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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 206 236
Rank change year-on-year -29 +30 +39
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 8 16 55
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.081% 0.31% 0.56%
As % of the System Software category 1.96% 2.85% 4.26%
Number of salaries quoted 3 7 38
10th Percentile £56,000 £40,750 £24,000
25th Percentile £63,125 £42,625 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £46,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year +63.04% -5.64% -13.33%
75th Percentile - £52,250 £61,250
90th Percentile - £71,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,353 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.77% +8.44% -

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 408 561 1,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.11% 10.72% 13.21%
Number of salaries quoted 319 389 1,113
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £24,813
25th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £72,750 £70,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 -7 7 £75,000 +55.44% 2
East Midlands -38 1 £52,500 +31.25% 2
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 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (37.50%) Datadog
2 3 (37.50%) GCP
2 3 (37.50%) IaaS
2 3 (37.50%) PaaS
2 3 (37.50%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Cloudflare
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) DNS
2 3 (37.50%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) VPN
3 1 (12.50%) SSL
3 1 (12.50%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Retail
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Legal
3 1 (12.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Support
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) IT Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) IT Support
1 3 (37.50%) IT Support Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Junior
1 3 (37.50%) Junior Cloud Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Junior Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Junior IT Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Junior IT Support
1 3 (37.50%) Junior Support Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Support Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Asset and Configuration Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Service Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) CMDB
2 1 (12.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) ITIL
2 3 (37.50%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (37.50%) Incident Management
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Asset Management
3 2 (25.00%) Change Management
3 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (25.00%) ITSM
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
3 2 (25.00%) Service Management
3 2 (25.00%) Software Asset Management
3 2 (25.00%) Software Licensing
3 2 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (25.00%) User Experience
3 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (12.50%) IT Audit
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) SLA
2 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) ServiceNow
2 3 (37.50%) Google
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Veeam
3 1 (12.50%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Zerto