Virtual Machines Jobs in England

Virtual Machine (VM)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 417 321 578
Rank change year-on-year -96 +257 -29
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 483 945 729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.56% 1.07% 0.53%
As % of the System Software category 4.51% 6.85% 2.95%
Number of salaries quoted 403 276 290
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,750 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £99,695 £100,000 £84,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +15.00% -4.76%

All System Software Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 10,717 13,800 24,698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.39% 15.60% 18.03%
Number of salaries quoted 8,640 9,320 13,863
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,764 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,675
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in England

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Virtual Machines in England

Virtual Machines
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Virtual Machines in England

Virtual Machines
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Machines within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
South East -49 124 £60,000 +4.35% 30
London +59 114 £80,000 +10.34% 47
North of England -80 87 £55,000 +0.11% 18
Midlands -90 58 £46,250 -14.55% 14
South West -82 56 £55,000 +46.67% 19
North West -65 40 £57,500 -6.12% 9
West Midlands -43 36 £48,750 -8.45% 8
East of England -24 35 £55,000 +69.23% 8
Yorkshire +4 34 £42,500 -5.56% 8
East Midlands -52 22 £46,250 -31.48% 6
North East +5 13 £56,250 -2.17% 1
Virtual Machines
UK

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 57 (11.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 39 (8.07%) SharePoint
3 16 (3.31%) Apache Spark
4 12 (2.48%) Apache
4 12 (2.48%) IIS
5 10 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.24%) Skype for Business
7 5 (1.04%) Confluence
7 5 (1.04%) Solana
8 4 (0.83%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.62%) CloudStack
10 2 (0.41%) Resin
10 2 (0.41%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
Applications
1 21 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.21%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.21%) Misys Opics
Cloud Services
1 356 (73.71%) Azure
2 112 (23.19%) Microsoft 365
3 76 (15.73%) AWS
4 74 (15.32%) Power Platform
5 69 (14.29%) Entra ID
6 64 (13.25%) Azure DevOps
7 49 (10.14%) Serverless
8 48 (9.94%) IaaS
9 45 (9.32%) SaaS
10 38 (7.87%) Azure Monitor
11 37 (7.66%) Azure Storage
12 36 (7.45%) Azure Functions
13 29 (6.00%) Azure AKS
14 28 (5.80%) GCP
14 28 (5.80%) GitHub
15 27 (5.59%) Amazon S3
16 26 (5.38%) Azure App Service
17 25 (5.18%) Nutanix
18 23 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
18 23 (4.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 94 (19.46%) Firewall
2 89 (18.43%) DNS
3 65 (13.46%) Broadband
4 62 (12.84%) VPN
5 49 (10.14%) DHCP
6 26 (5.38%) LAN
7 25 (5.18%) VLAN
8 24 (4.97%) WAN
9 19 (3.93%) SAN
10 18 (3.73%) Network Security
11 17 (3.52%) HTTP
12 16 (3.31%) 5G
13 15 (3.11%) Internet
13 15 (3.11%) TCP/IP
13 15 (3.11%) VoIP
14 12 (2.48%) NetScaler
14 12 (2.48%) Wireless
15 10 (2.07%) iSCSI
15 10 (2.07%) Unified Communications
16 7 (1.45%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (22.15%) SQL Server
2 79 (16.36%) Azure SQL Database
3 70 (14.49%) Power BI
4 15 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (2.07%) Apache Hive
5 10 (2.07%) Presto
6 8 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (1.24%) Apache Cassandra
7 6 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.83%) BigQuery
8 4 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.62%) Big Data
