Virtual Machines Job Trends in Leeds

Virtual Machine (VM)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Virtual Machines skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 74 88
Rank change year-on-year -42 +14 +13
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 2 2 25
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 0.065% 0.22% 1.42%
As % of the System Software category 1.68% 2.17% 11.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 22
10th Percentile - - £41,250
25th Percentile - - £43,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £30,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -62.50% +77.78%
75th Percentile - - £85,000
90th Percentile - - £89,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £45,000 £30,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +50.00% -62.50% +45.45%

All System Software Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 119 92 218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 3.88% 10.11% 12.40%
Number of salaries quoted 64 78 179
10th Percentile £26,550 £26,525 £32,774
25th Percentile £45,000 £29,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £37,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -28.57% +2.44%
75th Percentile £81,250 £70,250 £69,500
90th Percentile £91,750 £82,500 £76,108
West Yorkshire median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -19.19% -1.00%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Virtual Machines job vacancy trend in Leeds

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Virtual Machines.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Virtual Machines

Virtual Machines
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft