Virtual Machines Job Trends in Yorkshire

Virtual Machine (VM)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Virtual Machines skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 141 149
Rank change year-on-year -10 +8 +98
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 9 39 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.27% 0.79% 1.45%
As % of the System Software category 2.58% 8.78% 9.52%
Number of salaries quoted 7 26 39
10th Percentile - £40,375 £31,985
25th Percentile £26,250 £41,250 £32,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,000 £62,496 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -55.20% +78.56% -17.34%
75th Percentile £34,375 £85,000 £62,139
90th Percentile £44,750 £87,500 £67,070
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,918 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.71% -2.53% +19.05%

All System Software Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 349 444 588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 10.60% 9.00% 15.28%
Number of salaries quoted 236 288 465
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £27,000 £34,688 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £49,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.32% +23.75% -18.78%
75th Percentile £53,750 £65,625 £58,750
90th Percentile £70,250 £69,500 £70,750
England median annual salary £47,592 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.68% -0.91% -

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Virtual Machines as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in Yorkshire

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Virtual Machines.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Virtual Machines

Virtual Machines
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Virtual Machines in Yorkshire

Virtual Machines
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Machines within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
South Yorkshire +11 2 £28,000 -24.38% 2
West Yorkshire -1 2 £30,000 -62.50% 1
North Yorkshire -5 1 £52,500 -
Virtual Machines
England

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 3 (33.33%) SaaS
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Azure AI
3 2 (22.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (22.22%) IaaS
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (22.22%) PaaS
3 2 (22.22%) Power Automate
3 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) Firewall
2 3 (33.33%) DNS
2 3 (33.33%) VPN
3 2 (22.22%) SD-WAN
3 2 (22.22%) WAN
4 1 (11.11%) DHCP
4 1 (11.11%) NetScaler
4 1 (11.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Data Lake
1 2 (22.22%) MySQL
1 2 (22.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
General
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Support Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Technical Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Technical Support
1 4 (44.44%) Technical Support Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Account Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Account Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
1 2 (22.22%) NHS
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
1 5 (55.56%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Customer Service
2 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Analytics
3 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (22.22%) B2B
3 2 (22.22%) Data Integration
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) Log Analytics
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (22.22%) Project Management
3 2 (22.22%) RBAC
3 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
3 2 (22.22%) Service Management
3 2 (22.22%) TOGAF
3 2 (22.22%) Waterfall
3 2 (22.22%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (22.22%) Bicep
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 2 (22.22%) DBS Check
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (11.11%) vSphere
2 1 (11.11%) XenApp
2 1 (11.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) SCCM
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Databricks
1 2 (22.22%) Meraki
1 2 (22.22%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Citrix
2 1 (11.11%) Commvault
2 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft