Virtual Machines Jobs in the South West

Virtual Machine (VM)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 10 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 230 144
Rank change year-on-year +55 -86 +156
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 9 60 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.23% 0.59% 1.96%
As % of the System Software category 2.14% 5.01% 11.14%
Number of salaries quoted 7 47 13
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 -
25th Percentile £38,125 £40,625 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £46,750
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +17.65% +1.63%
75th Percentile £53,750 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £62,750 £67,000
England median annual salary £57,836 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.58% -4.17% +14.29%

All System Software Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 420 1,198 1,131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 10.74% 11.82% 17.58%
Number of salaries quoted 288 901 712
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,218 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,750 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £72,000
90th Percentile £93,778 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £49,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.04% -10.91% -

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in the South West

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Virtual Machines in the South West

Virtual Machines
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in the South West over the 6 months to 10 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Virtual Machines in the South West

Virtual Machines
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 10 July 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
Bristol +48 4 £47,500 -13.64% 6
Gloucestershire +52 2 £62,500 +8.70% 6
Dorset +43 2 £31,000 -46.09% 3
Wiltshire +32 1 £50,000 +17.65%
Virtual Machines
England

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (33.33%) IaaS
4 2 (22.22%) AWS
4 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Storage
5 1 (11.11%) Azure AI
5 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
5 1 (11.11%) Azure App Service
5 1 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Functions
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (11.11%) Nutanix
5 1 (11.11%) Power Automate
5 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 1 (11.11%) SaaS
5 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Firewall
2 3 (33.33%) NAS
2 3 (33.33%) SD-WAN
2 3 (33.33%) VPN
2 3 (33.33%) WAN
3 2 (22.22%) VLAN
3 2 (22.22%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (11.11%) DNS
4 1 (11.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
3 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (11.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) 1st/2nd Line Support
2 2 (22.22%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (22.22%) Administrator
2 2 (22.22%) IT Administrator
2 2 (22.22%) IT Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) IT Support
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Network Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Network Security Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Presales Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Product Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (11.11%) NHS
1 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
1 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
1 4 (44.44%) Windows Server
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
2 2 (22.22%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
2 2 (22.22%) Server Management
2 2 (22.22%) Service Desk Management
3 1 (11.11%) API Management
3 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (11.11%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (11.11%) Data Integration
3 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
3 1 (11.11%) People Management
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (11.11%) Presales
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (11.11%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (11.11%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) Bicep
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) DBS Check
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (11.11%) Docker
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) PaperCut
3 1 (11.11%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (11.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (55.56%) VMware
3 2 (22.22%) Aruba
3 2 (22.22%) Cisco
3 2 (22.22%) Datto
4 1 (11.11%) Databricks
4 1 (11.11%) Google
4 1 (11.11%) Meraki
4 1 (11.11%) Veeam