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 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 659 560 666
Rank change year-on-year -99 +106 +142
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Servers 22 42 157
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.029% 0.11% 0.19%
As % of the System Software category 0.53% 0.85% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 17 33 125
10th Percentile £34,674 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £42,072
Median % change year-on-year - +6.96% -24.87%
75th Percentile £50,750 £53,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £113,000 £61,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,072
% change year-on-year - +6.96% -23.51%

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 4,181 4,940 10,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.47% 13.30% 13.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,025 3,618 9,054
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,000 £37,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,860 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.53% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £51,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.27% +10.00% -9.09%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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
West Midlands -20 6 £36,433 -14.28% 1
South West -45 6 £45,000 +13.92% 1
Midlands -53 6 £36,433 -27.13% 1
London -15 4 £110,000 +144.44% 3
Yorkshire -58 3 £45,000 +50.00% 2
North of England -60 3 £45,000 +14.34% 4
South East -34 2 £38,625 -57.79% 1
East of England -25 1 £44,000 +15.20%
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 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (13.64%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.55%) IIS
Business Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 12 (54.55%) Azure
2 10 (45.45%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (22.73%) AWS
4 4 (18.18%) SaaS
5 3 (13.64%) Azure AKS
5 3 (13.64%) IaaS
5 3 (13.64%) Mimecast
5 3 (13.64%) PaaS
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.55%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 8 (36.36%) Firewall
1 8 (36.36%) WAN
2 7 (31.82%) LAN
3 5 (22.73%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (22.73%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (22.73%) DNS
3 5 (22.73%) Unified Communications
3 5 (22.73%) VLAN
3 5 (22.73%) WebEx
4 4 (18.18%) DHCP
5 3 (13.64%) FTP
6 1 (4.55%) SAN
6 1 (4.55%) SD-WAN
6 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
6 1 (4.55%) VPN
6 1 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (36.36%) Retail
2 5 (22.73%) Banking
2 5 (22.73%) Marketing
2 5 (22.73%) Public Sector
2 5 (22.73%) Telecoms
3 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Analyst
2 5 (22.73%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Collaboration Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Cloud Native Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Software Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Support Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 3 (13.64%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (13.64%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Support
4 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Senior
4 3 (13.64%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Lead Software Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (22.73%) FlexPod
2 5 (22.73%) Onboarding
2 5 (22.73%) Replication
2 5 (22.73%) Video Conferencing
3 4 (18.18%) Cloud Native
3 4 (18.18%) Data Centre
3 4 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (18.18%) Legacy Code
4 3 (13.64%) CMDB
4 3 (13.64%) Driving Licence
5 1 (4.55%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 14 (63.64%) Windows
2 10 (45.45%) Linux
3 7 (31.82%) Windows Server
4 3 (13.64%) Windows 10
5 1 (4.55%) Android
5 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (40.91%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (36.36%) Infrastructure Automation
4 6 (27.27%) Capacity Planning
4 6 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (27.27%) ITIL
5 5 (22.73%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (22.73%) Data Management
5 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (22.73%) Performance Management
5 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (18.18%) Network Virtualisation
6 4 (18.18%) Open Source
6 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
7 3 (13.64%) Business Continuity
7 3 (13.64%) Computer Science
7 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (13.64%) Identity Management
7 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Management
7 3 (13.64%) Proactive Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) PowerShell
2 6 (27.27%) SQL
3 5 (22.73%) Python
4 4 (18.18%) C
4 4 (18.18%) C++
4 4 (18.18%) Go
4 4 (18.18%) Java
4 4 (18.18%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) Degree
2 5 (22.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (13.64%) MCSA
5 1 (4.55%) A+ Certification
5 1 (4.55%) IISP
5 1 (4.55%) ISACA
5 1 (4.55%) MCSE
5 1 (4.55%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.55%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (54.55%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 6 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (22.73%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (22.73%) vSphere
4 4 (18.18%) Active Directory
5 2 (9.09%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Ansible
2 5 (22.73%) Cisco CUCM
2 5 (22.73%) Grafana
2 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
2 5 (22.73%) Terraform
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (59.09%) Microsoft
2 6 (27.27%) Palo Alto
2 6 (27.27%) VMware
3 5 (22.73%) Cisco
3 5 (22.73%) Fortinet
3 5 (22.73%) NetApp
3 5 (22.73%) Splunk
4 3 (13.64%) Citrix
4 3 (13.64%) IFS
4 3 (13.64%) Oracle
5 2 (9.09%) Veeam
6 1 (4.55%) Apple
6 1 (4.55%) Aruba
6 1 (4.55%) Mitel