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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 203 261 197
Rank change year-on-year +58 -64 +130
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 13 19 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.23% 0.21% 0.65%
As % of the System Software category 2.39% 2.34% 3.98%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 11
10th Percentile £52,750 £34,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £37,375 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.86% -15.83% +14.29%
75th Percentile £62,813 £53,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,125 £56,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +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 545 812 829
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.59% 9.17% 16.28%
Number of salaries quoted 421 447 716
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £47,358
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +0.30% +1.84%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,000 £68,125
England median annual salary £47,500 £55,881 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% +1.60% -

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 8 November 2025.

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 8 November 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 +41 8 £75,000 +45.63% 7
East Midlands +17 5 £57,500 +43.75% 9
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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) Azure
2 9 (69.23%) AWS
3 7 (53.85%) Azure Monitor
3 7 (53.85%) Entra ID
3 7 (53.85%) IaaS
3 7 (53.85%) PaaS
3 7 (53.85%) SaaS
4 6 (46.15%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (30.77%) Azure AI
5 4 (30.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 4 (30.77%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (30.77%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (30.77%) Power Automate
5 4 (30.77%) Power Platform
6 3 (23.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (23.08%) Datadog
6 3 (23.08%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (61.54%) DNS
2 7 (53.85%) Firewall
2 7 (53.85%) VPN
3 4 (30.77%) SD-WAN
3 4 (30.77%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Data Lake
1 4 (30.77%) MySQL
1 4 (30.77%) Power BI
2 2 (15.38%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Git
2 3 (23.08%) JIRA
General
1 3 (23.08%) Retail
2 2 (15.38%) Banking
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Architect
1 4 (30.77%) Cloud Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Administrator
2 3 (23.08%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Support
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) IT Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) IT Support
2 3 (23.08%) IT Support Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Junior
2 3 (23.08%) Junior Cloud Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Junior Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Junior IT Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Junior IT Support
2 3 (23.08%) Junior Support Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Support Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Data Centre
1 4 (30.77%) NHS
2 2 (15.38%) CMDB
3 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) AIX
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (15.38%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
2 1 (7.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) ITIL
2 6 (46.15%) Agile
2 6 (46.15%) DevOps
2 6 (46.15%) Service Management
3 4 (30.77%) AI
3 4 (30.77%) Analytics
3 4 (30.77%) API Management
3 4 (30.77%) B2B
3 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 4 (30.77%) Data Integration
3 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (30.77%) Log Analytics
3 4 (30.77%) Migration
3 4 (30.77%) Network Virtualisation
3 4 (30.77%) Project Management
3 4 (30.77%) RBAC
3 4 (30.77%) Roadmaps
3 4 (30.77%) TOGAF
3 4 (30.77%) Waterfall
3 4 (30.77%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
2 4 (30.77%) Bicep
2 4 (30.77%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) Bash
3 2 (15.38%) Korn
3 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Azure Certification
1 4 (30.77%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) SLA
2 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
2 3 (23.08%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (15.38%) Docker
4 1 (7.69%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (15.38%) Ansible
2 2 (15.38%) Grafana
2 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (15.38%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) ZABBIX
3 1 (7.69%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) ServiceNow
2 4 (30.77%) Databricks
2 4 (30.77%) Meraki
3 3 (23.08%) Google
3 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 3 (23.08%) VMware
4 2 (15.38%) IBM
4 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
4 2 (15.38%) SAP
5 1 (7.69%) Veeam