Virtual Machines Jobs in the North of England

Virtual Machine (VM)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 286 294 218
Rank change year-on-year +8 -76 +164
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 52 88 234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.45% 0.48% 1.41%
As % of the System Software category 3.37% 4.49% 9.59%
Number of salaries quoted 45 85 66
10th Percentile £32,000 £26,750 £32,200
25th Percentile £37,750 £41,250 £37,312
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,836 £55,000 £47,700
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% +15.30% +6.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £76,840 £67,500 £94,933
England median annual salary £57,836 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.58% -4.17% +20.00%

All System Software Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,545 1,962 2,439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 13.33% 10.78% 14.73%
Number of salaries quoted 583 1,647 1,563
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £30,750 £29,531 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.24% -10.53% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £57,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,000 £69,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Virtual Machines as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in the North of England

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Virtual Machines in the North of England.

Salary trend for Virtual Machines in the North of England

Virtual Machines
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in the North of England over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Virtual Machines in the North of England

Virtual Machines
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 Machines within the North of England region over the 6 months to 29 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
North West -1 33 £57,836 +0.58% 16
Yorkshire +37 13 £41,250 -2.94% 5
North East +39 6 £32,000 -43.11% 4
Virtual Machines
England

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 8 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (11.54%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.92%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 30 (57.69%) Azure
2 11 (21.15%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (17.31%) Azure Monitor
4 8 (15.38%) Entra ID
4 8 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (13.46%) AWS
6 6 (11.54%) SaaS
7 4 (7.69%) Azure AI
7 4 (7.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (7.69%) IaaS
7 4 (7.69%) PaaS
7 4 (7.69%) Power Automate
7 4 (7.69%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.85%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.92%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.92%) Cloudflare
9 1 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (40.38%) Firewall
2 15 (28.85%) DNS
3 12 (23.08%) VPN
4 9 (17.31%) DHCP
5 5 (9.62%) WAN
6 4 (7.69%) SD-WAN
7 2 (3.85%) LAN
8 1 (1.92%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (1.92%) IPv4
8 1 (1.92%) NAS
8 1 (1.92%) NetScaler
8 1 (1.92%) Network Security
8 1 (1.92%) SAN
8 1 (1.92%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.92%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.69%) Data Lake
1 4 (7.69%) MySQL
1 4 (7.69%) Power BI
1 4 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Git
1 4 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.92%) JIRA
General
1 35 (67.31%) Social Skills
2 12 (23.08%) Finance
3 7 (13.46%) Banking
4 1 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (28.85%) Lead
1 15 (28.85%) Lead Systems Engineer
1 15 (28.85%) Systems Engineer
2 7 (13.46%) Cloud Engineer
2 7 (13.46%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 7 (13.46%) Security Engineer
3 6 (11.54%) Technical Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) 2nd Line Support
4 5 (9.62%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Architect
5 4 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
5 4 (7.69%) Support Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Technical Support
5 4 (7.69%) Technical Support Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Administrator
6 3 (5.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Systems Administrator
7 1 (1.92%) IT Administrator
7 1 (1.92%) IT Systems Administrator
7 1 (1.92%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.62%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.92%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 16 (30.77%) Management Information System
2 9 (17.31%) Cloud Native
3 8 (15.38%) Public Cloud
4 7 (13.46%) Product Ownership
4 7 (13.46%) Security Posture
5 4 (7.69%) Data Centre
5 4 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (7.69%) NHS
6 3 (5.77%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (30.77%) Linux
1 16 (30.77%) Windows
2 11 (21.15%) Windows Server
3 7 (13.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.85%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.92%) Debian
5 1 (1.92%) Unix
5 1 (1.92%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 23 (44.23%) Agile
3 22 (42.31%) Containerisation
4 21 (40.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (36.54%) Microservices
6 18 (34.62%) DevOps
7 15 (28.85%) Business Case
7 15 (28.85%) Business Strategy
7 15 (28.85%) Data Analysis
7 15 (28.85%) Line Management
7 15 (28.85%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 15 (28.85%) Performance Management
7 15 (28.85%) Software Engineering
7 15 (28.85%) SOLID
7 15 (28.85%) SysML
7 15 (28.85%) Systems Engineering
7 15 (28.85%) Technology Roadmap
7 15 (28.85%) UML
8 13 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 11 (21.15%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 16 (30.77%) PowerShell
2 15 (28.85%) C
2 15 (28.85%) Java
3 8 (15.38%) SQL
4 4 (7.69%) Bicep
5 2 (3.85%) Bash
5 2 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (32.69%) Degree
2 15 (28.85%) HND
3 13 (25.00%) Azure Certification
4 4 (7.69%) DBS Check
5 2 (3.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.92%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.69%) GDPR
1 4 (7.69%) HIPAA
1 4 (7.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (32.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (23.08%) Active Directory
3 9 (17.31%) Hyper-V
4 7 (13.46%) vSphere
5 6 (11.54%) Docker
6 3 (5.77%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.92%) KVM
7 1 (1.92%) pfSense
7 1 (1.92%) RHEV
7 1 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.92%) XenApp
7 1 (1.92%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 17 (32.69%) Terraform
2 8 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 4 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (5.77%) Ansible
4 3 (5.77%) vCenter Server
5 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.85%) SCCM
6 1 (1.92%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 17 (32.69%) VMware
2 9 (17.31%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.69%) Databricks
3 4 (7.69%) Meraki
4 3 (5.77%) Veeam
5 2 (3.85%) Apple
6 1 (1.92%) Aruba
6 1 (1.92%) Cisco
6 1 (1.92%) Citrix
6 1 (1.92%) Commvault
6 1 (1.92%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.92%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.92%) Red Hat