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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 155 166
Rank change year-on-year -44 +11 -25
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 4 12 35
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.055% 0.34% 0.68%
As % of the System Software category 1.13% 2.92% 6.72%
Number of salaries quoted 4 9 25
10th Percentile - - £33,395
25th Percentile £32,750 £26,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,250 £30,000 £71,991
Median % change year-on-year +30.83% -58.33% +59.98%
75th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £85,000
90th Percentile - £53,750 £88,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £55,000 £60,918
% change year-on-year +36.36% -9.71% +1.53%

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 355 411 521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 4.87% 11.58% 10.12%
Number of salaries quoted 262 290 388
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,000 £27,850
25th Percentile £29,000 £27,125 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £32,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -31.58% +11.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £49,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,025 £69,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.40% -3.00% -9.91%

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 8 August 2026.

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 8 August 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
North Yorkshire +7 2 £33,500 -36.19% 1
West Yorkshire -32 2 £45,000 +20.00%
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 4 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) IaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
2 2 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) LAN
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) DHCP
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) VLAN
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) IT Technician
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior IT Technician
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Technician
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Driving Licence
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) RBAC
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Software Deployment
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (50.00%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Zoho