Virtual Servers Jobs

Virtual Servers
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Virtual Servers skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Servers over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 730 782 998
Rank change year-on-year +52 +216 -239
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Servers 174 137 265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.15% 0.15%
As % of the System Software category 1.43% 0.96% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 133 124 197
10th Percentile £31,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,039 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,478 £53,750 £46,223
Median % change year-on-year -24.69% +16.29% +10.05%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £105,000 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £42,750 £42,250
% change year-on-year -6.43% +1.18% +12.67%

All System Software Skills
UK

Virtual Servers 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 12,139 14,261 31,519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.05% 15.42% 18.24%
Number of salaries quoted 9,285 9,600 15,562
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £56,325
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.35% +2.41%
75th Percentile £67,250 £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 Servers
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Servers in the UK

Virtual Servers
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Virtual Servers in the UK

Virtual Servers
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Servers over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Virtual Servers in the UK

Virtual Servers
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Servers within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +75 168 £40,478 -26.40% 36
UK excluding London -6 132 £40,000 -6.43% 23
Work from Home +39 56 £50,000 -23.08% 10
South East -27 42 £40,500 -19.00% 7
London +84 39 £65,250 +8.75% 13
Midlands +1 39 £40,000 -2.44% 7
West Midlands +17 28 £36,298 -11.47% 5
North of England +23 25 £37,500 -16.67% 3
North East -3 17 £37,500 +4.17%
East of England -2 13 £50,000 +17.65% 2
East Midlands - 11 £45,000 - 2
South West -42 10 £45,000 +9.76% 5
Yorkshire +69 6 £22,500 -52.63% 1
Wales +14 3 £40,000 -11.11%
North West -28 2 - - 2

