Virtual Servers
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Virtual Servers skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Servers over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 629 869 867
Rank change year-on-year +240 -2 -227
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Servers 101 205 214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.17% 0.17%
As % of the System Software category 1.14% 1.09% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 65 170 186
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,000 £25,375
25th Percentile £41,566 £37,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £53,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +32.50% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £53,563
90th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £63,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year +11.76% +13.33% -6.25%

All System Software Skills
UK

Virtual Servers is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 8,872 18,743 22,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.75% 15.26% 17.64%
Number of salaries quoted 7,069 12,536 15,960
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £38,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,952 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% +1.73% -
75th Percentile £72,647 £77,715 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £49,787 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.59% +4.82% +5.56%

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 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Virtual Servers in the UK

Virtual Servers
Top 15 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 7 December 2023. 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 +232 94 £47,500 -11.21% 54
UK excluding London +190 70 £47,500 +11.76% 40
London +236 31 £55,000 -8.33% 23
Work from Home +193 31 £47,500 -12.04% 18
South West +88 30 £35,033 +16.78% 1
North of England +132 18 £47,500 +2.15% 11
North West +105 10 £47,500 -1.04% 7
Midlands +127 9 £42,500 +8.97% 9
Yorkshire +109 8 £47,500 +31.94% 2
West Midlands +128 6 £42,500 +8.97% 6
South East +123 6 £43,750 -7.89% 10
East Midlands +47 3 £52,500 +50.00% 3
Scotland +33 3 £37,048 -22.01% 4
Wales - 3 £43,190 - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £34,500 -

