Virtual Servers Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Virtual Servers
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Virtual Servers skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 499 483 479
Rank change year-on-year -16 -4 +180
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Servers 16 84 62
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.038% 0.22% 0.20%
As % of the System Software category 0.56% 1.87% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 14 46 44
10th Percentile £34,674 £31,250 £31,625
25th Percentile £39,250 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% +11.11% +4.05%
75th Percentile £49,875 £54,752 £51,250
90th Percentile £52,850 £86,000 £61,949
UK median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% +5.26% -11.21%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

Virtual Servers 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 2,845 4,504 5,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.78% 12.03% 17.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,999 2,608 4,373
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £50,000 £47,557
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% +5.14% -1.94%
75th Percentile £60,750 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -0.90%

Virtual Servers
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Virtual Servers relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Virtual Servers job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Virtual Servers
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Virtual Servers.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Virtual Servers

Virtual Servers
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Servers in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Virtual Servers in the UK excluding London

Virtual Servers
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 Servers within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 December 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 +23 6 £42,000 -16.00% 9
Midlands +20 3 £35,866 -28.27% 3
East of England +11 3 £44,000 +17.33% 2
West Midlands +29 2 £35,866 -15.61% 1
Scotland +6 2 £48,000 +47.69%
South West -2 1 £45,000 -46.43%
North of England -4 1 £48,000 +14.29% 6
Yorkshire -5 1 £48,000 +60.00% 2
East Midlands -13 1 £52,500 -4.55% 2
Virtual Servers
UK

Virtual Servers
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 15 (93.75%) Azure
2 8 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (18.75%) AWS
4 3 (18.75%) GCP
4 3 (18.75%) SaaS
5 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (12.50%) Azure AKS
5 2 (12.50%) IaaS
5 2 (12.50%) PaaS
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (6.25%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 10 (62.50%) DNS
2 8 (50.00%) DHCP
3 7 (43.75%) Firewall
3 7 (43.75%) WAN
4 6 (37.50%) LAN
5 3 (18.75%) VPN
5 3 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (12.50%) IPsec
6 2 (12.50%) SD-WAN
6 2 (12.50%) SSL
6 2 (12.50%) VLAN
7 1 (6.25%) SAN
7 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
General
1 3 (18.75%) Law
2 2 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) IT Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) IT Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) 1st Line Support
5 1 (6.25%) Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Systems Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Biopharmaceutical
2 1 (6.25%) CMDB
2 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (75.00%) Windows
2 7 (43.75%) Windows Server
3 4 (25.00%) Linux
4 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (6.25%) Android
5 1 (6.25%) VMS
5 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (18.75%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (18.75%) DevOps
6 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (12.50%) BCP
7 2 (12.50%) Business Continuity
7 2 (12.50%) Business Continuity Planning
7 2 (12.50%) Cloud Security
7 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
7 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
7 2 (12.50%) Identity Management
7 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Maintenance
7 2 (12.50%) Validation
7 2 (12.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 1 (6.25%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) MCSE
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (18.75%) CCNA
2 3 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (18.75%) MCP
3 2 (12.50%) Degree
4 1 (6.25%) A+ Certification
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 1 (6.25%) HND
4 1 (6.25%) MCSA
4 1 (6.25%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) GxP
1 2 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (68.75%) Active Directory
2 5 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (18.75%) Hyper-V
4 3 (18.75%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (12.50%) Docker
5 2 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (25.00%) Ansible
2 4 (25.00%) Terraform
3 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 1 (6.25%) VxRail
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) VMware
3 3 (18.75%) Veeam
4 1 (6.25%) Apple
4 1 (6.25%) Aruba
4 1 (6.25%) Mitel
4 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto