Virtual Infrastructure Job Trends

Virtual Infrastructure
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Virtual Infrastructure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 688 599 775
Rank change year-on-year -89 +176 +111
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 31 39 105
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.036% 0.093% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.047% 0.10% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 26 30 90
10th Percentile £50,754 £46,026 £41,165
25th Percentile - £51,140 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -5.60% +13.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £65,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,387 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.53% -8.89% +25.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Virtual Infrastructure 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 65,702 38,866 81,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.29% 92.92% 85.87%
Number of salaries quoted 40,633 22,660 59,433
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -8.90%

Virtual Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Virtual Infrastructure job vacancy trend in the UK

Virtual Infrastructure
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Virtual Infrastructure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Virtual Infrastructure

Virtual Infrastructure
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Virtual Infrastructure in the UK

Virtual Infrastructure
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure within the UK over the 6 months to 20 April 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
England -85 31 £60,000 - 7
UK excluding London -81 24 £60,000 +14.53% 7
Work from Home 0 10 £64,125 -1.35%
North of England - 8 £60,000 - 1
Yorkshire - 8 £60,000 -
London -16 7 £87,500 +40.00%
East of England -29 6 £75,000 +20.00%
West Midlands -30 5 £54,068 +3.79% 1
Midlands -34 5 £54,068 +3.79% 3
South West - 5 £52,500 - 2

Virtual Infrastructure
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 2 (6.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (38.71%) AWS
2 7 (22.58%) Azure
3 5 (16.13%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.23%) IaaS
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.23%) Mimecast
4 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.13%) SD-WAN
1 5 (16.13%) VLAN
1 5 (16.13%) WAN
2 1 (3.23%) DHCP
2 1 (3.23%) DNS
2 1 (3.23%) Firewall
2 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) GitLab
2 2 (6.45%) JIRA
3 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.23%) Git
General
1 8 (25.81%) Finance
2 5 (16.13%) Presentation Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.23%) Electronics
3 1 (3.23%) Law
3 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.23%) Marketing
3 1 (3.23%) Police
3 1 (3.23%) Retail
3 1 (3.23%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (41.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (25.81%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 8 (25.81%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (25.81%) Backup Engineer
2 8 (25.81%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (25.81%) VMware Engineer
2 8 (25.81%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Administrator
3 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure Support
3 5 (16.13%) Linux Administrator
3 5 (16.13%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 5 (16.13%) Network Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (16.13%) Unix Support
4 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
4 4 (12.90%) Linux Specialist
4 4 (12.90%) Linux Support
4 4 (12.90%) Support Specialist
4 4 (12.90%) Unix Support Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 7 (22.58%) Data Centre
2 5 (16.13%) Clustering
3 1 (3.23%) CCTV
3 1 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 16 (51.61%) Linux
2 5 (16.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (16.13%) Unix
3 4 (12.90%) Windows
4 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (16.13%) Change Management
2 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (16.13%) ITIL
2 5 (16.13%) ITSM
2 5 (16.13%) Network Monitoring
2 5 (16.13%) Security Hardening
2 5 (16.13%) Service Delivery
2 5 (16.13%) Service Management
2 5 (16.13%) Supplier Management
3 3 (9.68%) Digital Strategy
3 3 (9.68%) Impact Analysis
3 3 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (9.68%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (9.68%) Virtual Environments
4 2 (6.45%) Agile
4 2 (6.45%) Creative Thinking
4 2 (6.45%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (6.45%) Performance Engineering
5 1 (3.23%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.45%) Bash
1 2 (6.45%) Python
2 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 9 (29.03%) DV Cleared
3 5 (16.13%) AWS Certification
3 5 (16.13%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (6.45%) Degree
5 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 5 (16.13%) SLA
2 3 (9.68%) QA
3 1 (3.23%) GDPR
3 1 (3.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (61.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (16.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 3 (9.68%) Active Directory
3 3 (9.68%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (9.68%) vSphere
4 2 (6.45%) VMware NSX
5 1 (3.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (16.13%) Ansible
1 5 (16.13%) vCenter Server
2 1 (3.23%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 19 (61.29%) VMware
2 10 (32.26%) Red Hat
3 9 (29.03%) Veeam
4 7 (22.58%) Cisco
5 6 (19.35%) SolarWinds
6 5 (16.13%) Avaya
6 5 (16.13%) Symantec
6 5 (16.13%) Zscaler
7 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
8 1 (3.23%) Dell
8 1 (3.23%) Fortinet
8 1 (3.23%) HP
8 1 (3.23%) Juniper
8 1 (3.23%) Meraki
8 1 (3.23%) SAP