Virtual Environments Jobs

Virtual Environments
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Virtual Environments skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Environments over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 599 811 833
Rank change year-on-year +212 +22 +98
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Environments 103 96 135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.093% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.11% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 73 55 85
10th Percentile £29,500 £26,350 £25,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £31,750 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £39,000 £43,712
Median % change year-on-year +10.26% -10.78% -2.86%
75th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £85,500 £62,000 £65,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -11.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Virtual Environments 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 52,256 87,133 91,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.58% 84.04% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 25,854 60,896 54,581
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%

Virtual Environments
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Environments in the UK

Virtual Environments
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Virtual Environments.

Salary trend for Virtual Environments in the UK

Virtual Environments
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Environments over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Virtual Environments in the UK

Virtual Environments
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Environments within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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 +185 100 £44,000 +10.00% 64
UK excluding London +182 82 £40,000 +6.67% 56
South East +87 44 £40,000 +14.29% 10
Work from Home +123 30 £42,500 -11.46% 29
London +116 20 £87,500 +20.69% 13
South West +119 16 £32,500 -2.99% 10
Midlands +69 15 £42,500 -10.53% 12
East Midlands +51 11 £40,000 +30.08% 3
West Midlands +52 4 £47,500 -5.00% 9
North of England +24 3 £31,000 -20.00% 10
North West +3 3 £31,000 - 5
Scotland +121 2 £30,000 -10.45% 3
East of England +49 2 £57,500 - 10

