Virtual Machines Jobs in the North of England

Virtual Machine (VM)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Virtual Machines skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Machines over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 306 258 335
Rank change year-on-year -48 +77 -52
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 90 186 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.52% 1.07% 0.62%
As % of the System Software category 4.57% 7.58% 3.34%
Number of salaries quoted 84 60 48
10th Percentile £26,750 £32,200 £32,125
25th Percentile £35,438 £38,999 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £56,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +25.00% +18.42%
75th Percentile £61,250 £71,350 £51,250
90th Percentile £62,500 £109,865 £62,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +15.00% -9.09%

All System Software Skills
North of England

Virtual Machines is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,969 2,453 3,328
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 11.41% 14.07% 18.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,675 1,629 2,415
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £29,750 £33,750 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% -6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £67,070 £66,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% +1.82%

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 28 April 2024.

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 28 April 2024. 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 -30 40 £57,500 -6.12% 6
Yorkshire +38 38 £40,000 -15.79% 6
North East +1 12 £55,000 -4.35%
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 18 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (18.89%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.22%) Resin
Applications
1 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 72 (80.00%) Azure
2 31 (34.44%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (26.67%) Power Platform
4 16 (17.78%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (13.33%) Entra ID
6 9 (10.00%) SaaS
7 7 (7.78%) Azure Key Vault
7 7 (7.78%) IaaS
7 7 (7.78%) PaaS
8 5 (5.56%) AWS
8 5 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (5.56%) Serverless
9 4 (4.44%) Azure App Service
9 4 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (4.44%) Matillion
10 3 (3.33%) Power Automate
11 2 (2.22%) Azure Functions
11 2 (2.22%) GitHub
11 2 (2.22%) Google Compute Engine
11 2 (2.22%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 21 (23.33%) Broadband
2 15 (16.67%) DNS
3 10 (11.11%) Firewall
3 10 (11.11%) VPN
4 9 (10.00%) DHCP
5 8 (8.89%) WAN
6 7 (7.78%) NetScaler
6 7 (7.78%) Network Security
6 7 (7.78%) Wireless
7 6 (6.67%) LAN
7 6 (6.67%) SAN
7 6 (6.67%) VLAN
8 4 (4.44%) HTTP
9 3 (3.33%) Internet
10 1 (1.11%) iSCSI
10 1 (1.11%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (36.67%) SQL Server
2 28 (31.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 24 (26.67%) Power BI
4 7 (7.78%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.22%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (4.44%) Git
General
1 60 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 21 (23.33%) Finance
3 5 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (4.44%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.33%) Banking
5 3 (3.33%) Electronics
5 3 (3.33%) Law
5 3 (3.33%) Retail
6 2 (2.22%) Games
6 2 (2.22%) Legal
7 1 (1.11%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 21 (23.33%) DBA
1 21 (23.33%) SQL DBA
2 13 (14.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (8.89%) IT Technician
5 7 (7.78%) Analyst
5 7 (7.78%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (7.78%) IT Support
6 6 (6.67%) IT Manager
6 6 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 5 (5.56%) Lead
8 4 (4.44%) Architect
8 4 (4.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) IT Support Technician
8 4 (4.44%) Support Technician
9 3 (3.33%) 2nd Line Support
9 3 (3.33%) Infrastructure Technician
9 3 (3.33%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.44%) ARM Templates
1 4 (4.44%) JWT
1 4 (4.44%) RESTful
2 2 (2.22%) .NET
2 2 (2.22%) ADO
2 2 (2.22%) JSON
2 2 (2.22%) REST
2 2 (2.22%) SOAP
2 2 (2.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (6.67%) Cyberattack
3 5 (5.56%) Clustering
3 5 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.33%) EPoS
5 2 (2.22%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.11%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (45.56%) Windows
2 24 (26.67%) Windows Server
3 21 (23.33%) VMS
4 17 (18.89%) Windows Server 2019
5 11 (12.22%) Windows Server 2012
6 10 (11.11%) Windows 10
7 8 (8.89%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (6.67%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (3.33%) Android
10 2 (2.22%) Apple iOS
10 2 (2.22%) Linux
10 2 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (40.00%) High Availability
2 33 (36.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 30 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
4 24 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
5 23 (25.56%) DevOps
6 22 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (23.33%) Performance Tuning
8 18 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 13 (14.44%) CI/CD
9 13 (14.44%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (12.22%) Customer Experience
10 11 (12.22%) Customer Service
11 10 (11.11%) ITIL
11 10 (11.11%) Time Management
12 8 (8.89%) ERP
12 8 (8.89%) Network Virtualisation
13 6 (6.67%) Budget Management
13 6 (6.67%) Cloud Operations
13 6 (6.67%) Platform Engineering
13 6 (6.67%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (40.00%) SQL
2 27 (30.00%) T-SQL
3 16 (17.78%) PowerShell
4 7 (7.78%) Bash
5 5 (5.56%) Bicep
6 3 (3.33%) Python
7 2 (2.22%) C#
7 2 (2.22%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (23.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (15.56%) Azure Certification
3 5 (5.56%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.33%) DBS Check
4 3 (3.33%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.67%) SLA
2 5 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 32 (35.56%) Active Directory
2 20 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (15.56%) Hyper-V
4 7 (7.78%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (7.78%) XenApp
5 6 (6.67%) XenDesktop
6 5 (5.56%) Firmware
7 3 (3.33%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (2.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (15.56%) Terraform
2 6 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (6.67%) SCCM
3 5 (5.56%) Failover Clustering
3 5 (5.56%) FortiGate
3 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 5 (5.56%) SCOM
4 3 (3.33%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.22%) Ansible
6 1 (1.11%) Istio
Vendors
1 64 (71.11%) Microsoft
2 20 (22.22%) VMware
3 13 (14.44%) Veeam
4 12 (13.33%) Citrix
5 11 (12.22%) Commvault
6 7 (7.78%) Cisco
7 6 (6.67%) Epicor
7 6 (6.67%) Fortinet
8 5 (5.56%) Aruba
8 5 (5.56%) Barracuda Networks
8 5 (5.56%) Kaseya
9 3 (3.33%) Apple
9 3 (3.33%) Google
9 3 (3.33%) Salesforce
10 2 (2.22%) Meraki
10 2 (2.22%) Red Hat
11 1 (1.11%) ScienceLogic
11 1 (1.11%) ServiceNow
11 1 (1.11%) Synology
11 1 (1.11%) Zerto