Virtual Environments
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Virtual Environments skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Environments over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 803 814 911
Rank change year-on-year +11 +97 -110
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Environments 92 138 335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.091% 0.14% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.15% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 55 87 166
10th Percentile £26,350 £25,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,750 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £43,712 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.78% -2.86% +12.50%
75th Percentile £50,000 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £62,000 £68,000 £66,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £38,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -1.32% -10.59% +6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Virtual Environments is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,549 94,155 156,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 95.59% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 60,063 55,401 82,663
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Virtual Environments
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Virtual Environments as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Environments in the UK

Virtual Environments
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Virtual Environments.

Salary trend for Virtual Environments in the UK

Virtual Environments
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Environments over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Virtual Environments in the UK

Virtual Environments
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Environments within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. 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
England +56 82 £40,000 -8.49% 34
UK excluding London -5 79 £37,500 -1.32% 27
South East +15 32 £35,000 +31.15% 6
Work from Home +30 25 £48,000 +9.71% 15
North of England +24 16 £38,750 +7.64% 8
Midlands -10 11 £47,500 -9.52% 7
London +93 9 £72,500 +26.09% 7
South West -8 9 £33,500 -6.94% 3
West Midlands +9 8 £50,000 +5.26% 3
Yorkshire +57 7 £37,500 +4.17% 2
North East - 7 £42,500 - 1
Wales +12 4 £27,000 -36.47%
East of England -1 3 £57,500 +53.33% 5
East Midlands -8 3 £30,750 -41.43% 4
Scotland -59 3 £33,500 -39.09% 1
North West - 2 - - 5
Northern Ireland +25 1 - -

