Virtual Infrastructure Job Trends in London

Virtual Infrastructure
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Virtual Infrastructure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 369 405 427
Rank change year-on-year +36 +22 +245
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 14 24 28
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.10% 0.15% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.16% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 13 14 27
10th Percentile - - £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £88,750 £64,688 £67,500
90th Percentile - £82,250 £70,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £63,124
% change year-on-year +12.00% -0.99% +26.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,201 14,961 16,682
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 88.55% 94.25% 92.92%
Number of salaries quoted 7,815 8,448 13,411
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +1.35%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Virtual Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Virtual Infrastructure job vacancy trend in London

Virtual Infrastructure
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Virtual Infrastructure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Virtual Infrastructure

Virtual Infrastructure
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure in London over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Virtual Infrastructure in London

Virtual Infrastructure
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure within the London region over the 6 months to 27 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
East London -12 4 £87,500 +12.90%
Central London +39 2 £80,000 +28.00%
Virtual Infrastructure
England

Virtual Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 9 (64.29%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) Amazon S3
2 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) Cohesity
2 4 (28.57%) Nutanix
2 4 (28.57%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
General
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (35.71%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Dutch Language
4 1 (7.14%) French Language
4 1 (7.14%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Support
1 5 (35.71%) Support Specialist
1 5 (35.71%) Unix Support
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
2 4 (28.57%) Linux Specialist
2 4 (28.57%) Linux Support
2 4 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Unix Specialist
2 4 (28.57%) Unix Support Specialist
3 3 (21.43%) IT Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Applications Support
5 1 (7.14%) Applications Support Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Applications Support Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Development Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Development Support Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (28.57%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (7.14%) Node.js
3 1 (7.14%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Clustering
1 5 (35.71%) Data Centre
2 4 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (14.29%) VxBlock/Vblock
4 1 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (7.14%) Mainframe
4 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 1 (7.14%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 11 (78.57%) Linux
2 6 (42.86%) Windows
3 5 (35.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (35.71%) Unix
3 5 (35.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) DevOps
2 6 (42.86%) Agile
3 5 (35.71%) Change Management
3 5 (35.71%) ITIL
3 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 4 (28.57%) Configuration Management
4 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (28.57%) Converged Infrastructure
4 4 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (28.57%) Security Operations
4 4 (28.57%) Systems Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) Bash
2 1 (7.14%) Go
2 1 (7.14%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) AWS Certification
1 5 (35.71%) DV Cleared
1 5 (35.71%) ITIL Certification
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (92.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (35.71%) Docker
2 5 (35.71%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 4 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (85.71%) Ansible
2 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 4 (28.57%) Prometheus
2 4 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) VMware
2 6 (42.86%) Red Hat
3 5 (35.71%) Symantec
4 4 (28.57%) Foundry
4 4 (28.57%) Palantir