Virtual Infrastructure Jobs in the UK excluding London

Virtual Infrastructure
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Virtual Infrastructure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Infrastructure over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 551 689 695
Rank change year-on-year +138 +6 +144
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 20 76 64
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.051% 0.10% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.055% 0.12% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 20 42 22
10th Percentile £32,938 £45,125 £40,050
25th Percentile £48,438 £47,500 £41,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £62,500 - -
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Virtual Infrastructure 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 36,047 60,812 55,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.70% 82.57% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 17,118 41,900 28,987
10th Percentile £26,338 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £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 £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 28 May 2025.

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 28 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 +79 13 £57,500 -8.00% 8
West Midlands +50 4 £52,093 -5.29% 3
Midlands +46 4 £52,093 -5.29% 3
Scotland +124 1 £52,500 +10.53%
East of England +42 1 £62,500 +13.64% 4
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 -
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 1 (5.00%) Confluence
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (75.00%) Azure
2 13 (65.00%) AWS
3 4 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.00%) PaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.00%) Rubrik
4 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (40.00%) DHCP
1 8 (40.00%) DNS
2 7 (35.00%) NAS
2 7 (35.00%) SAN
3 6 (30.00%) VSAN
4 5 (25.00%) WAN
5 4 (20.00%) SD-WAN
5 4 (20.00%) VLAN
6 2 (10.00%) Firewall
7 1 (5.00%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (5.00%) LAN
7 1 (5.00%) VPN
7 1 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) MySQL
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (5.00%) Power BI
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (10.00%) Retail
4 1 (5.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Local Government
4 1 (5.00%) Police
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Support Specialist
2 6 (30.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Virtualisation Specialist
2 6 (30.00%) VMware Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) VMware Specialist
2 6 (30.00%) VMware Support Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Network Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) IT Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) IT Support
5 2 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Lead
5 2 (10.00%) Team Leader
6 1 (5.00%) Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Development Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Windows Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Clustering
2 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (10.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Windows
2 7 (35.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (15.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) High Availability
1 7 (35.00%) Incident Management
1 7 (35.00%) Security Hardening
1 7 (35.00%) Service Management
1 7 (35.00%) Task Automation
1 7 (35.00%) Virtual Environments
2 6 (30.00%) Configuration Management
2 6 (30.00%) ITIL
2 6 (30.00%) Service Delivery
3 5 (25.00%) ITSM
4 4 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
4 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (20.00%) Supplier Management
5 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (15.00%) Digital Strategy
5 3 (15.00%) Impact Analysis
5 3 (15.00%) Information Security
5 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (10.00%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) Bash
2 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (35.00%) DV Cleared
2 7 (35.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (10.00%) Degree
4 2 (10.00%) MCSE
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (5.00%) CCNA
5 1 (5.00%) CISA
5 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (5.00%) CISSP
5 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (15.00%) QA
3 1 (5.00%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (5.00%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 9 (45.00%) Hyper-V
2 8 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (40.00%) Docker
2 8 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (35.00%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (35.00%) vSphere
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (5.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Ansible
2 7 (35.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (35.00%) Puppet
2 7 (35.00%) vCenter Server
3 6 (30.00%) PowerCLI
3 6 (30.00%) vMotion
3 6 (30.00%) vRealize
4 1 (5.00%) Avamar
4 1 (5.00%) Nessus
4 1 (5.00%) OpenVAS
4 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (5.00%) QRadar
4 1 (5.00%) Terraform
4 1 (5.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (40.00%) VMware
3 7 (35.00%) Cisco
4 6 (30.00%) Citrix
4 6 (30.00%) HP
4 6 (30.00%) Veeam
5 5 (25.00%) SolarWinds
6 4 (20.00%) Avaya
6 4 (20.00%) Zscaler
7 2 (10.00%) Aruba
7 2 (10.00%) IBM
8 1 (5.00%) Dell
8 1 (5.00%) EMC
8 1 (5.00%) Google
8 1 (5.00%) Oracle
8 1 (5.00%) Qualys
8 1 (5.00%) Ruckus Wireless
8 1 (5.00%) Splunk