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 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 611 803 815
Rank change year-on-year +192 +12 +98
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Environments 100 92 138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.091% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.11% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 70 55 87
10th Percentile £29,500 £26,350 £25,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £31,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £39,000 £43,712
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -10.78% -2.86%
75th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £87,750 £62,000 £68,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £37,500 £38,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -1.32% -10.59%

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 51,519 85,552 94,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.79% 84.77% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 25,295 60,063 55,402
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -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 24 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 24 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 +164 99 £45,000 +12.50% 87
UK excluding London +184 79 £40,000 +6.67% 81
South East +96 42 £40,000 +14.29% 19
Work from Home +123 29 £41,500 -13.54% 48
London +134 21 £87,500 +20.69% 21
South West +116 16 £32,500 -2.99% 12
Midlands +64 15 £42,500 -10.53% 14
East Midlands +38 11 £40,000 +30.08% 4
West Midlands +49 4 £47,500 -5.00% 9
North of England +34 3 £31,000 -20.00% 9
North West 0 3 £31,000 - 8
East of England +29 2 £57,500 - 17
Scotland +118 1 £30,000 -10.45% 6

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 26 (26.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (6.00%) CMS
Applications
1 15 (15.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 15 (15.00%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 42 (42.00%) Azure
2 25 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (13.00%) AWS
4 7 (7.00%) IaaS
5 6 (6.00%) Google Analytics
6 4 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (4.00%) Amazon ECR
6 4 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (4.00%) Entra ID
6 4 (4.00%) GCP
7 2 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.00%) Cloudflare
7 2 (2.00%) PaaS
7 2 (2.00%) SaaS
8 1 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.00%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 39 (39.00%) SAN
2 31 (31.00%) Firewall
3 30 (30.00%) Wi-Fi
4 23 (23.00%) NAS
5 14 (14.00%) VLAN
6 12 (12.00%) DNS
6 12 (12.00%) VoIP
7 11 (11.00%) DHCP
8 10 (10.00%) MPLS
9 8 (8.00%) WAN
10 6 (6.00%) Internet
10 6 (6.00%) VPN
10 6 (6.00%) VSAN
11 4 (4.00%) IP Telephony
11 4 (4.00%) LAN
11 4 (4.00%) SD-WAN
11 4 (4.00%) SNMP
11 4 (4.00%) TCP/IP
12 3 (3.00%) Network Security
13 2 (2.00%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (4.00%) MySQL
3 1 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (4.00%) Git
1 4 (4.00%) GitLab
2 1 (1.00%) JIRA
2 1 (1.00%) Moq
2 1 (1.00%) MSTest
2 1 (1.00%) NUnit
2 1 (1.00%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (1.00%) xUnit.net
General
1 36 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 21 (21.00%) Manufacturing
3 18 (18.00%) Finance
4 14 (14.00%) Legal
5 11 (11.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (7.00%) Marketing
7 6 (6.00%) Banking
7 6 (6.00%) Games
8 4 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (3.00%) Aerospace
9 3 (3.00%) Automotive
9 3 (3.00%) Electronics
9 3 (3.00%) Public Sector
9 3 (3.00%) Retail
10 2 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.00%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.00%) Back Office
11 1 (1.00%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 27 (27.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 26 (26.00%) Support Engineer
3 25 (25.00%) IT Engineer
4 19 (19.00%) Infrastructure Support
4 19 (19.00%) IT Support
5 18 (18.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 15 (15.00%) Coordinator
6 15 (15.00%) Help Desk Coordinator
