Proxmox Job Trends

Proxmox Virtual Environment
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Proxmox skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 670 644 821
Rank change year-on-year -26 +177 +178
Permanent jobs citing Proxmox 21 9 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.028% 0.021% 0.009%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.47% 0.18% 0.088%
Number of salaries quoted 21 6 8
10th Percentile £35,750 - £34,300
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £53,750 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.42% +43.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,313 £53,188
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £56,031
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year +5.88% +13.33% -6.25%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Proxmox falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,452 4,956 9,055
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.95% 11.53% 10.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,073 3,453 7,171
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,912 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £114,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,709 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.82% +11.11% -4.42%

Proxmox
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Proxmox job vacancy trend in the UK

Proxmox
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Proxmox.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Proxmox

Proxmox
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Proxmox over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Proxmox in the UK

Proxmox
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Proxmox within the UK over the 6 months to 17 March 2026. 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 -13 18 £45,000 +5.88% 15
England -16 14 £62,500 +16.28% 15
Work from Home +30 12 £62,500 +47.06% 8
South East -9 9 £62,500 +47.06% 7
Wales - 6 £45,000 -
London +11 3 £75,000 +11.11%
North West - 2 £36,500 - 2
North of England - 2 £36,500 - 3
Scotland - 1 £40,000 -

Proxmox
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 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (9.52%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.76%) nginx
3 1 (4.76%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (52.38%) AWS
2 10 (47.62%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (38.10%) GitHub
4 7 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
4 7 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (28.57%) Azure
6 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
6 2 (9.52%) IBM Cloud
6 2 (9.52%) Nutanix
7 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.76%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (80.95%) Firewall
2 12 (57.14%) VPN
3 5 (23.81%) VLAN
4 3 (14.29%) DNS
5 1 (4.76%) DHCP
5 1 (4.76%) HTTP
5 1 (4.76%) HTTPS
5 1 (4.76%) LAN
5 1 (4.76%) Multicast
5 1 (4.76%) SMTP
5 1 (4.76%) SSL
5 1 (4.76%) WAN
5 1 (4.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Git
General
1 7 (33.33%) Retail
2 6 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
4 3 (14.29%) Finance
5 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (9.52%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.76%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Administrator
1 10 (47.62%) Systems Administrator
2 7 (33.33%) DevOps Administrator
2 7 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 7 (33.33%) IT Support
2 7 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
2 7 (33.33%) Senior
2 7 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
2 7 (33.33%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 7 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 6 (28.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 6 (28.57%) 3rd Line Support
3 6 (28.57%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Network Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Network Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Network Security Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Security Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Linux Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) LEMP Stack
1 1 (4.76%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 7 (33.33%) Private Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (9.52%) PKI
3 1 (4.76%) Driving Licence
3 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (57.14%) Windows
2 11 (52.38%) Linux
3 6 (28.57%) Mac OS
4 3 (14.29%) Windows Server
5 1 (4.76%) CentOS
5 1 (4.76%) FreeBSD
5 1 (4.76%) OpenBSD
5 1 (4.76%) Rocky
5 1 (4.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) DevOps
2 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
2 8 (38.10%) Configuration Management
2 8 (38.10%) Security Management
3 7 (33.33%) AI
3 7 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 7 (33.33%) Observability
3 7 (33.33%) Problem Management
4 6 (28.57%) ITIL
4 6 (28.57%) Kalman Filter
4 6 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 6 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
4 6 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (28.57%) Web Filtering
5 3 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (9.52%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (9.52%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) Bash
1 9 (42.86%) Python
2 7 (33.33%) Go
3 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (42.86%) AWS Certification
2 6 (28.57%) SC Cleared
2 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 2 (9.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) GDPR
1 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.76%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (47.62%) Hyper-V
3 9 (42.86%) Active Directory
4 6 (28.57%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (9.52%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (4.76%) KVM
6 1 (4.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (42.86%) Ansible
1 9 (42.86%) Terraform
2 7 (33.33%) Grafana
2 7 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 7 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 6 (28.57%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (9.52%) Nessus
6 1 (4.76%) Nagios
6 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 21 (100.00%) VMware
2 12 (57.14%) Microsoft
3 3 (14.29%) Meraki
4 2 (9.52%) IBM
4 2 (9.52%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.76%) Peplink
5 1 (4.76%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.76%) Ubiquiti
5 1 (4.76%) Veeam