Virtual Machines Jobs in England

Virtual Machine (VM)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Virtual Machines skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Machines over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 426 368 548
Rank change year-on-year -58 +180 +17
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 471 833 755
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.56% 0.89% 0.58%
As % of the System Software category 4.31% 5.79% 3.20%
Number of salaries quoted 393 271 300
10th Percentile £33,100 £32,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,750 £41,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £79,375 £71,188
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £81,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +15.00% -9.09%

All System Software Skills
England

Virtual Machines is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 10,931 14,396 23,617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.89% 15.44% 18.07%
Number of salaries quoted 8,862 9,766 13,983
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,331
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,949 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £56,325
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.35% +2.41%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 -18 125 £59,500 +10.19% 18
London +85 101 £74,000 +0.34% 56
North of England -34 90 £52,500 -6.67% 13
Midlands -57 60 £46,250 -13.15% 15
South West -55 49 £57,500 +53.33% 14
North West -31 40 £57,500 -6.12% 6
Yorkshire +39 38 £40,000 -15.79% 7
West Midlands -24 37 £48,750 -8.45% 5
East of England -13 35 £55,000 +69.23% 13
East Midlands -34 23 £46,250 -31.48% 10
North East +3 12 £55,000 -4.35%
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 61 (12.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 40 (8.49%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.34%) IIS
4 7 (1.49%) Apache
4 7 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.49%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.27%) Skype for Business
6 5 (1.06%) Confluence
6 5 (1.06%) Solana
7 3 (0.64%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.42%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.42%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.42%) Resin
8 2 (0.42%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (4.25%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.21%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.21%) Misys Opics
2 1 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 348 (73.89%) Azure
2 114 (24.20%) Microsoft 365
3 76 (16.14%) Power Platform
4 67 (14.23%) Entra ID
5 65 (13.80%) AWS
5 65 (13.80%) Azure DevOps
6 53 (11.25%) IaaS
7 47 (9.98%) Serverless
8 41 (8.70%) Azure Monitor
8 41 (8.70%) SaaS
9 35 (7.43%) Azure Storage
10 34 (7.22%) Azure Functions
11 30 (6.37%) PaaS
12 28 (5.94%) Azure AKS
12 28 (5.94%) GitHub
13 26 (5.52%) Azure App Service
13 26 (5.52%) Nutanix
14 23 (4.88%) Amazon S3
14 23 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
15 21 (4.46%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 92 (19.53%) Firewall
2 88 (18.68%) DNS
3 65 (13.80%) Broadband
3 65 (13.80%) VPN
4 49 (10.40%) DHCP
5 25 (5.31%) LAN
6 24 (5.10%) VLAN
7 23 (4.88%) WAN
8 19 (4.03%) SAN
9 17 (3.61%) HTTP
9 17 (3.61%) Network Security
10 16 (3.40%) 5G
10 16 (3.40%) VoIP
11 15 (3.18%) Internet
11 15 (3.18%) Wireless
12 12 (2.55%) NetScaler
12 12 (2.55%) TCP/IP
13 10 (2.12%) iSCSI
14 9 (1.91%) Unified Communications
15 8 (1.70%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (22.93%) SQL Server
2 81 (17.20%) Azure SQL Database
3 71 (15.07%) Power BI
4 18 (3.82%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.49%) Apache Hive
6 7 (1.49%) Presto
7 6 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.06%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.85%) BigQuery
