Virtual Environments Jobs in the South East

Virtual Environments
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Virtual Environments skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Environments over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 365 375
Rank change year-on-year +106 +10 +101
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Environments 40 30 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.42% 0.18% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.21% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 29 14 11
10th Percentile £35,500 - £22,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £26,250 £23,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,000 £25,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +48.00% -41.18%
75th Percentile £51,250 £41,750 £38,315
90th Percentile £58,750 £47,500 £53,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,250 £41,856
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.45% -1.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Virtual Environments falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,656 14,162 13,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.84% 84.47% 94.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4,247 9,859 7,922
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Virtual Environments
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Virtual Environments as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Environments in the South East

Virtual Environments
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Virtual Environments in the South East.

Salary trend for Virtual Environments in the South East

Virtual Environments
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Environments in the South East over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Virtual Environments in the South East

Virtual Environments
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Environments within the South East region over the 6 months to 15 May 2025. 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
Surrey +75 22 £40,000 -25.23% 8
Hampshire +67 10 £57,500 +64.29% 1
Thames Valley +53 7 £45,000 - 6
Berkshire +36 4 - - 4
Oxfordshire +34 2 £45,000 - 3
Buckinghamshire +32 1 - -
Middlesex - 1 - -
Virtual Environments
England

Virtual Environments
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 15 (37.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.00%) Azure
2 6 (15.00%) AWS
3 2 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.00%) PaaS
3 2 (5.00%) SaaS
4 1 (2.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 21 (52.50%) NAS
1 21 (52.50%) SAN
2 6 (15.00%) DHCP
2 6 (15.00%) DNS
2 6 (15.00%) VSAN
3 4 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (7.50%) Firewall
5 2 (5.00%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (5.00%) IP Telephony
5 2 (5.00%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (5.00%) SD-WAN
5 2 (5.00%) SNMP
5 2 (5.00%) TCP/IP
5 2 (5.00%) WAN
6 1 (2.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
General
1 10 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.00%) Finance
3 6 (15.00%) Games
4 4 (10.00%) Legal
4 4 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (7.50%) Aerospace
5 3 (7.50%) Automotive
5 3 (7.50%) Electronics
5 3 (7.50%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.00%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.50%) Banking
7 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.50%) Law
7 1 (2.50%) Marketing
7 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (52.50%) Support Engineer
2 19 (47.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 15 (37.50%) Infrastructure Support
3 15 (37.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 15 (37.50%) IT Engineer
4 11 (27.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (25.00%) IT Support
5 10 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
6 7 (17.50%) VMware Engineer
7 6 (15.00%) Support Specialist
7 6 (15.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 6 (15.00%) Virtualisation Specialist
7 6 (15.00%) VMware Specialist
7 6 (15.00%) VMware Support Engineer
8 4 (10.00%) Project Manager
9 3 (7.50%) 1st Line Support
10 2 (5.00%) Developer
10 2 (5.00%) IT Manager
10 2 (5.00%) Operations Manager
10 2 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 17 (42.50%) Clustering
2 3 (7.50%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (7.50%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (5.00%) Blackberry
3 2 (5.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (5.00%) Social Media
4 1 (2.50%) Derivative
4 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 32 (80.00%) Windows
2 15 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 7 (17.50%) Linux
3 7 (17.50%) Windows 10
4 6 (15.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (5.00%) Android
5 2 (5.00%) Apple iOS
5 2 (5.00%) Mac OS
5 2 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (50.00%) High Availability
2 19 (47.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (47.50%) Kalman Filter
3 15 (37.50%) Computer Science
4 14 (35.00%) Patch Management
5 13 (32.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 12 (30.00%) Web Filtering
7 11 (27.50%) Antivirus Management
7 11 (27.50%) Change Control
7 11 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (22.50%) Server Building
9 8 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (20.00%) IT Strategy
10 7 (17.50%) Mobile Device Management
10 7 (17.50%) Virtual Infrastructure
11 6 (15.00%) Configuration Management
11 6 (15.00%) Incident Management
11 6 (15.00%) Security Hardening
11 6 (15.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (52.50%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.00%) Bash
2 2 (5.00%) C#
3 1 (2.50%) Java
3 1 (2.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (47.50%) Degree
2 18 (45.00%) Security Cleared
3 14 (35.00%) DV Cleared
4 11 (27.50%) HND
5 6 (15.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
7 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (2.50%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 27 (67.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (57.50%) Active Directory
3 9 (22.50%) Docker
4 8 (20.00%) Hyper-V
4 8 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (15.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (17.50%) Kubernetes
2 6 (15.00%) Ansible
2 6 (15.00%) PowerCLI
2 6 (15.00%) Puppet
2 6 (15.00%) vCenter Server
2 6 (15.00%) vMotion
2 6 (15.00%) vRealize
3 2 (5.00%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 31 (77.50%) Microsoft
2 27 (67.50%) VMware
3 11 (27.50%) Veeam
4 6 (15.00%) Citrix
4 6 (15.00%) HP
5 2 (5.00%) Aruba
5 2 (5.00%) BT
5 2 (5.00%) Cisco
5 2 (5.00%) Facebook
5 2 (5.00%) McAfee
5 2 (5.00%) Meraki
5 2 (5.00%) Ruckus Wireless
6 1 (2.50%) Mitel
6 1 (2.50%) Sophos