Application Virtualisation Job Trends

Application Virtualization
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Application Virtualisation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 664 775 699
Rank change year-on-year +111 -76 +478
Permanent jobs citing Application Virtualisation 12 21 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.027% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.027% 0.033% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6 17 56
10th Percentile - £55,250 -
25th Percentile £56,250 - £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,252 £44,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +26.41% -6.81%
75th Percentile £58,750 £95,000 £55,250
90th Percentile - £117,000 £66,388
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £56,252 £54,500
% change year-on-year +2.22% +3.21% +12.37%

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 43,869 63,416 56,859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.70% 81.19% 94.35%
Number of salaries quoted 24,728 36,039 42,828
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

Application Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Application Virtualisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Application Virtualisation 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 18 September 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 +113 12 £57,500 +2.22% 4
England +96 6 £57,500 +2.22% 3
Work from Home +74 6 - - 4
South East +45 6 £57,500 +2.22%
Scotland - 6 - - 2

Application Virtualisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 6 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 6 (50.00%) GCP
2 6 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) DHCP
1 6 (50.00%) DNS
1 6 (50.00%) Firewall
1 6 (50.00%) Network Security
1 6 (50.00%) Remote Desktop
1 6 (50.00%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
1 6 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support
1 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Clustering
1 6 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 6 (50.00%) PKI
1 6 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 6 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (50.00%) Linux
2 6 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
1 6 (50.00%) Analytics
1 6 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 6 (50.00%) Coaching
1 6 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (50.00%) Disk Encryption
1 6 (50.00%) FinOps
1 6 (50.00%) High Availability
1 6 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (50.00%) ITIL
1 6 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 6 (50.00%) RBAC
1 6 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 6 (50.00%) Task Automation
1 6 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 6 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 12 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (50.00%) BitLocker
2 6 (50.00%) Docker
2 6 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 6 (50.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 6 (50.00%) Terminal Services
2 6 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 6 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 6 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Ansible
1 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (50.00%) Nagios
1 6 (50.00%) Puppet
1 6 (50.00%) SCCM
1 6 (50.00%) vCenter Server
1 6 (50.00%) vMotion
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (50.00%) Citrix
2 6 (50.00%) Google
2 6 (50.00%) HP
2 6 (50.00%) Symantec
2 6 (50.00%) VMware