Virtual Machines Jobs in the Midlands

Virtual Machine (VM)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Virtual Machines skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Machines over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 253 197 278
Rank change year-on-year -56 +81 -36
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 60 124 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.52% 1.28% 0.70%
As % of the System Software category 4.29% 9.37% 4.63%
Number of salaries quoted 46 41 28
10th Percentile £24,000 £37,500 -
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £22,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £53,250 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.15% +63.85% -32.29%
75th Percentile £60,313 £76,250 £46,375
90th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £52,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -9.09%

All System Software Skills
Midlands

Virtual Machines is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,397 1,323 1,643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.06% 13.71% 15.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,197 801 1,306
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,500 £24,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - +1.38%
75th Percentile £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -3.51% +3.64%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 -16 37 £48,750 -8.45% 5
East Midlands -32 23 £46,250 -31.48% 10
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 3 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.33%) IIS
2 2 (3.33%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 38 (63.33%) Azure
2 13 (21.67%) Entra ID
3 11 (18.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 11 (18.33%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 6 (10.00%) IaaS
5 6 (10.00%) PaaS
5 6 (10.00%) Power Platform
6 3 (5.00%) AWS
6 3 (5.00%) Azure App Service
6 3 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (5.00%) Matillion
7 2 (3.33%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.67%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (28.33%) Firewall
2 8 (13.33%) Broadband
3 7 (11.67%) VoIP
4 6 (10.00%) DNS
4 6 (10.00%) LAN
4 6 (10.00%) MPLS
4 6 (10.00%) SD-WAN
4 6 (10.00%) Wireless
5 4 (6.67%) Internet
6 3 (5.00%) DHCP
6 3 (5.00%) HTTP
7 2 (3.33%) VSAN
8 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (21.67%) SQL Server
2 6 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (10.00%) Power BI
3 2 (3.33%) MariaDB
3 2 (3.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (10.00%) Git
2 2 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 25 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 13 (21.67%) Finance
3 6 (10.00%) Banking
3 6 (10.00%) Games
3 6 (10.00%) Local Government
4 5 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.33%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (28.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 14 (23.33%) IT Support
3 11 (18.33%) IT Engineer
4 10 (16.67%) Support Engineer
5 9 (15.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 9 (15.00%) 3rd Line Support
5 9 (15.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 8 (13.33%) IT Support Engineer
7 6 (10.00%) 1st Line Support
7 6 (10.00%) 1st Line Support Technician
7 6 (10.00%) DBA
7 6 (10.00%) First Line Help Desk Support
7 6 (10.00%) Help Desk Support
7 6 (10.00%) Help Desk Support Technician
7 6 (10.00%) Help Desk Technician
7 6 (10.00%) IT Support Technician
7 6 (10.00%) IT Technician
7 6 (10.00%) Security Architect
7 6 (10.00%) SQL DBA
7 6 (10.00%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.00%) ARM Templates
2 3 (5.00%) JWT
2 3 (5.00%) RESTful
3 2 (3.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.00%) CCTV
1 6 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 6 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 6 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.33%) Driving Licence
3 2 (3.33%) IoT
3 2 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 22 (36.67%) Windows
2 19 (31.67%) Windows Server
3 14 (23.33%) Linux
4 6 (10.00%) VMS
5 2 (3.33%) Debian
5 2 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (36.67%) DevOps
2 17 (28.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 17 (28.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 9 (15.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (15.00%) Cloud Security
3 9 (15.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 8 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (11.67%) High Availability
5 7 (11.67%) Proactive Monitoring
6 6 (10.00%) Asset Management
6 6 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (10.00%) Business Strategy
6 6 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
6 6 (10.00%) Containerisation
6 6 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (10.00%) Identity Management
6 6 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
6 6 (10.00%) SIEM
6 6 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (20.00%) SQL
2 9 (15.00%) T-SQL
3 8 (13.33%) Bicep
4 6 (10.00%) Bash
4 6 (10.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.33%) Degree
3 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (3.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (21.67%) Active Directory
2 8 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (10.00%) Hyper-V
4 5 (8.33%) vSphere
5 2 (3.33%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (15.00%) Terraform
2 2 (3.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 28 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.67%) VMware
3 2 (3.33%) BT
3 2 (3.33%) HP
3 2 (3.33%) Intel
3 2 (3.33%) Openreach
3 2 (3.33%) Virgin Media
4 1 (1.67%) Citrix