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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 440 232 586
Rank change year-on-year -208 +354 -25
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 467 1,301 935
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 1.61% 0.53%
As % of the System Software category 4.93% 10.13% 3.07%
Number of salaries quoted 342 327 401
10th Percentile £36,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £47,813 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £74,346 £75,000 £78,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +9.52% +10.53% +5.56%

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 9,464 12,848 30,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.47% 15.92% 17.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7,021 8,994 15,471
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,293 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 -164 430 £59,000 -1.67% 79
UK excluding London -235 343 £57,500 +9.52% 75
Work from Home +72 235 £57,500 -11.54% 29
London +17 115 £85,000 +25.93% 8
South East -70 102 £62,500 +1.63% 16
North of England -105 94 £57,500 +27.78% 25
South West -69 54 £55,000 +17.65% 10
North West -82 48 £52,500 -0.38% 13
Yorkshire -19 37 £57,500 +30.59% 10
East of England -23 33 £55,000 +22.22% 9
Midlands -137 28 £52,500 -7.28% 13
Scotland -159 17 £57,500 +4.77% 4
Wales -31 16 £45,000 -6.98% 1
West Midlands -75 15 £55,000 +3.29% 10
East Midlands -83 13 £46,250 -31.48% 3
North East -8 9 £57,500 +12.20% 3

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 62 (13.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 44 (9.42%) SharePoint
3 16 (3.43%) Apache Spark
4 14 (3.00%) Apache
5 11 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (2.36%) IIS
6 9 (1.93%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.86%) Confluence
7 4 (0.86%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.86%) nginx
8 3 (0.64%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 3 (0.64%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.64%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.43%) Resin
10 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 7 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.21%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.21%) Misys Opics
Cloud Services
1 339 (72.59%) Azure
2 117 (25.05%) Microsoft 365
3 91 (19.49%) Entra ID
4 85 (18.20%) AWS
5 72 (15.42%) Azure DevOps
6 63 (13.49%) Azure Storage
7 54 (11.56%) Power Platform
8 46 (9.85%) Azure Monitor
8 46 (9.85%) Serverless
9 41 (8.78%) IaaS
10 40 (8.57%) GCP
11 39 (8.35%) SaaS
12 34 (7.28%) Azure Functions
13 33 (7.07%) Azure AKS
14 26 (5.57%) GitHub
15 25 (5.35%) Amazon S3
16 22 (4.71%) PaaS
17 21 (4.50%) Azure Logic Apps
18 20 (4.28%) Amazon EKS
18 20 (4.28%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 82 (17.56%) Firewall
2 76 (16.27%) DNS
3 53 (11.35%) DHCP
3 53 (11.35%) VPN
4 42 (8.99%) Broadband
5 29 (6.21%) LAN
5 29 (6.21%) WAN
6 24 (5.14%) VLAN
7 23 (4.93%) SAN
8 18 (3.85%) TCP/IP
9 16 (3.43%) 5G
10 11 (2.36%) Network Security
11 10 (2.14%) Internet
11 10 (2.14%) Unified Communications
11 10 (2.14%) Wireless
12 9 (1.93%) iSCSI
12 9 (1.93%) Skype
13 7 (1.50%) Remote Desktop
13 7 (1.50%) VoIP
14 6 (1.28%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (13.92%) Azure SQL Database
2 60 (12.85%) SQL Server
3 52 (11.13%) Power BI
4 10 (2.14%) Apache Hive
4 10 (2.14%) Presto
5 7 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (1.28%) Apache Cassandra
6 6 (1.28%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.86%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.64%) MySQL
9 3 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.64%) Redis
