Virtual Machines Jobs in the South East

Virtual Machine (VM)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 262 230 340
Rank change year-on-year -32 +110 -49
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 125 189 143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.75% 1.26% 0.72%
As % of the System Software category 5.06% 7.76% 4.18%
Number of salaries quoted 106 50 57
10th Percentile £45,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £40,313 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £54,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% +13.68% -18.79%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,625 £81,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £91,250 -
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +15.00% -9.09%

All System Software Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,470 2,435 3,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 14.86% 16.24% 17.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,977 1,670 2,370
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,425
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,188 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% +1.82%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in the South East

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Virtual Machines in the South East

Virtual Machines
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in the South East over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Virtual Machines in the South East

Virtual Machines
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 Machines within the South East region over the 6 months to 28 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
Surrey -1 48 £62,500 -21.88%
Hampshire -4 38 £62,500 +30.21% 2
Thames Valley -28 31 £59,000 +2.61% 6
Berkshire +20 21 £59,000 +2.61% 4
East Sussex +27 11 £75,000 +76.47%
Oxfordshire +3 5 £61,250 +44.12% 1
Buckinghamshire -42 5 £65,000 +85.71% 1
Kent +3 4 £57,500 - 2
Middlesex -12 4 £42,500 -51.43% 1
Sussex - 1 - -
Virtual Machines
England

