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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 129 151
Rank change year-on-year -48 +22 +94
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 2 11 61
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.044% 0.48% 1.21%
As % of the System Software category 0.55% 3.97% 8.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1 8 29
10th Percentile - £36,250 £26,500
25th Percentile - £40,938 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £52,500 £32,250
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +62.79% -32.11%
75th Percentile - £54,688 £57,500
90th Percentile - £57,500 £61,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -

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 365 277 751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 8.03% 12.01% 14.89%
Number of salaries quoted 263 224 614
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £31,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% -9.19%
75th Percentile £61,250 £64,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £97,528 £67,125
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%

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
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 11 March 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
South Yorkshire -20 2 £30,000 - 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) Nutanix
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) NetScaler
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Storage Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Software Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Storage Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) KVM
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) XenApp
2 1 (50.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) PowerCLI
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Commvault
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft