Virtual Machines Jobs in London

Virtual Machine (VM)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring Virtual Machines skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Machines over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 337 378 446
Rank change year-on-year +41 +68 +145
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 59 123 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.46% 0.51% 0.52%
As % of the System Software category 3.49% 4.33% 3.38%
Number of salaries quoted 45 91 93
10th Percentile £56,750 £55,000 £40,250
25th Percentile £81,250 £61,875 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% +10.34% +7.41%
75th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £127,500 £120,000 £102,000
England median annual salary £57,836 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.58% -4.17% +20.00%

All System Software Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,691 2,840 4,937
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 13.23% 11.82% 15.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,113 2,090 3,689
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,000 £46,250 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £67,500 £68,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% -1.46% -2.14%
75th Percentile £93,750 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Virtual Machines as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in London

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Virtual Machines in London.

Salary trend for Virtual Machines in London

Virtual Machines
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Virtual Machines in London

Virtual Machines
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 Machines within the London region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
South London +5 5 £75,000 +36.36% 1
Central London +5 4 £90,000 +12.50% 2
Virtual Machines
England

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (30.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (27.12%) SharePoint
3 3 (5.08%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.69%) Confluence
4 1 (1.69%) Ethereum
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.69%) Solana
Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 47 (79.66%) Azure
2 21 (35.59%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (30.51%) Entra ID
4 16 (27.12%) OneDrive
5 14 (23.73%) AWS
5 14 (23.73%) Power Automate
6 12 (20.34%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (18.64%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (15.25%) GCP
9 6 (10.17%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (10.17%) Amazon MSK
9 6 (10.17%) GitHub
9 6 (10.17%) OpenShift
9 6 (10.17%) Serverless
10 5 (8.47%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (6.78%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (6.78%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 4 (6.78%) Amazon S3
11 4 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (6.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 27 (45.76%) Firewall
2 14 (23.73%) DNS
3 13 (22.03%) DHCP
4 12 (20.34%) TCP/IP
5 7 (11.86%) VPN
6 6 (10.17%) Network Security
7 5 (8.47%) VLAN
8 4 (6.78%) SSL
9 3 (5.08%) NAS
10 2 (3.39%) SAN
10 2 (3.39%) WAN
10 2 (3.39%) Wireless
11 1 (1.69%) Asterisk PBX
11 1 (1.69%) BGP
11 1 (1.69%) EIGRP
11 1 (1.69%) Ethernet
11 1 (1.69%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (1.69%) IP Telephony
11 1 (1.69%) LAN
11 1 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.56%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.69%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.69%) MS Access
3 1 (1.69%) MySQL
3 1 (1.69%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.69%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (1.69%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (20.34%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.78%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (5.08%) Git
4 2 (3.39%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.69%) JIRA
5 1 (1.69%) MSBuild
5 1 (1.69%) NUnit
5 1 (1.69%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 21 (35.59%) Social Skills
2 15 (25.42%) Finance
3 12 (20.34%) Legal
4 11 (18.64%) Banking
5 6 (10.17%) Law
6 4 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (5.08%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.39%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.69%) Back Office
9 1 (1.69%) Front Office
9 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.69%) Marketing
9 1 (1.69%) Military
9 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (20.34%) DevOps Engineer
1 12 (20.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (16.95%) Architect
3 9 (15.25%) Senior
4 8 (13.56%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (11.86%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (11.86%) Lead
5 7 (11.86%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (10.17%) AWS DevOps
