Virtual Machines Jobs

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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 437 269 575
Rank change year-on-year -168 +306 -35
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 563 1,268 955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 1.35% 0.56%
As % of the System Software category 4.65% 8.76% 3.03%
Number of salaries quoted 452 321 372
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £30,050
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £38,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -0.50%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £77,625
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £86,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £53,250 £46,000
% change year-on-year +7.98% +15.76% +2.22%

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 12,116 14,480 31,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.32% 15.42% 18.40%
Number of salaries quoted 9,332 9,689 15,669
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,378 £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 6 June 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 6 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 -123 510 £57,500 -4.17% 109
UK excluding London -215 421 £57,500 +7.98% 74
Work from Home +98 304 £57,500 -10.20% 48
South East -58 130 £60,000 - 17
London +53 129 £80,000 +12.28% 40
North of England -105 92 £55,000 +15.79% 14
South West -93 57 £55,000 +46.67% 17
Midlands -104 56 £46,250 -13.15% 13
North West -78 42 £57,500 -11.54% 6
East of England -42 38 £56,250 +45.16% 10
Yorkshire -10 36 £42,500 +0.37% 6
West Midlands -80 36 £48,750 -8.45% 7
Wales -31 28 £45,000 +5.88%
East Midlands -62 20 £46,250 -31.48% 6
Scotland -174 20 £57,500 +4.66% 3
North East -10 14 £56,250 -2.17% 2

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 (12.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 44 (7.82%) SharePoint
3 17 (3.02%) Apache Spark
4 14 (2.49%) Apache
5 12 (2.13%) IIS
6 11 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (1.07%) Skype for Business
8 5 (0.89%) Confluence
8 5 (0.89%) Solana
9 4 (0.71%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.53%) CloudStack
11 2 (0.36%) Resin
11 2 (0.36%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 20 (3.55%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.18%) Misys Opics
Cloud Services
1 404 (71.76%) Azure
2 127 (22.56%) Microsoft 365
3 90 (15.99%) Entra ID
4 85 (15.10%) AWS
5 84 (14.92%) Power Platform
6 75 (13.32%) Azure DevOps
7 53 (9.41%) Serverless
8 51 (9.06%) IaaS
8 51 (9.06%) SaaS
9 50 (8.88%) Azure Storage
10 46 (8.17%) Azure Monitor
11 38 (6.75%) Azure Functions
12 33 (5.86%) GCP
13 30 (5.33%) Azure App Service
14 29 (5.15%) Amazon S3
14 29 (5.15%) Azure AKS
15 28 (4.97%) GitHub
16 27 (4.80%) Nutanix
17 25 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
18 23 (4.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 106 (18.83%) Firewall
2 103 (18.29%) DNS
3 76 (13.50%) Broadband
4 70 (12.43%) VPN
5 60 (10.66%) DHCP
6 29 (5.15%) LAN
6 29 (5.15%) VLAN
7 26 (4.62%) WAN
8 22 (3.91%) SAN
9 20 (3.55%) HTTP
10 18 (3.20%) Wireless
11 17 (3.02%) Internet
11 17 (3.02%) TCP/IP
12 16 (2.84%) 5G
12 16 (2.84%) Network Security
13 15 (2.66%) VoIP
14 10 (1.78%) iSCSI
14 10 (1.78%) Unified Communications
15 9 (1.60%) NAS
15 9 (1.60%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (22.02%) SQL Server
2 92 (16.34%) Azure SQL Database
3 80 (14.21%) Power BI
4 15 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (1.95%) Apache Hive
5 11 (1.95%) Presto
6 8 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (1.07%) Apache Cassandra
7 6 (1.07%) BigQuery
8 5 (0.89%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.53%) Big Data
