Virtualisation Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Virtualization Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Virtualization Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £53,688 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 571 772 712
Rank change year-on-year +201 -60 +123
Permanent jobs requiring a Virtualisation Engineer 15 9 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.038% 0.011% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.012% 0.037%
Number of salaries quoted 14 9 17
10th Percentile - £40,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.31% -18.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £58,750 £50,000 £63,750
90th Percentile - £56,000 £71,000
UK median annual salary £53,688 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.31% -10.00% +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,501 75,992 49,075
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.59% 94.87% 88.82%
Number of salaries quoted 18,237 53,060 29,232
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +6.37%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Virtualisation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Virtualisation Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Virtualisation Engineer in the UK excluding London

Virtualisation Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Virtualisation Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Virtualisation Engineer in the UK excluding London

Virtualisation Engineer
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 Virtualisation Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 June 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 +98 7 £57,500 +15.00%
Midlands +83 6 £53,688 +19.31% 1
West Midlands +62 4 £53,688 +19.31% 1
Scotland +115 2 £50,000 +11.11% 1
East Midlands - 2 £50,000 -
Virtualisation Engineer
UK

Virtualisation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 13 June 2025, Virtualisation Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Virtualisation Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (93.33%) VMware
1 14 (93.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (80.00%) Windows
2 12 (80.00%) Microsoft
3 11 (73.33%) vSphere
4 10 (66.67%) PowerShell
5 9 (60.00%) Incident Management
5 9 (60.00%) Windows Server
5 9 (60.00%) Active Directory
5 9 (60.00%) DNS
5 9 (60.00%) Citrix
6 8 (53.33%) SAN
6 8 (53.33%) DHCP
6 8 (53.33%) HP
6 8 (53.33%) Hyper-V
6 8 (53.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (46.67%) PowerCLI
7 7 (46.67%) VSAN
7 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
7 7 (46.67%) vRealize
7 7 (46.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 6 (40.00%) Clustering
8 6 (40.00%) Configuration Management
8 6 (40.00%) Dell
8 6 (40.00%) Ansible
8 6 (40.00%) Docker
8 6 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (40.00%) High Availability
8 6 (40.00%) vMotion
8 6 (40.00%) Kubernetes

Virtualisation Engineer Skill Set
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 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (13.33%) IIS
2 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) AWS
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (60.00%) DNS
2 8 (53.33%) DHCP
2 8 (53.33%) SAN
3 7 (46.67%) VSAN
4 6 (40.00%) NAS
5 2 (13.33%) Firewall
5 2 (13.33%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (53.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (33.33%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Clustering
2 3 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 12 (80.00%) Windows
2 9 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (13.33%) Linux
5 1 (6.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Incident Management
2 6 (40.00%) Configuration Management
2 6 (40.00%) High Availability
2 6 (40.00%) Security Hardening
2 6 (40.00%) Task Automation
2 6 (40.00%) Virtual Environments
2 6 (40.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (20.00%) Availability Management
4 3 (20.00%) Change Management
4 3 (20.00%) ITIL
4 3 (20.00%) Performance Management
4 3 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 3 (20.00%) Release Management
4 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (20.00%) Server Management
5 2 (13.33%) Fintech
5 2 (13.33%) Network Management
5 2 (13.33%) Storage Management
6 1 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
1 7 (46.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 6 (40.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (6.67%) MCSA
4 1 (6.67%) MCSE
System Software
1 14 (93.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (73.33%) vSphere
3 9 (60.00%) Active Directory
4 8 (53.33%) Hyper-V
5 6 (40.00%) Docker
5 6 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (13.33%) KVM
6 2 (13.33%) Terminal Services
7 1 (6.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) PowerCLI
1 7 (46.67%) vRealize
2 6 (40.00%) Ansible
2 6 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (40.00%) Puppet
2 6 (40.00%) vCenter Server
2 6 (40.00%) vMotion
3 1 (6.67%) OpenNebula
3 1 (6.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 14 (93.33%) VMware
2 12 (80.00%) Microsoft
3 9 (60.00%) Citrix
4 8 (53.33%) HP
5 6 (40.00%) Dell
5 6 (40.00%) Veeam
6 3 (20.00%) Isilon
7 2 (13.33%) NetApp
8 1 (6.67%) Cisco
8 1 (6.67%) Juniper