Virtual Machines Job Trends in Swansea

Virtual Machine (VM)
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Swansea requiring Virtual Machines skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 - 30
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 3 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Swansea 1.10% - 1.21%
As % of the System Software category 27.27% - 33.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £37,400 - -
25th Percentile £38,375 - £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 - £44,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +35.38%
75th Percentile £40,125 - £47,000
90th Percentile £40,200 - -
West Wales median annual salary £40,000 - £41,000
% change year-on-year - - +26.15%

All System Software Skills
Swansea

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 Swansea.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 11 1 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swansea 4.04% 1.96% 3.64%
Number of salaries quoted 11 1 6
10th Percentile £40,000 - £41,000
25th Percentile £43,965 £44,956 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,619 £49,104 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.12% -1.79% +27.05%
75th Percentile £76,201 £53,252 £57,500
90th Percentile - - -
West Wales median annual salary £48,310 £49,104 £44,500
% change year-on-year -1.62% +10.35% +13.07%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

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

Virtual Machines job vacancy trend in Swansea

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend in Swansea

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing Virtual Machines.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing Virtual Machines

Virtual Machines
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea 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 3 (100.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Software Deployment
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python