Virtualisation Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Virtualization Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Virtualization Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £53,688 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 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
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 190 253 266
Rank change year-on-year +63 +13 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Virtualisation Engineer 4 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.093% 0.013% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.014% 0.035%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile - - £34,188
25th Percentile - £42,500 £34,844
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £45,000 £36,625
Median % change year-on-year +19.31% +22.87% -18.61%
75th Percentile - £47,500 £38,344
90th Percentile - - £38,963
England median annual salary £57,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +27.78% -10.00% +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 3,927 7,065 5,646
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.03% 94.39% 90.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,754 5,271 3,235
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £38,966
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,887 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £56,000 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +5.66% -12.83% +1.33%

Virtualisation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtualisation Engineer in the West Midlands

Virtualisation Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Virtualisation Engineer in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Virtualisation Engineer in the West Midlands

Virtualisation Engineer
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 Virtualisation Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 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
Staffordshire +21 4 £53,688 +19.31% 1
Virtualisation Engineer
England

Virtualisation Engineer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 20 May 2025, Virtualisation Engineer 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Virtualisation Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (75.00%) Server Management
2 3 (75.00%) Availability Management
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (75.00%) Release Management
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Management
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 3 (75.00%) Isilon
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (75.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Dell
2 3 (75.00%) Citrix
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (75.00%) Change Management
2 3 (75.00%) VMware

Virtualisation Engineer Skill Set
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 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Availability Management
2 3 (75.00%) Change Management
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Management
2 3 (75.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 3 (75.00%) Release Management
2 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (75.00%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Citrix
1 3 (75.00%) Dell
1 3 (75.00%) Isilon
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) VMware