10 3 (0.53%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.36%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.36%) MySQL
11 2 (0.36%) Redis
11 2 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 62 (11.01%) Git
2 30 (5.33%) Jenkins
3 24 (4.26%) JIRA
4 10 (1.78%) Trac
5 9 (1.60%) GitLab
6 5 (0.89%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (0.89%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.71%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.53%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.53%) eggPlant
8 3 (0.53%) JUnit
8 3 (0.53%) Selenium
8 3 (0.53%) Subversion
8 3 (0.53%) TestNG
8 3 (0.53%) Travis CI
9 2 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.18%) Burp Suite
General
1 221 (39.25%) Social Skills
2 102 (18.12%) Finance
3 41 (7.28%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (3.91%) Telecoms
5 20 (3.55%) Banking
6 19 (3.37%) Games
7 16 (2.84%) Automotive
7 16 (2.84%) Electronics
8 15 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (1.95%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.60%) Retail
11 6 (1.07%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.07%) Law
11 6 (1.07%) Local Government
12 4 (0.71%) Back Office
12 4 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.53%) Legal
13 3 (0.53%) Marketing
13 3 (0.53%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 91 (16.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 74 (13.14%) DBA
2 74 (13.14%) SQL DBA
3 65 (11.55%) Senior
4 46 (8.17%) Lead
5 45 (7.99%) Architect
6 44 (7.82%) Cloud Engineer
7 37 (6.57%) DevOps Engineer
8 31 (5.51%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 29 (5.15%) IT Support
10 27 (4.80%) Azure Engineer
10 27 (4.80%) Software Engineer
11 25 (4.44%) IT Engineer
12 22 (3.91%) Support Engineer
13 21 (3.73%) Support Specialist
14 20 (3.55%) Infrastructure Architect
15 18 (3.20%) Active Directory Specialist
15 18 (3.20%) Active Directory Support
15 18 (3.20%) Azure Specialist
15 18 (3.20%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (9.06%) ARM Templates
2 42 (7.46%) .NET
3 20 (3.55%) http4s
3 20 (3.55%) Lambda Expressions
4 17 (3.02%) JWT
4 17 (3.02%) RESTful
5 7 (1.24%) YAML
6 5 (0.89%) React
6 5 (0.89%) REST
7 4 (0.71%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.53%) ASP.NET
8 3 (0.53%) Azure Blueprints
8 3 (0.53%) Bazel
8 3 (0.53%) Flash
8 3 (0.53%) Keycloak
8 3 (0.53%) Middleware
9 2 (0.36%) CSS
9 2 (0.36%) HTML
9 2 (0.36%) SOAP
9 2 (0.36%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (6.93%) Data Centre
1 39 (6.93%) Self-Motivation
2 29 (5.15%) Management Information System
3 28 (4.97%) Hybrid Cloud
4 23 (4.09%) PKI
5 21 (3.73%) Cloud Native
5 21 (3.73%) Mobile App
6 19 (3.37%) IoT
7 12 (2.13%) Replication
8 11 (1.95%) Driving Licence
9 8 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.24%) Cyberattack
11 6 (1.07%) CCTV
11 6 (1.07%) Onboarding
12 5 (0.89%) Blockchain
12 5 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (0.71%) Product Ownership
14 3 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
14 3 (0.53%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 231 (41.03%) Windows
2 134 (23.80%) Windows Server
3 127 (22.56%) Linux
4 98 (17.41%) VMS
5 47 (8.35%) Windows Server 2019
6 44 (7.82%) Windows Server 2016
7 28 (4.97%) Windows 10
8 26 (4.62%) Unix
9 20 (3.55%) Ubuntu
10 14 (2.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 12 (2.13%) AIX
11 12 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
12 11 (1.95%) Solaris
13 10 (1.78%) Debian
14 8 (1.42%) CentOS
14 8 (1.42%) Windows Server 2008
15 7 (1.24%) Android
16 6 (1.07%) Apple iOS
17 3 (0.53%) SUSE
17 3 (0.53%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (30.37%) DevOps