6 6 (10.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 6 (10.17%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (10.17%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 5 (8.47%) Security Engineer
8 4 (6.78%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Azure Architect
9 3 (5.08%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Network Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Senior DevOps
9 3 (5.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.25%) ARM Templates
2 6 (10.17%) Kafka
3 3 (5.08%) Pandas
3 3 (5.08%) scikit-learn
4 2 (3.39%) Anaconda
4 2 (3.39%) Azure Blueprints
4 2 (3.39%) JSON
5 1 (1.69%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.69%) 802.1X
5 1 (1.69%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (1.69%) Entity Framework
5 1 (1.69%) jQuery
5 1 (1.69%) OAuth
5 1 (1.69%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.69%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (1.69%) RESTful
5 1 (1.69%) Smart Contracts
5 1 (1.69%) WCF
5 1 (1.69%) web3js
5 1 (1.69%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 17 (28.81%) Management Information System
2 12 (20.34%) Cyber Threat
3 8 (13.56%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (10.17%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (8.47%) Security Posture
6 3 (5.08%) Data Centre
6 3 (5.08%) Hedge funds
7 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.69%) Bitcoin
8 1 (1.69%) Blockchain
8 1 (1.69%) Clustering
8 1 (1.69%) Cyber Security Posture
8 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.69%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (1.69%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.69%) SCADA
8 1 (1.69%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 16 (27.12%) Windows
2 14 (23.73%) Linux
3 10 (16.95%) Windows Server
4 6 (10.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (10.17%) VMS
5 4 (6.78%) Ubuntu
6 2 (3.39%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (3.39%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.69%) Android
7 1 (1.69%) Unix
7 1 (1.69%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.69%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (52.54%) DevOps
2 21 (35.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 18 (30.51%) Cybersecurity
3 18 (30.51%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (27.12%) CI/CD
4 16 (27.12%) Containerisation
5 15 (25.42%) Agile
5 15 (25.42%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (23.73%) Identity Management
6 14 (23.73%) Mobile Device Management
6 14 (23.73%) Software Distribution
7 12 (20.34%) Network Design
7 12 (20.34%) Task Automation
8 10 (16.95%) Analytics
8 10 (16.95%) Log Analytics
8 10 (16.95%) Microservices
9 8 (13.56%) SDLC
10 7 (11.86%) Infrastructure Management
11 6 (10.17%) Open Source
11 6 (10.17%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (54.24%) PowerShell
2 21 (35.59%) SQL
3 18 (30.51%) Python
4 6 (10.17%) Go
4 6 (10.17%) Shell Script
5 5 (8.47%) Bash
6 1 (1.69%) Bicep
6 1 (1.69%) C#
6 1 (1.69%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.69%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.69%) R
6 1 (1.69%) Rust
6 1 (1.69%) Solidity
6 1 (1.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (20.34%) Azure Certification
2 11 (18.64%) Degree
3 5 (8.47%) Security Cleared
4 4 (6.78%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (6.78%) SC Cleared
5 3 (5.08%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (3.39%) CCNA
6 2 (3.39%) CCSP
6 2 (3.39%) CISSP
6 2 (3.39%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.69%) CCNP
7 1 (1.69%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.64%) GDPR
2 8 (13.56%) HIPAA
2 8 (13.56%) SOC 2
3 2 (3.39%) NIST
3 2 (3.39%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.69%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (35.59%) Docker
2 14 (23.73%) Active Directory
3 8 (13.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (11.86%) Hyper-V
4 7 (11.86%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (10.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (6.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (47.46%) Terraform
2 20 (33.90%) Kubernetes
3 15 (25.42%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (25.42%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (23.73%) SCCM
5 9 (15.25%) Ansible
6 8 (13.56%) Istio
7 4 (6.78%) Nessus
7 4 (6.78%) Proxmox
8 3 (5.08%) Packer
9 2 (3.39%) CASB
9 2 (3.39%) linkerd
10 1 (1.69%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (1.69%) SCVMM
10 1 (1.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (40.68%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.56%) VMware
3 6 (10.17%) Cisco
3 6 (10.17%) Confluent
4 4 (6.78%) iManage
4 4 (6.78%) Juniper
4 4 (6.78%) Palo Alto
5 3 (5.08%) Arista
5 3 (5.08%) Fortinet
5 3 (5.08%) NetApp
5 3 (5.08%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.39%) Citrix
6 2 (3.39%) Dell
6 2 (3.39%) Google
6 2 (3.39%) Oracle
7 1 (1.69%) Apple
7 1 (1.69%) EMC
7 1 (1.69%) EqualLogic
7 1 (1.69%) HP
7 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow