Virtual Machines Jobs

Virtual Machine (VM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Virtual Machines skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Machines over the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 474 449 350
Rank change year-on-year -25 -99 +167
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 221 524 1,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.54% 0.96%
As % of the System Software category 4.04% 4.25% 6.27%
Number of salaries quoted 177 430 314
10th Percentile £41,250 £32,950 £32,200
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,836 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.58% - +15.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £99,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% +20.00%

All System Software Skills
UK

Virtual Machines falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 5,471 12,324 16,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.49% 12.69% 15.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3,974 9,810 10,772
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £37,272 £32,713 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -3.51%
75th Percentile £78,750 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £86,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +8.89% -5.26% -5.00%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in the UK

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Virtual Machines in the UK

Virtual Machines
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines over the 6 months to 21 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Virtual Machines in the UK

Virtual Machines
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Machines within the UK over the 6 months to 21 April 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 -29 214 £57,836 +0.58% 156
UK excluding London +10 152 £55,000 -4.35% 78
Work from Home -17 78 £55,000 -4.35% 90
London +59 66 £87,500 +19.86% 90
North of England +57 63 £57,836 +10.16% 16
South East +36 48 £55,000 -8.33% 17
North West +26 46 £57,836 +0.58% 8
East of England +48 18 £55,000 - 11
Midlands +25 16 £46,000 -0.54% 10
West Midlands +14 13 £46,000 -5.64% 8
Yorkshire +55 10 £45,000 +23.29% 6
North East +43 7 £32,000 -41.82% 2
South West +81 6 £50,000 -13.04% 13
East Midlands +44 3 - - 2
Scotland +111 1 - - 10
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 -

