Virtual Servers Job Trends in the West Midlands

Virtual Servers
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Virtual Servers skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 195 167
Rank change year-on-year +17 -28 +115
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Servers 2 3 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.038% 0.069% 0.24%
As % of the System Software category 0.93% 0.67% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 8
10th Percentile - - £37,500
25th Percentile £34,674 £38,750 £40,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,866 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.61% - +8.97%
75th Percentile £37,057 £46,250 £48,813
90th Percentile - - £64,600
England median annual salary £100,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +100.00% +5.26% -12.04%

All System Software Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 214 447 529
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.07% 10.31% 15.83%
Number of salaries quoted 154 252 487
10th Percentile £28,950 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,750 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £57,193
90th Percentile £80,000 £74,914 £70,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -

Virtual Servers
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Virtual Servers job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Virtual Servers
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Virtual Servers.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Virtual Servers

Virtual Servers
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 Servers within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Staffordshire -12 2 £35,866 -15.61%
Virtual Servers
England

Virtual Servers
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation