Virtual Machines Job Trends in the Midlands

Virtual Machine (VM)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Virtual Machines skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 227 257
Rank change year-on-year -32 +30 -59
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 21 8 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.13% 0.14% 0.20%
As % of the System Software category 3.10% 1.22% 2.20%
Number of salaries quoted 11 3 9
10th Percentile - £52,250 £34,300
25th Percentile £36,250 £53,750 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,194 £57,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.84% +27.78% -25.00%
75th Percentile £46,875 £58,750 £50,750
90th Percentile £56,000 - £55,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% -8.00% -

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 678 658 863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.34% 11.66% 9.15%
Number of salaries quoted 519 481 497
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £27,300
25th Percentile £34,125 £29,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £38,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.38% -14.44% -3.23%
75th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £71,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Virtual Machines job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Virtual Machines.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Virtual Machines

Virtual Machines
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in the Midlands over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

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 9 October 2026. 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 -26 18 £42,500 - 10
East Midlands -36 3 £39,194 -31.84% 4
Virtual Machines
England

Virtual Machines
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (19.05%) IIS
3 3 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) Azure
2 10 (47.62%) Entra ID
3 6 (28.57%) Serverless
4 5 (23.81%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (14.29%) AWS
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (9.52%) IaaS
6 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (9.52%) OneDrive
6 2 (9.52%) PaaS
6 2 (9.52%) SaaS
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Storage
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (4.76%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (42.86%) Firewall
2 8 (38.10%) DHCP
2 8 (38.10%) DNS
3 6 (28.57%) TCP/IP
4 5 (23.81%) Wireless
5 3 (14.29%) NX-OS
6 2 (9.52%) VLAN
6 2 (9.52%) VoIP
6 2 (9.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Snyk
2 3 (14.29%) GitLab
2 3 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 7 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (14.29%) Finance
4 3 (14.29%) Law
4 3 (14.29%) Local Government
5 1 (4.76%) Automotive
5 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Senior
2 6 (28.57%) Architect
2 6 (28.57%) Cloud Architect
2 6 (28.57%) Cloud Security Architect
2 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Security Architect
2 6 (28.57%) Senior Architect
2 6 (28.57%) Senior Cloud Architect
2 6 (28.57%) Senior Security Architect
3 4 (19.05%) Support Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Technical Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Technical Support
3 4 (19.05%) Technical Support Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (9.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Junior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Junior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) COM
1 4 (19.05%) DCOM
1 4 (19.05%) LDAP
1 4 (19.05%) Middleware
1 4 (19.05%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 9 (42.86%) Data Centre
2 7 (33.33%) Driving Licence
2 7 (33.33%) PKI
3 4 (19.05%) Mobile App
3 4 (19.05%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (19.05%) Smartcard
4 3 (14.29%) Management Information System
5 2 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
6 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
6 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 10 (47.62%) Windows
2 6 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 2 (9.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) CI/CD
2 9 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (33.33%) Customer Service
4 7 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (28.57%) AI
5 6 (28.57%) Application Security
5 6 (28.57%) Cloud Security
5 6 (28.57%) DevSecOps
5 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (28.57%) IT Strategy
5 6 (28.57%) Migration
5 6 (28.57%) SDLC
5 6 (28.57%) Security Architecture
5 6 (28.57%) Security Testing
5 6 (28.57%) Technology Strategy
5 6 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
5 6 (28.57%) Validation
6 5 (23.81%) Computer Science
7 4 (19.05%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 6 (28.57%) SQL
3 4 (19.05%) Python
4 1 (4.76%) Bicep
4 1 (4.76%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) Degree
2 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
3 3 (14.29%) CCNA
3 3 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (14.29%) MCSE
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) GRC
2 4 (19.05%) SLA
3 3 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 11 (52.38%) Active Directory
2 8 (38.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (28.57%) vSphere
4 2 (9.52%) Hyper-V
4 2 (9.52%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) FortiGate
1 3 (14.29%) SCCM
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (61.90%) Microsoft
2 8 (38.10%) VMware
3 6 (28.57%) Cisco
3 6 (28.57%) CrowdStrike
3 6 (28.57%) Palo Alto
3 6 (28.57%) Tenable
4 4 (19.05%) Salesforce
5 3 (14.29%) Aruba
5 3 (14.29%) Meraki
6 2 (9.52%) FIS
7 1 (4.76%) Oracle