Virtual Environments
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 30 (29.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.85%) CMS
Applications
1 16 (15.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 15 (14.56%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 42 (40.78%) Azure
2 26 (25.24%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (12.62%) AWS
4 7 (6.80%) IaaS
5 5 (4.85%) Google Analytics
6 4 (3.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (3.88%) Amazon ECR
6 4 (3.88%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (3.88%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (3.88%) Entra ID
6 4 (3.88%) GCP
7 3 (2.91%) SaaS
8 2 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.94%) Cloudflare
8 2 (1.94%) PaaS
9 1 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.97%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.97%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 40 (38.83%) SAN
2 32 (31.07%) Firewall
3 29 (28.16%) Wi-Fi
4 24 (23.30%) NAS
5 15 (14.56%) VLAN
6 14 (13.59%) DNS
7 13 (12.62%) DHCP
8 12 (11.65%) VoIP
9 10 (9.71%) MPLS
10 8 (7.77%) WAN
11 6 (5.83%) VPN
11 6 (5.83%) VSAN
12 5 (4.85%) Internet
12 5 (4.85%) IP Telephony
12 5 (4.85%) SNMP
12 5 (4.85%) TCP/IP
13 4 (3.88%) LAN
13 4 (3.88%) SD-WAN
14 3 (2.91%) Network Security
15 2 (1.94%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (21.36%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.88%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (3.88%) MySQL
3 1 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.97%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (3.88%) Git
1 4 (3.88%) GitLab
2 1 (0.97%) Moq
2 1 (0.97%) MSTest
2 1 (0.97%) NUnit
2 1 (0.97%) xUnit.net
General
1 38 (36.89%) Social Skills
2 21 (20.39%) Manufacturing
3 17 (16.50%) Finance
4 14 (13.59%) Legal
5 11 (10.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (5.83%) Banking
6 6 (5.83%) Games
6 6 (5.83%) Marketing
7 4 (3.88%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (3.88%) Retail
8 3 (2.91%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.91%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.91%) Automotive
8 3 (2.91%) Electronics
8 3 (2.91%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.94%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.97%) Back Office
10 1 (0.97%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.97%) Law
Job Titles
1 29 (28.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 29 (28.16%) Support Engineer
2 28 (27.18%) IT Engineer
3 23 (22.33%) IT Support
4 21 (20.39%) Infrastructure Support
5 20 (19.42%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 18 (17.48%) IT Support Engineer
7 16 (15.53%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 15 (14.56%) Coordinator
8 15 (14.56%) Help Desk Coordinator
9 9 (8.74%) IT Manager
10 8 (7.77%) Virtualisation Engineer
11 7 (6.80%) Support Specialist
11 7 (6.80%) VMware Specialist
12 6 (5.83%) Project Engineer
12 6 (5.83%) Virtualisation Specialist
12 6 (5.83%) VMware Engineer
12 6 (5.83%) VMware Support Engineer
13 5 (4.85%) DevOps Engineer
13 5 (4.85%) IT Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.83%) CSS
2 5 (4.85%) HTML
3 1 (0.97%) .NET
3 1 (0.97%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.97%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.97%) Entity Framework
3 1 (0.97%) Laravel
3 1 (0.97%) NHibernate
3 1 (0.97%) Ninject
3 1 (0.97%) Pandas
3 1 (0.97%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (0.97%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 1 (0.97%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (19.42%) Clustering
2 19 (18.45%) Video Conferencing
3 10 (9.71%) CCTV
4 7 (6.80%) Driving Licence
5 6 (5.83%) Data Centre
6 5 (4.85%) Blackberry
6 5 (4.85%) Security Posture
7 4 (3.88%) Operational Technology
8 3 (2.91%) EPoS
8 3 (2.91%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.91%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (1.94%) Social Media
10 1 (0.97%) AS400
10 1 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.97%) Derivative
10 1 (0.97%) Fibre Optics
10 1 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.97%) Replication
10 1 (0.97%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 80 (77.67%) Windows
2 52 (50.49%) Windows Server
3 19 (18.45%) Linux
3 19 (18.45%) Windows 10
4 14 (13.59%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (6.80%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (3.88%) CentOS
6 4 (3.88%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.94%) Android
7 2 (1.94%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.94%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (33.98%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (29.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 24 (23.30%) Disaster Recovery
3 24 (23.30%) High Availability
3 24 (23.30%) Kalman Filter
4 22 (21.36%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (19.42%) Patch Management
6 18 (17.48%) Computer Science
6 18 (17.48%) ERP
6 18 (17.48%) Time Management
7 16 (15.53%) IT Strategy
8 15 (14.56%) Web Filtering
9 14 (13.59%) Antivirus Management
9 14 (13.59%) Infrastructure Management
10 12 (11.65%) Server Building
11 11 (10.68%) Configuration Management
11 11 (10.68%) Cybersecurity
12 10 (9.71%) Change Control
13 9 (8.74%) Collaborative Working
13 9 (8.74%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (31.07%) PowerShell
2 19 (18.45%) SQL
3 9 (8.74%) Python
4 7 (6.80%) Bash
5 5 (4.85%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.91%) C#
7 1 (0.97%) Java
7 1 (0.97%) PHP
7 1 (0.97%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (25.24%) Degree
2 25 (24.27%) Security Cleared
3 17 (16.50%) DV Cleared
4 14 (13.59%) HND
5 10 (9.71%) SC Cleared
6 9 (8.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (5.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.94%) MCP
9 2 (1.94%) MCSA
9 2 (1.94%) MCSE
10 1 (0.97%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.85%) GDPR
1 5 (4.85%) QA
2 1 (0.97%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 72 (69.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 71 (68.93%) Active Directory
3 24 (23.30%) VMware ESXi
4 17 (16.50%) Hyper-V
5 13 (12.62%) Docker
6 6 (5.83%) vSphere
7 3 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.94%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (10.68%) Kubernetes
2 10 (9.71%) Ansible
3 8 (7.77%) vCenter Server
4 6 (5.83%) PowerCLI
4 6 (5.83%) Puppet
4 6 (5.83%) vMotion
4 6 (5.83%) vRealize
5 4 (3.88%) Grafana
5 4 (3.88%) Nagios
5 4 (3.88%) Terraform
5 4 (3.88%) ZENworks
6 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.97%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 79 (76.70%) Microsoft
2 72 (69.90%) VMware
3 27 (26.21%) Veeam
4 9 (8.74%) Citrix
5 7 (6.80%) Cisco
6 6 (5.83%) HP
7 5 (4.85%) Google
7 5 (4.85%) HubSpot
7 5 (4.85%) McAfee
7 5 (4.85%) Red Hat
8 4 (3.88%) Meraki
8 4 (3.88%) Rapid7
8 4 (3.88%) Splunk
9 3 (2.91%) Fortinet
9 3 (2.91%) MobileIron
10 2 (1.94%) arcserve
10 2 (1.94%) Aruba
10 2 (1.94%) Facebook
10 2 (1.94%) Imperva
10 2 (1.94%) Ruckus Wireless