Virtual Servers Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Virtual Servers
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Virtual Servers skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 193 -
Rank change year-on-year +22 - -
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Servers 8 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.21% 0.049% -
As % of the System Software category 2.59% 0.33% -
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 - -
75th Percentile £44,250 - -
90th Percentile £48,600 - -
South East median annual salary £43,500 £50,000 £43,750
% change year-on-year -13.00% +14.29% -5.41%

All System Software Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 309 598 606
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.09% 14.71% 18.62%
Number of salaries quoted 200 378 508
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,350 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,875 £44,313 £34,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £59,125 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -29.81% +12.62% +9.38%
75th Percentile £62,500 £77,500 £72,813
90th Percentile £77,500 £93,750 £85,375
South East median annual salary £40,250 £56,252 £48,000
% change year-on-year -28.45% +17.19% -4.00%

Virtual Servers
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Virtual Servers job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Virtual Servers
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Virtual Servers.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Virtual Servers

Virtual Servers
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Servers in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Virtual Servers in the Thames Valley

Virtual Servers
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 Servers within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 5 December 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 +11 5 £40,500 -
Oxfordshire - 3 £43,500 -
Virtual Servers
South East

Virtual Servers
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) DHCP
1 4 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (25.00%) SAN
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
3 1 (12.50%) WAN
General
1 3 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Analyst
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) IT Analyst
1 4 (50.00%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (87.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (87.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (50.00%) BCP
2 4 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 4 (50.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 4 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Security Patching
4 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 1 (12.50%) Proactive Maintenance
4 1 (12.50%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) CCNA
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) HND
1 1 (12.50%) MCP
1 1 (12.50%) MCSA
1 1 (12.50%) MCSE
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 2 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
4 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (37.50%) VMware