Virtual Servers Job Trends

Virtual Servers
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Virtual Servers skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 696 614 726
Rank change year-on-year -82 +112 +87
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Servers 20 38 163
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.022% 0.087% 0.17%
As % of the System Software category 0.43% 0.67% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 13 30 132
10th Percentile - £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £34,674 £39,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 £45,250 £40,478
Median % change year-on-year -18.23% +11.79% -26.40%
75th Percentile £47,500 £54,752 £69,063
90th Percentile - £62,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,000 £46,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -20.43% +16.25% -8.05%

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 4,694 5,675 11,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.19% 12.98% 12.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,287 3,816 9,552
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £91,750 £98,474 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -5.26%

Virtual Servers
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Virtual Servers job vacancy trend in the UK

Virtual Servers
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Virtual Servers

Virtual Servers
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Servers over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Virtual Servers in the UK

Virtual Servers
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 Servers within the UK over the 6 months to 12 May 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
UK excluding London -44 20 £37,000 -20.43% 13
England -62 20 £37,000 -17.78% 17
Work from Home +16 12 £45,000 -5.26% 6
Midlands -30 6 £36,433 -33.76% 1
South West -46 6 - - 2
West Midlands - 6 £36,433 - 1
South East -8 3 £37,500 -43.18% 8
North of England -36 3 £45,000 +14.34% 3
Yorkshire -51 3 £45,000 -1.10% 1
East of England -14 2 £47,739 +22.75% 1

Virtual Servers
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 4 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (5.00%) IIS
3 1 (5.00%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (60.00%) Azure
3 6 (30.00%) AWS
4 3 (15.00%) Azure AKS
4 3 (15.00%) IaaS
4 3 (15.00%) Mimecast
4 3 (15.00%) PaaS
4 3 (15.00%) SaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (55.00%) Firewall
2 7 (35.00%) DNS
2 7 (35.00%) WAN
3 6 (30.00%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (30.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 6 (30.00%) LAN
3 6 (30.00%) Unified Communications
3 6 (30.00%) VLAN
3 6 (30.00%) WebEx
4 4 (20.00%) DHCP
5 3 (15.00%) FTP
5 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
5 3 (15.00%) VPN
6 1 (5.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 9 (45.00%) Retail
2 6 (30.00%) Banking
2 6 (30.00%) Marketing
2 6 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 6 (30.00%) Telecoms
3 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (40.00%) Analyst
3 6 (30.00%) Collaboration Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 3 (15.00%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (15.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Support
4 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) IT Analyst
4 3 (15.00%) Support Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) IT Operations Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) IT Support
5 2 (10.00%) Operations Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (40.00%) Replication
3 7 (35.00%) Onboarding
4 6 (30.00%) FlexPod
4 6 (30.00%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (15.00%) CMDB
5 3 (15.00%) Data Centre
5 3 (15.00%) Driving Licence
6 1 (5.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 16 (80.00%) Windows
2 9 (45.00%) Windows Server
3 7 (35.00%) Linux
4 3 (15.00%) Windows 10
5 1 (5.00%) Android
5 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 10 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (45.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 9 (45.00%) ITIL
3 6 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (30.00%) Capacity Planning
3 6 (30.00%) Data Management
3 6 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (30.00%) Performance Management
4 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 4 (20.00%) Preventative Maintenance
6 3 (15.00%) DevOps
6 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Management
6 3 (15.00%) Proactive Management
6 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.00%) Task Automation
6 3 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (15.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) SQL
2 6 (30.00%) Python
3 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.00%) Bash
4 1 (5.00%) C#
4 1 (5.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) Degree
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 3 (15.00%) MCSA
4 1 (5.00%) A+ Certification
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.00%) IISP
4 1 (5.00%) ISACA
4 1 (5.00%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (70.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 7 (35.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (30.00%) vSphere
4 3 (15.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Ansible
1 6 (30.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 6 (30.00%) Grafana
1 6 (30.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 16 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (35.00%) Cisco
3 6 (30.00%) Fortinet
3 6 (30.00%) NetApp
3 6 (30.00%) Palo Alto
3 6 (30.00%) Splunk
3 6 (30.00%) VMware
4 3 (15.00%) Citrix
4 3 (15.00%) IFS
4 3 (15.00%) Oracle
5 2 (10.00%) Veeam
6 1 (5.00%) Apple
6 1 (5.00%) Mitel
6 1 (5.00%) SonicWALL