Virtual Machines Jobs in the North West

Virtual Machine (VM)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 250 224 264
Rank change year-on-year -26 +40 -54
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 40 78 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.41% 0.97% 0.65%
As % of the System Software category 4.09% 6.49% 3.70%
Number of salaries quoted 40 14 27
10th Percentile £41,500 £35,125 £33,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +36.11% +18.42%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £57,100
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -9.09%

All System Software Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 979 1,201 1,649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 10.14% 14.96% 17.45%
Number of salaries quoted 846 828 1,101
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,420 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,579 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.37% -2.84% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -3.51% +3.64%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in the North West

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Virtual Machines in the North West

Virtual Machines
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in the North West over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Virtual Machines in the North West

Virtual Machines
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 Machines within the North West region over the 6 months to 24 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
Manchester +12 21 £57,500 -11.54% 2
Cheshire -6 7 £52,500 - 1
Cumbria -9 6 £51,250 - 1
Merseyside -20 4 £56,250 -2.17%
Lancashire -3 2 £57,500 +35.29%
Virtual Machines
England

Virtual Machines
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 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (92.50%) Azure
2 15 (37.50%) Power Platform
3 9 (22.50%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (17.50%) IaaS
4 7 (17.50%) PaaS
5 6 (15.00%) Entra ID
6 4 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (10.00%) SaaS
7 3 (7.50%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (7.50%) Power Automate
8 2 (5.00%) Azure App Service
8 2 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (5.00%) Matillion
8 2 (5.00%) Zapier
9 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.50%) Azure Functions
9 1 (2.50%) GCP
9 1 (2.50%) Google Compute Engine
9 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (30.00%) Broadband
2 5 (12.50%) DNS
3 3 (7.50%) DHCP
3 3 (7.50%) Internet
4 2 (5.00%) HTTP
5 1 (2.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (47.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 19 (47.50%) SQL Server
2 15 (37.50%) Power BI
3 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (5.00%) Tableau
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.50%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Git
General
1 24 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.00%) Finance
3 3 (7.50%) Electronics
3 3 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (7.50%) Retail
4 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Law
4 2 (5.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (30.00%) DBA
1 12 (30.00%) SQL DBA
2 7 (17.50%) Analyst
2 7 (17.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Technician
5 3 (7.50%) IT Support
5 3 (7.50%) IT Technician
5 3 (7.50%) Technical Support
6 2 (5.00%) Business Systems Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Lead
6 2 (5.00%) Systems Analyst
7 1 (2.50%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (2.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (2.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.00%) ARM Templates
2 2 (5.00%) .NET
2 2 (5.00%) JSON
2 2 (5.00%) JWT
2 2 (5.00%) REST
2 2 (5.00%) RESTful
2 2 (5.00%) SOAP
2 2 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (7.50%) EPoS
4 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (35.00%) Windows
2 12 (30.00%) VMS
3 7 (17.50%) Windows Server
4 4 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (7.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (45.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 15 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (35.00%) DevOps
4 13 (32.50%) High Availability
5 12 (30.00%) Collaborative Working
5 12 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
6 9 (22.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (15.00%) CI/CD
7 6 (15.00%) Cloud Operations
7 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
9 4 (10.00%) Business Strategy
9 4 (10.00%) Continuous Deployment
9 4 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (10.00%) ETL
9 4 (10.00%) Identity Management
9 4 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
9 4 (10.00%) Task Automation
9 4 (10.00%) Time Management
10 3 (7.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (47.50%) SQL
2 16 (40.00%) T-SQL
3 14 (35.00%) PowerShell
4 5 (12.50%) Bash
5 4 (10.00%) Bicep
6 3 (7.50%) Python
7 2 (5.00%) C#
7 2 (5.00%) VB.NET
8 1 (2.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (7.50%) DBS Check
2 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
2 3 (7.50%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (22.50%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 29 (72.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.50%) Salesforce
2 3 (7.50%) VMware
3 1 (2.50%) Google
3 1 (2.50%) Veeam