Virtual Infrastructure Jobs

Virtual Infrastructure
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Virtual Infrastructure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Infrastructure over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 671 798 888
Rank change year-on-year +127 +90 +253
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 40 112 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.073% 0.11% 0.078%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.078% 0.13% 0.081%
Number of salaries quoted 32 78 34
10th Percentile £47,401 £40,400 £40,500
25th Percentile £50,930 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £73,125
90th Percentile £65,000 £82,250 £87,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £56,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%

All Process and 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 51,242 86,144 93,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.71% 84.33% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,211 60,433 55,406
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 Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Infrastructure in the UK

Virtual Infrastructure
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Virtual Infrastructure in the UK

Virtual Infrastructure
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

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 28 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 +87 35 £57,500 -8.00% 20
UK excluding London +138 20 £55,000 -2.22% 14
London +105 17 £63,750 -1.92% 9
Work from Home +112 15 £65,000 +4.00% 21
South East +79 13 £57,500 -8.00% 6
West Midlands +50 4 £52,093 -5.29% 2
Midlands +46 4 £52,093 -5.29% 2
Scotland +124 1 £52,500 +10.53%
East of England +42 1 £62,500 +13.64% 3
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 -

Virtual Infrastructure
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 6 (15.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 21 (52.50%) Azure
2 20 (50.00%) AWS
3 14 (35.00%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 5 (12.50%) Mimecast
5 4 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (7.50%) PaaS
6 3 (7.50%) SaaS
7 2 (5.00%) IaaS
8 1 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.50%) Cohesity
8 1 (2.50%) GCP
8 1 (2.50%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.50%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 15 (37.50%) DHCP
1 15 (37.50%) DNS
2 13 (32.50%) WAN
3 12 (30.00%) SAN
4 8 (20.00%) NAS
5 7 (17.50%) SD-WAN
5 7 (17.50%) VPN
6 6 (15.00%) Firewall
6 6 (15.00%) LAN
6 6 (15.00%) VSAN
7 5 (12.50%) IPsec
8 4 (10.00%) VLAN
9 3 (7.50%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (7.50%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (7.50%) Unified Communications
10 1 (2.50%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (2.50%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (2.50%) iSCSI
10 1 (2.50%) Network Security
10 1 (2.50%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.50%) MySQL
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.50%) Power BI
2 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 11 (27.50%) Finance
2 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (7.50%) Aerospace
6 2 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.00%) Retail
7 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Local Government
7 1 (2.50%) Police
7 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 8 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Senior
3 6 (15.00%) Support Specialist
3 6 (15.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Virtualisation Specialist
3 6 (15.00%) VMware Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) VMware Specialist
3 6 (15.00%) VMware Support Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) AWS Administrator
4 5 (12.50%) Citrix Administrator
4 5 (12.50%) Citrix Support
4 5 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Server Administrator
4 5 (12.50%) VMWare Administrator
4 5 (12.50%) Windows Administrator
4 5 (12.50%) Windows Server Administrator
4 5 (12.50%) Windows Server Support
4 5 (12.50%) Windows Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.00%) Clustering
1 10 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 7 (17.50%) Management Information System
3 5 (12.50%) Onboarding
4 4 (10.00%) Replication
5 2 (5.00%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (55.00%) Windows
2 16 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 13 (32.50%) Linux
4 7 (17.50%) AIX
4 7 (17.50%) Windows 10
5 3 (7.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (7.50%) Unix
6 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (50.00%) ITIL
2 16 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (25.00%) Service Management
5 9 (22.50%) Configuration Management
6 8 (20.00%) High Availability
6 8 (20.00%) ITSM
7 7 (17.50%) Agile
7 7 (17.50%) Incident Management
7 7 (17.50%) Problem Management
7 7 (17.50%) Security Hardening
7 7 (17.50%) Task Automation
7 7 (17.50%) Virtual Environments
8 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (15.00%) Service Delivery
9 4 (10.00%) Change Management
9 4 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
9 4 (10.00%) Supplier Management
10 3 (7.50%) Cybersecurity
10 3 (7.50%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 9 (22.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.50%) Bash
2 1 (2.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 7 (17.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 6 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (12.50%) AWS Certification
5 5 (12.50%) IBM AIX Certification
5 5 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (5.00%) Degree
7 2 (5.00%) MCSE
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
8 1 (2.50%) CCNA
8 1 (2.50%) CISA
8 1 (2.50%) CISSP
8 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (27.50%) SLA
2 4 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 3 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (7.50%) QA
4 1 (2.50%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (2.50%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 28 (70.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (55.00%) Active Directory
3 10 (25.00%) Hyper-V
4 9 (22.50%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (22.50%) vSphere
5 8 (20.00%) Docker
6 4 (10.00%) VMware NSX
7 2 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (2.50%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 11 (27.50%) Ansible
2 10 (25.00%) Puppet
3 8 (20.00%) vCenter Server
4 7 (17.50%) Kubernetes
4 7 (17.50%) SCCM
5 6 (15.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (15.00%) PowerCLI
5 6 (15.00%) vMotion
5 6 (15.00%) vRealize
6 4 (10.00%) Progress Chef
7 2 (5.00%) Terraform
8 1 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (2.50%) Avamar
8 1 (2.50%) Nessus
8 1 (2.50%) OpenVAS
8 1 (2.50%) QRadar
8 1 (2.50%) SCVMM
8 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (2.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 28 (70.00%) VMware
2 25 (62.50%) Microsoft
3 19 (47.50%) Cisco
4 13 (32.50%) Citrix
5 6 (15.00%) HP
5 6 (15.00%) Veeam
6 5 (12.50%) EMC
6 5 (12.50%) SolarWinds
7 4 (10.00%) Avaya
7 4 (10.00%) Zscaler
8 3 (7.50%) Red Hat
8 3 (7.50%) Remedy
8 3 (7.50%) SaltStack
8 3 (7.50%) Symantec
9 2 (5.00%) Aruba
9 2 (5.00%) IBM
10 1 (2.50%) Google
10 1 (2.50%) Qualys
10 1 (2.50%) Ruckus Wireless
10 1 (2.50%) Splunk