Virtual Infrastructure Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Virtual Infrastructure
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Virtual Infrastructure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 0.47% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - -
South West median annual salary £50,000 - £70,000

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

Virtual Infrastructure 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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 494 650 803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 77.67% 90.66% 92.41%
Number of salaries quoted 337 301 490
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,536 £42,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £82,500
South West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,351
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.09% +6.70%

Virtual Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Virtual Infrastructure job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Virtual Infrastructure
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Virtual Infrastructure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Virtual Infrastructure

Virtual Infrastructure
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 15 December 2025. 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
Cheltenham - 1 - - 2
Virtual Infrastructure
South West

Virtual Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (66.67%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 2 (66.67%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Electronics
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) BCP
2 2 (66.67%) Business Continuity
2 2 (66.67%) Business Continuity Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) RBAC
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Detection
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (66.67%) vSphere
3 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) vCenter Server
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Fortinet
2 2 (66.67%) Meraki
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
3 1 (33.33%) Dell
3 1 (33.33%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) Juniper
3 1 (33.33%) SAP
3 1 (33.33%) Veeam