Virtual Infrastructure Job Trends in the North of England

Virtual Infrastructure
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Virtual Infrastructure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 258 - 262
Rank change year-on-year - - +157
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 5 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.048% - 0.073%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.057% - 0.078%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile £63,600 - £44,600
25th Percentile £69,000 - £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,000 - £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.00%
75th Percentile £87,875 - £52,500
90th Percentile £88,550 - £64,500
England median annual salary £79,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +26.40% -3.85% +42.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Virtual Infrastructure falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,838 8,809 6,443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 84.73% 88.27% 94.40%
Number of salaries quoted 4,512 4,096 4,965
10th Percentile £27,388 £31,250 £29,850
25th Percentile £31,750 £40,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,238 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -5.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £65,985 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,216 £80,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Virtual Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Virtual Infrastructure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Virtual Infrastructure job vacancy trend in the North of England

Virtual Infrastructure
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Virtual Infrastructure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Virtual Infrastructure

Virtual Infrastructure
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure in the North of England over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Virtual Infrastructure in the North of England

Virtual Infrastructure
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure within the North of England region over the 6 months to 15 December 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
North West - 4 £85,000 -
Yorkshire - 1 £60,000 - 4
Virtual Infrastructure
England

Virtual Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (60.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DHCP
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) HTTP
1 2 (40.00%) SSL
General
1 3 (60.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Backup Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Engineering Manager
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) DPDK
1 3 (60.00%) eBPF
2 1 (20.00%) NETCONF
2 1 (20.00%) RESTCONF
2 1 (20.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (60.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (40.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) NVMe
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (60.00%) Open Source
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) High Availability
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
4 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
4 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) KVM
1 3 (60.00%) QEMU
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) SaltStack
2 1 (20.00%) Veeam
2 1 (20.00%) VMware