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 13 (12.87%) IIS
1 13 (12.87%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.94%) MS Exchange
3 1 (0.99%) CMS
3 1 (0.99%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (0.99%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (8.91%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 62 (61.39%) Azure
2 51 (50.50%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (28.71%) Cloud Computing
4 27 (26.73%) Entra ID
5 24 (23.76%) AWS
6 6 (5.94%) IaaS
7 5 (4.95%) Nutanix
8 4 (3.96%) OneDrive
9 3 (2.97%) Azure API Management
9 3 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.97%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.97%) GCP
9 3 (2.97%) GitHub
10 2 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.98%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.98%) Mimecast
10 2 (1.98%) PaaS
10 2 (1.98%) SaaS
10 2 (1.98%) Tessian
10 2 (1.98%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 26 (25.74%) DNS
2 25 (24.75%) Firewall
2 25 (24.75%) Software-Defined Networking
3 21 (20.79%) DHCP
4 20 (19.80%) SAN
5 18 (17.82%) LAN
6 17 (16.83%) WAN
7 9 (8.91%) NAS
7 9 (8.91%) VoIP
8 8 (7.92%) Structured Cabling
9 7 (6.93%) Internet
9 7 (6.93%) Intrusion Detection
9 7 (6.93%) iSCSI
9 7 (6.93%) TCP/IP
9 7 (6.93%) VPN
10 5 (4.95%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (3.96%) Cisco Firepower
11 4 (3.96%) VSAN
11 4 (3.96%) Wireless
11 4 (3.96%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (24.75%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.98%) MariaDB
2 2 (1.98%) Metadata
2 2 (1.98%) MySQL
3 1 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.99%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (4.95%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.96%) Git
3 3 (2.97%) IBM UrbanCode
3 3 (2.97%) JIRA
3 3 (2.97%) Postman
3 3 (2.97%) SoapUI
3 3 (2.97%) SonarQube
3 3 (2.97%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.98%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.98%) Subversion
4 2 (1.98%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (20.79%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.87%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (8.91%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (5.94%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (4.95%) Back Office
5 5 (4.95%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (4.95%) Finance
5 5 (4.95%) Local Government
6 4 (3.96%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.97%) Banking
7 3 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.97%) Legal
7 3 (2.97%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.97%) Police
8 2 (1.98%) Electronics
9 1 (0.99%) Marketing
9 1 (0.99%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.99%) Retail
9 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (49.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 21 (20.79%) VMware Engineer
2 21 (20.79%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (9.90%) Senior
4 9 (8.91%) IT Engineer
5 7 (6.93%) Administrator
6 5 (4.95%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (4.95%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (4.95%) Software Engineer
6 5 (4.95%) Systems Administrator
7 4 (3.96%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (3.96%) IT Support
7 4 (3.96%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 4 (3.96%) Senior IT Engineer
7 4 (3.96%) Storage Specialist
8 3 (2.97%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 3 (2.97%) IT Security Engineer
8 3 (2.97%) IT Technician
8 3 (2.97%) Server Specialist
8 3 (2.97%) Virtualisation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.96%) ARM Templates
2 3 (2.97%) Node.js
2 3 (2.97%) React
2 3 (2.97%) RESTful
2 3 (2.97%) Web Services
3 2 (1.98%) .NET
3 2 (1.98%) .NET Framework
3 2 (1.98%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.98%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (1.98%) jQuery
3 2 (1.98%) KnockoutJS
3 2 (1.98%) OAuth
3 2 (1.98%) OpenID
3 2 (1.98%) Razor View Engine
3 2 (1.98%) REST
3 2 (1.98%) SAML
3 2 (1.98%) WebSockets
3 2 (1.98%) WinForms
3 2 (1.98%) WPF
3 2 (1.98%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (26.73%) Private Cloud
2 8 (7.92%) Management Information System
3 7 (6.93%) Public Cloud
4 6 (5.94%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.97%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.98%) CCTV
6 2 (1.98%) Clustering
6 2 (1.98%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.98%) Handset
6 2 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.98%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.98%) Replication
7 1 (0.99%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.99%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.99%) PKI
7 1 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.99%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.99%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 56 (55.45%) Windows
2 33 (32.67%) Windows Server
3 19 (18.81%) Linux
4 18 (17.82%) Windows Server 2012
5 16 (15.84%) Windows 10
6 15 (14.85%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (7.92%) Apple iOS
7 8 (7.92%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (3.96%) Mac OS
9 2 (1.98%) Android
10 1 (0.99%) Debian
10 1 (0.99%) Solaris
10 1 (0.99%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.99%) Unix
10 1 (0.99%) VMS
10 1 (0.99%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (57.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 33 (32.67%) Server Management
3 29 (28.71%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (28.71%) Storage Management
4 25 (24.75%) Actionable Insight
5 14 (13.86%) Disaster Recovery
5 14 (13.86%) Mentoring
6 13 (12.87%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (11.88%) Network Design
8 9 (8.91%) Business Continuity
8 9 (8.91%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (8.91%) Information Security
9 8 (7.92%) Agile
10 7 (6.93%) DevOps
10 7 (6.93%) Infrastructure Management
10 7 (6.93%) ITIL
10 7 (6.93%) Patch Management
10 7 (6.93%) Project Delivery
11 6 (5.94%) Service Delivery
11 6 (5.94%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (16.83%) PowerShell
2 12 (11.88%) SQL
3 7 (6.93%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.97%) C#
4 3 (2.97%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.98%) C++
5 2 (1.98%) Java
5 2 (1.98%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.99%) C
6 1 (0.99%) Python
6 1 (0.99%) VB
Qualifications
1 27 (26.73%) SC Cleared
1 27 (26.73%) Security Cleared
2 20 (19.80%) Degree
3 9 (8.91%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (5.94%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.94%) MCSE
5 5 (4.95%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (4.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (2.97%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.98%) CCNA
7 2 (1.98%) CEH
7 2 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.98%) CISM
7 2 (1.98%) CISSP
7 2 (1.98%) ISACA
7 2 (1.98%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.99%) MCITP
8 1 (0.99%) MCSA
8 1 (0.99%) VCP5
8 1 (0.99%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.92%) Cyber Essentials
1 8 (7.92%) SLA
2 3 (2.97%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.99%) QA
System Software
1 67 (66.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 53 (52.48%) Active Directory
3 29 (28.71%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (17.82%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 15 (14.85%) vSphere
6 8 (7.92%) Hyper-V
7 5 (4.95%) Firmware
7 5 (4.95%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.98%) Docker
8 2 (1.98%) pfSense
8 2 (1.98%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (1.98%) XenApp
8 2 (1.98%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 27 (26.73%) vCenter Server
2 25 (24.75%) VxRail
3 19 (18.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (7.92%) Nessus
5 7 (6.93%) WSUS
6 6 (5.94%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (5.94%) SCCM
7 5 (4.95%) SCOM
8 2 (1.98%) Dell DRAC
8 2 (1.98%) Kubernetes
8 2 (1.98%) PowerCLI
8 2 (1.98%) Proxmox
8 2 (1.98%) SCOrch
9 1 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.99%) Ansible
9 1 (0.99%) HP SIM
9 1 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.99%) vRealize
9 1 (0.99%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 67 (66.34%) VMware
2 52 (51.49%) Microsoft
3 16 (15.84%) Cisco
4 11 (10.89%) HP
5 9 (8.91%) Sophos
5 9 (8.91%) Veeam
6 8 (7.92%) arcserve
6 8 (7.92%) Meraki
7 7 (6.93%) Citrix
8 6 (5.94%) Commvault
9 5 (4.95%) Dell
10 4 (3.96%) Apple
10 4 (3.96%) Nimble Storage
10 4 (3.96%) SolarWinds
11 2 (1.98%) Axosoft
11 2 (1.98%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.98%) MikroTik
11 2 (1.98%) QNAP
11 2 (1.98%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.98%) Ubiquiti