SCVMM Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SCVMM skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 565 554
Rank change year-on-year +61 -11 +177
Permanent jobs citing SCVMM 5 1 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.012% 0.003% 0.055%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.22% 0.031% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 19
10th Percentile £50,000 - -
25th Percentile £51,875 £29,325 £24,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £31,050 £36,000
Median % change year-on-year +77.13% -13.75% -24.21%
75th Percentile £58,125 £32,775 £53,125
90th Percentile £59,250 - £56,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £45,525 £36,000
% change year-on-year +20.81% +26.46% -30.77%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

SCVMM falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,310 3,185 4,293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.45% 8.87% 12.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,607 1,811 3,430
10th Percentile £30,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £69,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.07% +6.92% -3.70%

SCVMM
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

SCVMM job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SCVMM
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SCVMM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SCVMM

SCVMM
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 SCVMM within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
South West - 5 £55,000 - 1
SCVMM
UK

SCVMM
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 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) AWS
3 3 (60.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) DHCP
1 4 (80.00%) DNS
1 4 (80.00%) VSAN
2 3 (60.00%) LAN
2 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (60.00%) WAN
3 1 (20.00%) NAS
3 1 (20.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Virtualisation Administrator
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 3 (60.00%) CentOS
3 3 (60.00%) Linux
3 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (20.00%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) RBAC
2 3 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Time Management
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) ITSM
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (60.00%) Bash
2 3 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) McAfee ePO
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) McAfee
1 4 (80.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds