Virtualisation Engineer Job Trends in the North of England

Virtualization Engineer
England > North of England

The median Virtualization Engineer salary in the North of England is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 March 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 - 354
Rank change year-on-year - - +90
Permanent jobs requiring a Virtualisation Engineer 4 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.029% - 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% - 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £42,750 - -
25th Percentile £45,000 - £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.50%
75th Percentile £57,500 - £47,500
90th Percentile £58,250 - -
England median annual salary £47,500 £74,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -35.81% +48.00% -18.37%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 12,668 6,422 13,832
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.48% 92.78% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7,895 3,606 11,251
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £79,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.69%

Virtualisation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Virtualisation Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Virtualisation Engineer job vacancy trend in the North of England

Virtualisation Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for Virtualisation Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Salary distribution trend for Virtualisation Engineer job vacancies in the North of England

Virtualisation Engineer
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 Virtualisation Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 10 March 2026. 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 - 2 £47,500 -
Yorkshire - 2 £57,500 - 2
Virtualisation Engineer
England

Virtualisation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 10 March 2026, Virtualisation Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region featuring Virtualisation Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
2 2 (50.00%) DHCP
2 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (50.00%) vSphere
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) CentOS
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Commvault
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) CoreOS
3 1 (25.00%) Data Centre Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention

Virtualisation Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (25.00%) IIS
1 1 (25.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Nutanix
3 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DHCP
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) LAN
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) NAS
2 1 (25.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) CentOS
2 1 (25.00%) CoreOS
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre Operations
2 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Server Management
2 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Storage Virtualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Time Management
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) vSphere
3 1 (25.00%) Docker
3 1 (25.00%) KVM
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) McAfee ePO
1 1 (25.00%) PowerCLI
1 1 (25.00%) SCVMM
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
1 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (25.00%) VxRail
1 1 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Commvault
2 1 (25.00%) Dell
2 1 (25.00%) F5
2 1 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) McAfee
2 1 (25.00%) Meraki
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) Tenable
2 1 (25.00%) Veeam
2 1 (25.00%) Zerto