Virtual Servers Job Trends in the South West

Virtual Servers
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Virtual Servers skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 174 203
Rank change year-on-year -7 +29 +71
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Servers 1 19 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.020% 0.44% 0.34%
As % of the System Software category 0.23% 2.93% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1 10 4
10th Percentile - £32,375 -
25th Percentile £40,000 £51,361 £27,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £84,000 £35,033
Median % change year-on-year -46.43% +139.77% +16.78%
75th Percentile £50,000 £86,000 £42,625
90th Percentile - £86,775 £42,850
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 West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 441 649 912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 8.78% 15.13% 20.53%
Number of salaries quoted 305 362 735
10th Percentile £26,050 £27,825 £28,116
25th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.14% +2.08%
75th Percentile £60,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,350 £77,500
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 West

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

Virtual Servers job vacancy trend in the South West

Virtual Servers
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Virtual Servers
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 Servers within the South West region over the 6 months to 3 January 2026. 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
Gloucestershire +22 1 £45,000 -15.72%
Virtual Servers
England

Virtual Servers
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Support
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) A+ Certification
1 1 (100.00%) MCP
1 1 (100.00%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft