Virtual Machines Jobs in the Midlands

Virtual Machine (VM)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Virtual Machines skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Machines over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 237 295 146
Rank change year-on-year +58 -149 +168
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 17 36 165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.25% 0.27% 2.07%
As % of the System Software category 2.34% 2.62% 14.03%
Number of salaries quoted 7 34 31
10th Percentile £42,900 £30,942 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £46,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% -22.92% +44.58%
75th Percentile £53,375 £61,250 £74,375
90th Percentile £58,750 £65,625 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,836 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.58% -4.17% +14.29%

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 725 1,375 1,176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 10.46% 10.29% 14.78%
Number of salaries quoted 549 1,118 709
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £30,000 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £58,250 £57,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £68,000 £70,250
England median annual salary £50,000 £49,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.01% -10.00% -

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 12 July 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 12 July 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 +62 13 £46,000 -5.64% 6
East Midlands +30 4 £57,500 +24.32% 6
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 (23.53%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 14 (82.35%) AWS
2 10 (58.82%) Azure
3 8 (47.06%) Entra ID
4 7 (41.18%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (35.29%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (23.53%) Amazon S3
6 4 (23.53%) AWS KMS
6 4 (23.53%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (23.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 4 (23.53%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (23.53%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (23.53%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (23.53%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (23.53%) IaaS
6 4 (23.53%) PaaS
6 4 (23.53%) Power Platform
6 4 (23.53%) Route 53
6 4 (23.53%) SaaS
6 4 (23.53%) Serverless
6 4 (23.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (82.35%) Firewall
2 9 (52.94%) VPN
2 9 (52.94%) WAN
3 8 (47.06%) SD-WAN
4 4 (23.53%) DNS
4 4 (23.53%) HTTPS
4 4 (23.53%) SSL
4 4 (23.53%) VLAN
5 1 (5.88%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (5.88%) LAN
5 1 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Data Lake
1 4 (23.53%) MySQL
1 4 (23.53%) Power BI
2 3 (17.65%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (11.76%) SAP HANA
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (23.53%) Git
1 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
2 3 (17.65%) Vagrant
General
1 4 (23.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Architect
2 4 (23.53%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Cloud Architect
2 4 (23.53%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Administrator
4 2 (11.76%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.88%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) IT Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Service Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Service Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Data Centre
1 4 (23.53%) NHS
2 1 (5.88%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (47.06%) Windows
2 6 (35.29%) Linux
3 4 (23.53%) Ubuntu
3 4 (23.53%) Windows Server
4 3 (17.65%) VMS
5 2 (11.76%) AIX
5 2 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (11.76%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Agile
1 10 (58.82%) DevOps
2 7 (41.18%) ITIL
3 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (29.41%) Migration
4 5 (29.41%) Problem Management
5 4 (23.53%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (23.53%) B2B
5 4 (23.53%) Data Integration
5 4 (23.53%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (23.53%) Identity Management
5 4 (23.53%) Load Balancing
5 4 (23.53%) Patch Management
5 4 (23.53%) Project Management
5 4 (23.53%) Security Operations
5 4 (23.53%) Service Management
5 4 (23.53%) Threat Management
5 4 (23.53%) TOGAF
5 4 (23.53%) Waterfall
5 4 (23.53%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) PowerShell
2 6 (35.29%) Shell Script
3 5 (29.41%) SQL
4 4 (23.53%) Bicep
4 4 (23.53%) Python
5 3 (17.65%) Groovy
5 3 (17.65%) Java
5 3 (17.65%) Perl
5 3 (17.65%) Ruby
6 2 (11.76%) Bash
6 2 (11.76%) Korn
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Azure Certification
2 4 (23.53%) AWS Certification
2 4 (23.53%) CompTIA Security+
2 4 (23.53%) DBS Check
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) CISA
4 1 (5.88%) CISM
4 1 (5.88%) CISSP
4 1 (5.88%) GIAC
4 1 (5.88%) ISACA
4 1 (5.88%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) Active Directory
2 6 (35.29%) Docker
3 4 (23.53%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (11.76%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Ansible
1 6 (35.29%) Terraform
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (23.53%) Nessus
2 4 (23.53%) Proxmox
2 4 (23.53%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (17.65%) Nagios
4 2 (11.76%) Grafana
4 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
4 2 (11.76%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (11.76%) ZABBIX
5 1 (5.88%) FortiGate
5 1 (5.88%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) Databricks
2 4 (23.53%) Juniper
2 4 (23.53%) Meraki
3 3 (17.65%) VMware
4 2 (11.76%) Cisco
4 2 (11.76%) IBM
4 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
4 2 (11.76%) SAP
5 1 (5.88%) Tenable