Virtual Infrastructure Jobs in the UK excluding London

Virtual Infrastructure
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Virtual Infrastructure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Infrastructure over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 688 682 810
Rank change year-on-year -6 +128 -148
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 74 67 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.11% 0.054%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.12% 0.058%
Number of salaries quoted 45 25 33
10th Percentile £43,800 £40,200 £31,500
25th Percentile £47,000 £41,250 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +40.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £66,000 - £73,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +30.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Virtual Infrastructure is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,455 57,006 67,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.91% 95.60% 94.10%
Number of salaries quoted 41,124 29,353 41,315
10th Percentile £27,128 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Virtual Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Infrastructure in the UK excluding London

Virtual Infrastructure
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Virtual Infrastructure in the UK excluding London

Virtual Infrastructure
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Virtual Infrastructure in the UK excluding London

Virtual Infrastructure
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 Infrastructure within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. 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 -7 23 £62,500 +47.06% 4
South West -5 21 £32,500 -29.35% 5
West Midlands +6 19 £55,000 -13.73% 2
Midlands +5 19 £55,000 -13.73% 3
North of England +32 5 £47,000 -14.55% 2
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -
Yorkshire +84 2 £47,000 -14.55%
North West +5 2 £43,750 +10.08% 2
East of England - 2 £55,000 -
North East - 1 £50,000 -
Virtual Infrastructure
UK

Virtual Infrastructure
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 7 (9.46%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.35%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (2.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 29 (39.19%) Azure
2 14 (18.92%) AWS
2 14 (18.92%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (17.57%) IaaS
3 13 (17.57%) Nutanix
4 9 (12.16%) OneDrive
5 6 (8.11%) Power Platform
6 5 (6.76%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (6.76%) Power Automate
7 4 (5.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.35%) Azure App Service
9 1 (1.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.35%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 34 (45.95%) Firewall
2 26 (35.14%) DNS
3 22 (29.73%) WAN
4 14 (18.92%) SD-WAN
5 11 (14.86%) SAN
5 11 (14.86%) VSAN
6 9 (12.16%) Cisco ASA
6 9 (12.16%) Software-Defined Networking
7 8 (10.81%) LAN
8 7 (9.46%) NAS
9 6 (8.11%) VLAN
10 5 (6.76%) DHCP
10 5 (6.76%) Unified Communications
11 4 (5.41%) Cisco Firepower
11 4 (5.41%) Fibre Channel
11 4 (5.41%) Remote Desktop
11 4 (5.41%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (2.70%) VPN
12 2 (2.70%) Wireless
13 1 (1.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.76%) Power BI
2 1 (1.35%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.35%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.35%) MySQL
2 1 (1.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.35%) MSBuild
General
1 20 (27.03%) Aerospace
2 19 (25.68%) Finance
3 13 (17.57%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (9.46%) Social Skills
5 5 (6.76%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.41%) Law
6 4 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (5.41%) Police
7 2 (2.70%) Fire and Rescue
7 2 (2.70%) Local Government
8 1 (1.35%) Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (32.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 23 (31.08%) Senior
3 20 (27.03%) Administrator
3 20 (27.03%) VMWare Administrator
4 19 (25.68%) Network Engineer
5 13 (17.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (14.86%) Systems Administrator
7 9 (12.16%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 9 (12.16%) Senior Network Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) IT Administrator
9 4 (5.41%) Architect
9 4 (5.41%) Azure Architect
9 4 (5.41%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (5.41%) Cloud Solutions Architect
9 4 (5.41%) Server Administrator
9 4 (5.41%) Server Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (4.05%) IT Engineer
10 3 (4.05%) Lead
10 3 (4.05%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.35%) .NET
1 1 (1.35%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 24 (32.43%) Data Centre
2 15 (20.27%) PKI
3 13 (17.57%) IoT
4 9 (12.16%) Replication
5 7 (9.46%) Management Information System
6 5 (6.76%) PMI
7 4 (5.41%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (5.41%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.70%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.35%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 36 (48.65%) Windows
2 25 (33.78%) Linux
3 13 (17.57%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.41%) CentOS
4 4 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (5.41%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (40.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (32.43%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (31.08%) ITIL
4 22 (29.73%) Agile
5 20 (27.03%) Collaborative Working
6 19 (25.68%) DevOps
6 19 (25.68%) Disaster Recovery
6 19 (25.68%) Task Automation
7 18 (24.32%) Capacity Planning
7 18 (24.32%) Technical Leadership
8 17 (22.97%) Cloud Enablement
9 15 (20.27%) Actionable Insight
10 13 (17.57%) Decision-Making
10 13 (17.57%) Infrastructure Automation
10 13 (17.57%) Network Virtualisation
10 13 (17.57%) Performance Analysis
10 13 (17.57%) Storage Management
11 11 (14.86%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (12.16%) Change Control
13 8 (10.81%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (22.97%) Bash
2 13 (17.57%) Perl
2 13 (17.57%) Python
3 5 (6.76%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.35%) C#
4 1 (1.35%) PHP
4 1 (1.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (32.43%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.16%) DV Cleared
3 8 (10.81%) CCNA
3 8 (10.81%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (9.46%) MCSE
4 7 (9.46%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (6.76%) PMI Certification
6 4 (5.41%) MCSA
6 4 (5.41%) Network+ Certification
6 4 (5.41%) SC Cleared
7 3 (4.05%) Degree
8 2 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.57%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 5 (6.76%) QA
3 4 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (5.41%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.70%) NIST
5 1 (1.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 50 (67.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 35 (47.30%) Active Directory
3 24 (32.43%) VMware NSX
4 20 (27.03%) vSphere
5 15 (20.27%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (17.57%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (10.81%) Firmware
8 4 (5.41%) VMware Server
9 2 (2.70%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (1.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (5.41%) SCCM
1 4 (5.41%) vCenter Server
2 3 (4.05%) SCOM
Vendors
1 50 (67.57%) VMware
2 24 (32.43%) Microsoft
3 19 (25.68%) Cisco
4 7 (9.46%) Fortinet
5 5 (6.76%) Avaya
5 5 (6.76%) BT
5 5 (6.76%) Mitel
5 5 (6.76%) SolarWinds
5 5 (6.76%) Veeam
5 5 (6.76%) Zscaler
6 3 (4.05%) HP
7 1 (1.35%) Remedy
7 1 (1.35%) Sophos