9 3 (0.64%) Tableau
9 3 (0.64%) TimescaleDB
10 2 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.43%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.43%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 79 (16.92%) Git
2 26 (5.57%) Jenkins
3 17 (3.64%) JIRA
4 9 (1.93%) Trac
5 6 (1.28%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.64%) GitLab
7 2 (0.43%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.43%) Mocha
7 2 (0.43%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.21%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.21%) JUnit
8 1 (0.21%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.21%) Selenium
8 1 (0.21%) Subversion
8 1 (0.21%) TestNG
8 1 (0.21%) Travis CI
General
1 159 (34.05%) Social Skills
2 91 (19.49%) Finance
3 40 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (4.07%) Telecoms
5 17 (3.64%) Electronics
6 16 (3.43%) Automotive
7 13 (2.78%) Games
8 10 (2.14%) Banking
8 10 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.28%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.07%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.86%) Law
13 3 (0.64%) Retail
14 2 (0.43%) Advertising
14 2 (0.43%) Legal
15 1 (0.21%) Back Office
15 1 (0.21%) Billing
15 1 (0.21%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 78 (16.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 58 (12.42%) Lead
3 54 (11.56%) Cloud Engineer
4 49 (10.49%) Senior
5 47 (10.06%) Azure Engineer
6 42 (8.99%) DBA
6 42 (8.99%) SQL DBA
7 39 (8.35%) Software Engineer
8 25 (5.35%) Architect
8 25 (5.35%) Lead Software Engineer
9 22 (4.71%) DevOps Engineer
10 20 (4.28%) IT Engineer
11 19 (4.07%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 19 (4.07%) Support Specialist
12 17 (3.64%) Automation Engineer
12 17 (3.64%) Azure Specialist
12 17 (3.64%) Linux Engineer
13 16 (3.43%) Active Directory Specialist
13 16 (3.43%) Active Directory Support
14 15 (3.21%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (13.06%) ARM Templates
2 35 (7.49%) .NET
3 22 (4.71%) Lambda Expressions
4 20 (4.28%) http4s
5 19 (4.07%) YAML
6 7 (1.50%) REST
7 5 (1.07%) JSON
8 4 (0.86%) .NET Framework
8 4 (0.86%) ASP.NET
8 4 (0.86%) CSS
8 4 (0.86%) HTML
8 4 (0.86%) Ionic Framework
8 4 (0.86%) Loki
8 4 (0.86%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (0.64%) Azure Blueprints
9 3 (0.64%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.64%) Flask
9 3 (0.64%) Keycloak
9 3 (0.64%) OpenAPI
9 3 (0.64%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 52 (11.13%) Self-Motivation
2 29 (6.21%) Data Centre
3 27 (5.78%) Management Information System
4 23 (4.93%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (4.07%) PKI
6 18 (3.85%) Mobile App
7 15 (3.21%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (3.00%) IoT
9 13 (2.78%) Media Streaming
10 12 (2.57%) Cloud Native
11 10 (2.14%) Driving Licence
12 9 (1.93%) Linux Command Line
13 8 (1.71%) Replication
14 7 (1.50%) Cyberattack
15 5 (1.07%) Onboarding
15 5 (1.07%) Product Ownership
16 4 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
17 3 (0.64%) Blackberry
17 3 (0.64%) Operational Technology
17 3 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 169 (36.19%) Windows
2 119 (25.48%) Linux
3 99 (21.20%) Windows Server
4 60 (12.85%) VMS
5 40 (8.57%) Windows Server 2016
5 40 (8.57%) Windows Server 2019
6 28 (6.00%) Windows 10
7 22 (4.71%) Ubuntu
8 17 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 14 (3.00%) Unix
10 10 (2.14%) AIX
10 10 (2.14%) Debian
11 9 (1.93%) Solaris
12 8 (1.71%) Android
13 7 (1.50%) Apple iOS
13 7 (1.50%) Windows Server 2008
14 5 (1.07%) CentOS
14 5 (1.07%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.64%) SUSE
