Virtual Machines Job Trends in England

Virtual Machine (VM)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Virtual Machines skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 435 426
Rank change year-on-year -65 -9 +23
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 185 199 463
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.51% 0.55%
As % of the System Software category 4.37% 3.69% 4.38%
Number of salaries quoted 125 141 396
10th Percentile £47,850 £37,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £50,000 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £57,836 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +64.26% +0.58% -4.17%
75th Percentile £120,000 £85,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £143,750 £97,500 £98,474
UK median annual salary £90,000 £57,668 £57,500
% change year-on-year +56.07% +0.29% -

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 4,230 5,389 10,560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.20% 13.76% 12.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3,031 3,473 8,668
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £99,350 £86,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Virtual Machines job vacancy trend in England

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Virtual Machines.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Virtual Machines

Virtual Machines
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

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 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
London -3 72 £112,500 +28.57% 22
North of England -32 41 £60,000 +14.29% 12
South East -37 38 £112,500 +104.55% 13
North West +17 37 £60,000 -17.24% 8
Midlands -29 13 £63,750 +38.59% 6
West Midlands -41 11 £75,000 +63.04% 3
South West -46 8 £58,000 +5.45% 8
East of England -19 7 £62,500 +19.05% 4
Yorkshire -64 4 £45,000 +9.09% 4
East Midlands -30 2 £52,500 - 3
Virtual Machines
UK

