Virtual Environments Job Trends in Essex

Virtual Environments
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Virtual Environments skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Environments 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Essex 0.27% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 - -
75th Percentile £48,750 - -
90th Percentile £57,750 - -
East of England median annual salary £46,160 £57,500 £46,250
% change year-on-year -19.72% +24.32% +15.63%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Essex

Virtual Environments falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Essex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 827 281 715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 75.32% 84.89% 82.37%
Number of salaries quoted 508 140 577
10th Percentile £26,750 £25,000 £25,759
25th Percentile £31,691 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -5.48%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,375 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,000 £76,250
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Virtual Environments
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Virtual Environments job vacancy trend in Essex

Virtual Environments
Salary Trend in Essex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Virtual Environments.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Virtual Environments

Virtual Environments
Salary Histogram in Essex

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Environments in Essex over the 6 months to 9 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Virtual Environments in Essex

Virtual Environments
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Environments within the Essex region over the 6 months to 9 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
Chelmsford - 1 £32,500 -
Virtual Environments
East of England

Virtual Environments
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) VoIP
2 2 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (33.33%) IPsec
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) Wireless
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) IT Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) IT Support
1 2 (66.67%) IT Support Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Driving Licence
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Service
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Remote Monitoring and Management
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Logistics
2 1 (33.33%) Network Design
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) F5
2 1 (33.33%) VMware