Virtual Environments Jobs in the UK excluding London

Virtual Environments
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Virtual Environments skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Environments over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 689 658
Rank change year-on-year +181 -31 -31
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Environments 78 70 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.098% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.12% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 56 47 52
10th Percentile £29,250 £26,250 £25,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £31,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,500 £37,750
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -0.66% -11.18%
75th Percentile £50,313 £47,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £58,750 £50,000 £57,125
UK median annual salary £44,000 £39,000 £43,775
% change year-on-year +12.82% -10.91% -2.72%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Virtual Environments 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 36,826 59,821 56,535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.93% 83.51% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 17,888 41,261 29,198
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,000 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

Virtual Environments
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Virtual Environments as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Environments in the UK excluding London

Virtual Environments
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Virtual Environments in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Virtual Environments in the UK excluding London

Virtual Environments
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Environments in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Virtual Environments in the UK excluding London

Virtual Environments
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 Virtual Environments within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 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
South East +98 42 £40,000 +14.29% 16
South West +132 16 £32,500 -2.99% 11
Midlands +64 14 £41,500 -17.00% 12
East Midlands +46 11 £40,000 +30.08% 4
West Midlands +51 3 £47,500 -5.00% 7
Scotland +123 2 £32,500 -2.99% 5
East of England +41 2 £57,500 - 11
North of England +31 2 £44,280 +14.27% 6
North West - 2 £44,280 - 5
Virtual Environments
UK

Virtual Environments
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 24 (30.77%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (19.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 15 (19.23%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 27 (34.62%) Azure
2 14 (17.95%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (11.54%) AWS
4 7 (8.97%) IaaS
5 2 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.56%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (2.56%) Cloudflare
5 2 (2.56%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.56%) PaaS
5 2 (2.56%) SaaS
6 1 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.28%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 38 (48.72%) SAN
2 24 (30.77%) Firewall
3 22 (28.21%) NAS
4 21 (26.92%) Wi-Fi
5 11 (14.10%) DHCP
5 11 (14.10%) DNS
5 11 (14.10%) VLAN
5 11 (14.10%) VoIP
6 10 (12.82%) MPLS
7 6 (7.69%) VSAN
8 5 (6.41%) WAN
9 4 (5.13%) VPN
10 3 (3.85%) IP Telephony
10 3 (3.85%) LAN
10 3 (3.85%) SNMP
10 3 (3.85%) TCP/IP
11 2 (2.56%) Cisco IOS
11 2 (2.56%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (2.56%) SD-WAN
12 1 (1.28%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (20.51%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (1.28%) JIRA
1 1 (1.28%) Moq
1 1 (1.28%) MSTest
1 1 (1.28%) NUnit
1 1 (1.28%) Rational DOORS
1 1 (1.28%) xUnit.net
General
1 28 (35.90%) Social Skills
2 20 (25.64%) Manufacturing
3 14 (17.95%) Legal
4 10 (12.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (10.26%) Finance
6 6 (7.69%) Games
7 4 (5.13%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (3.85%) Aerospace
8 3 (3.85%) Automotive
8 3 (3.85%) Electronics
8 3 (3.85%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.56%) Retail
9 2 (2.56%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.28%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (1.28%) Back Office
10 1 (1.28%) Banking
10 1 (1.28%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.28%) Law
10 1 (1.28%) Marketing
10 1 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (30.77%) IT Engineer
1 24 (30.77%) Support Engineer
2 23 (29.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 17 (21.79%) Infrastructure Support
3 17 (21.79%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 15 (19.23%) Coordinator
4 15 (19.23%) Help Desk Coordinator
5 14 (17.95%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (17.95%) IT Support
6 13 (16.67%) IT Support Engineer
7 7 (8.97%) VMware Engineer
8 6 (7.69%) Project Engineer
8 6 (7.69%) Support Specialist
8 6 (7.69%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 6 (7.69%) Virtualisation Specialist
8 6 (7.69%) VMware Specialist
8 6 (7.69%) VMware Support Engineer
9 5 (6.41%) Administrator
9 5 (6.41%) IT Administrator
9 5 (6.41%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.28%) .NET
1 1 (1.28%) .NET Core
1 1 (1.28%) .NET Framework
1 1 (1.28%) Entity Framework
1 1 (1.28%) NHibernate
1 1 (1.28%) Ninject
1 1 (1.28%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 19 (24.36%) Clustering
2 18 (23.08%) Video Conferencing
3 10 (12.82%) CCTV
4 4 (5.13%) Data Centre
4 4 (5.13%) Driving Licence
5 3 (3.85%) Blackberry
5 3 (3.85%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (2.56%) Operational Technology
6 2 (2.56%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.56%) Social Media
7 1 (1.28%) Derivative
7 1 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.28%) EPoS
7 1 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.28%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.28%) Replication
7 1 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 65 (83.33%) Windows
2 44 (56.41%) Windows Server
3 18 (23.08%) Windows 10
4 13 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 10 (12.82%) Linux
6 6 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (2.56%) Android
7 2 (2.56%) Apple iOS
7 2 (2.56%) Mac OS
7 2 (2.56%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (35.90%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (29.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 21 (26.92%) High Availability
3 21 (26.92%) Kalman Filter
4 18 (23.08%) Time Management
5 16 (20.51%) Computer Science
5 16 (20.51%) ERP
6 15 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (19.23%) Patch Management
7 14 (17.95%) Disaster Recovery
8 13 (16.67%) Web Filtering
9 12 (15.38%) Antivirus Management
10 11 (14.10%) Change Control
11 10 (12.82%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (12.82%) Server Building
12 9 (11.54%) IT Strategy
13 7 (8.97%) Configuration Management
13 7 (8.97%) Infrastructure Management
13 7 (8.97%) Mobile Device Management
13 7 (8.97%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 24 (30.77%) PowerShell
2 14 (17.95%) SQL
3 4 (5.13%) C#
4 3 (3.85%) Bash
5 2 (2.56%) Java
5 2 (2.56%) Python
6 1 (1.28%) Ada
6 1 (1.28%) C
6 1 (1.28%) C++
6 1 (1.28%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.28%) VB
Qualifications
1 23 (29.49%) Degree
2 21 (26.92%) Security Cleared
3 16 (20.51%) DV Cleared
4 13 (16.67%) HND
5 8 (10.26%) SC Cleared
6 6 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.56%) HNC
8 2 (2.56%) MCP
8 2 (2.56%) MCSA
8 2 (2.56%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.41%) GDPR
2 1 (1.28%) Accessibility
System Software
1 60 (76.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 57 (73.08%) Active Directory
3 20 (25.64%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (14.10%) Hyper-V
5 9 (11.54%) Docker
6 6 (7.69%) vSphere
7 2 (2.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (10.26%) vCenter Server
2 7 (8.97%) Kubernetes
3 6 (7.69%) Ansible
3 6 (7.69%) PowerCLI
3 6 (7.69%) Puppet
3 6 (7.69%) vMotion
3 6 (7.69%) vRealize
4 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.56%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 64 (82.05%) Microsoft
2 60 (76.92%) VMware
3 23 (29.49%) Veeam
4 6 (7.69%) Citrix
4 6 (7.69%) HP
5 4 (5.13%) Cisco
6 3 (3.85%) McAfee
7 2 (2.56%) arcserve
7 2 (2.56%) Aruba
7 2 (2.56%) BT
7 2 (2.56%) Facebook
7 2 (2.56%) Imperva
7 2 (2.56%) Meraki
7 2 (2.56%) Ruckus Wireless
8 1 (1.28%) Mitel
8 1 (1.28%) MobileIron
8 1 (1.28%) NetApp
8 1 (1.28%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (1.28%) Sophos