Virtual Machines Jobs in the UK excluding London

Virtual Machine (VM)
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 Machines skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Machines over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 392 251 437
Rank change year-on-year -141 +186 +4
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 409 852 486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.58% 1.38% 0.69%
As % of the System Software category 4.58% 9.03% 3.98%
Number of salaries quoted 340 206 205
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £28,400
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,999 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +20.00% -3.74%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,551 £55,000
90th Percentile £68,875 £85,000 £74,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +15.00% -9.09%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

Virtual Machines is in the System Software 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 system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 8,927 9,438 12,196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.74% 15.27% 17.28%
Number of salaries quoted 7,160 5,994 8,402
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £56,325
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.35% +2.41%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -18 125 £59,500 +10.19% 18
North of England -34 90 £52,500 -6.67% 12
Midlands -57 60 £46,250 -13.15% 15
South West -55 49 £57,500 +53.33% 13
North West -31 40 £57,500 -6.12% 6
Yorkshire +39 38 £40,000 -15.79% 6
West Midlands -24 37 £48,750 -8.45% 5
East of England -13 35 £55,000 +69.23% 13
Wales -11 31 £45,000 -6.98% 2
East Midlands -34 23 £46,250 -31.48% 10
Scotland -149 19 £57,500 +4.55% 3
North East +3 12 £55,000 -4.35%
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 65 (15.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 37 (9.05%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.96%) IIS
4 6 (1.47%) Skype for Business
5 3 (0.73%) CloudStack
6 2 (0.49%) Confluence
6 2 (0.49%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.49%) Resin
6 2 (0.49%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 283 (69.19%) Azure
2 109 (26.65%) Microsoft 365
3 80 (19.56%) Power Platform
4 64 (15.65%) Entra ID
5 40 (9.78%) Azure DevOps
6 35 (8.56%) AWS
6 35 (8.56%) IaaS
7 33 (8.07%) SaaS
8 24 (5.87%) Azure Monitor
9 22 (5.38%) Azure Storage
9 22 (5.38%) Nutanix
10 18 (4.40%) GitHub
11 17 (4.16%) Serverless
12 14 (3.42%) PaaS
13 13 (3.18%) Amazon S3
13 13 (3.18%) Azure Functions
13 13 (3.18%) Azure Key Vault
14 12 (2.93%) Azure Logic Apps
15 11 (2.69%) Azure Data Factory
15 11 (2.69%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 94 (22.98%) Firewall
2 76 (18.58%) Broadband
3 75 (18.34%) DNS
4 70 (17.11%) VPN
5 46 (11.25%) DHCP
6 26 (6.36%) LAN
7 24 (5.87%) VLAN
8 23 (5.62%) WAN
9 20 (4.89%) Wireless
10 16 (3.91%) 5G
10 16 (3.91%) SAN
11 15 (3.67%) Internet
12 13 (3.18%) HTTP
12 13 (3.18%) VoIP
13 12 (2.93%) Network Security
14 10 (2.44%) iSCSI
15 9 (2.20%) NAS
15 9 (2.20%) TCP/IP
15 9 (2.20%) Unified Communications
16 7 (1.71%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (27.87%) SQL Server
2 84 (20.54%) Azure SQL Database
3 80 (19.56%) Power BI
4 14 (3.42%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.98%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.73%) Big Data
8 2 (0.49%) MariaDB
8 2 (0.49%) MySQL
8 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.49%) Tableau
9 1 (0.24%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (7.58%) Git
2 18 (4.40%) JIRA
3 11 (2.69%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.44%) Trac
5 5 (1.22%) eggPlant
6 1 (0.24%) GitLab
General
1 208 (50.86%) Social Skills
2 74 (18.09%) Finance
3 35 (8.56%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (5.62%) Games
5 21 (5.13%) Telecoms
6 18 (4.40%) Banking
7 11 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.71%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.47%) Automotive
10 6 (1.47%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.47%) Local Government
11 4 (0.98%) Back Office
11 4 (0.98%) Law
11 4 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.98%) Retail
12 3 (0.73%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.73%) Electronics
13 2 (0.49%) Advertising
13 2 (0.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 86 (21.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 74 (18.09%) DBA
2 74 (18.09%) SQL DBA
3 40 (9.78%) Senior
4 37 (9.05%) Architect
5 32 (7.82%) Cloud Engineer
6 30 (7.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 25 (6.11%) IT Support
8 20 (4.89%) IT Engineer
9 18 (4.40%) DevOps Engineer
9 18 (4.40%) Support Engineer
9 18 (4.40%) Support Specialist
10 17 (4.16%) Infrastructure Architect
10 17 (4.16%) Security Architect
11 15 (3.67%) Azure Specialist
11 15 (3.67%) IT Technician
12 14 (3.42%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 14 (3.42%) Active Directory Specialist
12 14 (3.42%) Active Directory Support
