Server Virtualisation Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Server Virtualization
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Server Virtualisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 520 556 537
Rank change year-on-year +36 -19 +205
Permanent jobs citing Server Virtualisation 3 23 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.007% 0.062% 0.036%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.009% 0.070% 0.039%
Number of salaries quoted 3 15 11
10th Percentile £30,450 £36,235 £35,000
25th Percentile £32,625 £37,544 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £41,234
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -2.99% +1.19%
75th Percentile £48,125 £51,125 £43,875
90th Percentile £53,750 £64,250 £44,000
UK median annual salary £46,250 £40,000 £40,617
% change year-on-year +15.63% -1.52% -22.63%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Server Virtualisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,518 32,882 27,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.71% 88.16% 90.59%
Number of salaries quoted 19,196 15,153 20,782
10th Percentile £27,707 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -3.83%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,700 £80,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Server Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Server Virtualisation job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Server Virtualisation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Server Virtualisation
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Server Virtualisation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Server Virtualisation in the UK excluding London

Server Virtualisation
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 Server Virtualisation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
Midlands +24 1 £55,000 +47.30% 4
North of England +16 1 £30,000 -51.22% 2
Yorkshire +2 1 £30,000 -51.22% 1
East Midlands - 1 £55,000 - 4
Scotland - 1 £37,500 -
Server Virtualisation
UK

Server Virtualisation
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (33.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) IT Manager
1 1 (33.33%) IT Operations Manager
1 1 (33.33%) IT Systems Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Operations Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Security Posture
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Continuity
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Server Management
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) IT Audit
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Security Patching
2 1 (33.33%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) ISO 22301
2 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (33.33%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) VMware