6 15 (15.00%) IT Support Engineer
7 14 (14.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (10.00%) IT Manager
9 8 (8.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
10 7 (7.00%) Support Specialist
10 7 (7.00%) VMware Specialist
11 6 (6.00%) Project Engineer
11 6 (6.00%) Virtualisation Specialist
11 6 (6.00%) VMware Engineer
11 6 (6.00%) VMware Support Engineer
12 5 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (5.00%) IT Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.00%) CSS
1 6 (6.00%) HTML
2 1 (1.00%) .NET
2 1 (1.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (1.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (1.00%) NHibernate
2 1 (1.00%) Ninject
2 1 (1.00%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 20 (20.00%) Clustering
2 19 (19.00%) Video Conferencing
3 10 (10.00%) CCTV
4 6 (6.00%) Data Centre
5 5 (5.00%) Driving Licence
5 5 (5.00%) Security Posture
6 4 (4.00%) Blackberry
6 4 (4.00%) Operational Technology
7 3 (3.00%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.00%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (2.00%) EPoS
8 2 (2.00%) Social Media
9 1 (1.00%) AS400
9 1 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (1.00%) Derivative
9 1 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (1.00%) Replication
9 1 (1.00%) SCADA
9 1 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 76 (76.00%) Windows
2 51 (51.00%) Windows Server
3 18 (18.00%) Linux
3 18 (18.00%) Windows 10
4 13 (13.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (7.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (4.00%) CentOS
7 3 (3.00%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.00%) Android
8 2 (2.00%) Apple iOS
8 2 (2.00%) Mac OS
9 1 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (28.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 24 (24.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 23 (23.00%) High Availability
5 22 (22.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 22 (22.00%) Kalman Filter
6 19 (19.00%) Patch Management
7 18 (18.00%) Time Management
8 17 (17.00%) Computer Science
8 17 (17.00%) ERP
9 16 (16.00%) IT Strategy
10 15 (15.00%) Infrastructure Management
11 14 (14.00%) Web Filtering
12 13 (13.00%) Antivirus Management
13 12 (12.00%) Configuration Management
14 11 (11.00%) Cybersecurity
14 11 (11.00%) Server Building
15 10 (10.00%) Change Control
15 10 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
15 10 (10.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 18 (18.00%) SQL
3 8 (8.00%) Python
4 7 (7.00%) Bash
5 6 (6.00%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.00%) C#
7 2 (2.00%) Java
8 1 (1.00%) Ada
8 1 (1.00%) C
8 1 (1.00%) C++
8 1 (1.00%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 25 (25.00%) Degree
2 24 (24.00%) Security Cleared
3 17 (17.00%) DV Cleared
4 14 (14.00%) HND
5 9 (9.00%) SC Cleared
6 7 (7.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (6.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (2.00%) HNC
9 2 (2.00%) MCP
9 2 (2.00%) MCSA
9 2 (2.00%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.00%) GDPR
2 4 (4.00%) QA
3 1 (1.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 68 (68.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 67 (67.00%) Active Directory
3 24 (24.00%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (16.00%) Hyper-V
5 13 (13.00%) Docker
6 6 (6.00%) vSphere
7 3 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (11.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (10.00%) Ansible
3 8 (8.00%) vCenter Server
4 6 (6.00%) PowerCLI
4 6 (6.00%) Puppet
4 6 (6.00%) vMotion
4 6 (6.00%) vRealize
5 4 (4.00%) Grafana
5 4 (4.00%) Nagios
5 4 (4.00%) Terraform
5 4 (4.00%) ZENworks
6 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 76 (76.00%) Microsoft
2 68 (68.00%) VMware
3 25 (25.00%) Veeam
4 9 (9.00%) Citrix
5 7 (7.00%) Cisco
6 6 (6.00%) Google
6 6 (6.00%) HP
6 6 (6.00%) HubSpot
7 5 (5.00%) Red Hat
8 4 (4.00%) McAfee
8 4 (4.00%) Meraki
8 4 (4.00%) Rapid7
8 4 (4.00%) Splunk
9 3 (3.00%) Fortinet
10 2 (2.00%) arcserve
10 2 (2.00%) Aruba
10 2 (2.00%) Facebook
10 2 (2.00%) Imperva
10 2 (2.00%) MobileIron
10 2 (2.00%) Ruckus Wireless