9 3 (0.62%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.62%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.41%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.41%) MySQL
10 2 (0.41%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (10.14%) Git
2 28 (5.80%) Jenkins
3 20 (4.14%) JIRA
4 10 (2.07%) Trac
5 9 (1.86%) GitLab
6 5 (1.04%) eggPlant
6 5 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (1.04%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.83%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.62%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.62%) JUnit
8 3 (0.62%) Selenium
8 3 (0.62%) Subversion
8 3 (0.62%) TestNG
8 3 (0.62%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.21%) Burp Suite
General
1 179 (37.06%) Social Skills
2 81 (16.77%) Finance
3 36 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (4.76%) Telecoms
5 16 (3.31%) Automotive
5 16 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (2.90%) Electronics
7 13 (2.69%) Banking
7 13 (2.69%) Games
7 13 (2.69%) Manufacturing
8 11 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (1.66%) Retail
10 6 (1.24%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.24%) Law
10 6 (1.24%) Local Government
10 6 (1.24%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.04%) Marketing
12 4 (0.83%) Back Office
12 4 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.62%) Legal
Job Titles
1 81 (16.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 63 (13.04%) DBA
2 63 (13.04%) SQL DBA
3 55 (11.39%) Senior
4 39 (8.07%) Lead
5 37 (7.66%) Cloud Engineer
6 34 (7.04%) DevOps Engineer
7 33 (6.83%) Architect
8 25 (5.18%) IT Support
9 23 (4.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 23 (4.76%) Software Engineer
9 23 (4.76%) Support Engineer
10 21 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
11 19 (3.93%) IT Engineer
12 18 (3.73%) Infrastructure Architect
13 17 (3.52%) Linux Engineer
14 16 (3.31%) Analyst
15 15 (3.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 14 (2.90%) Active Directory Support
16 14 (2.90%) Azure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (8.49%) ARM Templates
2 39 (8.07%) .NET
3 18 (3.73%) JWT
4 17 (3.52%) RESTful
5 16 (3.31%) http4s
5 16 (3.31%) Lambda Expressions
6 6 (1.24%) REST
7 5 (1.04%) React
8 4 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.62%) Azure Blueprints
9 3 (0.62%) Bazel
9 3 (0.62%) Flash
10 2 (0.41%) ADO
10 2 (0.41%) JSON
10 2 (0.41%) Keycloak
10 2 (0.41%) Middleware
10 2 (0.41%) OpenAPI
10 2 (0.41%) SOAP
10 2 (0.41%) Swagger
10 2 (0.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (5.80%) Management Information System
2 27 (5.59%) Self-Motivation
3 25 (5.18%) Data Centre
3 25 (5.18%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (4.35%) Mobile App
4 21 (4.35%) PKI
5 19 (3.93%) Cloud Native
6 16 (3.31%) IoT
7 11 (2.28%) Driving Licence
7 11 (2.28%) Replication
8 8 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.45%) Cyberattack
10 6 (1.24%) CCTV
10 6 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.24%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.04%) Blockchain
11 5 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.62%) EPoS
12 3 (0.62%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 211 (43.69%) Windows
2 123 (25.47%) Windows Server
3 105 (21.74%) Linux
4 85 (17.60%) VMS
5 43 (8.90%) Windows Server 2019
6 35 (7.25%) Windows Server 2016
7 25 (5.18%) Windows 10
8 16 (3.31%) Ubuntu
8 16 (3.31%) Unix
9 10 (2.07%) Debian
9 10 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (1.86%) Windows Server 2012
11 8 (1.66%) Windows Server 2008
12 5 (1.04%) CentOS
13 4 (0.83%) Apple iOS
14 3 (0.62%) Android
14 3 (0.62%) SUSE
14 3 (0.62%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 2 (0.41%) AIX
15 2 (0.41%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (32.09%) DevOps
