SCVMM Job Trends

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring SCVMM skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 639 714 682
Rank change year-on-year +75 -32 +305
Permanent jobs citing SCVMM 5 2 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.008% 0.004% 0.037%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.12% 0.033% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 19
10th Percentile £50,000 £32,143 -
25th Percentile £51,875 £36,369 £24,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,525 £36,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.81% +26.46% -30.77%
75th Percentile £58,125 £55,069 £48,750
90th Percentile £59,250 £59,528 £56,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £31,050 £36,000
% change year-on-year +77.13% -13.75% -24.21%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

SCVMM 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 4,173 6,093 7,459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.05% 10.99% 14.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,989 3,740 6,094
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £42,250 £49,944 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £68,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +4.62% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £104,000 £106,250 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +2.68% -2.61%

SCVMM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

SCVMM job vacancy trend in the UK

SCVMM
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SCVMM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SCVMM

SCVMM
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SCVMM within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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
England +71 5 £55,000 +20.81% 1
UK excluding London +56 5 £55,000 +77.13%
South West - 5 £55,000 -

SCVMM
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) AWS
3 3 (60.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) DHCP
1 4 (80.00%) DNS
1 4 (80.00%) VSAN
2 3 (60.00%) LAN
2 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (60.00%) WAN
3 1 (20.00%) NAS
3 1 (20.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Virtualisation Administrator
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 3 (60.00%) CentOS
3 3 (60.00%) Linux
3 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (20.00%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) RBAC
2 3 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Time Management
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) ITSM
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (60.00%) Bash
2 3 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) McAfee ePO
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) McAfee
1 4 (80.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds