Microsoft Virtual Server Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Virtual Server
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Microsoft Virtual Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 511 539 527
Rank change year-on-year +28 -12 +198
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server 4 28 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.010% 0.075% 0.046%
As % of the System Software category 0.14% 0.62% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2 15 13
10th Percentile £42,075 £36,250 £28,940
25th Percentile £42,188 £38,250 £35,335
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £45,563 £53,125 £43,750
90th Percentile £45,825 £57,500 £73,500
UK median annual salary £43,750 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +17.65% -15.84%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

Microsoft Virtual Server 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,845 4,504 5,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.78% 12.03% 17.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,999 2,608 4,373
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £50,000 £47,557
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% +5.14% -1.94%
75th Percentile £60,750 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -0.90%

Microsoft Virtual Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microsoft Virtual Server relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Microsoft Virtual Server job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Virtual Server
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Microsoft Virtual Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Microsoft Virtual Server

Microsoft Virtual Server
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
East of England +17 3 £44,000 +17.33%
South East +25 1 £43,500 -13.00%
Microsoft Virtual Server
UK

Microsoft Virtual Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DHCP
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) LAN
1 3 (75.00%) WAN
1 3 (75.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (50.00%) IPsec
2 2 (50.00%) SSL
2 2 (50.00%) VLAN
3 1 (25.00%) SAN
3 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) IT Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Biopharmaceutical
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Antivirus Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Security Patching
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCNA
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) MCSE
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GxP
1 2 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Virtual Servers
2 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Aruba
3 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (25.00%) Veeam