Virtual Machines Job Trends in Surrey

Virtual Machine (VM)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Virtual Machines skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 77 119
Rank change year-on-year -33 +42 -4
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 1 23 36
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 0.049% 2.24% 1.49%
As % of the System Software category 0.81% 14.11% 13.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1 23 30
10th Percentile - - £45,250
25th Percentile £27,750 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -48.18% -12.00% -21.88%
75th Percentile £29,250 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile - £77,500 £65,250
South East median annual salary £112,500 £55,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year +104.55% -7.56% +3.48%

All System Software Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 123 163 272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 5.99% 15.90% 11.29%
Number of salaries quoted 94 135 196
10th Percentile £27,225 £29,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.59% -15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £65,125 £77,500 £73,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £53,750 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.33% +13.16% -

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Virtual Machines job vacancy trend in Surrey

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Virtual Machines.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Virtual Machines

Virtual Machines
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) 1st Line Support
1 1 (100.00%) 1st Line Support Technician
1 1 (100.00%) Support Technician
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware