Virtualisation Specialist Jobs

Virtualization Specialist
UK

The median Virtualization Specialist salary in the UK is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 703 897 963
Rank change year-on-year +194 +66 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Virtualisation Specialist 8 13 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.015% 0.013% 0.001%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.013% 0.001%
Number of salaries quoted 6 13 1
10th Percentile - £74,000 -
25th Percentile £56,250 - £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £80,000 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% +75.82% -
75th Percentile £58,750 - £45,750
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 - £45,500

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 49,435 96,820 89,564
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 94.78% 91.46%
Number of salaries quoted 25,727 69,155 56,824
10th Percentile £28,822 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%

Virtualisation Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Virtualisation Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Virtualisation Specialist in the UK

Virtualisation Specialist
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Virtualisation Specialist.

Salary trend for Virtualisation Specialist in the UK

Virtualisation Specialist
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtualisation Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 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 +154 8 £57,500 -28.13% 1
South East - 6 £57,500 -
UK excluding London - 6 £57,500 -
London +109 2 - - 1

Virtualisation Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Virtualisation Specialist job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Virtualisation Specialist in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 8 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
1 8 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 8 (100.00%) vSphere
2 7 (87.50%) Puppet
2 7 (87.50%) Ansible
2 7 (87.50%) vRealize
2 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 7 (87.50%) SAN
3 6 (75.00%) Configuration Management
3 6 (75.00%) HP
3 6 (75.00%) Citrix
3 6 (75.00%) DHCP
3 6 (75.00%) DNS
3 6 (75.00%) Hyper-V
3 6 (75.00%) NAS
3 6 (75.00%) Veeam
3 6 (75.00%) Azure
3 6 (75.00%) AWS
3 6 (75.00%) Clustering
3 6 (75.00%) Incident Management
3 6 (75.00%) Windows Server
3 6 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (75.00%) PowerCLI
3 6 (75.00%) VSAN
3 6 (75.00%) vCenter Server
3 6 (75.00%) Task Automation

Virtualisation Specialist Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) SAN
2 6 (75.00%) DHCP
2 6 (75.00%) DNS
2 6 (75.00%) NAS
2 6 (75.00%) VSAN
General
1 6 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (75.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Configuration Management
1 6 (75.00%) High Availability
1 6 (75.00%) Incident Management
1 6 (75.00%) Security Hardening
1 6 (75.00%) Task Automation
1 6 (75.00%) Virtual Environments
1 6 (75.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (25.00%) Investment Management
3 1 (12.50%) Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (12.50%) OOP
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 6 (75.00%) DV Cleared
2 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (25.00%) Degree
3 2 (25.00%) MCSE
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (25.00%) VCAP
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 8 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (100.00%) vSphere
2 6 (75.00%) Docker
2 6 (75.00%) Hyper-V
2 6 (75.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Ansible
1 7 (87.50%) Puppet
1 7 (87.50%) vRealize
2 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (75.00%) PowerCLI
2 6 (75.00%) vCenter Server
2 6 (75.00%) vMotion
3 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
3 6 (75.00%) Citrix
3 6 (75.00%) HP
3 6 (75.00%) Veeam