2 152 (27.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 118 (20.96%) CI/CD
4 105 (18.65%) Problem-Solving
5 102 (18.12%) Infrastructure as Code
6 100 (17.76%) High Availability
7 97 (17.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 94 (16.70%) Collaborative Working
9 80 (14.21%) Agile
9 80 (14.21%) Business Intelligence
10 78 (13.85%) Performance Tuning
11 70 (12.43%) ITIL
12 69 (12.26%) Network Virtualisation
13 65 (11.55%) Containerisation
14 58 (10.30%) Microservices
15 50 (8.88%) Configuration Management
16 49 (8.70%) Computer Science
16 49 (8.70%) Software Engineering
17 45 (7.99%) Project Management
18 37 (6.57%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 125 (22.20%) SQL
2 122 (21.67%) PowerShell
3 98 (17.41%) T-SQL
4 81 (14.39%) Python
5 65 (11.55%) Bash
6 46 (8.17%) C#
7 45 (7.99%) Java
8 44 (7.82%) Bicep
9 23 (4.09%) Perl
10 20 (3.55%) Kotlin
10 20 (3.55%) Scala
11 19 (3.37%) VB
12 18 (3.20%) VBScript
13 11 (1.95%) Go
14 8 (1.42%) C
14 8 (1.42%) C++
14 8 (1.42%) Kusto Query Language
15 7 (1.24%) Shell Script
16 6 (1.07%) Ruby
16 6 (1.07%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 94 (16.70%) Microsoft Certification
2 90 (15.99%) Degree
3 62 (11.01%) Security Cleared
4 38 (6.75%) SC Cleared
5 33 (5.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (5.33%) Azure Certification
7 18 (3.20%) DV Cleared
7 18 (3.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 10 (1.78%) DBS Check
9 9 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
10 6 (1.07%) MCP
11 3 (0.53%) CCNA
11 3 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.53%) CISSP
11 3 (0.53%) ISEB
11 3 (0.53%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.53%) Linux+ Certification
11 3 (0.53%) RHCE
11 3 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.36%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.26%) Cyber Essentials
1 24 (4.26%) QA
2 17 (3.02%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.13%) GDPR
5 10 (1.78%) PMO
6 8 (1.42%) SLA
7 7 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.36%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.36%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.18%) GRC
9 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 155 (27.53%) Active Directory
2 100 (17.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 73 (12.97%) Hyper-V
4 56 (9.95%) Docker
5 39 (6.93%) Virtual Desktop
6 29 (5.15%) vSphere
7 18 (3.20%) VMware ESXi
8 17 (3.02%) Firmware
9 16 (2.84%) pfSense
10 14 (2.49%) NFS
11 13 (2.31%) Virtual Servers
12 9 (1.60%) Ceph
13 8 (1.42%) KVM
14 5 (0.89%) XenApp
15 4 (0.71%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 4 (0.71%) XenDesktop
16 3 (0.53%) Gluster
16 3 (0.53%) LXC
16 3 (0.53%) oVirt
16 3 (0.53%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 107 (19.01%) Terraform
2 89 (15.81%) Kubernetes
3 59 (10.48%) Ansible
4 43 (7.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 30 (5.33%) SCCM
6 25 (4.44%) ZABBIX
7 24 (4.26%) Grafana
8 22 (3.91%) SCOM
9 19 (3.37%) WSUS
10 18 (3.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 17 (3.02%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 16 (2.84%) SCDPM
13 14 (2.49%) Puppet
14 12 (2.13%) Progress Chef
15 10 (1.78%) Prometheus
16 7 (1.24%) CASB
16 7 (1.24%) Nagios
16 7 (1.24%) QRadar
16 7 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
17 6 (1.07%) Knative
Vendors
1 308 (54.71%) Microsoft
2 128 (22.74%) VMware
3 30 (5.33%) Google
3 30 (5.33%) Veeam
4 26 (4.62%) Cisco
5 23 (4.09%) Fortinet
6 20 (3.55%) Red Hat
7 17 (3.02%) Juniper
8 16 (2.84%) Citrix
8 16 (2.84%) ForgeRock
8 16 (2.84%) Oracle
8 16 (2.84%) Sitecore
9 12 (2.13%) HP
10 11 (1.95%) Databricks
11 10 (1.78%) IBM
11 10 (1.78%) McAfee
11 10 (1.78%) ServiceNow
12 9 (1.60%) Splunk
13 7 (1.24%) Kenna
13 7 (1.24%) Rapid7