Virtualisation Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Virtualization Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Virtualization Engineer salary in the Midlands is £53,494 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 244 317 325
Rank change year-on-year +73 +8 +23
Permanent jobs requiring a Virtualisation Engineer 7 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.100% 0.009% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.009% 0.023%
Number of salaries quoted 6 1 2
10th Percentile £47,500 - £36,500
25th Percentile £48,950 £42,500 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,494 £45,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.88% -7.22% +7.78%
75th Percentile £53,688 £47,500 £56,625
90th Percentile - - £60,900
England median annual salary £53,688 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.31% -10.00% +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the Midlands with a recognized job title 6,422 11,026 8,538
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.73% 94.31% 89.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,856 8,249 4,756
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £60,741 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Virtualisation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured Virtualisation Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Virtualisation Engineer in the Midlands

Virtualisation Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Virtualisation Engineer in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Virtualisation Engineer in the Midlands

Virtualisation Engineer
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 Virtualisation Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 May 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 +55 5 £53,688 +19.31% 1
East Midlands - 2 £50,000 -
Virtualisation Engineer
England

Virtualisation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Virtualisation Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Midlands region featuring Virtualisation Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) Windows
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
1 6 (85.71%) Dell
1 6 (85.71%) VMware
1 6 (85.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (57.14%) Availability Management
3 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
3 4 (57.14%) Roadmaps
3 4 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (57.14%) Data Centre
3 4 (57.14%) Release Management
3 4 (57.14%) Citrix
4 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (42.86%) SAN
4 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
4 3 (42.86%) SharePoint
4 3 (42.86%) Performance Management
4 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
4 3 (42.86%) Incident Management
4 3 (42.86%) Change Management
4 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
4 3 (42.86%) Proactive Monitoring
4 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (42.86%) Hyper-V
4 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (42.86%) Isilon
4 3 (42.86%) ITIL
4 3 (42.86%) Server Management

Virtualisation Engineer Skill Set
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 6 (85.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (42.86%) SharePoint
3 2 (28.57%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) IaaS
2 1 (14.29%) OneDrive
2 1 (14.29%) PaaS
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) SAN
2 2 (28.57%) DHCP
2 2 (28.57%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (14.29%) Police
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Data Centre
2 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Availability Management
2 4 (57.14%) Release Management
2 4 (57.14%) Roadmaps
3 3 (42.86%) Change Management
3 3 (42.86%) Incident Management
3 3 (42.86%) ITIL
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Management
3 3 (42.86%) Proactive Monitoring
3 3 (42.86%) Server Management
4 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (14.29%) Business Case
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (14.29%) Matrix Management
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) Hyper-V
3 2 (28.57%) Terminal Services
3 2 (28.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) VxRail
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Dell
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
1 6 (85.71%) VMware
2 4 (57.14%) Citrix
3 3 (42.86%) Isilon
4 2 (28.57%) HP
4 2 (28.57%) NetApp
5 1 (14.29%) EqualLogic