Virtual Machines
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 41 (18.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (12.22%) SharePoint
3 10 (4.52%) SAS
4 8 (3.62%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 8 (3.62%) Exchange Server 2013
4 8 (3.62%) Skype for Business
5 3 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.90%) Apache
6 2 (0.90%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.90%) Confluence
6 2 (0.90%) IIS
7 1 (0.45%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.45%) Solana
Applications
1 7 (3.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 126 (57.01%) Azure
2 51 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
3 48 (21.72%) Entra ID
4 37 (16.74%) AWS
5 24 (10.86%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (9.95%) Azure Monitor
7 18 (8.14%) OneDrive
8 16 (7.24%) GCP
9 15 (6.79%) Power Automate
10 12 (5.43%) GitHub
10 12 (5.43%) Serverless
11 11 (4.98%) Cohesity
11 11 (4.98%) IaaS
12 10 (4.52%) Amazon S3
12 10 (4.52%) SaaS
13 9 (4.07%) Azure AKS
13 9 (4.07%) PaaS
14 8 (3.62%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (3.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 7 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 76 (34.39%) Firewall
2 50 (22.62%) DNS
3 37 (16.74%) DHCP
4 33 (14.93%) VPN
5 21 (9.50%) TCP/IP
6 18 (8.14%) WAN
7 17 (7.69%) SAN
8 15 (6.79%) VLAN
9 13 (5.88%) LAN
10 11 (4.98%) Network Security
11 8 (3.62%) IMAP
11 8 (3.62%) Skype
11 8 (3.62%) SMTP
12 7 (3.17%) SD-WAN
12 7 (3.17%) SSL
13 5 (2.26%) NAS
13 5 (2.26%) VSAN
14 4 (1.81%) HTTPS
15 3 (1.36%) SNMP
15 3 (1.36%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.71%) Power BI
3 3 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.36%) Tableau
4 2 (0.90%) Apache Hive
4 2 (0.90%) Big Data
4 2 (0.90%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.90%) Bigtable
4 2 (0.90%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.90%) DB2
4 2 (0.90%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.90%) HBase
4 2 (0.90%) Impala
4 2 (0.90%) Metadata
4 2 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.45%) GIS
5 1 (0.45%) MS Access
5 1 (0.45%) MySQL
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 20 (9.05%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.17%) Bitbucket Server
2 7 (3.17%) Git
3 3 (1.36%) GitLab
3 3 (1.36%) MLflow
3 3 (1.36%) Vagrant
4 2 (0.90%) Artifactory
4 2 (0.90%) JIRA
4 2 (0.90%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.45%) MSBuild
5 1 (0.45%) NUnit
5 1 (0.45%) TeamCity
General
1 88 (39.82%) Social Skills
2 50 (22.62%) Finance
3 29 (13.12%) Legal
4 28 (12.67%) Banking
5 12 (5.43%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (4.98%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (4.98%) Law
7 7 (3.17%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.81%) Advertising
9 3 (1.36%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.36%) Marketing
9 3 (1.36%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.90%) Electronics
10 2 (0.90%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.90%) Military
11 1 (0.45%) Back Office
11 1 (0.45%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Front Office
11 1 (0.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (16.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 31 (14.03%) Lead
2 31 (14.03%) Senior
3 30 (13.57%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (11.31%) Systems Engineer
5 23 (10.41%) Lead Systems Engineer
6 22 (9.95%) Security Engineer
7 20 (9.05%) Analyst
7 20 (9.05%) DevOps Engineer
8 17 (7.69%) Vulnerability Manager
9 16 (7.24%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (5.43%) Architect
11 10 (4.52%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 10 (4.52%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (4.52%) Strategy Analyst
12 9 (4.07%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (4.07%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
13 8 (3.62%) IT Engineer
13 8 (3.62%) Messaging Engineer
13 8 (3.62%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.33%) ARM Templates
2 6 (2.71%) Kafka
2 6 (2.71%) YAML
3 5 (2.26%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (1.81%) .NET
5 3 (1.36%) Pandas
5 3 (1.36%) PyTorch
5 3 (1.36%) SAML
5 3 (1.36%) scikit-learn
5 3 (1.36%) TensorFlow
6 2 (0.90%) Anaconda
6 2 (0.90%) JSON
7 1 (0.45%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.45%) HTML
7 1 (0.45%) jQuery
7 1 (0.45%) Middleware
7 1 (0.45%) NHibernate
7 1 (0.45%) OAuth
7 1 (0.45%) WCF
7 1 (0.45%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 44 (19.91%) Management Information System
2 26 (11.76%) Data Centre
3 16 (7.24%) Security Posture
4 15 (6.79%) Public Cloud
5 12 (5.43%) Cyber Threat
5 12 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (4.52%) Cloud Native
6 10 (4.52%) Product Ownership
7 8 (3.62%) Blackberry
7 8 (3.62%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.81%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.81%) Replication
10 3 (1.36%) Hedge funds
11 2 (0.90%) Cyber Defence
12 1 (0.45%) Bitcoin
12 1 (0.45%) Blockchain
12 1 (0.45%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.45%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 72 (32.58%) Windows
2 47 (21.27%) Windows Server
3 40 (18.10%) Linux
4 15 (6.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (6.33%) VMS
6 7 (3.17%) Ubuntu
6 7 (3.17%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (3.17%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (2.71%) Apple iOS
8 5 (2.26%) Unix
9 4 (1.81%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.90%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.45%) Android
11 1 (0.45%) Debian
11 1 (0.45%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (27.60%) DevOps
2 53 (23.98%) Agile
3 52 (23.53%) Containerisation
3 52 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 46 (20.81%) Cybersecurity
5 45 (20.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (20.36%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (17.65%) CI/CD
6 39 (17.65%) Microservices
6 39 (17.65%) Roadmaps
7 38 (17.19%) Disaster Recovery
8 35 (15.84%) Analytics
9 28 (12.67%) Software Engineering
10 27 (12.22%) Incident Response
11 26 (11.76%) Vulnerability Management
12 24 (10.86%) Line Management
12 24 (10.86%) SOLID
13 23 (10.41%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (10.41%) Data Analysis
13 23 (10.41%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 72 (32.58%) PowerShell
2 49 (22.17%) Python
3 43 (19.46%) SQL
4 29 (13.12%) Java
5 23 (10.41%) C
6 14 (6.33%) Bash
7 10 (4.52%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.71%) Bicep
8 6 (2.71%) Go
9 5 (2.26%) Ruby
10 4 (1.81%) C#
11 3 (1.36%) C++
11 3 (1.36%) Groovy
11 3 (1.36%) Perl
12 2 (0.90%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.90%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.45%) R
13 1 (0.45%) Rust
13 1 (0.45%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 52 (23.53%) Degree
2 33 (14.93%) Azure Certification
3 24 (10.86%) Security Cleared
4 23 (10.41%) HND
5 21 (9.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 21 (9.50%) SC Cleared
6 13 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (4.52%) AWS Certification
8 9 (4.07%) CISSP
9 7 (3.17%) CCNA
9 7 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (3.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 6 (2.71%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (2.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (2.26%) CCSP
11 5 (2.26%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.81%) CCNP
12 4 (1.81%) DV Cleared
12 4 (1.81%) MCSA
13 2 (0.90%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.31%) GDPR
2 12 (5.43%) HIPAA
2 12 (5.43%) SOC 2
3 11 (4.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (3.62%) NIST
5 6 (2.71%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (1.36%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.36%) PMO
8 2 (0.90%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 76 (34.39%) Active Directory
2 54 (24.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (18.10%) Docker
4 23 (10.41%) Hyper-V
5 16 (7.24%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (7.24%) vSphere
6 13 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.36%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.90%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.90%) Firmware
8 2 (0.90%) HDFS
8 2 (0.90%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.45%) KVM
9 1 (0.45%) NFS
9 1 (0.45%) pfSense
9 1 (0.45%) RHEV
9 1 (0.45%) vCloud
9 1 (0.45%) XenApp
9 1 (0.45%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 56 (25.34%) Terraform
2 39 (17.65%) Kubernetes
3 34 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (8.60%) SCCM
5 18 (8.14%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (6.79%) vCenter Server
7 14 (6.33%) Ansible
8 11 (4.98%) Istio
9 9 (4.07%) WSUS
10 8 (3.62%) Nessus
11 7 (3.17%) Proxmox
12 5 (2.26%) CASB
12 5 (2.26%) FortiGate
12 5 (2.26%) linkerd
13 3 (1.36%) Nagios
13 3 (1.36%) Packer
13 3 (1.36%) vRealize
14 2 (0.90%) Failover Clustering
14 2 (0.90%) Hadoop YARN
14 2 (0.90%) VxRail
Vendors
1 100 (45.25%) Microsoft
2 62 (28.05%) VMware
3 21 (9.50%) Cisco
4 18 (8.14%) Qualys
4 18 (8.14%) Tenable
5 13 (5.88%) NetApp
6 11 (4.98%) Apple
7 9 (4.07%) Citrix
7 9 (4.07%) Databricks
8 8 (3.62%) Google
8 8 (3.62%) Juniper
9 7 (3.17%) SolarWinds
10 6 (2.71%) Atlassian
10 6 (2.71%) Confluent
10 6 (2.71%) Palo Alto
10 6 (2.71%) Red Hat
11 5 (2.26%) iManage
11 5 (2.26%) Oracle
12 4 (1.81%) Dell
13 3 (1.36%) EMC