Virtual Machines Jobs in the UK excluding London

Virtual Machine (VM)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Virtual Machines skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Machines over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 393 158 507
Rank change year-on-year -235 +349 -51
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 343 1,052 413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.53% 2.19% 0.53%
As % of the System Software category 4.93% 13.15% 3.32%
Number of salaries quoted 262 193 244
10th Percentile £33,850 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £42,875 £36,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £61,375
90th Percentile £79,875 £78,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

Virtual Machines falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 6,954 7,997 12,427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.65% 16.61% 15.87%
Number of salaries quoted 5,246 5,183 8,566
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £32,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,769 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in the UK excluding London

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Virtual Machines in the UK excluding London

Virtual Machines
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Virtual Machines in the UK excluding London

Virtual Machines
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 Machines within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 July 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 -70 102 £62,500 +1.63% 16
North of England -105 94 £57,500 +27.78% 25
South West -69 54 £55,000 +17.65% 10
North West -82 48 £52,500 -0.38% 13
Yorkshire -19 37 £57,500 +30.59% 10
East of England -23 33 £55,000 +22.22% 9
Midlands -137 28 £52,500 -7.28% 13
Scotland -159 17 £57,500 +4.77% 4
Wales -31 16 £45,000 -6.98% 1
West Midlands -75 15 £55,000 +3.29% 10
East Midlands -83 13 £46,250 -31.48% 3
North East -8 9 £57,500 +12.20% 3
Virtual Machines
UK

