Virtual Machines Job Trends in Stoke-on-Trent

Virtual Machine (VM)
Staffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent requiring Virtual Machines skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Stoke-on-Trent 0.72% - -
As % of the System Software category 11.54% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - -
75th Percentile £57,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Staffordshire median annual salary £55,000 - £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +71.43%

All System Software Skills
Stoke-on-Trent

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 Stoke-on-Trent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 26 17 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 6.28% 15.74% 29.57%
Number of salaries quoted 22 14 55
10th Percentile - - £23,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,433 £35,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% - -
75th Percentile £56,563 £39,000 £50,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £40,550 £57,500
Staffordshire median annual salary £47,500 £39,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year +20.25% +12.86% -12.50%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Virtual Machines relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent.

Virtual Machines job vacancy trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Virtual Machines.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Virtual Machines

Virtual Machines
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent 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 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) IaaS
3 1 (33.33%) PaaS
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Wireless
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Local Government
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Junior
2 1 (33.33%) Junior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Junior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Digital Strategy
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Aruba
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) Meraki
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) VMware