Virtual Infrastructure Job Trends in the North West

Virtual Infrastructure
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Virtual Infrastructure skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 235 246 220
Rank change year-on-year +11 -26 +105
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 3 1 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.058% 0.013% 0.064%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.065% 0.017% 0.067%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £82,550 - -
25th Percentile £82,625 £38,750 £38,039
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,500 £40,500 £39,744
Median % change year-on-year +111.11% +1.90% -21.69%
75th Percentile £88,625 £42,250 £56,975
90th Percentile £88,850 - £66,290
England median annual salary £58,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.87% -11.54% +39.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,613 6,042 4,451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 89.38% 77.57% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,205 3,527 3,239
10th Percentile £27,550 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,923
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,309 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% -8.53% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,375 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%

Virtual Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Infrastructure in the North West

Virtual Infrastructure
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Virtual Infrastructure

Virtual Infrastructure
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 13 September 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
Cheshire - 3 £85,500 - 1
Virtual Infrastructure
England

Virtual Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (66.67%) OpenStack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) HTTP
1 2 (66.67%) SSL
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) DPDK
1 2 (66.67%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (66.67%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) KVM
1 2 (66.67%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) SaltStack