,836 +0.58% 22
Midlands +49 15 £46,000 -0.54% 27
West Midlands +43 13 £46,000 -5.64% 16
Yorkshire +30 13 £41,250 -2.94% 7
East of England +10 9 £53,750 -4.44% 14
South West +61 6 £52,500 -4.55% 27
North East +43 6 £32,000 -43.11% 7
East Midlands +36 2 - - 10
Virtual Machines
UK

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 30 (15.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (11.52%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.05%) Apache
4 2 (1.05%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.05%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (1.05%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (1.05%) IIS
4 2 (1.05%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.52%) Confluence
5 1 (0.52%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.52%) Solana
Applications
1 7 (3.66%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 126 (65.97%) Azure
2 55 (28.80%) Entra ID
3 45 (23.56%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (21.99%) AWS
4 42 (21.99%) Microsoft 365
5 34 (17.80%) Azure Monitor
6 28 (14.66%) Power Automate
7 21 (10.99%) Azure Key Vault
8 20 (10.47%) IaaS
8 20 (10.47%) PaaS
9 19 (9.95%) SaaS
10 17 (8.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 17 (8.90%) OneDrive
11 16 (8.38%) Azure Service Bus
11 16 (8.38%) Power Platform
12 15 (7.85%) Azure AI
13 11 (5.76%) GCP
13 11 (5.76%) GitHub
13 11 (5.76%) Serverless
14 9 (4.71%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 82 (42.93%) Firewall
2 48 (25.13%) DNS
3 39 (20.42%) VPN
4 26 (13.61%) DHCP
4 26 (13.61%) WAN
5 20 (10.47%) SD-WAN
6 15 (7.85%) TCP/IP
7 12 (6.28%) VLAN
8 8 (4.19%) LAN
9 7 (3.66%) SSL
10 6 (3.14%) Network Security
10 6 (3.14%) SAN
11 4 (2.09%) HTTPS
11 4 (2.09%) NAS
12 3 (1.57%) Intrusion Detection
12 3 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
13 2 (1.05%) IMAP
13 2 (1.05%) SMTP
13 2 (1.05%) Wireless
13 2 (1.05%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.57%) SQL Server
2 17 (8.90%) Data Lake
3 16 (8.38%) Power BI
4 15 (7.85%) MySQL
5 7 (3.66%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.05%) Apache Hive
7 2 (1.05%) Big Data
7 2 (1.05%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.05%) Bigtable
7 2 (1.05%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.05%) HBase
7 2 (1.05%) Impala
7 2 (1.05%) Metadata
7 2 (1.05%) Tableau
8 1 (0.52%) MS Access
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 25 (13.09%) Git
2 18 (9.42%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.66%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (1.57%) Vagrant
5 2 (1.05%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.05%) JIRA
6 1 (0.52%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.52%) NUnit
6 1 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 64 (33.51%) Social Skills
2 33 (17.28%) Finance
3 19 (9.95%) Banking
4 13 (6.81%) Legal
5 9 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.19%) Law
7 7 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.66%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.57%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.57%) Military
8 3 (1.57%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.05%) Retail
10 1 (0.52%) Advertising
10 1 (0.52%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.52%) Back Office
10 1 (0.52%) Front Office
10 1 (0.52%) Marketing
10 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 29 (15.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 26 (13.61%) Architect
3 25 (13.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 23 (12.04%) Lead
5 22 (11.52%) Senior
6 17 (8.90%) Systems Engineer
6 17 (8.90%) Vulnerability Manager
7 16 (8.38%) Cloud Architect
7 16 (8.38%) DevOps Engineer
8 15 (7.85%) Lead Systems Engineer
8 15 (7.85%) Security Engineer
9 13 (6.81%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (4.71%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (4.19%) IT Engineer
11 8 (4.19%) Technical Engineer
12 7 (3.66%) Automation Engineer
12 7 (3.66%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (3.66%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (3.66%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 7 (3.66%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.81%) ARM Templates
2 6 (3.14%) Kafka
3 5 (2.62%) YAML
4 3 (1.57%) .NET
4 3 (1.57%) Pandas
4 3 (1.57%) scikit-learn
5 2 (1.05%) Anaconda
5 2 (1.05%) JSON
6 1 (0.52%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.52%) ADO.NET
6 1 (0.52%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.52%) CSS
6 1 (0.52%) HTML
6 1 (0.52%) jQuery
6 1 (0.52%) NHibernate
6 1 (0.52%) OAuth
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.52%) RESTful
6 1 (0.52%) WCF