Virtual Machines
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 13 (7.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (6.49%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.54%) Apache
3 1 (0.54%) Confluence
3 1 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 136 (73.51%) Azure
2 55 (29.73%) Azure AI
2 55 (29.73%) Azure Machine Learning
2 55 (29.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 55 (29.73%) Snowflake
3 42 (22.70%) Entra ID
4 33 (17.84%) Serverless
5 25 (13.51%) AWS
6 23 (12.43%) GitHub
7 21 (11.35%) Azure AKS
7 21 (11.35%) Microsoft 365
8 19 (10.27%) Azure Monitor
9 17 (9.19%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (9.19%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (8.11%) GCP
11 14 (7.57%) OpenShift
12 13 (7.03%) Azure Key Vault
13 12 (6.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 12 (6.49%) IaaS
14 11 (5.95%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (17.84%) Firewall
2 26 (14.05%) VPN
3 24 (12.97%) WAN
4 20 (10.81%) DNS
5 18 (9.73%) DHCP
6 11 (5.95%) TCP/IP
7 9 (4.86%) VLAN
8 6 (3.24%) LAN
8 6 (3.24%) Network Security
8 6 (3.24%) SD-WAN
9 4 (2.16%) Broadband
9 4 (2.16%) Wireless
10 2 (1.08%) Wireshark
10 2 (1.08%) WPA
11 1 (0.54%) BGP
11 1 (0.54%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.54%) NAS
11 1 (0.54%) NetScaler
11 1 (0.54%) SAN
11 1 (0.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (34.05%) SQL Server
2 16 (8.65%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (2.16%) InfluxDB
4 3 (1.62%) Power BI
5 1 (0.54%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.54%) MS Access
5 1 (0.54%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 24 (12.97%) Snyk
2 14 (7.57%) Git
3 10 (5.41%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.24%) GitLab
5 5 (2.70%) Selenium
6 4 (2.16%) Cypress.io
6 4 (2.16%) Robot Framework
6 4 (2.16%) TestRail
7 2 (1.08%) JIRA
8 1 (0.54%) Artifactory
General
1 93 (50.27%) Finance
2 26 (14.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 26 (14.05%) Social Skills
3 22 (11.89%) Banking
4 7 (3.78%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (2.16%) Games
6 2 (1.08%) Advertising
6 2 (1.08%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.08%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.08%) Social Housing
7 1 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.54%) Marketing
7 1 (0.54%) Police
7 1 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 54 (29.19%) Senior
2 42 (22.70%) Architect
3 35 (18.92%) Engineering Manager
4 33 (17.84%) Data Manager
4 33 (17.84%) Finance Manager
5 28 (15.14%) Security Architect
6 24 (12.97%) Cloud Architect
6 24 (12.97%) Cloud Security Architect
6 24 (12.97%) Senior Architect
6 24 (12.97%) Senior Cloud Architect
6 24 (12.97%) Senior Security Architect
7 18 (9.73%) Cloud Engineer
8 17 (9.19%) DevOps Engineer
8 17 (9.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (7.57%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (6.49%) Azure Architect
10 12 (6.49%) Azure Data Architect
10 12 (6.49%) Data Architect
11 11 (5.95%) Developer
12 10 (5.41%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.95%) ADO
1 11 (5.95%) OAuth
1 11 (5.95%) SAML
1 11 (5.95%) YAML
2 9 (4.86%) Django
2 9 (4.86%) React
3 8 (4.32%) Kafka
4 6 (3.24%) REST
5 5 (2.70%) Twisted
5 5 (2.70%) Web Services
5 5 (2.70%) WebSockets
6 4 (2.16%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (2.16%) Model Context Protocol
6 4 (2.16%) Playwright
6 4 (2.16%) pytest
7 3 (1.62%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.62%) Middleware
8 1 (0.54%) .NET
8 1 (0.54%) LAMP
8 1 (0.54%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 27 (14.59%) Data Centre
2 9 (4.86%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.32%) Video Conferencing
4 6 (3.24%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.24%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.24%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.16%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.62%) iPad
7 3 (1.62%) iPhone
7 3 (1.62%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.08%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.54%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.54%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.54%) IoT
9 1 (0.54%) NHS
9 1 (0.54%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 29 (15.68%) Windows
2 21 (11.35%) Linux
3 15 (8.11%) VMS
3 15 (8.11%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.70%) CentOS
4 5 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (1.62%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.62%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.54%) Debian
6 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.54%) Unix
6 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (50.27%) AI
2 66 (35.68%) Agile
3 64 (34.59%) Roadmaps
4 62 (33.51%) Migration
5 57 (30.81%) Data Engineering
6 56 (30.27%) Data Governance
6 56 (30.27%) Line Management
6 56 (30.27%) Machine Learning
7 55 (29.73%) Data Architecture
7 55 (29.73%) Data Development
7 55 (29.73%) Regulatory Compliance
8 54 (29.19%) CI/CD
9 40 (21.62%) Cybersecurity
10 35 (18.92%) Infrastructure as Code
11 34 (18.38%) Containerisation
12 32 (17.30%) DevOps
13 27 (14.59%) Application Security
13 27 (14.59%) Cloud Security
13 27 (14.59%) Disaster Recovery
14 25 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 84 (45.41%) SQL
2 34 (18.38%) Python
3 30 (16.22%) PowerShell
4 11 (5.95%) Kusto Query Language
5 10 (5.41%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.32%) Go
7 7 (3.78%) Bash
8 6 (3.24%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.16%) Bicep
10 3 (1.62%) C#
11 2 (1.08%) Java
11 2 (1.08%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.54%) C
12 1 (0.54%) C++
12 1 (0.54%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (7.03%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.49%) Azure Certification
3 8 (4.32%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (3.24%) Degree
4 6 (3.24%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.70%) Network+ Certification
6 4 (2.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (2.16%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.54%) CCSP
9 1 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.54%) CISM
9 1 (0.54%) CISSP
9 1 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.54%) MCSE
9 1 (0.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (12.97%) GRC
2 17 (9.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (8.65%) GDPR
4 11 (5.95%) SOC 2
5 6 (3.24%) QA
6 4 (2.16%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (2.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.62%) SLA
8 1 (0.54%) NCSC
8 1 (0.54%) NIST
8 1 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 42 (22.70%) Active Directory
2 27 (14.59%) Docker
3 20 (10.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (4.86%) Hyper-V
5 7 (3.78%) vSphere
6 6 (3.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.54%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.54%) Firmware
7 1 (0.54%) KVM
7 1 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.54%) XenApp
7 1 (0.54%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 39 (21.08%) Terraform
2 29 (15.68%) Kubernetes
3 18 (9.73%) Ansible
4 15 (8.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (4.86%) vCenter Server
6 8 (4.32%) Istio
7 4 (2.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (2.16%) FortiGate
7 4 (2.16%) Grafana
7 4 (2.16%) Kibana
7 4 (2.16%) logstash
7 4 (2.16%) SolarWinds Orion
8 2 (1.08%) Packer
9 1 (0.54%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.54%) SCCM
9 1 (0.54%) WSUS
Vendors
1 103 (55.68%) Microsoft
2 56 (30.27%) Databricks
3 36 (19.46%) Palo Alto
4 26 (14.05%) CrowdStrike
5 25 (13.51%) Tenable
6 21 (11.35%) VMware
7 12 (6.49%) Zscaler
8 8 (4.32%) Confluent
9 7 (3.78%) Red Hat
10 5 (2.70%) Splunk
11 4 (2.16%) Atlassian
11 4 (2.16%) SolarWinds
12 3 (1.62%) Apple
12 3 (1.62%) Fortinet
13 2 (1.08%) Citrix
13 2 (1.08%) Netskope
14 1 (0.54%) Concur
14 1 (0.54%) Dynatrace
14 1 (0.54%) LogicMonitor
14 1 (0.54%) Zerto