Virtual Machines Jobs in the West Midlands

Virtual Machine (VM)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Virtual Machines skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Machines over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 210 191
Rank change year-on-year +27 -19 +49
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 13 37 89
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.29% 0.51% 1.34%
As % of the System Software category 3.68% 4.38% 11.13%
Number of salaries quoted 6 30 40
10th Percentile £42,625 £24,000 £36,875
25th Percentile £44,000 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £48,750 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year -5.64% -8.45% +29.88%
75th Percentile £48,000 £60,313 £76,563
90th Percentile £72,750 £67,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,836 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.58% - +15.00%

All System Software Skills
West Midlands

Virtual Machines 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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 353 845 800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.91% 11.67% 12.00%
Number of salaries quoted 261 709 539
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,700 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £31,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.07%
75th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -1.79%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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
Birmingham +40 10 £46,000 -18.22% 1
Warwickshire -22 2 - - 6
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 (7.69%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) AWS
2 7 (53.85%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (38.46%) Azure
3 5 (38.46%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (30.77%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (30.77%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 4 (30.77%) Amazon S3
4 4 (30.77%) AWS KMS
4 4 (30.77%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (30.77%) Entra ID
4 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (30.77%) Route 53
4 4 (30.77%) Serverless
4 4 (30.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (23.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (23.08%) Amazon ELB
5 3 (23.08%) Amazon Glacier
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 10 (76.92%) Firewall
2 6 (46.15%) VPN
3 5 (38.46%) WAN
4 4 (30.77%) HTTPS
4 4 (30.77%) SD-WAN
4 4 (30.77%) SSL
4 4 (30.77%) VLAN
5 1 (7.69%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (7.69%) LAN
5 1 (7.69%) Network Security
5 1 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (30.77%) Jenkins
2 3 (23.08%) Vagrant
General
1 4 (30.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Legal
3 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) IT Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Security Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Service Delivery Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Service Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Strategy Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) IoT
1 1 (7.69%) PKI
1 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Linux
2 4 (30.77%) Ubuntu
2 4 (30.77%) Windows Server
3 3 (23.08%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (38.46%) Problem Management
3 4 (30.77%) Agile
3 4 (30.77%) Capacity Management
3 4 (30.77%) Collaborative Culture
3 4 (30.77%) Cost Management
3 4 (30.77%) Cost Optimisation
3 4 (30.77%) DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (30.77%) Identity Management
3 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Management
3 4 (30.77%) Key Management
3 4 (30.77%) Load Balancing
3 4 (30.77%) Patch Management
3 4 (30.77%) Privileged Identity Management
3 4 (30.77%) Proactive Management
3 4 (30.77%) Security Operations
3 4 (30.77%) Threat Management
3 4 (30.77%) Zero Trust
4 3 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
1 4 (30.77%) Python
1 4 (30.77%) Shell Script
2 3 (23.08%) Groovy
2 3 (23.08%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) Perl
2 3 (23.08%) Ruby
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) AWS Certification
1 4 (30.77%) Azure Certification
1 4 (30.77%) CompTIA Security+
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) CISA
3 1 (7.69%) CISM
3 1 (7.69%) CISSP
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) GIAC
3 1 (7.69%) ISACA
3 1 (7.69%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (69.23%) Active Directory
2 4 (30.77%) Docker
2 4 (30.77%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Ansible
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (30.77%) Nessus
1 4 (30.77%) Proxmox
1 4 (30.77%) Terraform
2 3 (23.08%) Nagios
3 1 (7.69%) FortiGate
3 1 (7.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) Juniper
3 2 (15.38%) Cisco
4 1 (7.69%) Tenable
4 1 (7.69%) VMware