Virtual Servers
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 25 (14.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (12.07%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.72%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.72%) IIS
4 2 (1.15%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (1.15%) Resin
5 1 (0.57%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (5.75%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.57%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (1.72%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.57%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 96 (55.17%) Azure
2 64 (36.78%) Microsoft 365
3 41 (23.56%) AWS
4 15 (8.62%) Entra ID
5 12 (6.90%) Nutanix
6 5 (2.87%) OneDrive
7 3 (1.72%) IaaS
8 2 (1.15%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.15%) GitHub
8 2 (1.15%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.15%) OpenDNS
9 1 (0.57%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 1 (0.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (0.57%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.57%) Azure Storage
9 1 (0.57%) Dropbox
9 1 (0.57%) Google Drive
9 1 (0.57%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.57%) PaaS
9 1 (0.57%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 67 (38.51%) DNS
2 44 (25.29%) Firewall
3 32 (18.39%) DHCP
4 25 (14.37%) SAN
5 21 (12.07%) TCP/IP
6 15 (8.62%) VPN
7 12 (6.90%) VLAN
7 12 (6.90%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (6.90%) Wireless
8 10 (5.75%) LAN
9 9 (5.17%) WAN
10 6 (3.45%) NAS
11 5 (2.87%) Remote Desktop
12 3 (1.72%) iSCSI
12 3 (1.72%) Unified Communications
13 2 (1.15%) EIGRP
13 2 (1.15%) IPsec
13 2 (1.15%) RIP
13 2 (1.15%) VRRP
13 2 (1.15%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.87%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (1.72%) Crystal Reports
2 3 (1.72%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.15%) Bitbucket
1 2 (1.15%) Git
1 2 (1.15%) JIRA
1 2 (1.15%) Subversion
2 1 (0.57%) Jenkins
General
1 36 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 13 (7.47%) Public Sector
3 11 (6.32%) Manufacturing
4 10 (5.75%) Finance
5 8 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.60%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (3.45%) Legal
7 5 (2.87%) Automotive
7 5 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.30%) Military
9 3 (1.72%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.72%) Local Government
10 2 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.15%) Law
10 2 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.15%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.57%) Banking
11 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.57%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 21 (12.07%) Administrator
2 21 (12.07%) IT Engineer
3 20 (11.49%) Architect
4 18 (10.34%) Senior
5 15 (8.62%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (7.47%) Systems Engineer
7 12 (6.90%) Analyst
8 11 (6.32%) Storage Specialist
8 11 (6.32%) Systems Administrator
9 10 (5.75%) Lead
9 10 (5.75%) Technical Architect
9 10 (5.75%) Virtualisation Specialist
10 7 (4.02%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 7 (4.02%) Cloud Specialist
10 7 (4.02%) ICT Officer
10 7 (4.02%) IT Support
10 7 (4.02%) Server Specialist
11 6 (3.45%) IT Operations Analyst
11 6 (3.45%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (11.49%) OAuth
1 20 (11.49%) OpenID
1 20 (11.49%) REST
1 20 (11.49%) SAML
2 11 (6.32%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.15%) LAMP
3 2 (1.15%) V-Ray
4 1 (0.57%) JSON
4 1 (0.57%) Middleware
4 1 (0.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.77%) Data Centre
2 10 (5.75%) Security Posture
3 8 (4.60%) Management Information System
4 7 (4.02%) Driving Licence
5 6 (3.45%) Cyberattack
5 6 (3.45%) PKI
5 6 (3.45%) Replication
6 4 (2.30%) CMDB
6 4 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.30%) NHS
6 4 (2.30%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.72%) Augmented Reality
7 3 (1.72%) CCTV
7 3 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.72%) IoT
7 3 (1.72%) Virtual Reality
8 2 (1.15%) Clustering
8 2 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.15%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 87 (50.00%) Windows
2 56 (32.18%) Windows Server
3 43 (24.71%) Linux
4 16 (9.20%) Windows 10
5 7 (4.02%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (2.30%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.15%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.15%) CentOS
7 2 (1.15%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.15%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (29.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 40 (22.99%) Disaster Recovery
3 34 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (17.24%) Cybersecurity
5 25 (14.37%) Open Source
6 24 (13.79%) Agile
7 22 (12.64%) Customer Service
7 22 (12.64%) Identity Access Management
7 22 (12.64%) ITIL
8 21 (12.07%) Microservices
8 21 (12.07%) Scrum
9 20 (11.49%) BDD
9 20 (11.49%) DevSecOps
9 20 (11.49%) Digital Identity
9 20 (11.49%) Kanban
9 20 (11.49%) TDD
10 18 (10.34%) Project Management
11 16 (9.20%) Patch Management
11 16 (9.20%) Project Delivery
12 14 (8.05%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 21 (12.07%) Java
2 20 (11.49%) PowerShell
3 15 (8.62%) SQL
4 6 (3.45%) Bash
5 4 (2.30%) C
5 4 (2.30%) Go
6 3 (1.72%) C++
6 3 (1.72%) Rust
7 2 (1.15%) Python
Qualifications
1 29 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 25 (14.37%) SC Cleared
2 25 (14.37%) Security Cleared
3 19 (10.92%) Degree
3 19 (10.92%) MCSE
4 17 (9.77%) Azure Certification
5 16 (9.20%) DBS Check
6 14 (8.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 5 (2.87%) CCNA
7 5 (2.87%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.30%) MCITP
9 3 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.15%) A+ Certification
10 2 (1.15%) CISSP
10 2 (1.15%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.15%) MCSA
10 2 (1.15%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.57%) CCA
11 1 (0.57%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.30%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (2.30%) GDPR
1 4 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (2.30%) SLA
2 2 (1.15%) NCSC
System Software
1 79 (45.40%) Active Directory
2 54 (31.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (22.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 25 (14.37%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (9.20%) Hyper-V
6 13 (7.47%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (7.47%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (5.17%) vSphere
8 4 (2.30%) Firmware
9 3 (1.72%) Ceph
9 3 (1.72%) Docker
9 3 (1.72%) pfSense
10 2 (1.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (1.15%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.57%) NFS
11 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (8.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 11 (6.32%) SCCM
3 8 (4.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (4.02%) SCOM
4 7 (4.02%) vCenter Server
5 6 (3.45%) Ansible
5 6 (3.45%) Terraform
6 4 (2.30%) Autotask
7 3 (1.72%) Knative
7 3 (1.72%) Kubernetes
8 2 (1.15%) Backup Exec
8 2 (1.15%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.57%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.57%) HP SIM
9 1 (0.57%) Packer
9 1 (0.57%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.57%) SCOrch
9 1 (0.57%) vRealize
9 1 (0.57%) WSUS
Vendors
1 84 (48.28%) Microsoft
2 54 (31.03%) VMware
3 28 (16.09%) Veeam
4 17 (9.77%) Commvault
5 16 (9.20%) HP
6 12 (6.90%) Citrix
7 11 (6.32%) Nimble Storage
8 10 (5.75%) Cisco
9 9 (5.17%) Datto
10 7 (4.02%) Dell
10 7 (4.02%) EMC
11 5 (2.87%) Ubiquiti
12 4 (2.30%) Aruba
12 4 (2.30%) IBM
12 4 (2.30%) Meraki
13 3 (1.72%) Adobe
13 3 (1.72%) NetApp
13 3 (1.72%) Oracle
14 2 (1.15%) Juniper
14 2 (1.15%) Veritas