Virtual Machines Jobs in Reading

Virtual Machine (VM)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Virtual Machines skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Machines over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 104 95
Rank change year-on-year +46 -9 +1
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 6 22 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 1.16% 1.27% 2.37%
As % of the System Software category 5.83% 8.03% 13.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1 22 8
10th Percentile - £54,125 £60,675
25th Percentile £62,500 - £72,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £59,000 £73,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% -19.73% -5.16%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £117,500
90th Percentile - £68,750 -
Berkshire median annual salary £50,000 £59,000 £73,500
% change year-on-year -15.25% -19.73% -5.16%

All System Software Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 103 274 283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 19.96% 15.81% 18.13%
Number of salaries quoted 52 214 130
10th Percentile £34,000 £27,750 £23,500
25th Percentile £42,188 £34,000 £26,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £52,550 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +26.07% -2.23% +6.44%
75th Percentile £83,750 £59,000 £74,250
90th Percentile £111,750 £78,375 £83,875
Berkshire median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +27.27% +10.00% -

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Virtual Machines as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in Reading

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend in Reading

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Virtual Machines in Reading.

Salary trend for Virtual Machines in Reading

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (16.67%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 4 (66.67%) AWS KMS
2 4 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (66.67%) Serverless
2 4 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
4 1 (16.67%) Azure AI
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (16.67%) IaaS
4 1 (16.67%) PaaS
4 1 (16.67%) Power Automate
4 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) SSL
3 2 (33.33%) DNS
4 1 (16.67%) DHCP
4 1 (16.67%) iSCSI
4 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
4 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (16.67%) VLAN
4 1 (16.67%) VPN
4 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Ubuntu
3 1 (16.67%) Unix
3 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Capacity Management
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Key Management
2 4 (66.67%) Patch Management
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) Service Management
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) B2B
4 1 (16.67%) Change Control
4 1 (16.67%) Data Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Project Management
4 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) TOGAF
4 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
4 1 (16.67%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
1 4 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) Bicep
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (16.67%) DBS Check
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) VCAP
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
1 4 (66.67%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (16.67%) NFS
2 1 (16.67%) vCloud
2 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Ansible
1 4 (66.67%) Nessus
1 4 (66.67%) Proxmox
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) PowerCLI
2 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (16.67%) vCenter Server
2 1 (16.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Juniper
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Meraki
2 1 (16.67%) VMware