9 4 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.64%) Big Data
10 3 (0.64%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.42%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.42%) MySQL
11 2 (0.42%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.42%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 45 (9.55%) Git
2 31 (6.58%) Jenkins
3 20 (4.25%) JIRA
4 12 (2.55%) GitLab
5 10 (2.12%) Trac
6 8 (1.70%) Octopus Deploy
6 8 (1.70%) TeamCity
7 5 (1.06%) eggPlant
8 4 (0.85%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.64%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.64%) JUnit
9 3 (0.64%) Selenium
9 3 (0.64%) Subversion
9 3 (0.64%) TestNG
9 3 (0.64%) Travis CI
10 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.21%) Burp Suite
General
1 186 (39.49%) Social Skills
2 85 (18.05%) Finance
3 35 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (4.67%) Telecoms
5 17 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (3.40%) Banking
6 16 (3.40%) Games
7 14 (2.97%) Automotive
7 14 (2.97%) Manufacturing
8 11 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (2.34%) Electronics
9 9 (1.91%) Retail
10 8 (1.70%) Law
11 7 (1.49%) Marketing
11 7 (1.49%) Public Sector
12 6 (1.27%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.27%) Local Government
13 5 (1.06%) Legal
14 4 (0.85%) Back Office
14 4 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 86 (18.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 65 (13.80%) DBA
2 65 (13.80%) SQL DBA
3 47 (9.98%) Senior
4 38 (8.07%) Cloud Engineer
5 34 (7.22%) Architect
6 33 (7.01%) DevOps Engineer
7 27 (5.73%) Lead
8 25 (5.31%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 24 (5.10%) IT Support
10 23 (4.88%) Support Engineer
11 22 (4.67%) Azure Engineer
12 19 (4.03%) IT Engineer
13 17 (3.61%) Infrastructure Architect
14 16 (3.40%) Analyst
15 15 (3.18%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 15 (3.18%) Azure Specialist
15 15 (3.18%) Support Specialist
16 14 (2.97%) Active Directory Specialist
16 14 (2.97%) Active Directory Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (9.13%) ARM Templates
2 39 (8.28%) .NET
3 18 (3.82%) JWT
4 17 (3.61%) RESTful
5 9 (1.91%) http4s
5 9 (1.91%) Lambda Expressions
6 7 (1.49%) REST
7 5 (1.06%) React
8 4 (0.85%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.64%) Azure Blueprints
9 3 (0.64%) Flash
10 2 (0.42%) ADO
10 2 (0.42%) JSON
10 2 (0.42%) OpenAPI
10 2 (0.42%) SOAP
10 2 (0.42%) Swagger
10 2 (0.42%) XML
11 1 (0.21%) ASP.NET
11 1 (0.21%) SAML
11 1 (0.21%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 26 (5.52%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (5.31%) Data Centre
2 25 (5.31%) Management Information System
3 22 (4.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 22 (4.67%) Mobile App
4 21 (4.46%) PKI
5 17 (3.61%) Cloud Native
5 17 (3.61%) IoT
6 11 (2.34%) Driving Licence
7 10 (2.12%) Replication
8 9 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.49%) Cyberattack
10 6 (1.27%) CCTV
10 6 (1.27%) Clustering
10 6 (1.27%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.06%) Blockchain
11 5 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.64%) EPoS
12 3 (0.64%) IBM Storwize
12 3 (0.64%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 220 (46.71%) Windows
2 131 (27.81%) Windows Server
3 94 (19.96%) Linux
4 88 (18.68%) VMS
5 44 (9.34%) Windows Server 2019
6 36 (7.64%) Windows Server 2016
7 25 (5.31%) Windows 10
8 15 (3.18%) Unix
9 12 (2.55%) Windows Server 2012
10 10 (2.12%) Ubuntu
11 9 (1.91%) Debian
11 9 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 8 (1.70%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (0.85%) Apple iOS
14 3 (0.64%) Android
14 3 (0.64%) SUSE
14 3 (0.64%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 2 (0.42%) CentOS
15 2 (0.42%) Mac OS
16 1 (0.21%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (33.55%) DevOps
