Virtual Machines Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Virtual Machine (VM)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Virtual Machines skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 - 107
Rank change year-on-year - - -5
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 1 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 0.083% - 0.30%
As % of the System Software category 1.47% - 2.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41,250 - £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 - £61,250
Median % change year-on-year - - +44.12%
75th Percentile £43,750 - £67,500
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £112,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +104.55% -8.33% +11.11%

All System Software Skills
Oxfordshire

Virtual Machines falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in Oxfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 68 56 194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 5.64% 9.05% 11.53%
Number of salaries quoted 58 49 187
10th Percentile £27,175 £25,750 £25,926
25th Percentile £31,000 £28,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £45,000 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £54,375
90th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £69,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +18.28% -2.11%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Virtual Machines relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Virtual Machines job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Virtual Machines.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Virtual Machines

Virtual Machines
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Machines within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Abingdon - 1 £42,500 - 1
Virtual Machines
South East

Virtual Machines
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft