Virtual Machines Jobs in the South East

Virtual Machine (VM)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 255 274 212
Rank change year-on-year +19 -62 +149
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 57 126 203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.59% 0.72% 1.45%
As % of the System Software category 6.28% 5.26% 8.63%
Number of salaries quoted 34 106 45
10th Percentile £45,625 £45,750 £33,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £73,125 £68,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £83,625 £78,750 £91,250
England median annual salary £57,836 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.58% -4.17% +17.07%

All System Software Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 908 2,394 2,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 9.42% 13.65% 16.75%
Number of salaries quoted 592 1,897 1,591
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £48,850
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.76% -2.30%
75th Percentile £73,750 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -

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 30 May 2025.

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 30 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 +20 23 £55,000 -12.00% 4
Thames Valley +53 12 £57,500 -2.54% 29
Berkshire +25 11 £57,500 -2.54% 23
Hampshire +49 10 £58,750 -6.00% 7
Middlesex -10 9 - -
East Sussex +18 2 £27,500 -63.33% 2
Oxfordshire +34 1 - - 2
Kent +28 1 £40,000 -38.46% 6
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 2 (3.51%) Apache
1 2 (3.51%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.75%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (7.02%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 31 (54.39%) Azure
2 19 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 16 (28.07%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (21.05%) AWS
5 10 (17.54%) Azure Key Vault
5 10 (17.54%) Azure Monitor
6 7 (12.28%) GitHub
6 7 (12.28%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (10.53%) Amazon S3
7 6 (10.53%) IaaS
7 6 (10.53%) PaaS
7 6 (10.53%) SaaS
8 5 (8.77%) Power Platform
9 4 (7.02%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (7.02%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 4 (7.02%) AWS KMS
9 4 (7.02%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 4 (7.02%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (7.02%) Power Automate
9 4 (7.02%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (36.84%) Firewall
2 14 (24.56%) DNS
3 11 (19.30%) VPN
4 7 (12.28%) WAN
5 4 (7.02%) DHCP
5 4 (7.02%) SD-WAN
5 4 (7.02%) SSL
6 3 (5.26%) LAN
7 2 (3.51%) TCP/IP
7 2 (3.51%) VLAN
8 1 (1.75%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (1.75%) IPsec
8 1 (1.75%) iSCSI
8 1 (1.75%) SAN
8 1 (1.75%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.28%) SQL Server
2 6 (10.53%) Data Lake
2 6 (10.53%) Relational Database
3 5 (8.77%) Power BI
4 4 (7.02%) MySQL
5 2 (3.51%) Apache Hive
5 2 (3.51%) Big Data
5 2 (3.51%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.51%) Bigtable
5 2 (3.51%) Hadoop
5 2 (3.51%) HBase
5 2 (3.51%) Impala
5 2 (3.51%) Metadata
5 2 (3.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (17.54%) Git
2 4 (7.02%) Bitbucket Server
2 4 (7.02%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.75%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (12.28%) Finance
1 7 (12.28%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.53%) Manufacturing
3 5 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.51%) Law
5 1 (1.75%) Banking
5 1 (1.75%) Legal
5 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (29.82%) Vulnerability Manager
2 13 (22.81%) Senior
3 7 (12.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (10.53%) Architect
4 6 (10.53%) Automation Engineer
4 6 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (10.53%) Principal Engineer
4 6 (10.53%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (5.26%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Security Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) VMware Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Junior
8 2 (3.51%) Junior Network Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.51%) Technical Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Technical Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.53%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (42.11%) Data Centre
2 6 (10.53%) Life Science
2 6 (10.53%) Operational Technology
2 6 (10.53%) SCADA
3 4 (7.02%) NHS
4 2 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.51%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (19.30%) Windows
2 6 (10.53%) Apple iOS
3 5 (8.77%) Linux
4 4 (7.02%) Ubuntu
4 4 (7.02%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.51%) VMS
6 1 (1.75%) Unix
6 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (36.84%) DevOps
2 20 (35.09%) Cybersecurity
3 18 (31.58%) Incident Response
3 18 (31.58%) Roadmaps
4 17 (29.82%) Continuous Improvement
4 17 (29.82%) Vulnerability Management
5 14 (24.56%) Agile
5 14 (24.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (24.56%) Mentoring
6 13 (22.81%) CI/CD
7 12 (21.05%) Analytics
7 12 (21.05%) Migration
8 11 (19.30%) ITIL
8 11 (19.30%) Service Management
9 10 (17.54%) Disaster Recovery
9 10 (17.54%) Log Analytics
10 8 (14.04%) High Availability
10 8 (14.04%) Infrastructure Automation
10 8 (14.04%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (12.28%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (42.11%) Python
2 17 (29.82%) PowerShell
2 17 (29.82%) SQL
3 10 (17.54%) Bicep
4 6 (10.53%) C#
5 4 (7.02%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.51%) Java
6 2 (3.51%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (21.05%) Azure Certification
2 8 (14.04%) Degree
3 7 (12.28%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (10.53%) Security Cleared
5 4 (7.02%) DBS Check
5 4 (7.02%) SC Cleared
6 2 (3.51%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.75%) CCNA
7 1 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.75%) CISSP
7 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.75%) VCAP
7 1 (1.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (10.53%) GDPR
3 2 (3.51%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.51%) Data Quality
System Software
1 18 (31.58%) Active Directory
2 10 (17.54%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (10.53%) Docker
5 2 (3.51%) HDFS
5 2 (3.51%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.51%) vSphere
6 1 (1.75%) NFS
6 1 (1.75%) vCloud
6 1 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.75%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 7 (12.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (10.53%) Terraform
3 4 (7.02%) Ansible
3 4 (7.02%) Nessus
3 4 (7.02%) Proxmox
3 4 (7.02%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (7.02%) vCenter Server
4 3 (5.26%) Kubernetes
4 3 (5.26%) WSUS
5 2 (3.51%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (1.75%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.75%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.75%) vRealize
Vendors
1 32 (56.14%) Microsoft
2 17 (29.82%) Qualys
2 17 (29.82%) Tenable
3 10 (17.54%) Databricks
4 9 (15.79%) VMware
5 7 (12.28%) Citrix
6 6 (10.53%) Apple
6 6 (10.53%) Atlassian
6 6 (10.53%) Rockwell
6 6 (10.53%) Siemens
7 5 (8.77%) Juniper
8 4 (7.02%) Cisco
8 4 (7.02%) Meraki
9 2 (3.51%) Cloudera
9 2 (3.51%) Dataiku
9 2 (3.51%) Google
9 2 (3.51%) MapR
10 1 (1.75%) Aruba
10 1 (1.75%) Ivanti
10 1 (1.75%) SolarWinds