Virtual Machine (VM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Virtual Machines skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Machines over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 446 280 565
Rank change year-on-year -166 +285 -11
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 543 1,247 940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 1.28% 0.56%
As % of the System Software category 4.53% 8.19% 3.06%
Number of salaries quoted 444 314 363
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,750 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +17.50% -0.50%
75th Percentile £69,063 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,181 £97,625 £84,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £53,625 £45,000
% change year-on-year +7.23% +19.17% -

All System Software Skills
UK

Virtual Machines is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 11,977 15,223 30,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.67% 15.64% 18.41%
Number of salaries quoted 9,369 9,898 15,651
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -0.90% +0.91%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in the UK

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Virtual Machines in the UK

Virtual Machines
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Virtual Machines in the UK

Virtual Machines
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Machines within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 -114 490 £57,500 -4.17% 126
UK excluding London -200 409 £57,500 +7.23% 84
Work from Home +121 293 £57,500 -10.20% 55
South East -60 126 £59,500 +3.48% 23
London +96 119 £80,000 +10.34% 50
North of England -74 88 £55,000 +15.30% 19
Midlands -91 56 £46,250 -15.91% 12
South West -88 55 £55,000 +46.67% 17
North West -59 41 £57,500 -11.54% 7
East of England -34 36 £55,000 +69.23% 10
West Midlands -49 36 £48,750 -9.93% 6
Yorkshire -3 34 £42,500 -3.48% 9
Wales -33 28 £45,000 +0.84%
East Midlands -53 20 £46,250 -31.48% 6
Scotland -162 20 £57,500 +4.55% 4
North East 0 13 £56,250 -2.17% 3

