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 14 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 421 296
Rank change year-on-year -75 -125 +307
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 191 521 972
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.39% 0.54% 1.19%
As % of the System Software category 3.22% 4.78% 7.69%
Number of salaries quoted 138 419 271
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,000 £32,200
25th Percentile £50,313 £48,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,836 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.58% -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £79,375
90th Percentile £99,000 £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 5,933 10,904 12,645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.04% 11.37% 15.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,396 8,482 8,783
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £34,938 £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 £76,063 £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% -2.35%

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 14 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 14 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
South East +24 58 £55,000 -8.33% 60
London +38 54 £88,750 +4.41% 100
North of England +19 52 £57,836 +5.16% 44
North West +17 33 £57,836 +0.58% 28
Midlands +42 17 £46,000 -0.54% 31
West Midlands +41 13 £46,000 -5.64% 18
Yorkshire +38 13 £41,250 -2.94% 9
East of England +14 7 £56,250 -2.17% 10
South West +62 6 £52,500 -4.55% 29
North East +41 6 £32,000 -43.11% 7
East Midlands +40 4 £57,500 +24.32% 12
South Coast - 1 £59,000 -
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 23 (12.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (8.90%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.57%) IIS
4 2 (1.05%) Apache
4 2 (1.05%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.52%) Confluence
5 1 (0.52%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.52%) nginx
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
1 125 (65.45%) Azure
2 53 (27.75%) Entra ID
3 48 (25.13%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (23.56%) AWS
5 38 (19.90%) Microsoft 365
6 35 (18.32%) Azure Monitor
7 23 (12.04%) IaaS
7 23 (12.04%) PaaS
7 23 (12.04%) Power Automate
8 21 (10.99%) Azure Key Vault
8 21 (10.99%) SaaS
9 17 (8.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 17 (8.90%) Azure Service Bus
10 16 (8.38%) Power Platform
11 15 (7.85%) Azure AI
12 12 (6.28%) GCP
12 12 (6.28%) OneDrive
13 11 (5.76%) GitHub
13 11 (5.76%) Serverless
14 9 (4.71%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 77 (40.31%) Firewall
2 44 (23.04%) DNS
3 39 (20.42%) VPN
4 25 (13.09%) WAN
5 21 (10.99%) DHCP
6 20 (10.47%) SD-WAN
7 12 (6.28%) VLAN
8 11 (5.76%) TCP/IP
9 7 (3.66%) 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%) Wi-Fi
13 2 (1.05%) Fibre Channel
13 2 (1.05%) Intrusion Detection
13 2 (1.05%) IPv4
13 2 (1.05%) Wireless
14 1 (0.52%) Asterisk PBX
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 4 (2.09%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.05%) Apache Hive
8 2 (1.05%) Big Data
8 2 (1.05%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.05%) Bigtable
8 2 (1.05%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.05%) HBase
8 2 (1.05%) Impala
8 2 (1.05%) Metadata
8 2 (1.05%) SAP HANA
8 2 (1.05%) Tableau
9 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.52%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 26 (13.61%) 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
5 2 (1.05%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.52%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.52%) NUnit
General
1 62 (32.46%) Social Skills
2 32 (16.75%) Finance
3 19 (9.95%) Banking
4 12 (6.28%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.19%) Legal
6 7 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.66%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.14%) Law
8 4 (2.09%) Military
9 3 (1.57%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.57%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.05%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.05%) Retail
11 1 (0.52%) Aviation
11 1 (0.52%) Back Office
11 1 (0.52%) Front Office
11 1 (0.52%) Marketing
11 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.52%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 29 (15.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 25 (13.09%) Architect
3 24 (12.57%) Cloud Engineer
4 23 (12.04%) Senior
5 22 (11.52%) Lead
6 18 (9.42%) Cloud Architect
7 17 (8.90%) Systems Engineer
7 17 (8.90%) Vulnerability Manager
8 16 (8.38%) DevOps Engineer
9 15 (7.85%) Lead Systems Engineer
10 14 (7.33%) Security Engineer
11 13 (6.81%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (4.19%) IT Engineer
12 8 (4.19%) Technical Engineer
13 7 (3.66%) Automation Engineer
13 7 (3.66%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (3.66%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 7 (3.66%) Principal Engineer
