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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 485 431 324
Rank change year-on-year -54 -107 +249
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 212 474 921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.43% 0.55% 1.04%
As % of the System Software category 3.62% 4.43% 6.71%
Number of salaries quoted 154 396 272
10th Percentile £40,650 £33,750 £32,200
25th Percentile £50,313 £45,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,836 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.58% -4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £68,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,474 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,836 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.58% - +15.00%

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 5,855 10,707 13,735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.90% 12.47% 15.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,513 8,671 9,295
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £86,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

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 16 May 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 16 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
London +62 63 £87,500 +9.38% 68
North of England +22 59 £57,836 +5.16% 30
South East +33 55 £55,000 -7.56% 52
North West +3 37 £57,836 +0.58% 14
Midlands +25 19 £46,000 -0.54% 29
Yorkshire +48 15 £41,250 -2.94% 13
West Midlands +36 15 £46,000 -5.64% 15
East of England +22 14 £52,500 -4.55% 24
North East +39 7 £32,000 -43.11% 3
South West +62 5 £55,000 - 26
East Midlands +14 4 - - 12
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 35 (16.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (10.85%) SharePoint
3 9 (4.25%) SAS
4 7 (3.30%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 7 (3.30%) Exchange Server 2013
4 7 (3.30%) Skype for Business
5 3 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.94%) Apache
6 2 (0.94%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.94%) IIS
7 1 (0.47%) Confluence
7 1 (0.47%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.47%) Solana
Applications
1 7 (3.30%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 131 (61.79%) Azure
2 57 (26.89%) Entra ID
3 49 (23.11%) AWS
4 44 (20.75%) Azure DevOps
5 43 (20.28%) Microsoft 365
6 37 (17.45%) Azure Monitor
7 28 (13.21%) Power Automate
8 22 (10.38%) Azure Key Vault
9 21 (9.91%) IaaS
9 21 (9.91%) PaaS
9 21 (9.91%) SaaS
10 18 (8.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 17 (8.02%) OneDrive
12 16 (7.55%) Azure Service Bus
12 16 (7.55%) Power Platform
13 15 (7.08%) Azure AI
14 13 (6.13%) GCP
14 13 (6.13%) GitHub
15 12 (5.66%) Serverless
16 10 (4.72%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 84 (39.62%) Firewall
2 52 (24.53%) DNS
3 44 (20.75%) VPN
4 28 (13.21%) DHCP
4 28 (13.21%) WAN
5 20 (9.43%) SD-WAN
6 16 (7.55%) TCP/IP
7 13 (6.13%) VLAN
8 12 (5.66%) SAN
9 10 (4.72%) LAN
10 9 (4.25%) Network Security
11 7 (3.30%) IMAP
11 7 (3.30%) Skype
11 7 (3.30%) SMTP
11 7 (3.30%) SSL
12 5 (2.36%) NAS
13 4 (1.89%) HTTPS
14 3 (1.42%) Intrusion Detection
14 3 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
15 2 (0.94%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.96%) SQL Server
2 17 (8.02%) Data Lake
3 16 (7.55%) Power BI
4 15 (7.08%) MySQL
5 4 (1.89%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.94%) Apache Hive
7 2 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.94%) Big Data
7 2 (0.94%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.94%) Bigtable
7 2 (0.94%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.94%) HBase
7 2 (0.94%) Impala
7 2 (0.94%) Metadata
7 2 (0.94%) Tableau
8 1 (0.47%) MS Access
8 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.47%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 24 (11.32%) Git
2 20 (9.43%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.30%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (1.42%) Vagrant
5 2 (0.94%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.94%) JIRA
5 2 (0.94%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.47%) GitLab
6 1 (0.47%) MLflow
6 1 (0.47%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.47%) NUnit
6 1 (0.47%) TeamCity
General
1 74 (34.91%) Social Skills
2 44 (20.75%) Finance
3 27 (12.74%) Banking
4 23 (10.85%) Legal
5 10 (4.72%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (4.25%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.25%) Law
7 8 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.89%) Advertising
8 4 (1.89%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.89%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.42%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.94%) Military
11 1 (0.47%) Aviation
11 1 (0.47%) Back Office
11 1 (0.47%) Front Office
11 1 (0.47%) Marketing
11 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (13.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 28 (13.21%) Cloud Engineer
3 27 (12.74%) Architect
4 26 (12.26%) Senior
5 22 (10.38%) Lead
6 19 (8.96%) DevOps Engineer
7 18 (8.49%) Security Engineer
8 17 (8.02%) Systems Engineer
8 17 (8.02%) Vulnerability Manager
9 16 (7.55%) Cloud Architect
10 15 (7.08%) Azure Engineer
10 15 (7.08%) Lead Systems Engineer
11 14 (6.60%) Analyst
12 9 (4.25%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (4.25%) Strategy Analyst
