Virtual Machines Jobs in the Thames Valley

Virtual Machine (VM)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 214 164
Rank change year-on-year +44 -50 +75
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 13 30 90
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.38% 0.45% 1.52%
As % of the System Software category 4.11% 3.05% 8.99%
Number of salaries quoted 7 29 19
10th Percentile - £53,750 £32,500
25th Percentile - - £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £59,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £90,000 £67,500 £74,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £68,750 £102,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £59,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.56% +3.48% +21.05%

All System Software Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 316 985 1,001
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.23% 14.72% 16.93%
Number of salaries quoted 214 789 636
10th Percentile £30,200 £28,900 £25,000
25th Percentile £38,375 £35,750 £30,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% -8.16%
75th Percentile £82,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,925 £85,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% - -5.00%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in the Thames Valley

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Virtual Machines in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Virtual Machines in the Thames Valley

Virtual Machines
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Virtual Machines in the Thames Valley

Virtual Machines
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Machines within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Berkshire +26 12 £50,000 -15.25% 8
Oxfordshire +32 1 - - 2
Virtual Machines
South East

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (7.69%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) Azure
2 7 (53.85%) AWS
3 4 (30.77%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (30.77%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 4 (30.77%) Amazon S3
3 4 (30.77%) AWS KMS
3 4 (30.77%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (30.77%) Entra ID
3 4 (30.77%) Serverless
3 4 (30.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (15.38%) Azure AI
4 2 (15.38%) Azure AKS
4 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (15.38%) Power Automate
4 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
4 2 (15.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (92.31%) Firewall
2 7 (53.85%) DNS
3 6 (46.15%) WAN
4 5 (38.46%) DHCP
5 4 (30.77%) LAN
5 4 (30.77%) SSL
6 2 (15.38%) SD-WAN
6 2 (15.38%) VPN
7 1 (7.69%) iSCSI
7 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
7 1 (7.69%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
1 2 (15.38%) MySQL
1 2 (15.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) Git
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Architect
2 4 (30.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Security Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
1 2 (15.38%) NHS
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
1 5 (38.46%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Ubuntu
2 4 (30.77%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (46.15%) Agile
2 6 (46.15%) DevOps
3 5 (38.46%) Change Control
4 4 (30.77%) Capacity Management
4 4 (30.77%) Customer Service
4 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (30.77%) Key Management
4 4 (30.77%) Patch Management
4 4 (30.77%) RBAC
5 3 (23.08%) ITIL
5 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) Service Management
6 2 (15.38%) Analytics
6 2 (15.38%) B2B
6 2 (15.38%) Migration
6 2 (15.38%) Project Management
6 2 (15.38%) TOGAF
6 2 (15.38%) Validation
6 2 (15.38%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Python
1 4 (30.77%) Shell Script
2 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
3 2 (15.38%) Bicep
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) Azure Certification
3 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
4 2 (15.38%) DBS Check
5 1 (7.69%) CISSP
5 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
5 1 (7.69%) VCAP
5 1 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 10 (76.92%) Active Directory
2 6 (46.15%) Docker
3 5 (38.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (30.77%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (7.69%) NFS
5 1 (7.69%) vCloud
5 1 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Terraform
2 5 (38.46%) vCenter Server
3 4 (30.77%) Ansible
3 4 (30.77%) Nessus
3 4 (30.77%) Proxmox
3 4 (30.77%) WSUS
4 2 (15.38%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
5 1 (7.69%) PowerCLI
5 1 (7.69%) vRealize
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) VMware
2 4 (30.77%) Cisco
2 4 (30.77%) Juniper
3 2 (15.38%) Databricks
3 2 (15.38%) Meraki