Virtual Machines
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 23 (18.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.80%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.80%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 95 (76.00%) Azure
2 34 (27.20%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (17.60%) IaaS
4 20 (16.00%) Azure Storage
5 19 (15.20%) AWS
5 19 (15.20%) Power Platform
6 18 (14.40%) Entra ID
7 17 (13.60%) Azure Monitor
8 16 (12.80%) GitHub
8 16 (12.80%) SaaS
9 15 (12.00%) Nutanix
10 7 (5.60%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (5.60%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (5.60%) Amazon S3
10 7 (5.60%) AWS Fargate
10 7 (5.60%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (5.60%) Azure AKS
10 7 (5.60%) Azure Functions
10 7 (5.60%) CloudFront
10 7 (5.60%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 47 (37.60%) DNS
2 46 (36.80%) Firewall
3 37 (29.60%) VPN
4 30 (24.00%) DHCP
5 16 (12.80%) 5G
5 16 (12.80%) Broadband
6 10 (8.00%) VLAN
7 7 (5.60%) SAN
8 6 (4.80%) IPv4
8 6 (4.80%) iSCSI
8 6 (4.80%) TCP/IP
9 4 (3.20%) Network Security
10 3 (2.40%) Unified Communications
11 1 (0.80%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.80%) WAN
11 1 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (21.60%) SQL Server
2 19 (15.20%) Azure SQL Database
2 19 (15.20%) Power BI
3 4 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.80%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.80%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (13.60%) Git
2 15 (12.00%) JIRA
3 10 (8.00%) Jenkins
3 10 (8.00%) Trac
4 5 (4.00%) eggPlant
General
1 48 (38.40%) Social Skills
2 23 (18.40%) Finance
3 21 (16.80%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (12.80%) Telecoms
5 7 (5.60%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (4.80%) Automotive
6 6 (4.80%) Games
7 5 (4.00%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.20%) Back Office
9 3 (2.40%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.80%) Law
10 1 (0.80%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (29.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 19 (15.20%) Senior
3 16 (12.80%) DBA
3 16 (12.80%) SQL DBA
4 15 (12.00%) Azure Specialist
4 15 (12.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 15 (12.00%) Support Specialist
5 14 (11.20%) Active Directory Specialist
5 14 (11.20%) Active Directory Support
6 13 (10.40%) Architect
6 13 (10.40%) Infrastructure Architect
7 11 (8.80%) Tester
8 9 (7.20%) Software Tester
9 7 (5.60%) Support Engineer
10 6 (4.80%) AWS DevOps
10 6 (4.80%) Infrastructure Support
10 6 (4.80%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 6 (4.80%) Lead
10 6 (4.80%) Network Engineer
11 5 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (14.40%) .NET
2 14 (11.20%) ARM Templates
3 3 (2.40%) Azure Blueprints
4 2 (1.60%) REST
5 1 (0.80%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.00%) IoT
2 14 (11.20%) PKI
2 14 (11.20%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (7.20%) Driving Licence
4 7 (5.60%) Replication
5 6 (4.80%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.80%) Mobile App
6 5 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.40%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.80%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.80%) CMDB
9 1 (0.80%) CUDA
9 1 (0.80%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.80%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.80%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.80%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.80%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.80%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 72 (57.60%) Windows
2 45 (36.00%) Windows Server
3 32 (25.60%) Linux
4 16 (12.80%) VMS
5 14 (11.20%) Windows Server 2016
5 14 (11.20%) Windows Server 2019
6 10 (8.00%) Unix
7 6 (4.80%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.80%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (42.40%) DevOps
2 37 (29.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 35 (28.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 35 (28.00%) ITIL
4 29 (23.20%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (19.20%) Agile
5 24 (19.20%) Validation
6 23 (18.40%) Network Virtualisation
7 21 (16.80%) Analytics
8 20 (16.00%) CI/CD
8 20 (16.00%) High Availability
9 19 (15.20%) Business Intelligence
9 19 (15.20%) Technical Leadership
10 18 (14.40%) Capacity Planning
10 18 (14.40%) Configuration Management
10 18 (14.40%) Identity Management
10 18 (14.40%) Release Management
11 17 (13.60%) Log Analytics
11 17 (13.60%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 16 (12.80%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 48 (38.40%) PowerShell
2 29 (23.20%) C#
3 25 (20.00%) Python
4 24 (19.20%) SQL
5 20 (16.00%) T-SQL
6 15 (12.00%) Bash
6 15 (12.00%) Perl
7 14 (11.20%) Bicep
7 14 (11.20%) VB
7 14 (11.20%) VBScript
8 7 (5.60%) Java
9 4 (3.20%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 31 (24.80%) Security Cleared
2 25 (20.00%) Degree
3 23 (18.40%) SC Cleared
4 19 (15.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (11.20%) DV Cleared
5 14 (11.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 7 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (4.80%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (4.80%) MCP
8 5 (4.00%) ISEB
8 5 (4.00%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.80%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.80%) CASP
9 1 (0.80%) CEH
9 1 (0.80%) CISM
9 1 (0.80%) CISSP
9 1 (0.80%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.80%) GIAC
9 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.80%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.00%) Data Quality
2 10 (8.00%) GDPR
3 5 (4.00%) QA
4 1 (0.80%) GRC
4 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.80%) NCSC
System Software
1 54 (43.20%) Active Directory
2 33 (26.40%) Hyper-V
3 20 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (12.80%) Docker
4 16 (12.80%) pfSense
5 15 (12.00%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (8.00%) NFS
7 3 (2.40%) Firmware
7 3 (2.40%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (2.40%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (2.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (17.60%) Kubernetes
2 20 (16.00%) SCCM
3 17 (13.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (12.80%) Grafana
4 16 (12.80%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 16 (12.80%) SCDPM
4 16 (12.80%) ZABBIX
5 14 (11.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 14 (11.20%) SCOM
5 14 (11.20%) WSUS
6 12 (9.60%) Ansible
7 3 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.40%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.60%) Terraform
9 1 (0.80%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.80%) IBM BigFix
Vendors
1 65 (52.00%) Microsoft
2 36 (28.80%) VMware
3 17 (13.60%) Fortinet
3 17 (13.60%) Juniper
4 13 (10.40%) Veeam
5 10 (8.00%) McAfee
6 8 (6.40%) Dell
7 6 (4.80%) Dell Compellent
7 6 (4.80%) ForgeRock
7 6 (4.80%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.80%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.80%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.80%) F5
8 1 (0.80%) Google
8 1 (0.80%) HP
8 1 (0.80%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.80%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.80%) Thales