2 123 (25.47%) Disaster Recovery
3 101 (20.91%) CI/CD
4 92 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
5 89 (18.43%) High Availability
6 87 (18.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 84 (17.39%) Collaborative Working
8 79 (16.36%) Infrastructure as Code
9 72 (14.91%) Agile
10 71 (14.70%) Business Intelligence
11 67 (13.87%) Performance Tuning
12 66 (13.66%) Network Virtualisation
13 56 (11.59%) ITIL
14 53 (10.97%) Containerisation
15 52 (10.77%) Microservices
16 49 (10.14%) Configuration Management
17 43 (8.90%) Software Engineering
18 39 (8.07%) Computer Science
19 32 (6.63%) Artificial Intelligence
19 32 (6.63%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 108 (22.36%) SQL
2 106 (21.95%) PowerShell
3 87 (18.01%) T-SQL
4 71 (14.70%) Python
5 54 (11.18%) Bash
6 39 (8.07%) Java
7 37 (7.66%) C#
8 35 (7.25%) Bicep
9 19 (3.93%) Perl
10 16 (3.31%) Kotlin
10 16 (3.31%) Scala
11 15 (3.11%) VB
12 14 (2.90%) VBScript
13 11 (2.28%) Go
14 7 (1.45%) Rust
15 6 (1.24%) C
15 6 (1.24%) C++
15 6 (1.24%) Ruby
15 6 (1.24%) VB.NET
16 5 (1.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 86 (17.81%) Microsoft Certification
2 73 (15.11%) Degree
3 51 (10.56%) Security Cleared
4 35 (7.25%) SC Cleared
5 28 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (5.38%) Azure Certification
7 14 (2.90%) DV Cleared
7 14 (2.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 10 (2.07%) DBS Check
9 9 (1.86%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (1.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 6 (1.24%) MCP
12 5 (1.04%) ISEB
12 5 (1.04%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.83%) CCNA
13 4 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.62%) CISSP
14 3 (0.62%) MCSE
15 2 (0.41%) CISM
15 2 (0.41%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
2 21 (4.35%) QA
3 14 (2.90%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.07%) GDPR
4 10 (2.07%) PMO
5 7 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 7 (1.45%) SLA
6 6 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.41%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.21%) GRC
8 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 132 (27.33%) Active Directory
2 84 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 62 (12.84%) Hyper-V
4 52 (10.77%) Docker
5 29 (6.00%) vSphere
6 28 (5.80%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (3.31%) pfSense
8 14 (2.90%) NFS
9 13 (2.69%) Virtual Servers
9 13 (2.69%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (1.86%) Ceph
11 8 (1.66%) Firmware
12 7 (1.45%) XenApp
13 6 (1.24%) XenDesktop
14 5 (1.04%) KVM
15 4 (0.83%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 3 (0.62%) Gluster
16 3 (0.62%) oVirt
16 3 (0.62%) VirtualBox
17 1 (0.21%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 83 (17.18%) Terraform
2 80 (16.56%) Kubernetes
3 41 (8.49%) Ansible
4 34 (7.04%) Microsoft Intune
5 31 (6.42%) SCCM
6 25 (5.18%) ZABBIX
7 23 (4.76%) Grafana
8 20 (4.14%) SCOM
9 18 (3.73%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 16 (3.31%) SCDPM
10 16 (3.31%) WSUS
11 14 (2.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 13 (2.69%) Puppet
13 11 (2.28%) Progress Chef
14 9 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
15 8 (1.66%) vCenter Server
16 7 (1.45%) Nagios
16 7 (1.45%) Prometheus
17 6 (1.24%) CASB
17 6 (1.24%) QRadar
Vendors
1 273 (56.52%) Microsoft
2 105 (21.74%) VMware
3 32 (6.63%) Veeam
4 26 (5.38%) Fortinet
5 25 (5.18%) Cisco
6 24 (4.97%) Google
7 19 (3.93%) Citrix
8 18 (3.73%) Juniper
9 16 (3.31%) ForgeRock
9 16 (3.31%) Sitecore
10 12 (2.48%) HP
11 10 (2.07%) Commvault
11 10 (2.07%) Databricks
11 10 (2.07%) McAfee
12 9 (1.86%) Red Hat
13 8 (1.66%) ServiceNow
14 7 (1.45%) IBM
15 6 (1.24%) Dell
15 6 (1.24%) Epicor
15 6 (1.24%) Oracle