2 126 (26.75%) Disaster Recovery
3 93 (19.75%) High Availability
3 93 (19.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 92 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
5 89 (18.90%) CI/CD
6 84 (17.83%) Collaborative Working
7 71 (15.07%) Business Intelligence
8 67 (14.23%) Performance Tuning
9 66 (14.01%) Agile
10 64 (13.59%) Infrastructure as Code
11 60 (12.74%) Network Virtualisation
12 57 (12.10%) ITIL
13 56 (11.89%) Containerisation
14 50 (10.62%) Configuration Management
15 43 (9.13%) Microservices
16 35 (7.43%) Computer Science
17 33 (7.01%) Artificial Intelligence
18 31 (6.58%) Software Engineering
18 31 (6.58%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 108 (22.93%) PowerShell
1 108 (22.93%) SQL
2 87 (18.47%) T-SQL
3 67 (14.23%) Python
4 53 (11.25%) Bash
5 38 (8.07%) C#
6 37 (7.86%) Bicep
7 32 (6.79%) Java
8 18 (3.82%) Perl
9 15 (3.18%) VB
10 14 (2.97%) VBScript
11 9 (1.91%) Kotlin
11 9 (1.91%) Scala
12 8 (1.70%) Ruby
13 7 (1.49%) Go
14 6 (1.27%) VB.NET
15 5 (1.06%) TypeScript
16 4 (0.85%) JavaScript
17 1 (0.21%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.21%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 85 (18.05%) Microsoft Certification
2 66 (14.01%) Degree
3 55 (11.68%) Security Cleared
4 35 (7.43%) SC Cleared
5 25 (5.31%) Azure Certification
5 25 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (2.97%) DV Cleared
6 14 (2.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 10 (2.12%) DBS Check
8 9 (1.91%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (1.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 6 (1.27%) MCP
11 5 (1.06%) ISEB
11 5 (1.06%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.64%) CCNA
12 3 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.64%) CISSP
12 3 (0.64%) MCSE
13 2 (0.42%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.46%) Cyber Essentials
2 15 (3.18%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.97%) QA
4 10 (2.12%) GDPR
5 9 (1.91%) PMO
6 8 (1.70%) SLA
7 7 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 7 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.42%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.21%) GRC
9 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 138 (29.30%) Active Directory
2 87 (18.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 67 (14.23%) Hyper-V
4 53 (11.25%) Docker
5 29 (6.16%) vSphere
6 25 (5.31%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (3.40%) pfSense
8 13 (2.76%) VMware ESXi
9 12 (2.55%) Firmware
9 12 (2.55%) NFS
10 10 (2.12%) Virtual Servers
11 7 (1.49%) XenApp
12 6 (1.27%) XenDesktop
13 4 (0.85%) KVM
14 3 (0.64%) Ceph
14 3 (0.64%) Gluster
14 3 (0.64%) oVirt
14 3 (0.64%) VirtualBox
15 2 (0.42%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 1 (0.21%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 74 (15.71%) Kubernetes
2 71 (15.07%) Terraform
3 36 (7.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 32 (6.79%) Ansible
5 31 (6.58%) SCCM
6 25 (5.31%) ZABBIX
7 23 (4.88%) SCOM
8 21 (4.46%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 19 (4.03%) Grafana
10 16 (3.40%) SCDPM
10 16 (3.40%) WSUS
11 14 (2.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 13 (2.76%) Puppet
13 9 (1.91%) Progress Chef
13 9 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
14 8 (1.70%) vCenter Server
15 6 (1.27%) FortiGate
16 5 (1.06%) Failover Clustering
16 5 (1.06%) Nagios
17 4 (0.85%) vRealize
Vendors
1 271 (57.54%) Microsoft
2 107 (22.72%) VMware
3 35 (7.43%) Veeam
4 27 (5.73%) Cisco
5 24 (5.10%) Fortinet
6 20 (4.25%) Citrix
7 17 (3.61%) Google
7 17 (3.61%) Juniper
8 15 (3.18%) HP
9 14 (2.97%) ForgeRock
9 14 (2.97%) Sitecore
10 13 (2.76%) Commvault
11 10 (2.12%) McAfee
12 9 (1.91%) Dell
13 8 (1.70%) ServiceNow
14 7 (1.49%) Databricks
14 7 (1.49%) Meraki
15 6 (1.27%) Aruba
15 6 (1.27%) Dell Compellent
15 6 (1.27%) Epicor