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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 602 462 616
Rank change year-on-year -140 +154 -30
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Servers 23 79 121
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.032% 0.23% 0.17%
As % of the System Software category 0.58% 1.82% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 14 21 86
10th Percentile £27,902 £37,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +12.50% -6.98%
75th Percentile £45,313 £48,750 £50,000
90th Percentile £59,297 £61,250 £93,750
UK median annual salary £46,370 £45,000 £40,478
% change year-on-year +3.04% +11.17% -19.04%

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 3,975 4,350 8,233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.55% 12.87% 11.25%
Number of salaries quoted 3,062 2,578 6,487
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £46,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% +2.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £72,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £49,500
% change year-on-year - +6.06% -10.00%

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 16 July 2026.

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 16 July 2026. 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 West -52 6 - -
South East -15 5 £37,500 -10.71% 3
Midlands -18 4 £37,000 -37.82% 3
West Midlands - 4 £37,000 -
East of England - 4 £47,739 - 5
Wales -56 2 £25,000 -47.37% 3
North of England -90 2 £55,000 +22.22% 2
North West -4 1 £65,000 +65.15% 1
Yorkshire -90 1 £45,000 -1.10% 1
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 6 (26.09%) SharePoint
2 3 (13.04%) SAS
3 1 (4.35%) IIS
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 17 (73.91%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (47.83%) Azure
3 6 (26.09%) AWS
4 3 (13.04%) Entra ID
4 3 (13.04%) Mimecast
5 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (4.35%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (4.35%) IaaS
6 1 (4.35%) PaaS
6 1 (4.35%) Rubrik
6 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (69.57%) Firewall
2 10 (43.48%) DNS
3 8 (34.78%) VPN
4 7 (30.43%) TCP/IP
4 7 (30.43%) WAN
5 6 (26.09%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (26.09%) Cisco Firepower
5 6 (26.09%) DHCP
5 6 (26.09%) LAN
5 6 (26.09%) Unified Communications
5 6 (26.09%) VLAN
5 6 (26.09%) WebEx
6 3 (13.04%) FTP
7 2 (8.70%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (8.70%) Ethernet
7 2 (8.70%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (4.35%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) Crystal Reports
2 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) JIRA
General
1 9 (39.13%) Retail
2 6 (26.09%) Banking
2 6 (26.09%) Marketing
2 6 (26.09%) Public Sector
2 6 (26.09%) Telecoms
3 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Finance
4 3 (13.04%) Games
4 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Analyst
2 9 (39.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (30.43%) IT Analyst
4 6 (26.09%) Collaboration Engineer
5 4 (17.39%) IT Operations Analyst
5 4 (17.39%) Operations Analyst
6 3 (13.04%) IT Support
6 3 (13.04%) IT Support Analyst
6 3 (13.04%) Support Analyst
6 3 (13.04%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (8.70%) ICT Support
7 2 (8.70%) ICT Support Technician
7 2 (8.70%) ICT Technician
7 2 (8.70%) Support Technician
8 1 (4.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 1 (4.35%) 3rd Line Support
8 1 (4.35%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Support
8 1 (4.35%) Senior
8 1 (4.35%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (43.48%) Replication
2 9 (39.13%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (39.13%) Onboarding
3 8 (34.78%) Video Conferencing
4 6 (26.09%) FlexPod
5 4 (17.39%) Data Centre
6 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
7 1 (4.35%) Clustering
7 1 (4.35%) CMDB
7 1 (4.35%) Driving Licence
7 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 18 (78.26%) Windows
2 11 (47.83%) Windows Server
3 7 (30.43%) Linux
4 3 (13.04%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) ITIL
2 10 (43.48%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (39.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure Automation
5 6 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (26.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (26.09%) Data Management
5 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (26.09%) Performance Management
6 5 (21.74%) Customer Service
7 4 (17.39%) Patch Management
7 4 (17.39%) Preventative Maintenance
7 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (17.39%) Process Improvement
7 4 (17.39%) Service Delivery
8 3 (13.04%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 3 (13.04%) Service Management
9 2 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery
9 2 (8.70%) Inventory Management
9 2 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) SQL
2 6 (26.09%) Python
3 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.35%) Bash
4 1 (4.35%) C#
4 1 (4.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) Degree
2 3 (13.04%) A+ Certification
2 3 (13.04%) Azure Certification
2 3 (13.04%) MCSA
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.35%) IISP
3 1 (4.35%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) SLA
2 1 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (78.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 13 (56.52%) Active Directory
3 8 (34.78%) Hyper-V
3 8 (34.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (30.43%) vSphere
5 1 (4.35%) MetaFrame
5 1 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (4.35%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Ansible
1 6 (26.09%) Cisco CUCM
1 6 (26.09%) Grafana
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (26.09%) Terraform
2 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (95.65%) Microsoft
2 12 (52.17%) Cisco
3 8 (34.78%) VMware
4 6 (26.09%) Fortinet
4 6 (26.09%) NetApp
4 6 (26.09%) Palo Alto
4 6 (26.09%) Splunk
5 4 (17.39%) Citrix
5 4 (17.39%) Veeam
6 3 (13.04%) Meraki
6 3 (13.04%) SonicWALL
7 1 (4.35%) IFS
7 1 (4.35%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (4.35%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (4.35%) Oracle
7 1 (4.35%) SolarWinds