13 13 (3.18%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (6.11%) .NET
2 24 (5.87%) ARM Templates
3 10 (2.44%) JWT
3 10 (2.44%) RESTful
4 4 (0.98%) REST
5 3 (0.73%) Azure Blueprints
5 3 (0.73%) Flash
6 2 (0.49%) ADO
6 2 (0.49%) JSON
6 2 (0.49%) SOAP
6 2 (0.49%) XML
7 1 (0.24%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 34 (8.31%) Data Centre
1 34 (8.31%) Self-Motivation
2 20 (4.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 17 (4.16%) IoT
4 16 (3.91%) PKI
5 15 (3.67%) Management Information System
6 11 (2.69%) Driving Licence
7 9 (2.20%) Cloud Native
8 8 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.71%) Cyberattack
9 7 (1.71%) Replication
10 6 (1.47%) CCTV
10 6 (1.47%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.22%) Clustering
11 5 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.98%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.73%) EPoS
13 3 (0.73%) IBM Storwize
13 3 (0.73%) Smartcard
14 2 (0.49%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 187 (45.72%) Windows
2 125 (30.56%) Windows Server
3 84 (20.54%) Linux
3 84 (20.54%) VMS
4 36 (8.80%) Windows Server 2019
5 31 (7.58%) Windows Server 2016
6 25 (6.11%) Windows 10
7 18 (4.40%) Unix
8 15 (3.67%) Windows Server 2012
9 9 (2.20%) Debian
9 9 (2.20%) Ubuntu
10 8 (1.96%) AIX
10 8 (1.96%) Solaris
10 8 (1.96%) Windows Server 2008
11 7 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.98%) Android
12 4 (0.98%) CentOS
13 3 (0.73%) Apple iOS
13 3 (0.73%) SUSE
13 3 (0.73%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (33.74%) Disaster Recovery
2 117 (28.61%) DevOps
3 99 (24.21%) High Availability
4 93 (22.74%) Collaborative Working
5 91 (22.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 80 (19.56%) Business Intelligence
6 80 (19.56%) Problem-Solving
7 74 (18.09%) Performance Tuning
8 56 (13.69%) ITIL
9 51 (12.47%) Network Virtualisation
10 46 (11.25%) CI/CD
11 41 (10.02%) Actionable Insight
11 41 (10.02%) Containerisation
12 40 (9.78%) Infrastructure as Code
13 36 (8.80%) Agile
14 31 (7.58%) Configuration Management
14 31 (7.58%) RBAC
14 31 (7.58%) Validation
15 29 (7.09%) Cybersecurity
16 28 (6.85%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 112 (27.38%) SQL
2 90 (22.00%) T-SQL
3 84 (20.54%) PowerShell
4 43 (10.51%) Bash
5 42 (10.27%) Python
6 32 (7.82%) C#
7 27 (6.60%) Bicep
8 18 (4.40%) Perl
9 14 (3.42%) VB
9 14 (3.42%) VBScript
10 9 (2.20%) Java
11 6 (1.47%) VB.NET
12 4 (0.98%) Ruby
13 3 (0.73%) Go
Qualifications
1 86 (21.03%) Microsoft Certification
2 56 (13.69%) Security Cleared
3 49 (11.98%) Degree
4 29 (7.09%) SC Cleared
5 16 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (3.67%) Azure Certification
7 14 (3.42%) DV Cleared
7 14 (3.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 8 (1.96%) DBS Check
9 6 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (1.47%) MCP
10 5 (1.22%) ISEB
10 5 (1.22%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.24%) CCNA
11 1 (0.24%) CCNP
11 1 (0.24%) CEH
11 1 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.24%) CISSP
11 1 (0.24%) GIAC
11 1 (0.24%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.89%) Cyber Essentials
2 15 (3.67%) Data Quality
3 14 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.44%) GDPR
5 8 (1.96%) SLA
6 7 (1.71%) PMO
7 6 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (1.22%) QA
9 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.24%) GRC
10 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.24%) NCSC
System Software
1 130 (31.78%) Active Directory
2 83 (20.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 69 (16.87%) Hyper-V
4 25 (6.11%) Virtual Desktop
5 24 (5.87%) vSphere
6 23 (5.62%) Docker
7 21 (5.13%) Firmware
8 16 (3.91%) pfSense
9 12 (2.93%) NFS
10 11 (2.69%) VMware ESXi
11 8 (1.96%) Virtual Servers
12 7 (1.71%) XenApp
13 6 (1.47%) XenDesktop
14 3 (0.73%) Ceph
14 3 (0.73%) Gluster
14 3 (0.73%) KVM
14 3 (0.73%) oVirt
15 2 (0.49%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 1 (0.24%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 36 (8.80%) Ansible
1 36 (8.80%) Terraform
2 35 (8.56%) Kubernetes
3 33 (8.07%) Microsoft Intune
4 27 (6.60%) SCCM
5 22 (5.38%) ZABBIX
6 21 (5.13%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 21 (5.13%) SCOM
7 18 (4.40%) Grafana
8 16 (3.91%) SCDPM
9 14 (3.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 14 (3.42%) WSUS
10 6 (1.47%) FortiGate
11 5 (1.22%) Failover Clustering
12 3 (0.73%) Graylog
12 3 (0.73%) Observium
12 3 (0.73%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.73%) Puppet
12 3 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.73%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 234 (57.21%) Microsoft
2 107 (26.16%) VMware
3 31 (7.58%) Veeam
4 24 (5.87%) Fortinet
5 17 (4.16%) Cisco
5 17 (4.16%) Juniper
6 14 (3.42%) Citrix
7 11 (2.69%) Commvault
7 11 (2.69%) Oracle
8 10 (2.44%) McAfee
8 10 (2.44%) Red Hat
9 9 (2.20%) HP
10 8 (1.96%) Dell
11 6 (1.47%) Aruba
11 6 (1.47%) Epicor
11 6 (1.47%) ForgeRock
11 6 (1.47%) Google
11 6 (1.47%) Meraki
11 6 (1.47%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.47%) Sitecore