Application Virtualisation Job Trends

Application Virtualization
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Application Virtualisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 644 720 604
Rank change year-on-year +76 -116 +503
Permanent jobs citing Application Virtualisation 9 27 117
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.018% 0.040% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.021% 0.048% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1 23 60
10th Percentile - £39,150 -
25th Percentile £56,250 £46,875 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,252 £44,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +26.41% -17.21%
75th Percentile £58,750 £95,000 £55,250
90th Percentile - - £55,378
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £53,126 £54,500
% change year-on-year +8.23% -2.52% +9.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Application Virtualisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 43,858 55,843 50,051
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 87.24% 82.56% 93.90%
Number of salaries quoted 26,007 29,332 38,488
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £45,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,285 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.53% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,750 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.43% +2.86% -

Application Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Application Virtualisation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Application Virtualisation job vacancy trend in the UK

Application Virtualisation
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Application Virtualisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Application Virtualisation

Application Virtualisation
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Application Virtualisation within the UK over the 6 months to 4 November 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
UK excluding London +65 9 £57,500 +8.23% 5
Work from Home +60 8 - - 2
Scotland +1 8 - -
England +79 1 £57,500 +2.22% 6
South East +26 1 £57,500 +2.22%

Application Virtualisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (88.89%) Entra ID
2 8 (88.89%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DHCP
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
1 1 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (11.11%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
General
1 8 (88.89%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support
1 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Product Ownership
1 8 (88.89%) Security Posture
2 1 (11.11%) Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (11.11%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
1 8 (88.89%) AI
1 8 (88.89%) Analytics
1 8 (88.89%) Asset Management
1 8 (88.89%) Coaching
1 8 (88.89%) Continuous Improvement
1 8 (88.89%) FinOps
1 8 (88.89%) ITIL
1 8 (88.89%) Machine Learning
1 8 (88.89%) Roadmaps
1 8 (88.89%) Technology Roadmap
1 8 (88.89%) Zero Trust
2 1 (11.11%) Disk Encryption
2 1 (11.11%) High Availability
2 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) RBAC
2 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (88.89%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (11.11%) BitLocker
3 1 (11.11%) Docker
3 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (11.11%) Terminal Services
3 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Microsoft Intune
1 8 (88.89%) SCCM
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Nagios
2 1 (11.11%) Puppet
2 1 (11.11%) vCenter Server
2 1 (11.11%) vMotion
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Citrix
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) HP
2 1 (11.11%) Symantec
2 1 (11.11%) VMware