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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 135 116
Rank change year-on-year -15 -19 +123
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 8 33 80
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.24% 0.76% 2.33%
As % of the System Software category 2.31% 8.85% 13.05%
Number of salaries quoted 6 20 38
10th Percentile - £38,675 £31,125
25th Percentile £26,250 £51,500 £32,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,750 £80,000 £36,250
Median % change year-on-year -64.06% +120.69% -14.39%
75th Percentile £36,563 £85,000 £64,458
90th Percentile £46,250 £85,500 £67,070
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +16.28%

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 346 373 613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 10.37% 8.57% 17.85%
Number of salaries quoted 233 216 477
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £27,500 £41,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £49,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.29% +10.00% -5.26%
75th Percentile £53,750 £65,625 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,250 £69,500 £70,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Virtual Machines relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Virtual Machines job vacancy trend 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 22 October 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 22 October 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
West Yorkshire -14 2 £30,000 -62.50% 2
South Yorkshire +10 1 - - 4
North Yorkshire -15 1 £52,500 -
Virtual Machines
England

Virtual Machines
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (37.50%) SaaS
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure AI
2 2 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (25.00%) IaaS
2 2 (25.00%) PaaS
2 2 (25.00%) Power Automate
2 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) DNS
2 3 (37.50%) VPN
3 2 (25.00%) SD-WAN
3 2 (25.00%) WAN
4 1 (12.50%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (25.00%) MySQL
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Technical Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Technical Support
1 4 (50.00%) Technical Support Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Account Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Account Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (25.00%) NHS
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) AI
3 2 (25.00%) API Management
3 2 (25.00%) B2B
3 2 (25.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Log Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (25.00%) Project Management
3 2 (25.00%) RBAC
3 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (25.00%) Service Management
3 2 (25.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (25.00%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) Bicep
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (25.00%) DBS Check
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Databricks
1 2 (25.00%) Meraki
2 1 (12.50%) VMware