Virtual Servers Jobs

Virtual Servers
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Virtual Servers skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Servers over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 621 730 784
Rank change year-on-year +109 +54 +215
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Servers 90 174 137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.16% 0.15%
As % of the System Software category 1.43% 1.43% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 28 133 124
10th Percentile £38,398 £31,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £39,813 £36,250 £38,039
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,478 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +11.17% -24.69% +16.29%
75th Percentile £48,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £58,625 £93,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £40,000 £42,750
% change year-on-year +18.75% -6.43% +1.18%

All System Software Skills
UK

Virtual Servers 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 6,310 12,139 14,261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.27% 11.05% 15.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3,623 9,285 9,600
10th Percentile £27,800 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,174 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -2.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £67,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,200 £85,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -5.00%

Virtual Servers
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Servers in the UK

Virtual Servers
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Virtual Servers in the UK

Virtual Servers
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Servers over the 6 months to 13 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Virtual Servers in the UK

Virtual Servers
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 Servers within the UK over the 6 months to 13 June 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 +92 86 £45,000 +11.17% 43
UK excluding London +138 75 £47,500 +18.75% 32
North of England +113 61 £45,000 +20.00% 10
Yorkshire +115 58 £45,500 +102.22% 4
London +80 15 £45,000 -31.03% 15
Work from Home +101 11 £47,500 -5.00% 18
East Midlands +44 4 £57,250 +27.22%
Midlands +43 4 £57,250 +43.13% 1
Wales +43 4 £47,500 +18.75%
South East +54 3 £40,500 - 15
North West +29 3 £39,357 - 6
South West +110 2 £36,000 -20.00% 5
East of England +31 1 £38,890 -22.22%

Virtual Servers
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 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (8.89%) Azure
3 1 (1.11%) AWS
3 1 (1.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 72 (80.00%) Firewall
2 9 (10.00%) DHCP
2 9 (10.00%) DNS
2 9 (10.00%) VoIP
3 6 (6.67%) WAN
4 4 (4.44%) LAN
5 3 (3.33%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (3.33%) Network Security
6 2 (2.22%) Internet
6 2 (2.22%) SD-WAN
6 2 (2.22%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.11%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (1.11%) SAN
7 1 (1.11%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.44%) MariaDB
1 4 (4.44%) MySQL
1 4 (4.44%) RDBMS
1 4 (4.44%) Relational Database
2 3 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Git
General
1 14 (15.56%) Social Skills
2 5 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (3.33%) Finance
3 3 (3.33%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.22%) Retail
5 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (48.89%) IT Engineer
2 19 (21.11%) Instrumentation Engineer
3 11 (12.22%) IT Support
4 10 (11.11%) Analyst
5 9 (10.00%) IT Analyst
6 8 (8.89%) IT Support Analyst
6 8 (8.89%) Support Analyst
7 5 (5.56%) Administrator
7 5 (5.56%) Network Analyst
7 5 (5.56%) Network Support
7 5 (5.56%) Network Support Analyst
7 5 (5.56%) Systems Administrator
8 4 (4.44%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Linux Administrator
8 4 (4.44%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 4 (4.44%) Support Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) VMWare Administrator
9 3 (3.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support
9 3 (3.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
9 3 (3.33%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.56%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 57 (63.33%) Operational Technology
2 6 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (5.56%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.33%) CMDB
4 3 (3.33%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.22%) CCTV
5 2 (2.22%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.22%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.11%) iPad
6 1 (1.11%) iPhone
6 1 (1.11%) Replication
6 1 (1.11%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 82 (91.11%) Windows
2 17 (18.89%) Windows Server
3 10 (11.11%) Windows 10
4 8 (8.89%) Linux
5 6 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (4.44%) CentOS
6 4 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (4.44%) Ubuntu
6 4 (4.44%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (65.56%) Cybersecurity
2 58 (64.44%) Network Management
3 57 (63.33%) Network Design
4 10 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (8.89%) ITIL
6 6 (6.67%) Customer Service
6 6 (6.67%) Roadmaps
6 6 (6.67%) Technology Roadmap
7 5 (5.56%) Mobile Device Management
7 5 (5.56%) Server Management
7 5 (5.56%) Storage Management
8 4 (4.44%) Coaching
8 4 (4.44%) Collaborative Culture
8 4 (4.44%) Computer Science
8 4 (4.44%) Mentoring
8 4 (4.44%) Security Patching
9 3 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 3 (3.33%) ITSM
9 3 (3.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
10 2 (2.22%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.89%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.11%) Bash
Qualifications
1 10 (11.11%) Degree
2 2 (2.22%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.11%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.11%) MCSA
3 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (1.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.33%) SLA
2 1 (1.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 79 (87.78%) Active Directory
2 15 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 5 (5.56%) vSphere
5 4 (4.44%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.11%) Firmware
6 1 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (3.33%) SCCM
2 2 (2.22%) SCOM
3 1 (1.11%) Ansible
3 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 16 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 15 (16.67%) VMware
3 5 (5.56%) Veeam
4 4 (4.44%) Apple
5 3 (3.33%) Meraki
5 3 (3.33%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.22%) Cisco
7 1 (1.11%) Citrix
7 1 (1.11%) CyberArk