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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 210 268 192
Rank change year-on-year +58 -76 +146
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 13 19 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.23% 0.19% 0.76%
As % of the System Software category 1.88% 2.01% 5.52%
Number of salaries quoted 5 11 15
10th Percentile - £32,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,000 £34,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -20.83% +29.03%
75th Percentile £58,750 £55,000 £62,500
90th Percentile - £60,000 £68,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,918 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.71% -2.53% +19.05%

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 693 947 797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.39% 9.45% 13.85%
Number of salaries quoted 522 622 673
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.59% -5.56% -3.23%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £47,592 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.68% -0.91% -

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

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Virtual Machines

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 16 September 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
West Midlands +54 8 £46,000 -12.38% 2
East Midlands +15 5 £57,500 +24.32% 2
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:

Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) AWS
2 9 (69.23%) Azure
3 6 (46.15%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (46.15%) Entra ID
4 5 (38.46%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (30.77%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (30.77%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 4 (30.77%) Amazon S3
5 4 (30.77%) AWS KMS
5 4 (30.77%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (30.77%) Azure AI
5 4 (30.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 4 (30.77%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (30.77%) IaaS
5 4 (30.77%) PaaS
5 4 (30.77%) Power Automate
5 4 (30.77%) Power Platform
5 4 (30.77%) SaaS
5 4 (30.77%) Serverless
5 4 (30.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (76.92%) Firewall
2 6 (46.15%) SD-WAN
2 6 (46.15%) VPN
2 6 (46.15%) WAN
3 5 (38.46%) DNS
4 4 (30.77%) SSL
5 2 (15.38%) HTTPS
5 2 (15.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Data Lake
1 4 (30.77%) MySQL
1 4 (30.77%) Power BI
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (15.38%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (30.77%) Git
1 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
2 3 (23.08%) Vagrant
General
1 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Architect
1 4 (30.77%) Cloud Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Administrator
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Data Centre
1 4 (30.77%) NHS
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Linux
2 5 (38.46%) Windows
3 4 (30.77%) Ubuntu
3 4 (30.77%) VMS
4 2 (15.38%) AIX
4 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (15.38%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Agile
1 10 (76.92%) DevOps
2 6 (46.15%) ITIL
3 4 (30.77%) Analytics
3 4 (30.77%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (30.77%) B2B
3 4 (30.77%) Capacity Management
3 4 (30.77%) Data Integration
3 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (30.77%) Key Management
3 4 (30.77%) Log Analytics
3 4 (30.77%) Migration
3 4 (30.77%) Network Virtualisation
3 4 (30.77%) Patch Management
3 4 (30.77%) Project Management
3 4 (30.77%) RBAC
3 4 (30.77%) Service Management
3 4 (30.77%) TOGAF
3 4 (30.77%) Waterfall
3 4 (30.77%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) PowerShell
2 6 (46.15%) Shell Script
3 4 (30.77%) Bicep
3 4 (30.77%) Python
3 4 (30.77%) SQL
4 3 (23.08%) Groovy
4 3 (23.08%) Java
4 3 (23.08%) Perl
4 3 (23.08%) Ruby
5 2 (15.38%) Bash
5 2 (15.38%) Korn
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Azure Certification
2 4 (30.77%) DBS Check
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
3 2 (15.38%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Active Directory
2 6 (46.15%) Docker
3 4 (30.77%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (23.08%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (7.69%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Ansible
1 6 (46.15%) Terraform
2 4 (30.77%) Nessus
2 4 (30.77%) Proxmox
2 4 (30.77%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (23.08%) Nagios
4 2 (15.38%) Grafana
4 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (15.38%) ZABBIX
5 1 (7.69%) VxRail
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Databricks
1 4 (30.77%) Juniper
1 4 (30.77%) Meraki
2 3 (23.08%) VMware
3 2 (15.38%) IBM
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
3 2 (15.38%) SAP
4 1 (7.69%) Veeam