Virtual Machines Jobs in the UK excluding London

Virtual Machine (VM)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 406 203 468
Rank change year-on-year -203 +265 -22
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 411 1,003 436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.54% 1.77% 0.59%
As % of the System Software category 4.63% 11.33% 3.48%
Number of salaries quoted 348 195 204
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £37,125 £34,744
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,250 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.98% +17.03% +1.11%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,652 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,916 £84,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +15.00% -

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 8,876 8,854 12,537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.68% 15.66% 16.95%
Number of salaries quoted 6,974 5,624 8,334
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,070 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% -0.90% +0.91%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Virtual Machines as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in the UK excluding London

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Virtual Machines in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Virtual Machines in the UK excluding London

Virtual Machines
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Virtual Machines in the UK excluding London

Virtual Machines
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
South East -62 126 £60,000 +4.35% 15
North of England -89 90 £55,000 +15.79% 13
Midlands -100 56 £46,250 -13.15% 10
South West -88 55 £55,000 +46.67% 15
North West -68 42 £57,500 -11.54% 4
East of England -30 36 £55,000 +41.94% 10
West Midlands -66 36 £48,750 -8.45% 6
Yorkshire -13 34 £42,500 -1.59% 7
Wales -32 28 £45,000 +5.88%
East Midlands -56 20 £46,250 -31.48% 4
Scotland -163 20 £57,500 +4.66% 3
North East -3 14 £56,250 -2.17% 2
Virtual Machines
UK

