Virtual Servers Job Trends in the South East

Virtual Servers
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Virtual Servers skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 270 293 260
Rank change year-on-year +23 -33 +135
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Servers 6 14 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.058% 0.15% 0.12%
As % of the System Software category 0.82% 1.06% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 6 7 5
10th Percentile £32,563 £46,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,250 £47,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +17.65% -22.73%
75th Percentile £49,125 £52,500 £47,500
90th Percentile £54,750 £58,500 £49,000
England median annual salary £100,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +100.00% +5.26% -12.04%

All System Software Skills
South East

Virtual Servers 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 730 1,324 1,359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.04% 14.26% 17.58%
Number of salaries quoted 509 761 1,151
10th Percentile £27,250 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.04% +15.00% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £83,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -

Virtual Servers
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Virtual Servers relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Virtual Servers job vacancy trend in the South East

Virtual Servers
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Virtual Servers.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Virtual Servers

Virtual Servers
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Servers in the South East over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Virtual Servers in the South East

Virtual Servers
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 Servers within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Thames Valley +17 4 £42,000 - 4
Berkshire +6 3 £40,500 - 4
Hampshire +37 2 £38,625 -22.75% 4
Oxfordshire - 1 £43,500 -
Virtual Servers
England

Virtual Servers
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) DHCP
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) SAN
3 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
3 1 (16.67%) WAN
General
1 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) IT Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) 1st Line Support
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (16.67%) Android
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) BCP
2 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity Planning
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Proactive Maintenance
3 1 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Security Patching
3 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) MCP
1 2 (33.33%) MCSE
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CCNA
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) HND
2 1 (16.67%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Apple
2 1 (16.67%) Mitel
2 1 (16.67%) Veeam