Virtual Servers Job Trends in England

Virtual Servers
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Virtual Servers skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 577 577 587
Rank change year-on-year 0 +10 +197
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Servers 29 96 88
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.056% 0.20% 0.19%
As % of the System Software category 0.76% 1.53% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 27 54 65
10th Percentile £37,420 £31,625 £36,300
25th Percentile £42,375 £38,813 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% +5.26% -12.04%
75th Percentile £115,000 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £84,200 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% +5.26% -11.21%

All System Software Skills
England

Virtual Servers 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 3,811 6,293 7,723
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.32% 12.80% 16.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,807 3,788 6,411
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,425 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £40,312 £36,950
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £78,063 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,750 £91,934
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -1.03%

Virtual Servers
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Virtual Servers job vacancy trend in England

Virtual Servers
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Virtual Servers.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Virtual Servers

Virtual Servers
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Servers in England over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Virtual Servers in England

Virtual Servers
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 Servers within the England region over the 6 months to 3 January 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 +65 14 £110,000 +69.23% 4
South East +15 6 £42,000 -16.00% 8
Midlands +13 3 £35,866 -28.27% 2
East of England +11 3 £44,000 +17.33% 1
West Midlands +31 2 £35,866 -15.61%
North of England +9 1 £48,000 +14.29% 4
Yorkshire -5 1 £48,000 +60.00% 2
South West -7 1 £45,000 -46.43%
East Midlands -16 1 £52,500 -4.55% 2
Virtual Servers
UK

Virtual Servers
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 1 (3.45%) IIS
1 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 14 (48.28%) Azure
2 9 (31.03%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (13.79%) Entra ID
4 3 (10.34%) SaaS
5 2 (6.90%) Azure AKS
5 2 (6.90%) IaaS
5 2 (6.90%) PaaS
6 1 (3.45%) AWS
6 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Storage
6 1 (3.45%) GCP
6 1 (3.45%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 8 (27.59%) DNS
2 7 (24.14%) Firewall
2 7 (24.14%) WAN
3 6 (20.69%) DHCP
4 5 (17.24%) LAN
5 3 (10.34%) SD-WAN
5 3 (10.34%) SSL
5 3 (10.34%) VPN
5 3 (10.34%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (6.90%) IPsec
6 2 (6.90%) VLAN
7 1 (3.45%) SAN
7 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (6.90%) Pharmaceutical
1 2 (6.90%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (3.45%) Law
2 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (55.17%) Cloud Engineer
2 14 (48.28%) Cloud Native Engineer
2 14 (48.28%) Cloud Software Engineer
2 14 (48.28%) Software Engineer
3 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (27.59%) Senior
4 7 (24.14%) Lead
4 7 (24.14%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 7 (24.14%) Lead Software Engineer
4 7 (24.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 7 (24.14%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Analyst
5 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) IT Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) IT Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Administrator
7 1 (3.45%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 14 (48.28%) Cloud Native
1 14 (48.28%) Distributed Systems
1 14 (48.28%) Legacy Code
2 2 (6.90%) Biopharmaceutical
2 2 (6.90%) CMDB
3 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 16 (55.17%) Linux
2 11 (37.93%) Windows
3 8 (27.59%) Windows Server
4 2 (6.90%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (3.45%) Android
5 1 (3.45%) VMS
5 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) Network Virtualisation
1 14 (48.28%) Open Source
1 14 (48.28%) Software Engineering
2 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (24.14%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (20.69%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (13.79%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (6.90%) BCP
6 2 (6.90%) Business Continuity
6 2 (6.90%) Business Continuity Planning
6 2 (6.90%) CI/CD
6 2 (6.90%) Cloud Security
6 2 (6.90%) Data Protection
6 2 (6.90%) Identity Management
6 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Maintenance
6 2 (6.90%) Proactive Monitoring
6 2 (6.90%) Validation
6 2 (6.90%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 1 (3.45%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 14 (48.28%) C
1 14 (48.28%) C++
1 14 (48.28%) Go
1 14 (48.28%) Java
1 14 (48.28%) Rust
2 8 (27.59%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.90%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) MCSE
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (10.34%) CCNA
2 3 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (10.34%) MCP
3 2 (6.90%) Degree
4 1 (3.45%) A+ Certification
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.45%) HND
4 1 (3.45%) MCSA
4 1 (3.45%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) GxP
1 2 (6.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.45%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (58.62%) Virtual Machines
2 9 (31.03%) Active Directory
3 5 (17.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (13.79%) Hyper-V
4 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (6.90%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (51.72%) Kubernetes
2 8 (27.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (10.34%) Terraform
4 2 (6.90%) Ansible
5 1 (3.45%) VxRail
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.24%) VMware
3 3 (10.34%) Veeam
4 1 (3.45%) Apple
4 1 (3.45%) Aruba
4 1 (3.45%) Mitel
4 1 (3.45%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.45%) SonicWALL