Virtual Machines Jobs in the Midlands

Virtual Machine (VM)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 279 142 324
Rank change year-on-year -137 +182 -68
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 28 157 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.24% 2.07% 0.41%
As % of the System Software category 2.46% 13.94% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 25 26 31
10th Percentile £37,350 £28,750 £22,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,313 £23,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £56,625 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.28% +34.82% -6.67%
75th Percentile £61,250 £61,875 £53,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £76,875 £62,500
England median annual salary £59,000 £60,000 £51,250
% change year-on-year -1.67% +17.07% +2.50%

All System Software Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,136 1,126 1,566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.78% 14.83% 12.70%
Number of salaries quoted 913 684 1,282
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,750 £31,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £44,250 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% -2.75% +1.11%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in the Midlands

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Virtual Machines in the Midlands

Virtual Machines
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Virtual Machines in the Midlands

Virtual Machines
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Machines within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
West Midlands -75 15 £55,000 +3.29% 10
East Midlands -83 13 £46,250 -31.48% 3
Virtual Machines
England

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (17.86%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (57.14%) Azure
2 6 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (17.86%) Power Platform
4 4 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
4 4 (14.29%) IaaS
4 4 (14.29%) PaaS
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (7.14%) SaaS
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) Broadband
2 3 (10.71%) Firewall
2 3 (10.71%) VoIP
3 2 (7.14%) Internet
3 2 (7.14%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (7.14%) VSAN
4 1 (3.57%) DHCP
4 1 (3.57%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (17.86%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (17.86%) Power BI
3 2 (7.14%) MariaDB
3 2 (7.14%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 13 (46.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
2 7 (25.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) IT Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) 3rd Line Support
4 5 (17.86%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) DBA
4 5 (17.86%) SQL DBA
4 5 (17.86%) Support Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) IT Support
6 3 (10.71%) IT Support Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) 3rd Line Server Support
7 2 (7.14%) Linux Server Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Linux Support Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Server Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Server Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (7.14%) IoT
3 2 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 11 (39.29%) Windows
2 10 (35.71%) Windows Server
3 7 (25.00%) Linux
4 5 (17.86%) VMS
5 4 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (7.14%) Debian
6 2 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (25.00%) DevOps
3 6 (21.43%) High Availability
3 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (21.43%) Network Virtualisation
4 5 (17.86%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
4 5 (17.86%) Collaborative Working
4 5 (17.86%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (14.29%) Business Strategy
5 4 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
5 4 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (14.29%) Identity Management
5 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (10.71%) Information Security
6 3 (10.71%) Proactive Monitoring
7 2 (7.14%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 6 (21.43%) PowerShell
2 5 (17.86%) Bicep
2 5 (17.86%) SQL
2 5 (17.86%) T-SQL
3 4 (14.29%) Bash
Qualifications
1 9 (32.14%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (14.29%) Degree
3 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Certification
4 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.57%) GRC
2 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (17.86%) Active Directory
2 5 (17.86%) Hyper-V
2 5 (17.86%) vSphere
3 3 (10.71%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (7.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Terraform
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (7.14%) SCOM
3 1 (3.57%) Ansible
3 1 (3.57%) FortiGate
3 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.57%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 18 (64.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (28.57%) VMware
3 2 (7.14%) Intel
4 1 (3.57%) Cisco
4 1 (3.57%) Fortinet