Virtual Machines Job Trends in Reading

Virtual Machine (VM)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Virtual Machines skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 70 78
Rank change year-on-year +23 +8 +39
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 3 5 25
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 0.52% 0.68% 2.31%
As % of the System Software category 9.38% 3.79% 10.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 25
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £56,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +10.17% -12.59%
75th Percentile £58,750 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile - - £74,250
Berkshire median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% -15.25% -12.59%

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 32 132 230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 5.54% 18.08% 21.30%
Number of salaries quoted 6 69 174
10th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £53,688 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £63,125 £92,500 £68,438
90th Percentile £68,750 £112,500 £82,500
Berkshire median annual salary £33,500 £70,000 £56,525
% change year-on-year -52.14% +23.84% -1.70%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Virtual Machines job vacancy trend in Reading

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Virtual Machines.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Virtual Machines

Virtual Machines
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Asset Management
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (66.67%) IT Asset Management
1 2 (66.67%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (66.67%) RBAC
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Proactive Maintenance
2 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) HND
2 1 (33.33%) MCP
2 1 (33.33%) MCSA
2 1 (33.33%) MCSE
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft