Virtualisation Engineer Jobs in the South East

Virtualization Engineer
England > South East

The median Virtualization Engineer salary in the South East is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 394 399
Rank change year-on-year +100 +5 +83
Permanent jobs requiring a Virtualisation Engineer 7 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.073% 0.012% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.084% 0.013% 0.008%
Number of salaries quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile £50,750 - -
25th Percentile £56,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - -
75th Percentile £58,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £53,688 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.31% -10.00% +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 8,340 15,877 12,897
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.91% 94.01% 90.32%
Number of salaries quoted 4,548 11,357 8,142
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,032 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +5.66% -12.83% +1.33%

Virtualisation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Virtualisation Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Virtualisation Engineer in the South East

Virtualisation Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Virtualisation Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for Virtualisation Engineer in the South East

Virtualisation Engineer
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 Virtualisation Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 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
Hampshire - 6 £57,500 -
Thames Valley +54 1 £45,000 -10.00%
Berkshire +23 1 £45,000 -10.00%
Virtualisation Engineer
England

Virtualisation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 19 May 2025, Virtualisation Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring Virtualisation Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) DNS
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 7 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 7 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 7 (100.00%) vSphere
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 7 (100.00%) vRealize
1 7 (100.00%) PowerCLI
1 7 (100.00%) VSAN
2 6 (85.71%) vCenter Server
2 6 (85.71%) Task Automation
2 6 (85.71%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 6 (85.71%) Virtual Environments
2 6 (85.71%) Incident Management
2 6 (85.71%) DV Cleared
2 6 (85.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (85.71%) DHCP
2 6 (85.71%) Hyper-V
2 6 (85.71%) NAS
2 6 (85.71%) Veeam
2 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 6 (85.71%) Puppet
2 6 (85.71%) VMware ESXi
2 6 (85.71%) High Availability

Virtualisation Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) DNS
1 7 (100.00%) VSAN
2 6 (85.71%) DHCP
2 6 (85.71%) NAS
2 6 (85.71%) SAN
General
1 6 (85.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Configuration Management
1 6 (85.71%) High Availability
1 6 (85.71%) Incident Management
1 6 (85.71%) Security Hardening
1 6 (85.71%) Task Automation
1 6 (85.71%) Virtual Environments
1 6 (85.71%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 6 (85.71%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) MCSA
3 1 (14.29%) MCSE
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 7 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 7 (100.00%) vSphere
2 6 (85.71%) Docker
2 6 (85.71%) Hyper-V
2 6 (85.71%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (14.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) PowerCLI
1 7 (100.00%) vRealize
2 6 (85.71%) Ansible
2 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 6 (85.71%) Puppet
2 6 (85.71%) vCenter Server
2 6 (85.71%) vMotion
3 1 (14.29%) VxRail
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (85.71%) Citrix
2 6 (85.71%) HP
2 6 (85.71%) Veeam
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) Dell
3 1 (14.29%) Juniper