Virtualisation Engineer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Virtualization Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Virtualization Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £49,330 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 509 567 537
Rank change year-on-year +58 -30 +246
Permanent jobs requiring a Virtualisation Engineer 6 11 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.014% 0.029% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.032% 0.037%
Number of salaries quoted 4 11 11
10th Percentile - - £42,500
25th Percentile £46,160 £42,238 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,330 £44,274 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.42% -6.79% -20.83%
75th Percentile £57,188 £48,530 £56,250
90th Percentile £58,875 £53,300 £62,500
UK median annual salary £49,330 £73,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -32.42% +53.68% -20.83%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 38,047 34,909 29,415
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.35% 93.37% 95.30%
Number of salaries quoted 23,097 17,390 22,253
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £34,750 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Virtualisation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Virtualisation Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Virtualisation Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Virtualisation Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Virtualisation Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Virtualisation Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Virtualisation Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtualisation Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Salary histogram 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 29 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 West - 3 £56,250 - 2
East of England - 2 £46,160 -
North West +23 1 - -
North of England -1 1 - -
Virtualisation Engineer
UK

Virtualisation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 29 December 2025, Virtualisation Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of 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 5 (83.33%) Linux
1 5 (83.33%) Red Hat
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
1 5 (83.33%) Windows Server
2 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (50.00%) Bash
3 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (50.00%) McAfee
3 3 (50.00%) McAfee ePO
3 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (50.00%) Python
3 3 (50.00%) SCVMM
3 3 (50.00%) VMware
3 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (50.00%) VSAN
3 3 (50.00%) vSphere
3 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (33.33%) AI
4 2 (33.33%) CentOS
4 2 (33.33%) DHCP
4 2 (33.33%) DNS
4 2 (33.33%) Git
4 2 (33.33%) Information Security
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) IT Strategy

Virtualisation Engineer Skill Set
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 (16.67%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) VSAN
2 2 (33.33%) DHCP
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) LAN
2 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
1 5 (83.33%) Windows Server
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (33.33%) CentOS
3 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (16.67%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) AI
2 2 (33.33%) Information Security
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) IT Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
2 2 (33.33%) RBAC
2 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Time Management
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Environments
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Observability
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Bash
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (50.00%) vSphere
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) McAfee ePO
1 3 (50.00%) SCVMM
2 2 (33.33%) vCenter Server
3 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Red Hat
2 3 (50.00%) McAfee
2 3 (50.00%) VMware
3 2 (33.33%) NVIDIA
4 1 (16.67%) F5
4 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto