Proxmox Virtual Environment
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Proxmox skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Proxmox over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 685 905 952
Rank change year-on-year +220 +47 +244
Permanent jobs citing Proxmox 24 7 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.043% 0.007% 0.010%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.43% 0.071% 0.070%
Number of salaries quoted 8 7 10
10th Percentile £39,750 £33,650 -
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -6.25% -17.95%
75th Percentile £69,375 £47,000 -
90th Percentile £75,750 £56,292 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% -17.95%

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 5,645 9,864 14,258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.19% 9.55% 14.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,097 7,020 8,824
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,400
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £61,206 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.28% -9.32% -3.57%
75th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.60% +0.89%

Proxmox
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Proxmox in the UK

Proxmox
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Proxmox.

Salary trend for Proxmox in the UK

Proxmox
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Proxmox over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Proxmox in the UK

Proxmox
Top 11 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 30 May 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
England +174 23 £65,000 +73.33% 16
UK excluding London +210 21 £42,500 +13.33% 23
London +119 7 £67,500 +58.82% 2
North of England +54 7 £60,000 +60.00%
North West +15 7 £60,000 +6.18%
South East - 7 £42,500 - 2
West Midlands - 6 - - 11
Midlands - 6 - - 11
Work from Home +122 4 £42,500 -24.79% 21
East of England - 1 £67,500 -
Scotland - 1 £37,500 - 5

Proxmox
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 3 (12.50%) Confluence
1 3 (12.50%) nginx
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.17%) IIS
3 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (37.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 13 (54.17%) AWS
2 11 (45.83%) Azure
3 9 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
3 9 (37.50%) Amazon S3
3 9 (37.50%) AWS KMS
3 9 (37.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 7 (29.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 7 (29.17%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (29.17%) Serverless
5 6 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (20.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (20.83%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (20.83%) Amazon ELB
7 3 (12.50%) Amazon Glacier
8 2 (8.33%) Route 53
9 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
9 1 (4.17%) GCP
9 1 (4.17%) Nutanix
9 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (83.33%) Firewall
2 12 (50.00%) DNS
3 8 (33.33%) VPN
4 7 (29.17%) SSL
4 7 (29.17%) VLAN
5 6 (25.00%) MPLS
5 6 (25.00%) WAN
6 2 (8.33%) FTP
6 2 (8.33%) HTTP
6 2 (8.33%) IMAP
6 2 (8.33%) IPsec
6 2 (8.33%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (8.33%) SMTP
6 2 (8.33%) SSH
7 1 (4.17%) DHCP
7 1 (4.17%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (8.33%) Big Data
2 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 7 (29.17%) Bitbucket Server
3 5 (20.83%) Vagrant
4 3 (12.50%) Git
5 2 (8.33%) JIRA
6 1 (4.17%) GitLab
General
1 12 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Financial Institution
3 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) Junior
2 6 (25.00%) Junior Support Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) Junior Technical Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) Junior Technical Support
2 6 (25.00%) Junior Technical Support Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) Technical Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) Technical Support
2 6 (25.00%) Technical Support Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Administrator
5 3 (12.50%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 3 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (8.33%) LDAP
2 1 (4.17%) LEMP Stack
2 1 (4.17%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Private Cloud
2 3 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (8.33%) Cyberattack
3 2 (8.33%) PKI
3 2 (8.33%) Replication
4 1 (4.17%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (70.83%) Linux
2 15 (62.50%) Windows
3 11 (45.83%) Ubuntu
4 8 (33.33%) Windows Server
5 5 (20.83%) VMS
6 4 (16.67%) CentOS
7 3 (12.50%) Debian
7 3 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (8.33%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (4.17%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) DevOps
2 10 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (37.50%) Patch Management
4 8 (33.33%) Configuration Management
4 8 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 7 (29.17%) Agile
5 7 (29.17%) Capacity Management
5 7 (29.17%) ITIL
5 7 (29.17%) Key Management
6 6 (25.00%) Customer Experience
6 6 (25.00%) Customer Service
6 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (20.83%) CI/CD
7 5 (20.83%) Cloud Security
7 5 (20.83%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (16.67%) Server Management
9 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
10 2 (8.33%) Change Management
10 2 (8.33%) Machine Learning
10 2 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) Python
2 7 (29.17%) Shell Script
3 6 (25.00%) Bash
4 5 (20.83%) Groovy
4 5 (20.83%) Perl
4 5 (20.83%) PowerShell
5 4 (16.67%) SQL
6 3 (12.50%) Java
6 3 (12.50%) Ruby
7 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 2 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.17%) NIST
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 12 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (45.83%) Docker
3 8 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 7 (29.17%) Hyper-V
4 7 (29.17%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (29.17%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (16.67%) Postfix
6 2 (8.33%) DFS Replication
6 2 (8.33%) Dovecot
6 2 (8.33%) Squid
Systems Management
1 13 (54.17%) Ansible
2 12 (50.00%) Terraform
3 9 (37.50%) Nessus
4 6 (25.00%) Nagios
5 4 (16.67%) Grafana
5 4 (16.67%) Prometheus
6 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (12.50%) Puppet
7 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
7 2 (8.33%) ZABBIX
8 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 13 (54.17%) VMware
2 7 (29.17%) Juniper
2 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
3 6 (25.00%) Cisco
4 2 (8.33%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.17%) Atlassian
5 1 (4.17%) Nimble Storage
5 1 (4.17%) Perforce
5 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.17%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.17%) Veeam