13 7 (3.66%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 7 (3.66%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.33%) ARM Templates
2 6 (3.14%) Kafka
3 5 (2.62%) YAML
4 4 (2.09%) .NET
5 3 (1.57%) Pandas
5 3 (1.57%) scikit-learn
6 2 (1.05%) Anaconda
6 2 (1.05%) JSON
7 1 (0.52%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.52%) ADO.NET
7 1 (0.52%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.52%) CSS
7 1 (0.52%) HTML
7 1 (0.52%) jQuery
7 1 (0.52%) NHibernate
7 1 (0.52%) OAuth
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.52%) WCF
7 1 (0.52%) Web Services
7 1 (0.52%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 38 (19.90%) Data Centre
2 28 (14.66%) Management Information System
3 15 (7.85%) NHS
4 13 (6.81%) Public Cloud
5 11 (5.76%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (5.24%) Cloud Native
6 10 (5.24%) Cyber Threat
7 9 (4.71%) Product Ownership
7 9 (4.71%) Security Posture
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 4 (2.09%) Onboarding
12 3 (1.57%) Hedge funds
12 3 (1.57%) Private Cloud
13 2 (1.05%) Cyber Defence
13 2 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
14 1 (0.52%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 58 (30.37%) Windows
2 41 (21.47%) Linux
3 34 (17.80%) Windows Server
4 17 (8.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (6.81%) VMS
6 7 (3.66%) Ubuntu
7 6 (3.14%) Apple iOS
8 5 (2.62%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (2.09%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (1.57%) Unix
11 2 (1.05%) AIX
11 2 (1.05%) Mac OS
11 2 (1.05%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (1.05%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (1.05%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.52%) Android
12 1 (0.52%) Debian
12 1 (0.52%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (39.27%) DevOps
2 60 (31.41%) Agile
3 55 (28.80%) Roadmaps
4 54 (28.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 46 (24.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 42 (21.99%) CI/CD
7 39 (20.42%) Containerisation
8 36 (18.85%) Cybersecurity
8 36 (18.85%) Migration
9 35 (18.32%) Analytics
10 33 (17.28%) Log Analytics
10 33 (17.28%) Problem-Solving
11 31 (16.23%) Disaster Recovery
11 31 (16.23%) Microservices
12 30 (15.71%) ITIL
13 24 (12.57%) Service Management
14 23 (12.04%) Network Virtualisation
15 22 (11.52%) Technology Roadmap
16 21 (10.99%) Continuous Improvement
17 20 (10.47%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 73 (38.22%) PowerShell
2 52 (27.23%) SQL
3 43 (22.51%) Python
4 21 (10.99%) Bicep
5 20 (10.47%) Java
6 15 (7.85%) C
7 12 (6.28%) Shell Script
8 10 (5.24%) C#
9 8 (4.19%) Bash
10 6 (3.14%) Go
11 5 (2.62%) Ruby
12 3 (1.57%) Groovy
12 3 (1.57%) Perl
13 2 (1.05%) JavaScript
13 2 (1.05%) Korn
13 2 (1.05%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.52%) R
14 1 (0.52%) Rust
14 1 (0.52%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 47 (24.61%) Azure Certification
2 41 (21.47%) Degree
3 19 (9.95%) Microsoft Certification
4 15 (7.85%) DBS Check
4 15 (7.85%) HND
5 12 (6.28%) Security Cleared
6 8 (4.19%) SC Cleared
7 7 (3.66%) CompTIA Security+
7 7 (3.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 6 (3.14%) CCNA
8 6 (3.14%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.62%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.57%) DV Cleared
11 2 (1.05%) CISSP
11 2 (1.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (1.05%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.05%) MCSA
11 2 (1.05%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.52%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.42%) 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%) SLA
System Software
1 53 (27.75%) Active Directory
2 39 (20.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (18.32%) Docker
4 18 (9.42%) Hyper-V
5 17 (8.90%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (7.85%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (7.85%) vSphere
7 2 (1.05%) HDFS
7 2 (1.05%) XenApp
8 1 (0.52%) BitLocker
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 50 (26.18%) Terraform
2 32 (16.75%) Kubernetes
3 26 (13.61%) Microsoft Intune
4 24 (12.57%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (8.90%) Ansible
6 12 (6.28%) SCCM
7 10 (5.24%) vCenter Server
8 7 (3.66%) Nessus
8 7 (3.66%) Proxmox
9 6 (3.14%) Istio
10 5 (2.62%) Grafana
10 5 (2.62%) Nagios
11 3 (1.57%) Packer
11 3 (1.57%) WSUS
12 2 (1.05%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (1.05%) FortiGate
12 2 (1.05%) Hadoop YARN
12 2 (1.05%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (1.05%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (1.05%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 73 (38.22%) Microsoft
2 42 (21.99%) VMware
3 20 (10.47%) Databricks
4 18 (9.42%) Qualys
4 18 (9.42%) Tenable
5 15 (7.85%) Cisco
5 15 (7.85%) Meraki
6 10 (5.24%) Apple
6 10 (5.24%) Citrix
7 8 (4.19%) Juniper
8 7 (3.66%) Oracle
8 7 (3.66%) Red Hat
8 7 (3.66%) Rockwell
8 7 (3.66%) Siemens
9 6 (3.14%) Confluent
9 6 (3.14%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.62%) Atlassian
11 4 (2.09%) Fortinet
11 4 (2.09%) Google
11 4 (2.09%) Veeam