Virtualisation Engineer Job Trends in the North West

Virtualization Engineer
England > North West

As of 18 October 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Virtualization Engineer salary in the North West.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 220 237 -
Rank change year-on-year +17 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Virtualisation Engineer 1 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.021% 0.028% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.030% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £44,274 -
England median annual salary £57,500 £73,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -21.23% +46.00% -16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 4,274 6,767 4,079
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.91% 95.26% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,296 3,820 3,134
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £34,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,550 £82,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.09% -4.17% -

Virtualisation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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 West.

Virtualisation Engineer job vacancy trend in the North West

Virtualisation Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary distribution trend for Virtualisation Engineer job vacancies in the North West

Virtualisation Engineer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 18 October 2025, 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 West region featuring Virtualisation Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OpenStack
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere

Virtualisation Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (100.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) VMware