Virtual Machines
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 68 (12.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 43 (7.92%) SharePoint
3 17 (3.13%) Apache Spark
4 14 (2.58%) Apache
5 12 (2.21%) IIS
6 11 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (1.10%) Skype for Business
8 5 (0.92%) Confluence
8 5 (0.92%) Solana
9 4 (0.74%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.55%) CloudStack
11 2 (0.37%) Resin
11 2 (0.37%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 23 (4.24%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.18%) Misys Opics
Cloud Services
1 390 (71.82%) Azure
2 124 (22.84%) Microsoft 365
3 85 (15.65%) Entra ID
3 85 (15.65%) Power Platform
4 82 (15.10%) AWS
5 72 (13.26%) Azure DevOps
6 53 (9.76%) Serverless
7 50 (9.21%) SaaS
8 48 (8.84%) IaaS
9 45 (8.29%) Azure Monitor
10 44 (8.10%) Azure Storage
11 38 (7.00%) Azure Functions
12 31 (5.71%) GCP
13 29 (5.34%) Amazon S3
13 29 (5.34%) Azure AKS
14 28 (5.16%) GitHub
15 27 (4.97%) Azure App Service
16 25 (4.60%) AWS Lambda
17 24 (4.42%) Nutanix
17 24 (4.42%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 104 (19.15%) Firewall
2 96 (17.68%) DNS
3 76 (14.00%) Broadband
4 70 (12.89%) VPN
5 55 (10.13%) DHCP
6 29 (5.34%) LAN
7 26 (4.79%) VLAN
7 26 (4.79%) WAN
8 22 (4.05%) SAN
9 20 (3.68%) HTTP
10 18 (3.31%) Wireless
11 17 (3.13%) Internet
11 17 (3.13%) Network Security
12 16 (2.95%) 5G
12 16 (2.95%) TCP/IP
13 15 (2.76%) VoIP
14 10 (1.84%) iSCSI
14 10 (1.84%) NAS
14 10 (1.84%) NetScaler
14 10 (1.84%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (22.65%) SQL Server
2 90 (16.57%) Azure SQL Database
3 80 (14.73%) Power BI
4 16 (2.95%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (2.03%) Apache Hive
5 11 (2.03%) Presto
6 8 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (1.10%) BigQuery
9 4 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.74%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.55%) Big Data
10 3 (0.55%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.37%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.37%) MySQL
11 2 (0.37%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 56 (10.31%) Git
2 30 (5.52%) Jenkins
3 24 (4.42%) JIRA
4 10 (1.84%) GitLab
4 10 (1.84%) Trac
5 6 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (1.10%) TeamCity
6 5 (0.92%) eggPlant
7 4 (0.74%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.55%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.55%) JUnit
8 3 (0.55%) Selenium
8 3 (0.55%) Subversion
8 3 (0.55%) TestNG
8 3 (0.55%) Travis CI
9 2 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.18%) Burp Suite
General
1 218 (40.15%) Social Skills
2 96 (17.68%) Finance
3 37 (6.81%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (4.24%) Telecoms
5 19 (3.50%) Banking
5 19 (3.50%) Games
6 16 (2.95%) Automotive
6 16 (2.95%) Electronics
6 16 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (2.39%) Manufacturing
8 11 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (1.84%) Retail
10 6 (1.10%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.10%) Law
10 6 (1.10%) Local Government
11 5 (0.92%) Marketing
11 5 (0.92%) Public Sector
12 4 (0.74%) Back Office
12 4 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.55%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 87 (16.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 74 (13.63%) DBA
2 74 (13.63%) SQL DBA
3 65 (11.97%) Senior
4 42 (7.73%) Architect
5 40 (7.37%) Cloud Engineer
5 40 (7.37%) Lead
6 35 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 30 (5.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 28 (5.16%) IT Support
9 25 (4.60%) Software Engineer
10 24 (4.42%) Azure Engineer
11 22 (4.05%) IT Engineer
11 22 (4.05%) Support Engineer
12 20 (3.68%) Infrastructure Architect
12 20 (3.68%) Support Specialist
13 18 (3.31%) Linux Engineer
14 17 (3.13%) Active Directory Specialist
14 17 (3.13%) Active Directory Support
14 17 (3.13%) Azure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (8.84%) ARM Templates
2 41 (7.55%) .NET
3 18 (3.31%) http4s
3 18 (3.31%) Lambda Expressions
4 17 (3.13%) JWT
4 17 (3.13%) RESTful
5 6 (1.10%) REST
6 5 (0.92%) React
6 5 (0.92%) YAML
7 4 (0.74%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.55%) Azure Blueprints
8 3 (0.55%) Bazel
8 3 (0.55%) Flash
8 3 (0.55%) Keycloak
8 3 (0.55%) Middleware
9 2 (0.37%) ADO
9 2 (0.37%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.37%) JSON
9 2 (0.37%) SOAP
9 2 (0.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.18%) Data Centre
2 38 (7.00%) Self-Motivation
3 29 (5.34%) Management Information System
4 28 (5.16%) Hybrid Cloud
5 22 (4.05%) Mobile App
5 22 (4.05%) PKI
6 21 (3.87%) Cloud Native
