Virtual Machines Jobs in the West Midlands

Virtual Machine (VM)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Virtual Machines skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Machines over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 211 187 244
Rank change year-on-year -24 +57 -33
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 37 87 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.51% 1.29% 0.55%
As % of the System Software category 4.38% 10.73% 3.81%
Number of salaries quoted 30 40 18
10th Percentile £24,000 £36,875 £29,225
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £53,250 £38,250
Median % change year-on-year -8.45% +39.22% -37.55%
75th Percentile £60,313 £76,563 £52,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £62,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +15.00% -9.09%

All System Software Skills
West Midlands

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 844 811 1,051
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.68% 12.06% 14.54%
Number of salaries quoted 707 551 857
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,000 £26,150
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,125 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £76,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% +1.82%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Virtual Machines as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in the West Midlands

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Virtual Machines in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Virtual Machines in the West Midlands

Virtual Machines
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Virtual Machines in the West Midlands

Virtual Machines
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Machines within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Staffordshire +2 20 £47,500 +5.56%
Warwickshire +58 6 £65,000 +8.33% 2
Tipton - 4 £24,000 -
Birmingham -36 2 £56,250 -25.00% 1
Solihull -19 1 - - 1
Halesowen - 1 £30,000 -
Virtual Machines
England

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (16.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 29 (78.38%) Azure
2 13 (35.14%) Entra ID
3 11 (29.73%) Azure Logic Apps
4 9 (24.32%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (21.62%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (16.22%) Azure Key Vault
6 6 (16.22%) IaaS
6 6 (16.22%) PaaS
7 2 (5.41%) Azure App Service
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (5.41%) Matillion
7 2 (5.41%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.70%) AWS
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (45.95%) Firewall
2 7 (18.92%) VoIP
3 6 (16.22%) LAN
3 6 (16.22%) MPLS
3 6 (16.22%) SD-WAN
3 6 (16.22%) Wireless
4 3 (8.11%) DNS
5 2 (5.41%) Broadband
5 2 (5.41%) HTTP
6 1 (2.70%) DHCP
6 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.22%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (10.81%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (5.41%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (16.22%) Git
General
1 8 (21.62%) Finance
2 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
3 6 (16.22%) Local Government
4 1 (2.70%) Banking
4 1 (2.70%) Games
Job Titles
1 17 (45.95%) Cloud Engineer
2 14 (37.84%) IT Support
3 8 (21.62%) IT Engineer
3 8 (21.62%) IT Support Engineer
3 8 (21.62%) Support Engineer
4 7 (18.92%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 7 (18.92%) 3rd Line Support
4 7 (18.92%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 6 (16.22%) 1st Line Support
5 6 (16.22%) 1st Line Support Technician
5 6 (16.22%) First Line Help Desk Support
5 6 (16.22%) Help Desk Support
5 6 (16.22%) Help Desk Support Technician
5 6 (16.22%) Help Desk Technician
5 6 (16.22%) IT Support Technician
5 6 (16.22%) IT Technician
5 6 (16.22%) Support Technician
6 4 (10.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.22%) ARM Templates
2 2 (5.41%) JWT
2 2 (5.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) CCTV
1 6 (16.22%) Data Centre
1 6 (16.22%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (10.81%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (32.43%) Windows
2 10 (27.03%) Windows Server
3 9 (24.32%) Linux
4 2 (5.41%) VMS
5 1 (2.70%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (51.35%) DevOps
2 17 (45.95%) Network Virtualisation
3 13 (35.14%) Disaster Recovery
4 9 (24.32%) Cloud Security
4 9 (24.32%) Performance Monitoring
5 8 (21.62%) CI/CD
6 7 (18.92%) Proactive Monitoring
7 6 (16.22%) Business Strategy
7 6 (16.22%) Continuous Deployment
7 6 (16.22%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (16.22%) Identity Management
7 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (10.81%) Platform Engineering
9 3 (8.11%) High Availability
10 2 (5.41%) Agile
10 2 (5.41%) Business Intelligence
10 2 (5.41%) Collaborative Working
10 2 (5.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 2 (5.41%) Cost Control
10 2 (5.41%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.62%) Bicep
1 8 (21.62%) SQL
2 6 (16.22%) Bash
2 6 (16.22%) PowerShell
3 4 (10.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.22%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (16.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 8 (21.62%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.70%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (21.62%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (45.95%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.70%) Citrix
2 1 (2.70%) VMware