Virtual Servers Jobs in the UK excluding London

Virtual Servers
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Virtual Servers skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Servers over the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 489 575 564
Rank change year-on-year +86 -11 +148
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing Virtual Servers 75 115 80
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.19% 0.19%
As % of the System Software category 1.66% 1.87% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 16 73 56
10th Percentile - £31,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £39,250 £35,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% -11.11% +7.14%
75th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £51,250 £93,750 £63,250
UK median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -20.00% -1.96%

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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,522 6,138 6,980
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.70% 9.95% 16.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,505 4,283 4,894
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,750 £32,500 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -4.04% -1.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,840 £73,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £48,500 £50,000 £55,150
% change year-on-year -3.00% -9.34% +0.27%

Virtual Servers
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Servers 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 27 August 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 27 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +87 59 £39,607 +0.27% 7
Yorkshire +83 58 £45,500 +102.22% 3
South East +19 8 £40,500 -12.43% 9
Wales +25 5 £47,500 +18.75%
East of England -31 2 - -
Midlands +35 1 £52,500 +29.70% 1
East Midlands +22 1 £52,500 +10.53%
North West +18 1 £33,715 -14.65% 2
Virtual Servers
UK

Virtual Servers
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 (1.33%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (1.33%) IIS
1 1 (1.33%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (16.00%) Azure
2 9 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (6.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.33%) AWS
4 1 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.33%) GitHub
4 1 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (1.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 65 (86.67%) Firewall
2 6 (8.00%) DNS
3 5 (6.67%) DHCP
4 3 (4.00%) WAN
4 3 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (2.67%) IPsec
5 2 (2.67%) LAN
5 2 (2.67%) SAN
5 2 (2.67%) SSL
5 2 (2.67%) VLAN
6 1 (1.33%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.33%) Network Security
6 1 (1.33%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.33%) MariaDB
1 4 (5.33%) MySQL
1 4 (5.33%) RDBMS
1 4 (5.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Git
1 1 (1.33%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (1.33%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (5.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (2.67%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (1.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (56.00%) IT Engineer
2 19 (25.33%) Instrumentation Engineer
3 6 (8.00%) Administrator
3 6 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (8.00%) Systems Administrator
4 4 (5.33%) Analyst
4 4 (5.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 4 (5.33%) IT Analyst
4 4 (5.33%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
4 4 (5.33%) Linux Administrator
4 4 (5.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 4 (5.33%) VMWare Administrator
5 2 (2.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (1.33%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
6 1 (1.33%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (1.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 1 (1.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (1.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.33%) IT Support
6 1 (1.33%) Junior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 57 (76.00%) Operational Technology
2 4 (5.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.67%) Biopharmaceutical
4 1 (1.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 68 (90.67%) Windows
2 10 (13.33%) Windows Server
3 5 (6.67%) Linux
4 4 (5.33%) CentOS
4 4 (5.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (5.33%) Ubuntu
5 3 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.33%) VMS
6 1 (1.33%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (85.33%) Cybersecurity
2 57 (76.00%) Network Design
2 57 (76.00%) Network Management
3 8 (10.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (8.00%) Security Patching
5 4 (5.33%) BCP
5 4 (5.33%) Business Continuity
5 4 (5.33%) Business Continuity Planning
5 4 (5.33%) Cloud Security
5 4 (5.33%) Computer Science
6 3 (4.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (2.67%) Infrastructure Maintenance
7 2 (2.67%) Validation
8 1 (1.33%) CI/CD
8 1 (1.33%) Collaborative Culture
8 1 (1.33%) CRM
8 1 (1.33%) Service Delivery
8 1 (1.33%) Software Testing
8 1 (1.33%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (5.33%) Degree
2 2 (2.67%) CCNA
2 2 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (2.67%) MCSE
2 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.67%) GxP
1 2 (2.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.33%) QA
System Software
1 69 (92.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (10.67%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (6.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 4 (5.33%) vSphere
6 1 (1.33%) Docker
6 1 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.33%) Ansible
2 1 (1.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.33%) Terraform
2 1 (1.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 12 (16.00%) VMware
2 6 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.33%) Guidewire
3 1 (1.33%) Meraki
3 1 (1.33%) Pega
3 1 (1.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.33%) Veeam