Virtual Environments
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 27 (29.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (16.30%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (14.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 40 (43.48%) Azure
2 28 (30.43%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (15.22%) AWS
3 14 (15.22%) Entra ID
4 12 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
4 12 (13.04%) AWS CodeStar
4 12 (13.04%) Cloud Computing
4 12 (13.04%) GCP
4 12 (13.04%) OCI
5 2 (2.17%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (2.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.09%) GitHub
6 1 (1.09%) IaaS
6 1 (1.09%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (41.30%) Firewall
2 24 (26.09%) DNS
3 23 (25.00%) DHCP
3 23 (25.00%) LAN
3 23 (25.00%) WAN
4 12 (13.04%) SAN
5 11 (11.96%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (10.87%) TCP/IP
6 10 (10.87%) VPN
7 9 (9.78%) Network Security
8 8 (8.70%) Internet
8 8 (8.70%) NAS
8 8 (8.70%) VLAN
9 7 (7.61%) SSL
10 5 (5.43%) VoIP
11 4 (4.35%) Wireless
12 2 (2.17%) BGP
12 2 (2.17%) OSPF
12 2 (2.17%) SD-WAN
12 2 (2.17%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.13%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (14.13%) Jenkins
1 13 (14.13%) JIRA
2 12 (13.04%) SonarQube
2 12 (13.04%) Terragrunt
3 1 (1.09%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.09%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.09%) GitLab
3 1 (1.09%) Zephyr
General
1 38 (41.30%) Social Skills
2 15 (16.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 15 (16.30%) Pharmaceutical
3 13 (14.13%) Influencing Skills
3 13 (14.13%) Legal
4 11 (11.96%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (9.78%) Marketing
6 6 (6.52%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.35%) Finance
7 4 (4.35%) Welsh Language
8 3 (3.26%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.17%) Aerospace
9 2 (2.17%) Automotive
9 2 (2.17%) Electronics
9 2 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (20.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (14.13%) Project Manager
3 12 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (10.87%) IT Support
5 8 (8.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 8 (8.70%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (8.70%) Support Engineer
6 6 (6.52%) IT Engineer
6 6 (6.52%) Network Engineer
6 6 (6.52%) SOC Engineer
6 6 (6.52%) Technical Engineer
6 6 (6.52%) Technical Support
6 6 (6.52%) Technical Support Engineer
7 5 (5.43%) Analyst
7 5 (5.43%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.43%) IT Support Technician
7 5 (5.43%) IT Technician
7 5 (5.43%) Support Technician
8 4 (4.35%) Network Security Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.04%) ARM Templates
1 12 (13.04%) Node.js
2 2 (2.17%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.09%) .NET
3 1 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.09%) Kafka
3 1 (1.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.04%) Cloud Native
1 12 (13.04%) Product Ownership
2 10 (10.87%) Data Centre
2 10 (10.87%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (7.61%) Management Information System
4 6 (6.52%) CCTV
4 6 (6.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 4 (4.35%) Replication
6 3 (3.26%) Clustering
7 2 (2.17%) CMDB
7 2 (2.17%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (2.17%) Molecular Biology
7 2 (2.17%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.17%) PKI
7 2 (2.17%) Smartcard
8 1 (1.09%) Life Science
8 1 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.09%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 44 (47.83%) Windows
2 27 (29.35%) Windows Server
3 18 (19.57%) Linux
4 15 (16.30%) Windows Server 2012
5 14 (15.22%) Windows Server 2016
6 11 (11.96%) Windows 10
7 9 (9.78%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (2.17%) Android
8 2 (2.17%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (31.52%) Mentoring
2 28 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (20.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 16 (17.39%) Service Delivery
5 15 (16.30%) Agile
5 15 (16.30%) Biotechnology
5 15 (16.30%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (15.22%) Software Delivery
7 13 (14.13%) CI/CD
7 13 (14.13%) Collaborative Working
7 13 (14.13%) Computer Science
7 13 (14.13%) Creative Thinking
7 13 (14.13%) DevOps
7 13 (14.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (14.13%) Risk Management
7 13 (14.13%) Scrum
8 12 (13.04%) Continuous Delivery
8 12 (13.04%) Test Automation
9 11 (11.96%) Cybersecurity
10 10 (10.87%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (23.91%) SQL
2 13 (14.13%) JavaScript
2 13 (14.13%) Python
3 7 (7.61%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.09%) Bash
4 1 (1.09%) C++
4 1 (1.09%) Java
4 1 (1.09%) Perl
Qualifications
1 21 (22.83%) Degree
2 14 (15.22%) SC Cleared
2 14 (15.22%) Security Cleared
3 13 (14.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (13.04%) AWS Certification
4 12 (13.04%) Azure Certification
4 12 (13.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (11.96%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (9.78%) CCNA
7 7 (7.61%) MCP
7 7 (7.61%) MCSA
7 7 (7.61%) MCSE
8 6 (6.52%) CISA
8 6 (6.52%) CISSP
8 6 (6.52%) GIAC
8 6 (6.52%) JNCIA
9 4 (4.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (2.17%) CCIE
10 2 (2.17%) CCNP
10 2 (2.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.61%) Good Clinical Practice
2 5 (5.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (5.43%) SLA
3 3 (3.26%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 37 (40.22%) Active Directory
2 25 (27.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (17.39%) Hyper-V
4 13 (14.13%) Docker
5 6 (6.52%) vSphere
6 4 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (2.17%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (1.09%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 13 (14.13%) Ansible
1 13 (14.13%) Kubernetes
1 13 (14.13%) SCOM
2 12 (13.04%) Terraform
3 6 (6.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (6.52%) SCCM
4 4 (4.35%) WSUS
5 3 (3.26%) FortiGate
6 2 (2.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (2.17%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.09%) Autotask
7 1 (1.09%) Grafana
7 1 (1.09%) Kibana
7 1 (1.09%) logstash
7 1 (1.09%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.09%) Puppet
7 1 (1.09%) Salt
Vendors
1 34 (36.96%) Microsoft
2 25 (27.17%) VMware
3 12 (13.04%) Black Duck
3 12 (13.04%) ServiceNow
4 7 (7.61%) Splunk
5 6 (6.52%) Juniper
6 4 (4.35%) Cisco
6 4 (4.35%) Veeam
6 4 (4.35%) WatchGuard
7 3 (3.26%) Draytek
7 3 (3.26%) Meraki
7 3 (3.26%) NETGEAR
7 3 (3.26%) Ubiquiti
8 2 (2.17%) BMC
8 2 (2.17%) Citrix
9 1 (1.09%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.09%) NetApp
9 1 (1.09%) Red Hat