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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 564 649 663
Rank change year-on-year +85 +14 +28
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Servers 24 115 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.060% 0.16% 0.15%
As % of the System Software category 0.57% 1.31% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 20 86 72
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £38,480 £35,688 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £40,000 £43,250
Median % change year-on-year +16.25% -7.51% +1.76%
75th Percentile £55,689 £48,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £61,250 £93,750 £67,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £40,478 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.17% -26.40% +22.22%

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 4,221 8,769 9,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.59% 12.26% 15.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,487 7,027 5,757
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,700 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £67,070
90th Percentile £83,750 £73,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Virtual Servers in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Virtual Servers in the UK excluding London

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 West +111 6 £39,500 +36.80% 3
Midlands +37 5 £55,000 +37.50% 3
North of England +26 5 £39,357 +4.95% 30
East Midlands +19 5 £55,000 +22.22% 2
Wales - 4 £47,500 -
North West 0 3 £39,357 - 2
South East +48 2 £66,000 +63.98% 8
Yorkshire +62 1 £45,500 +102.22% 28
East of England +29 1 £38,890 -22.22% 1
North East +20 1 £32,500 -13.33%
Scotland - 1 £32,500 - 1
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 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (33.33%) Firewall
2 4 (16.67%) Network Security
3 3 (12.50%) DHCP
3 3 (12.50%) DNS
3 3 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (12.50%) VoIP
4 1 (4.17%) Internet
4 1 (4.17%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (4.17%) SAN
4 1 (4.17%) SD-WAN
4 1 (4.17%) Unified Communications
4 1 (4.17%) WAN
4 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) MariaDB
1 4 (16.67%) MySQL
1 4 (16.67%) RDBMS
1 4 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.17%) Power BI
General
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Retail
3 3 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Finance
5 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Administrator
2 5 (20.83%) IT Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (16.67%) Linux Administrator
3 4 (16.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 4 (16.67%) VMWare Administrator
4 3 (12.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (12.50%) IT Support
4 3 (12.50%) Senior
5 2 (8.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior IT Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Support Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Business Systems Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) IT Manager
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Data Centre
2 5 (20.83%) Management Information System
2 5 (20.83%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (8.33%) CCTV
3 2 (8.33%) Driving Licence
4 1 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (4.17%) Replication
4 1 (4.17%) Smartphone
4 1 (4.17%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (50.00%) Windows
2 9 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 7 (29.17%) Linux
4 4 (16.67%) CentOS
4 4 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (16.67%) Ubuntu
5 2 (8.33%) Windows 10
5 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (20.83%) ITIL
4 4 (16.67%) Business Continuity
4 4 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 4 (16.67%) High Availability
4 4 (16.67%) Security Patching
5 3 (12.50%) Customer Service
5 3 (12.50%) Data Security
5 3 (12.50%) Service Delivery
6 2 (8.33%) Asset Management
6 2 (8.33%) Data Protection
6 2 (8.33%) Decision-Making
6 2 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (8.33%) Proactive Maintenance
6 2 (8.33%) Project Planning
6 2 (8.33%) Security Management
6 2 (8.33%) Strategic Planning
6 2 (8.33%) Strategic Thinking
6 2 (8.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) DBS Check
3 1 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (4.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) SLA
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (29.17%) Active Directory
3 5 (20.83%) Hyper-V
3 5 (20.83%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (20.83%) vSphere
4 1 (4.17%) Firmware
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) SCCM
2 2 (8.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) VMware
2 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) Avaya
3 2 (8.33%) Meraki
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco
4 1 (4.17%) CyberArk
4 1 (4.17%) SAP