15 3 (0.64%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (32.98%) DevOps
2 116 (24.84%) Infrastructure as Code
3 109 (23.34%) CI/CD
4 104 (22.27%) Problem-Solving
5 92 (19.70%) Disaster Recovery
6 84 (17.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 75 (16.06%) Agile
8 64 (13.70%) ITIL
9 60 (12.85%) High Availability
10 59 (12.63%) Collaborative Working
11 58 (12.42%) Software Engineering
12 56 (11.99%) Project Management
13 51 (10.92%) Containerisation
14 49 (10.49%) Business Intelligence
15 47 (10.06%) Microservices
15 47 (10.06%) Performance Tuning
15 47 (10.06%) Roadmaps
16 45 (9.64%) Network Virtualisation
17 44 (9.42%) Computer Science
18 43 (9.21%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 132 (28.27%) PowerShell
2 84 (17.99%) SQL
3 81 (17.34%) Python
4 62 (13.28%) Java
5 53 (11.35%) Bash
6 50 (10.71%) Bicep
7 46 (9.85%) T-SQL
8 43 (9.21%) C#
9 36 (7.71%) Kotlin
9 36 (7.71%) Scala
10 21 (4.50%) Kusto Query Language
11 19 (4.07%) Perl
12 16 (3.43%) VB
12 16 (3.43%) VBScript
13 12 (2.57%) Go
13 12 (2.57%) JavaScript
14 10 (2.14%) C++
15 9 (1.93%) C
16 8 (1.71%) Shell Script
17 6 (1.28%) Rust
Qualifications
1 84 (17.99%) Degree
2 59 (12.63%) Microsoft Certification
3 53 (11.35%) Security Cleared
4 36 (7.71%) Azure Certification
5 33 (7.07%) SC Cleared
6 27 (5.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (3.64%) DV Cleared
8 16 (3.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 7 (1.50%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (1.28%) DBS Check
10 6 (1.28%) MCP
11 3 (0.64%) CISSP
11 3 (0.64%) Linux+ Certification
11 3 (0.64%) RHCE
12 2 (0.43%) CCNA
12 2 (0.43%) CEH
12 2 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.43%) CISM
12 2 (0.43%) OSCP
12 2 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.71%) QA
2 17 (3.64%) Cyber Essentials
3 15 (3.21%) GDPR
4 11 (2.36%) Data Quality
5 10 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.93%) PMO
6 9 (1.93%) SLA
7 4 (0.86%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.86%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.43%) GRC
9 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 156 (33.40%) Active Directory
2 85 (18.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (13.06%) Hyper-V
4 57 (12.21%) Docker
5 56 (11.99%) Virtual Desktop
6 31 (6.64%) vSphere
7 15 (3.21%) pfSense
7 15 (3.21%) VMware ESXi
8 13 (2.78%) NFS
9 11 (2.36%) Firmware
9 11 (2.36%) Virtual Servers
10 10 (2.14%) KVM
11 9 (1.93%) Ceph
12 4 (0.86%) LXC
12 4 (0.86%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 4 (0.86%) Squid
13 3 (0.64%) Gluster
13 3 (0.64%) oVirt
14 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.21%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 110 (23.55%) Terraform
2 86 (18.42%) Kubernetes
3 47 (10.06%) Ansible
4 46 (9.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 27 (5.78%) Grafana
6 25 (5.35%) SCCM
7 22 (4.71%) ZABBIX
8 19 (4.07%) SCOM
8 19 (4.07%) WSUS
9 17 (3.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 16 (3.43%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 15 (3.21%) Prometheus
11 15 (3.21%) SCDPM
12 12 (2.57%) Puppet
13 10 (2.14%) Progress Chef
14 7 (1.50%) CASB
14 7 (1.50%) QRadar
15 6 (1.28%) Knative
16 5 (1.07%) Nagios
16 5 (1.07%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 258 (55.25%) Microsoft
2 110 (23.55%) VMware
3 37 (7.92%) Google
4 30 (6.42%) Veeam
5 20 (4.28%) Cisco
5 20 (4.28%) Fortinet
6 18 (3.85%) Red Hat
7 16 (3.43%) ForgeRock
7 16 (3.43%) Juniper
7 16 (3.43%) Sitecore
8 15 (3.21%) Oracle
9 12 (2.57%) ServiceNow
10 11 (2.36%) Databricks
10 11 (2.36%) IBM
11 9 (1.93%) Dell
11 9 (1.93%) McAfee
12 8 (1.71%) Citrix
12 8 (1.71%) Splunk
13 7 (1.50%) Kenna
13 7 (1.50%) Rapid7