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 64 (15.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 38 (9.25%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.95%) IIS
4 6 (1.46%) Skype for Business
5 4 (0.97%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.73%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.49%) Confluence
7 2 (0.49%) Resin
7 2 (0.49%) Tomcat
Applications
1 18 (4.38%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 288 (70.07%) Azure
2 104 (25.30%) Microsoft 365
3 80 (19.46%) Power Platform
4 76 (18.49%) Entra ID
5 46 (11.19%) Azure DevOps
6 37 (9.00%) AWS
7 35 (8.52%) IaaS
8 33 (8.03%) SaaS
9 32 (7.79%) Azure Storage
10 27 (6.57%) Azure Monitor
11 21 (5.11%) Nutanix
12 19 (4.62%) Serverless
13 18 (4.38%) Azure Logic Apps
13 18 (4.38%) GitHub
14 15 (3.65%) Amazon S3
15 14 (3.41%) PaaS
16 13 (3.16%) Azure Functions
16 13 (3.16%) Azure Key Vault
17 11 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
17 11 (2.68%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 93 (22.63%) Firewall
2 76 (18.49%) Broadband
3 73 (17.76%) DNS
4 67 (16.30%) VPN
5 46 (11.19%) DHCP
6 27 (6.57%) LAN
7 25 (6.08%) VLAN
8 23 (5.60%) WAN
9 16 (3.89%) 5G
10 15 (3.65%) SAN
11 14 (3.41%) Wireless
12 13 (3.16%) HTTP
12 13 (3.16%) Internet
13 12 (2.92%) VoIP
14 10 (2.43%) iSCSI
14 10 (2.43%) TCP/IP
14 10 (2.43%) Unified Communications
15 9 (2.19%) NAS
15 9 (2.19%) Network Security
16 6 (1.46%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (27.49%) SQL Server
2 88 (21.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 80 (19.46%) Power BI
4 10 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.97%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.73%) Big Data
8 2 (0.49%) MariaDB
8 2 (0.49%) MySQL
8 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.49%) Tableau
9 1 (0.24%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 45 (10.95%) Git
2 19 (4.62%) JIRA
3 11 (2.68%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.43%) Trac
5 3 (0.73%) eggPlant
6 1 (0.24%) GitLab
General
1 197 (47.93%) Social Skills
2 66 (16.06%) Finance
3 36 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (5.35%) Telecoms
5 14 (3.41%) Games
6 11 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.19%) Banking
8 8 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.70%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.46%) Automotive
10 6 (1.46%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.46%) Local Government
11 5 (1.22%) Electronics
12 4 (0.97%) Back Office
12 4 (0.97%) Law
12 4 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.97%) Retail
13 3 (0.73%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.49%) Advertising
14 2 (0.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 78 (18.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 74 (18.00%) DBA
2 74 (18.00%) SQL DBA
3 40 (9.73%) Senior
4 38 (9.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 28 (6.81%) Architect
5 28 (6.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 26 (6.33%) IT Support
7 22 (5.35%) DevOps Engineer
8 21 (5.11%) Azure Engineer
9 20 (4.87%) IT Engineer
9 20 (4.87%) Support Specialist
10 18 (4.38%) Support Engineer
11 17 (4.14%) Active Directory Specialist
11 17 (4.14%) Active Directory Support
11 17 (4.14%) Azure Specialist
11 17 (4.14%) Infrastructure Architect
12 16 (3.89%) IT Technician
13 15 (3.65%) Linux Engineer
14 14 (3.41%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (8.03%) ARM Templates
2 27 (6.57%) .NET
3 10 (2.43%) JWT
3 10 (2.43%) RESTful
4 6 (1.46%) YAML
5 3 (0.73%) Azure Blueprints
5 3 (0.73%) Flash
5 3 (0.73%) REST
6 2 (0.49%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.49%) ADO
6 2 (0.49%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.49%) Ionic Framework
6 2 (0.49%) JSON
6 2 (0.49%) SOAP
6 2 (0.49%) XML
7 1 (0.24%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 37 (9.00%) Self-Motivation
2 34 (8.27%) Data Centre
3 20 (4.87%) Hybrid Cloud
4 19 (4.62%) PKI
5 16 (3.89%) IoT
6 15 (3.65%) Management Information System
7 11 (2.68%) Driving Licence
8 9 (2.19%) Cloud Native
9 8 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.95%) Replication
10 7 (1.70%) Cyberattack
11 6 (1.46%) CCTV
11 6 (1.46%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.97%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.73%) EPoS
13 3 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.73%) IBM Storwize
13 3 (0.73%) Product Ownership
13 3 (0.73%) Smartcard
14 2 (0.49%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 178 (43.31%) Windows
2 118 (28.71%) Windows Server
3 90 (21.90%) Linux
4 84 (20.44%) VMS
5 37 (9.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 32 (7.79%) Windows Server 2016
7 25 (6.08%) Windows 10
8 18 (4.38%) Unix
9 12 (2.92%) Ubuntu
10 10 (2.43%) Debian
10 10 (2.43%) Windows Server 2012
11 8 (1.95%) AIX
11 8 (1.95%) Solaris
11 8 (1.95%) Windows Server 2008
12 7 (1.70%) Android
12 7 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 4 (0.97%) Apple iOS
14 3 (0.73%) CentOS
14 3 (0.73%) SUSE
14 3 (0.73%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (32.85%) Disaster Recovery
2 125 (30.41%) DevOps
3 94 (22.87%) High Availability
4 91 (22.14%) Collaborative Working
5 83 (20.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 80 (19.46%) Business Intelligence
6 80 (19.46%) Problem-Solving
7 74 (18.00%) Performance Tuning
8 59 (14.36%) CI/CD
9 58 (14.11%) ITIL
10 50 (12.17%) Network Virtualisation
11 49 (11.92%) Infrastructure as Code
12 38 (9.25%) Agile
13 34 (8.27%) Containerisation
14 32 (7.79%) Actionable Insight
15 31 (7.54%) Configuration Management
15 31 (7.54%) Identity Management
16 30 (7.30%) Validation
17 28 (6.81%) Release Management
17 28 (6.81%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 117 (28.47%) SQL
2 93 (22.63%) PowerShell
3 90 (21.90%) T-SQL
4 45 (10.95%) Python
5 44 (10.71%) Bash
6 38 (9.25%) C#
7 36 (8.76%) Bicep
8 17 (4.14%) Perl
8 17 (4.14%) VB
8 17 (4.14%) VBScript
9 9 (2.19%) Java
10 7 (1.70%) Kusto Query Language
11 6 (1.46%) VB.NET
12 4 (0.97%) Ruby
13 3 (0.73%) Go
14 2 (0.49%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 87 (21.17%) Microsoft Certification
2 55 (13.38%) Degree
3 52 (12.65%) Security Cleared
4 32 (7.79%) SC Cleared
5 17 (4.14%) DV Cleared
5 17 (4.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 16 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (3.16%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.95%) DBS Check
9 6 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (1.46%) MCP
10 3 (0.73%) ISEB
10 3 (0.73%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.49%) CCNA
11 2 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.24%) CCNP
12 1 (0.24%) CISM
12 1 (0.24%) CISSP
12 1 (0.24%) GIAC
12 1 (0.24%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.35%) Cyber Essentials
2 14 (3.41%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.43%) GDPR
4 7 (1.70%) PMO
5 6 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (1.22%) SLA
7 4 (0.97%) QA
8 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.24%) GRC
9 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.24%) NCSC
System Software
1 132 (32.12%) Active Directory
2 76 (18.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 64 (15.57%) Hyper-V
4 32 (7.79%) Virtual Desktop
5 27 (6.57%) Docker
6 24 (5.84%) vSphere
7 16 (3.89%) Firmware
7 16 (3.89%) pfSense
8 14 (3.41%) NFS
9 11 (2.68%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (1.95%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (1.22%) XenApp
12 4 (0.97%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 4 (0.97%) XenDesktop
13 3 (0.73%) Ceph
13 3 (0.73%) Gluster
13 3 (0.73%) KVM
13 3 (0.73%) oVirt
14 1 (0.24%) DFS Replication
14 1 (0.24%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 42 (10.22%) Terraform
2 40 (9.73%) Kubernetes
3 36 (8.76%) Ansible
4 34 (8.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 27 (6.57%) SCCM
6 22 (5.35%) ZABBIX
7 20 (4.87%) Grafana
7 20 (4.87%) SCOM
8 17 (4.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 17 (4.14%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 17 (4.14%) WSUS
9 16 (3.89%) SCDPM
10 4 (0.97%) Nagios
11 3 (0.73%) Graylog
11 3 (0.73%) Observium
11 3 (0.73%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.73%) Puppet
11 3 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.73%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.24%) Istio
Vendors
1 230 (55.96%) Microsoft
2 99 (24.09%) VMware
3 27 (6.57%) Veeam
4 21 (5.11%) Fortinet
5 17 (4.14%) Juniper
6 13 (3.16%) Cisco
7 12 (2.92%) Oracle
8 11 (2.68%) Red Hat
9 10 (2.43%) McAfee
10 9 (2.19%) Citrix
11 7 (1.70%) HP
11 7 (1.70%) ServiceNow
12 6 (1.46%) Dell
12 6 (1.46%) Dell Compellent
12 6 (1.46%) Epicor
12 6 (1.46%) ForgeRock
12 6 (1.46%) Google
12 6 (1.46%) Sitecore
13 5 (1.22%) Commvault
13 5 (1.22%) Meraki