13 8 (3.77%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.77%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 7 (3.30%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
14 7 (3.30%) IT Engineer
14 7 (3.30%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.60%) ARM Templates
2 6 (2.83%) Kafka
2 6 (2.83%) YAML
3 3 (1.42%) .NET
3 3 (1.42%) Azure Blueprints
3 3 (1.42%) Pandas
3 3 (1.42%) scikit-learn
4 2 (0.94%) Anaconda
4 2 (0.94%) JSON
5 1 (0.47%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.47%) ADO.NET
5 1 (0.47%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.47%) CSS
5 1 (0.47%) HTML
5 1 (0.47%) jQuery
5 1 (0.47%) NHibernate
5 1 (0.47%) OAuth
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.47%) WCF
5 1 (0.47%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 37 (17.45%) Data Centre
2 34 (16.04%) Management Information System
3 15 (7.08%) NHS
4 14 (6.60%) Security Posture
5 12 (5.66%) Cyber Threat
5 12 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (5.66%) Public Cloud
6 10 (4.72%) Cloud Native
6 10 (4.72%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.30%) Blackberry
8 6 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.83%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (2.36%) Operational Technology
9 5 (2.36%) SCADA
10 4 (1.89%) Life Science
11 3 (1.42%) Hedge funds
11 3 (1.42%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.94%) Cyber Defence
13 1 (0.47%) Blockchain
13 1 (0.47%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 58 (27.36%) Windows
2 36 (16.98%) Linux
3 33 (15.57%) Windows Server
4 13 (6.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (5.66%) VMS
6 7 (3.30%) Ubuntu
7 6 (2.83%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.42%) Mac OS
8 3 (1.42%) Unix
8 3 (1.42%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.42%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.94%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.47%) Android
10 1 (0.47%) Debian
10 1 (0.47%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (36.32%) DevOps
2 59 (27.83%) Infrastructure as Code
3 57 (26.89%) Agile
4 51 (24.06%) CI/CD
5 50 (23.58%) Roadmaps
6 47 (22.17%) Analytics
7 46 (21.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 43 (20.28%) Containerisation
9 41 (19.34%) Cybersecurity
10 39 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
11 35 (16.51%) Log Analytics
12 33 (15.57%) Migration
13 31 (14.62%) Microservices
14 30 (14.15%) Disaster Recovery
15 26 (12.26%) ITIL
16 24 (11.32%) Service Management
17 23 (10.85%) Incident Response
18 22 (10.38%) Vulnerability Management
19 21 (9.91%) Network Virtualisation
20 20 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 79 (37.26%) PowerShell
2 59 (27.83%) SQL
3 47 (22.17%) Python
4 21 (9.91%) Bicep
4 21 (9.91%) Java
5 15 (7.08%) C
6 11 (5.19%) Bash
7 10 (4.72%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.30%) C#
9 6 (2.83%) Go
10 5 (2.36%) Ruby
11 3 (1.42%) Groovy
11 3 (1.42%) Perl
12 2 (0.94%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.94%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.47%) R
13 1 (0.47%) Rust
13 1 (0.47%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 48 (22.64%) Azure Certification
2 46 (21.70%) Degree
3 19 (8.96%) Security Cleared
4 16 (7.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 16 (7.55%) SC Cleared
5 15 (7.08%) DBS Check
5 15 (7.08%) HND
6 8 (3.77%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.83%) CompTIA Security+
7 6 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (2.36%) CISSP
9 4 (1.89%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.42%) CCNA
10 3 (1.42%) CCSP
11 2 (0.94%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.47%) CCNP
12 1 (0.47%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (10.38%) GDPR
2 12 (5.66%) HIPAA
2 12 (5.66%) SOC 2
3 9 (4.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.89%) NIST
5 3 (1.42%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.42%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.94%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.47%) PMO
7 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 60 (28.30%) Active Directory
2 42 (19.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (17.92%) Docker
4 19 (8.96%) Hyper-V
5 16 (7.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (6.60%) vSphere
7 11 (5.19%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.94%) HDFS
9 1 (0.47%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.47%) KVM
9 1 (0.47%) NFS
9 1 (0.47%) pfSense
9 1 (0.47%) RHEV
9 1 (0.47%) vCloud
9 1 (0.47%) XenApp
9 1 (0.47%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 54 (25.47%) Terraform
2 36 (16.98%) Kubernetes
3 30 (14.15%) Microsoft Intune
3 30 (14.15%) Single Sign-On
4 17 (8.02%) SCCM
5 16 (7.55%) Ansible
6 10 (4.72%) vCenter Server
7 9 (4.25%) Istio
8 7 (3.30%) Nessus
8 7 (3.30%) Proxmox
9 5 (2.36%) WSUS
10 3 (1.42%) CASB
10 3 (1.42%) FortiGate
10 3 (1.42%) linkerd
10 3 (1.42%) Nagios
10 3 (1.42%) Packer
11 2 (0.94%) Hadoop YARN
12 1 (0.47%) Grafana
12 1 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 86 (40.57%) Microsoft
2 49 (23.11%) VMware
3 22 (10.38%) Databricks
4 18 (8.49%) Tenable
5 17 (8.02%) Qualys
6 15 (7.08%) Cisco
6 15 (7.08%) Meraki
7 10 (4.72%) Apple
7 10 (4.72%) NetApp
8 9 (4.25%) Citrix
9 8 (3.77%) Juniper
10 6 (2.83%) Atlassian
10 6 (2.83%) Confluent
10 6 (2.83%) Google
10 6 (2.83%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.89%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.89%) iManage
11 4 (1.89%) Oracle
11 4 (1.89%) Rockwell
11 4 (1.89%) Veeam