Virtual Machines Job Trends in Glasgow

Virtual Machine (VM)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Virtual Machines skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 75 65
Rank change year-on-year -15 -10 +38
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 1 6 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 0.12% 0.61% 0.77%
As % of the System Software category 1.30% 5.66% 3.97%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £57,500 £24,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £60,000 £26,000
Median % change year-on-year - +130.77% -48.00%
75th Percentile - £62,500 £28,000
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £44,547 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -25.76% +9.09% +46.67%

All System Software Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 77 106 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 9.46% 10.86% 19.44%
Number of salaries quoted 45 53 105
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £24,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £32,500 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £40,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -18.37% -10.91%
75th Percentile £85,000 £58,000 £61,250
90th Percentile - £66,500 £66,500
Scotland median annual salary £56,250 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.27% +4.76% -6.25%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Virtual Machines job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Virtual Machines.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Virtual Machines

Virtual Machines
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) AIOps
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Intelligent Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft