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 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 440 402 181
Rank change year-on-year -38 -221 +307
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 146 430 1,073
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.53% 1.96%
As % of the System Software category 3.41% 4.76% 12.46%
Number of salaries quoted 103 358 196
10th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,125 £45,000 £36,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,875
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +8.75% +13.71%
75th Percentile £70,625 £62,500 £71,652
90th Percentile £84,500 £72,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £57,836 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.58% -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 4,276 9,026 8,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.76% 11.08% 15.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,415 6,944 5,499
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,625 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,751 £72,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -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 19 June 2025.

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 19 June 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 +20 62 £55,000 -7.56% 93
North of England +26 51 £57,836 +5.16% 126
North West +22 33 £57,836 +2.82% 76
Midlands +62 17 £46,000 -0.54% 89
West Midlands +49 13 £46,000 -5.64% 51
Yorkshire +37 12 £37,500 -11.76% 35
South West +54 7 £50,000 -9.09% 57
East of England +9 7 £56,250 -2.17% 56
North East +41 6 £32,000 -43.11% 15
East Midlands +38 4 £57,500 +24.32% 38
Wales +17 1 £60,000 +33.33% 14
South Coast - 1 £59,000 -
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 -
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 11 (7.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (4.79%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.05%) IIS
4 2 (1.37%) Apache
4 2 (1.37%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.68%) Confluence
5 1 (0.68%) nginx
5 1 (0.68%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (4.79%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 90 (61.64%) Azure
2 42 (28.77%) AWS
3 37 (25.34%) Azure DevOps
3 37 (25.34%) Entra ID
4 26 (17.81%) IaaS
5 25 (17.12%) Azure Monitor
6 24 (16.44%) PaaS
6 24 (16.44%) SaaS
7 22 (15.07%) Microsoft 365
8 19 (13.01%) Azure Key Vault
9 16 (10.96%) Power Platform
10 15 (10.27%) Azure Service Bus
11 14 (9.59%) Azure AI
11 14 (9.59%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 14 (9.59%) Power Automate
12 10 (6.85%) GCP
13 9 (6.16%) Amazon S3
13 9 (6.16%) Serverless
14 7 (4.79%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (4.79%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 60 (41.10%) Firewall
2 33 (22.60%) DNS
3 32 (21.92%) VPN
4 24 (16.44%) WAN
5 20 (13.70%) SD-WAN
6 13 (8.90%) DHCP
7 7 (4.79%) SSL
7 7 (4.79%) VLAN
8 6 (4.11%) LAN
9 4 (2.74%) HTTPS
10 3 (2.05%) SAN
10 3 (2.05%) TCP/IP
10 3 (2.05%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (1.37%) NAS
11 2 (1.37%) Network Security
12 1 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
12 1 (0.68%) Cisco IOS
12 1 (0.68%) iSCSI
12 1 (0.68%) NetScaler
12 1 (0.68%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.33%) SQL Server
2 16 (10.96%) Data Lake
2 16 (10.96%) Power BI
3 15 (10.27%) MySQL
4 7 (4.79%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.05%) Tableau
6 2 (1.37%) Apache Hive
6 2 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.37%) Big Data
6 2 (1.37%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.37%) Bigtable
6 2 (1.37%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.37%) HBase
6 2 (1.37%) Impala
6 2 (1.37%) Metadata
6 2 (1.37%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.68%) GIS
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 23 (15.75%) Git
2 11 (7.53%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.79%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (2.05%) Vagrant
5 1 (0.68%) JIRA
5 1 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 43 (29.45%) Social Skills
2 20 (13.70%) Finance
3 11 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.48%) Banking
5 7 (4.79%) Manufacturing
6 6 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.05%) Military
7 3 (2.05%) Retail
8 2 (1.37%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.37%) Law
9 1 (0.68%) Aviation
9 1 (0.68%) Legal
9 1 (0.68%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (15.07%) Architect
2 20 (13.70%) Cloud Architect
2 20 (13.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 19 (13.01%) Lead
4 18 (12.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 17 (11.64%) Systems Engineer
5 17 (11.64%) Vulnerability Manager
6 15 (10.27%) Lead Systems Engineer
7 13 (8.90%) Senior
8 10 (6.85%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (6.85%) Security Engineer
9 8 (5.48%) IT Engineer
9 8 (5.48%) Technical Engineer
10 7 (4.79%) Automation Engineer
10 7 (4.79%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (4.79%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 7 (4.79%) Principal Engineer
11 6 (4.11%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (4.11%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (4.11%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.42%) ARM Templates
1 5 (3.42%) YAML
2 3 (2.05%) .NET
3 1 (0.68%) Loki
3 1 (0.68%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.68%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 33 (22.60%) Data Centre
2 17 (11.64%) Management Information System
3 16 (10.96%) Public Cloud
4 14 (9.59%) NHS
5 10 (6.85%) Cloud Native
6 8 (5.48%) Product Ownership
7 7 (4.79%) Life Science
7 7 (4.79%) Operational Technology
7 7 (4.79%) Private Cloud
7 7 (4.79%) SCADA
7 7 (4.79%) Security Posture
8 5 (3.42%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.68%) Cyber Defence
11 1 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.68%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 43 (29.45%) Windows
2 30 (20.55%) Linux
3 26 (17.81%) Windows Server
4 9 (6.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (4.79%) Ubuntu
5 7 (4.79%) VMS
6 6 (4.11%) Apple iOS
7 3 (2.05%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.37%) AIX
8 2 (1.37%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.37%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (1.37%) Unix
8 2 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.68%) Debian
9 1 (0.68%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (36.99%) Agile
2 53 (36.30%) Roadmaps
3 51 (34.93%) DevOps
4 46 (31.51%) Infrastructure as Code
5 35 (23.97%) Migration
6 30 (20.55%) CI/CD
7 29 (19.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 26 (17.81%) Analytics
9 25 (17.12%) Containerisation
9 25 (17.12%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (17.12%) ITIL
10 24 (16.44%) Disaster Recovery
10 24 (16.44%) Log Analytics
11 23 (15.75%) Cybersecurity
12 22 (15.07%) Microservices
12 22 (15.07%) Service Management
12 22 (15.07%) Technology Roadmap
13 21 (14.38%) Incident Response
14 19 (13.01%) Network Virtualisation
14 19 (13.01%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 49 (33.56%) PowerShell
2 35 (23.97%) SQL
3 32 (21.92%) Python
4 21 (14.38%) Java
5 20 (13.70%) Bicep
6 16 (10.96%) C
7 10 (6.85%) C#
7 10 (6.85%) Shell Script
8 5 (3.42%) Bash
8 5 (3.42%) Ruby
9 3 (2.05%) Groovy
9 3 (2.05%) Perl
10 2 (1.37%) Korn
11 1 (0.68%) C++
11 1 (0.68%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 36 (24.66%) Azure Certification
2 30 (20.55%) Degree
3 16 (10.96%) Microsoft Certification
4 15 (10.27%) DBS Check
4 15 (10.27%) HND
5 13 (8.90%) Security Cleared
6 7 (4.79%) SC Cleared
7 6 (4.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (3.42%) CompTIA Security+
8 5 (3.42%) DV Cleared
9 4 (2.74%) AWS Certification
9 4 (2.74%) CCNA
9 4 (2.74%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.37%) CISSP
10 2 (1.37%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.37%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.68%) CISA
11 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.68%) GIAC
11 1 (0.68%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.85%) GDPR
2 6 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.74%) HIPAA
3 4 (2.74%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.37%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.37%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (29.45%) Active Directory
2 31 (21.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (14.38%) Docker
4 15 (10.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (7.53%) Hyper-V
6 10 (6.85%) vSphere
7 7 (4.79%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.37%) HDFS
8 2 (1.37%) XenApp
9 1 (0.68%) NFS
9 1 (0.68%) pfSense
9 1 (0.68%) RHEV
9 1 (0.68%) vCloud
9 1 (0.68%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 29 (19.86%) Terraform
2 16 (10.96%) Kubernetes
3 15 (10.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (9.59%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (8.90%) Ansible
6 8 (5.48%) Nessus
6 8 (5.48%) vCenter Server
7 7 (4.79%) Proxmox
8 3 (2.05%) Grafana
8 3 (2.05%) Nagios
8 3 (2.05%) SCCM
8 3 (2.05%) WSUS
9 2 (1.37%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.37%) Hadoop YARN
9 2 (1.37%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (1.37%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.68%) OpenVAS
10 1 (0.68%) QRadar
10 1 (0.68%) vRealize
Vendors
1 55 (37.67%) Microsoft
2 33 (22.60%) VMware
3 19 (13.01%) Databricks
3 19 (13.01%) Qualys
4 18 (12.33%) Tenable
5 14 (9.59%) Meraki
6 10 (6.85%) Cisco
7 8 (5.48%) Apple
7 8 (5.48%) Citrix
7 8 (5.48%) Juniper
8 7 (4.79%) Rockwell
8 7 (4.79%) Siemens
9 5 (3.42%) Atlassian
10 4 (2.74%) Aruba
10 4 (2.74%) Google
10 4 (2.74%) Veeam
11 3 (2.05%) Oracle
12 2 (1.37%) IBM
12 2 (1.37%) Red Hat
12 2 (1.37%) SAP