Virtual Machines
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 61 (17.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 44 (12.83%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.62%) IIS
3 9 (2.62%) Skype for Business
4 4 (1.17%) Jupyter
4 4 (1.17%) nginx
5 3 (0.87%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 3 (0.87%) CloudStack
5 3 (0.87%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.58%) Confluence
6 2 (0.58%) Resin
7 1 (0.29%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 7 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 244 (71.14%) Azure
2 100 (29.15%) Microsoft 365
3 80 (23.32%) Entra ID
4 49 (14.29%) Azure Storage
4 49 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 44 (12.83%) Azure DevOps
6 37 (10.79%) AWS
7 34 (9.91%) IaaS
8 30 (8.75%) Azure Monitor
9 21 (6.12%) SaaS
10 19 (5.54%) Azure Logic Apps
11 18 (5.25%) Serverless
12 17 (4.96%) GCP
13 16 (4.66%) Azure Event Grid
13 16 (4.66%) Nutanix
14 15 (4.37%) GitHub
14 15 (4.37%) PaaS
15 13 (3.79%) Amazon S3
16 12 (3.50%) Azure AKS
16 12 (3.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 70 (20.41%) Firewall
2 57 (16.62%) DNS
3 52 (15.16%) VPN
4 44 (12.83%) DHCP
5 42 (12.24%) Broadband
6 26 (7.58%) LAN
6 26 (7.58%) WAN
7 20 (5.83%) VLAN
8 17 (4.96%) SAN
9 15 (4.37%) 5G
10 14 (4.08%) TCP/IP
11 10 (2.92%) Unified Communications
12 9 (2.62%) iSCSI
12 9 (2.62%) Skype
13 7 (2.04%) Network Security
13 7 (2.04%) Remote Desktop
14 6 (1.75%) Internet
14 6 (1.75%) IPv4
14 6 (1.75%) NAS
14 6 (1.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (17.78%) Azure SQL Database
2 57 (16.62%) SQL Server
3 49 (14.29%) Power BI
4 6 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (0.87%) Tableau
6 2 (0.58%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.58%) MySQL
6 2 (0.58%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.29%) Big Data
7 1 (0.29%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 60 (17.49%) Git
2 15 (4.37%) JIRA
3 9 (2.62%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.62%) Trac
4 4 (1.17%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.58%) Mocha
6 1 (0.29%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.29%) Metasploit
General
1 139 (40.52%) Social Skills
2 66 (19.24%) Finance
3 36 (10.50%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (5.54%) Telecoms
5 9 (2.62%) Games
6 7 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.75%) Automotive
7 6 (1.75%) Banking
7 6 (1.75%) Electronics
7 6 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.46%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.46%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.87%) Retail
10 2 (0.58%) Advertising
10 2 (0.58%) Law
10 2 (0.58%) Legal
11 1 (0.29%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 69 (20.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 42 (12.24%) Cloud Engineer
2 42 (12.24%) DBA
2 42 (12.24%) SQL DBA
3 37 (10.79%) Azure Engineer
4 29 (8.45%) Lead
5 27 (7.87%) Senior
6 19 (5.54%) Support Specialist
7 18 (5.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 17 (4.96%) Azure Specialist
8 17 (4.96%) IT Engineer
9 16 (4.66%) Active Directory Specialist
9 16 (4.66%) Active Directory Support
9 16 (4.66%) Automation Engineer
10 15 (4.37%) Support Engineer
11 14 (4.08%) DevOps Engineer
11 14 (4.08%) Linux Engineer
12 13 (3.79%) Architect
13 12 (3.50%) Lead Software Engineer
13 12 (3.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (13.41%) ARM Templates
2 20 (5.83%) .NET
3 16 (4.66%) YAML
4 5 (1.46%) JSON
5 4 (1.17%) .NET Framework
5 4 (1.17%) ASP.NET
5 4 (1.17%) Ionic Framework
5 4 (1.17%) Loki
5 4 (1.17%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (0.87%) Azure Blueprints
6 3 (0.87%) Flash
6 3 (0.87%) REST
6 3 (0.87%) SOAP
6 3 (0.87%) XML
7 2 (0.58%) ADO
7 2 (0.58%) JSON Schema
7 2 (0.58%) Node.js
7 2 (0.58%) OpenAPI
7 2 (0.58%) RESTful
7 2 (0.58%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 49 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (7.29%) Data Centre
3 18 (5.25%) PKI
4 13 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (3.79%) IoT
4 13 (3.79%) Media Streaming
5 11 (3.21%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (3.21%) Management Information System
6 10 (2.92%) Driving Licence
7 7 (2.04%) Cyberattack
8 6 (1.75%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.75%) Replication
9 5 (1.46%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.17%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.87%) Blackberry
11 3 (0.87%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.87%) IBM Storwize
11 3 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 140 (40.82%) Windows
2 89 (25.95%) Windows Server
3 86 (25.07%) Linux
4 54 (15.74%) VMS
5 33 (9.62%) Windows Server 2019
6 31 (9.04%) Windows Server 2016
7 27 (7.87%) Windows 10
8 14 (4.08%) Ubuntu
9 10 (2.92%) Debian
9 10 (2.92%) Unix
10 8 (2.33%) Android
11 7 (2.04%) Apple iOS
11 7 (2.04%) Windows Server 2008
12 5 (1.46%) AIX
12 5 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 5 (1.46%) Solaris
13 3 (0.87%) SUSE
13 3 (0.87%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 3 (0.87%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.29%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (32.65%) DevOps
2 83 (24.20%) Disaster Recovery
3 80 (23.32%) Problem-Solving
4 72 (20.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 58 (16.91%) ITIL
6 57 (16.62%) CI/CD
6 57 (16.62%) Collaborative Working
7 56 (16.33%) High Availability
7 56 (16.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 49 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
9 44 (12.83%) Performance Tuning
10 41 (11.95%) Agile
11 35 (10.20%) Task Automation
12 34 (9.91%) Project Management
13 33 (9.62%) Network Virtualisation
14 30 (8.75%) Identity Management
15 28 (8.16%) Analytics
15 28 (8.16%) Configuration Management
16 27 (7.87%) Roadmaps
17 25 (7.29%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 102 (29.74%) PowerShell
2 77 (22.45%) SQL
3 48 (13.99%) Python
4 46 (13.41%) Bicep
5 45 (13.12%) T-SQL
6 39 (11.37%) Bash
7 34 (9.91%) C#
8 21 (6.12%) Java
9 20 (5.83%) Kusto Query Language
10 16 (4.66%) Perl
10 16 (4.66%) VB
10 16 (4.66%) VBScript
11 13 (3.79%) Kotlin
11 13 (3.79%) Scala
12 7 (2.04%) JavaScript
13 4 (1.17%) Go
14 3 (0.87%) Ruby
14 3 (0.87%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.58%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 57 (16.62%) Microsoft Certification
2 53 (15.45%) Degree
3 46 (13.41%) Security Cleared
4 31 (9.04%) SC Cleared
5 17 (4.96%) DV Cleared
6 16 (4.66%) Azure Certification
6 16 (4.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 10 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (1.75%) MCP
10 4 (1.17%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.58%) CCNA
11 2 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.58%) PhD
12 1 (0.29%) CCNP
12 1 (0.29%) CEH
12 1 (0.29%) CISM
12 1 (0.29%) CISSP
12 1 (0.29%) GIAC
12 1 (0.29%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.96%) Cyber Essentials
2 11 (3.21%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.92%) GDPR
4 9 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.04%) PMO
6 5 (1.46%) SLA
7 2 (0.58%) GRC
8 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 141 (41.11%) Active Directory
2 68 (19.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 54 (15.74%) Hyper-V
4 49 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 31 (9.04%) Docker
6 25 (7.29%) vSphere
7 15 (4.37%) pfSense
8 13 (3.79%) NFS
9 11 (3.21%) Firmware
10 8 (2.33%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (1.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.87%) Ceph
12 3 (0.87%) Gluster
12 3 (0.87%) KVM
12 3 (0.87%) oVirt
13 1 (0.29%) DFS Replication
13 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.29%) XenApp
13 1 (0.29%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 48 (13.99%) Terraform
2 41 (11.95%) Kubernetes
2 41 (11.95%) Microsoft Intune
3 25 (7.29%) Ansible
4 24 (7.00%) SCCM
5 23 (6.71%) Grafana
6 21 (6.12%) ZABBIX
7 19 (5.54%) SCOM
7 19 (5.54%) WSUS
8 16 (4.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 16 (4.66%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 15 (4.37%) SCDPM
10 7 (2.04%) Prometheus
11 4 (1.17%) Nagios
12 3 (0.87%) Graylog
12 3 (0.87%) Observium
12 3 (0.87%) Puppet
12 3 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.87%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.58%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 197 (57.43%) Microsoft
2 89 (25.95%) VMware
3 28 (8.16%) Veeam
4 18 (5.25%) Fortinet
5 16 (4.66%) Juniper
6 13 (3.79%) Cisco
6 13 (3.79%) Google
7 9 (2.62%) McAfee
7 9 (2.62%) Oracle
8 8 (2.33%) Dell
9 6 (1.75%) Dell Compellent
9 6 (1.75%) Epicor
9 6 (1.75%) ForgeRock
9 6 (1.75%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.75%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.75%) Sitecore
10 5 (1.46%) Meraki
10 5 (1.46%) NetApp
10 5 (1.46%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.87%) Citrix