6 1 (0.52%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 36 (18.85%) Data Centre
2 32 (16.75%) Management Information System
3 15 (7.85%) NHS
4 12 (6.28%) Cyber Threat
5 11 (5.76%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (5.76%) Public Cloud
5 11 (5.76%) Security Posture
6 10 (5.24%) Cloud Native
7 9 (4.71%) Product Ownership
8 8 (4.19%) Operational Technology
8 8 (4.19%) SCADA
9 7 (3.66%) Life Science
10 6 (3.14%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (3.14%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.57%) Hedge funds
11 3 (1.57%) Onboarding
12 2 (1.05%) Blackberry
12 2 (1.05%) Cyber Defence
12 2 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.52%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 56 (29.32%) Windows
2 35 (18.32%) Linux
3 34 (17.80%) Windows Server
4 13 (6.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (5.76%) VMS
6 7 (3.66%) Ubuntu
7 6 (3.14%) Apple iOS
8 4 (2.09%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (1.57%) Unix
9 3 (1.57%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (1.05%) Mac OS
10 2 (1.05%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.52%) Android
11 1 (0.52%) Debian
11 1 (0.52%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (38.22%) DevOps
2 56 (29.32%) Agile
3 54 (28.27%) Roadmaps
4 53 (27.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 46 (24.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 43 (22.51%) CI/CD
7 41 (21.47%) Cybersecurity
8 39 (20.42%) Containerisation
9 35 (18.32%) Analytics
10 33 (17.28%) Log Analytics
10 33 (17.28%) Migration
11 30 (15.71%) Microservices
12 29 (15.18%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (14.66%) Disaster Recovery
14 25 (13.09%) ITIL
15 24 (12.57%) Service Management
16 22 (11.52%) Technology Roadmap
17 21 (10.99%) Incident Response
17 21 (10.99%) Network Virtualisation
18 20 (10.47%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (40.31%) PowerShell
2 54 (28.27%) SQL
3 44 (23.04%) Python
4 20 (10.47%) Bicep
4 20 (10.47%) Java
5 15 (7.85%) C
6 10 (5.24%) Shell Script
7 9 (4.71%) C#
8 7 (3.66%) Bash
9 6 (3.14%) Go
10 5 (2.62%) Ruby
11 3 (1.57%) Groovy
11 3 (1.57%) Perl
12 2 (1.05%) JavaScript
12 2 (1.05%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.52%) R
13 1 (0.52%) Rust
13 1 (0.52%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 46 (24.08%) Azure Certification
2 38 (19.90%) Degree
3 16 (8.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 15 (7.85%) DBS Check
4 15 (7.85%) HND
5 12 (6.28%) Security Cleared
6 10 (5.24%) SC Cleared
7 6 (3.14%) AWS Certification
7 6 (3.14%) CompTIA Security+
7 6 (3.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (2.62%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (2.09%) CCNA
9 4 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.57%) CISSP
11 2 (1.05%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.52%) CCSP
12 1 (0.52%) ISACA
12 1 (0.52%) SANS
12 1 (0.52%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.95%) GDPR
2 11 (5.76%) HIPAA
2 11 (5.76%) SOC 2
3 7 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.57%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.05%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.52%) NIST
6 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 53 (27.75%) Active Directory
2 37 (19.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (16.75%) Docker
4 17 (8.90%) Hyper-V
4 17 (8.90%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (7.33%) vSphere
6 12 (6.28%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.05%) HDFS
7 2 (1.05%) XenApp
8 1 (0.52%) NFS
8 1 (0.52%) pfSense
8 1 (0.52%) RHEV
8 1 (0.52%) vCloud
8 1 (0.52%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 49 (25.65%) Terraform
2 30 (15.71%) Kubernetes
2 30 (15.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 29 (15.18%) Single Sign-On
4 17 (8.90%) SCCM
5 15 (7.85%) Ansible
6 10 (5.24%) vCenter Server
7 7 (3.66%) Istio
7 7 (3.66%) Nessus
7 7 (3.66%) Proxmox
8 4 (2.09%) WSUS
9 3 (1.57%) Nagios
9 3 (1.57%) Packer
10 2 (1.05%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.05%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (0.52%) CASB
11 1 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.52%) linkerd
11 1 (0.52%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.52%) vRealize
Vendors
1 79 (41.36%) Microsoft
2 40 (20.94%) VMware
3 20 (10.47%) Databricks
4 18 (9.42%) Tenable
5 17 (8.90%) Qualys
6 15 (7.85%) Meraki
7 14 (7.33%) Cisco
8 10 (5.24%) Citrix
9 9 (4.71%) Apple
10 8 (4.19%) Juniper
11 7 (3.66%) Rockwell
11 7 (3.66%) Siemens
12 6 (3.14%) Confluent
12 6 (3.14%) Palo Alto
13 5 (2.62%) Atlassian
13 5 (2.62%) NetApp
14 4 (2.09%) Fortinet
14 4 (2.09%) Google
14 4 (2.09%) Oracle
14 4 (2.09%) Veeam