7 16 (2.95%) IoT
8 12 (2.21%) Replication
9 11 (2.03%) Driving Licence
10 8 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.29%) Cyberattack
11 7 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (1.10%) CCTV
12 6 (1.10%) Onboarding
13 5 (0.92%) Blockchain
13 5 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
15 3 (0.55%) IBM Storwize
15 3 (0.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 226 (41.62%) Windows
2 133 (24.49%) Windows Server
3 121 (22.28%) Linux
4 99 (18.23%) VMS
5 45 (8.29%) Windows Server 2019
6 41 (7.55%) Windows Server 2016
7 28 (5.16%) Windows 10
8 25 (4.60%) Unix
9 18 (3.31%) Ubuntu
10 12 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 11 (2.03%) AIX
11 11 (2.03%) Windows Server 2012
12 10 (1.84%) Debian
12 10 (1.84%) Solaris
13 8 (1.47%) CentOS
13 8 (1.47%) Windows Server 2008
14 6 (1.10%) Android
14 6 (1.10%) Apple iOS
15 3 (0.55%) SUSE
15 3 (0.55%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (30.39%) DevOps
2 149 (27.44%) Disaster Recovery
3 112 (20.63%) CI/CD
4 102 (18.78%) High Availability
5 98 (18.05%) Problem-Solving
6 94 (17.31%) Collaborative Working
7 93 (17.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 91 (16.76%) Infrastructure as Code
9 81 (14.92%) Business Intelligence
10 79 (14.55%) Agile
11 78 (14.36%) Performance Tuning
12 67 (12.34%) Network Virtualisation
13 64 (11.79%) ITIL
14 63 (11.60%) Containerisation
15 55 (10.13%) Microservices
16 51 (9.39%) Configuration Management
17 47 (8.66%) Software Engineering
18 46 (8.47%) Computer Science
19 42 (7.73%) Project Management
20 35 (6.45%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 122 (22.47%) SQL
2 119 (21.92%) PowerShell
3 98 (18.05%) T-SQL
4 76 (14.00%) Python
5 61 (11.23%) Bash
6 43 (7.92%) C#
7 42 (7.73%) Bicep
7 42 (7.73%) Java
8 20 (3.68%) Perl
9 18 (3.31%) Kotlin
9 18 (3.31%) Scala
9 18 (3.31%) VB
10 17 (3.13%) VBScript
11 11 (2.03%) Go
12 7 (1.29%) C
12 7 (1.29%) C++
13 6 (1.10%) Ruby
13 6 (1.10%) Rust
13 6 (1.10%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.10%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 95 (17.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 86 (15.84%) Degree
3 61 (11.23%) Security Cleared
4 38 (7.00%) SC Cleared
5 31 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (4.97%) Azure Certification
7 17 (3.13%) DV Cleared
7 17 (3.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 10 (1.84%) DBS Check
9 9 (1.66%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (1.10%) MCP
11 5 (0.92%) ISEB
11 5 (0.92%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.55%) CCNA
12 3 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.55%) CISSP
12 3 (0.55%) Linux+ Certification
12 3 (0.55%) RHCE
13 2 (0.37%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.24%) Cyber Essentials
1 23 (4.24%) QA
2 14 (2.58%) Data Quality
2 14 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (2.03%) GDPR
4 10 (1.84%) PMO
5 8 (1.47%) SLA
6 7 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.18%) GRC
8 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.18%) NCSC
8 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 147 (27.07%) Active Directory
2 96 (17.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 71 (13.08%) Hyper-V
4 55 (10.13%) Docker
5 37 (6.81%) Virtual Desktop
6 28 (5.16%) vSphere
7 18 (3.31%) Firmware
8 16 (2.95%) pfSense
9 15 (2.76%) VMware ESXi
10 14 (2.58%) NFS
11 12 (2.21%) Virtual Servers
12 9 (1.66%) Ceph
13 7 (1.29%) KVM
14 6 (1.10%) XenApp
15 5 (0.92%) XenDesktop
16 4 (0.74%) Slurm Workload Manager
17 3 (0.55%) Gluster
17 3 (0.55%) oVirt
17 3 (0.55%) VirtualBox
18 2 (0.37%) Squid
Systems Management
1 100 (18.42%) Terraform
2 88 (16.21%) Kubernetes
3 58 (10.68%) Ansible
4 41 (7.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 31 (5.71%) SCCM
6 25 (4.60%) ZABBIX
7 24 (4.42%) Grafana
8 22 (4.05%) SCOM
9 18 (3.31%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 18 (3.31%) WSUS
10 17 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 16 (2.95%) SCDPM
12 14 (2.58%) Puppet
13 12 (2.21%) Progress Chef
14 9 (1.66%) Prometheus
15 7 (1.29%) CASB
15 7 (1.29%) Nagios
15 7 (1.29%) QRadar
15 7 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
15 7 (1.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 302 (55.62%) Microsoft
2 124 (22.84%) VMware
3 31 (5.71%) Veeam
4 28 (5.16%) Google
5 27 (4.97%) Cisco
6 24 (4.42%) Fortinet
7 19 (3.50%) Red Hat
8 17 (3.13%) Citrix
8 17 (3.13%) Juniper
9 16 (2.95%) ForgeRock
9 16 (2.95%) Sitecore
10 15 (2.76%) Oracle
11 11 (2.03%) Databricks
11 11 (2.03%) HP
12 10 (1.84%) McAfee
12 10 (1.84%) ServiceNow
13 9 (1.66%) IBM
14 8 (1.47%) Commvault
14 8 (1.47%) Splunk
15 7 (1.29%) Rapid7