Virtual Infrastructure
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Virtual Infrastructure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Infrastructure over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 778 898 1143
Rank change year-on-year +120 +245 -305
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 112 79 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.080% 0.063%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.083% 0.066%
Number of salaries quoted 81 36 70
10th Percentile £40,400 £40,500 £34,850
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,813 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -5.77% +30.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
% change year-on-year - +7.32% +42.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Virtual Infrastructure is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Virtual Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Infrastructure in the UK

Virtual Infrastructure
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Virtual Infrastructure in the UK

Virtual Infrastructure
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Virtual Infrastructure in the UK

Virtual Infrastructure
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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 +121 108 £62,500 - 11
UK excluding London -20 75 £55,000 - 10
London +132 33 £65,000 -18.75% 4
Work from Home +70 26 £62,500 +8.70% 4
South West -5 23 £32,500 -29.35%
South East -10 23 £62,500 +47.06% 5
West Midlands +11 18 £55,000 -15.38% 2
Midlands -10 18 £55,000 -15.38% 2
North of England +50 5 £47,000 -14.55% 2
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -
Yorkshire +79 2 £47,000 -14.55%
North West +6 2 £43,750 +10.08% 2
East of England - 2 £55,000 -
North East - 1 £50,000 -

Virtual Infrastructure
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 7 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.89%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.79%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 49 (43.75%) Azure
2 30 (26.79%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (17.86%) AWS
4 18 (16.07%) IaaS
5 13 (11.61%) Nutanix
6 9 (8.04%) OneDrive
7 6 (5.36%) Power Automate
7 6 (5.36%) SaaS
8 5 (4.46%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (4.46%) PaaS
8 5 (4.46%) Power Platform
9 4 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (2.68%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.89%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.89%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 50 (44.64%) Firewall
2 25 (22.32%) DNS
2 25 (22.32%) WAN
3 24 (21.43%) SAN
4 17 (15.18%) VLAN
5 16 (14.29%) SD-WAN
6 15 (13.39%) VPN
7 11 (9.82%) Cisco ASA
7 11 (9.82%) Software-Defined Networking
7 11 (9.82%) VSAN
8 9 (8.04%) LAN
9 7 (6.25%) NAS
10 6 (5.36%) Network Security
10 6 (5.36%) TCP/IP
11 5 (4.46%) Unified Communications
11 5 (4.46%) Wireless
12 4 (3.57%) Cisco Firepower
12 4 (3.57%) DHCP
12 4 (3.57%) Fibre Channel
12 4 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.46%) Power BI
General
1 29 (25.89%) Social Skills
2 23 (20.54%) Finance
3 22 (19.64%) Aerospace
4 19 (16.96%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (9.82%) Billing
6 9 (8.04%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (8.04%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.36%) Marketing
7 6 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (4.46%) Banking
8 5 (4.46%) Law
9 4 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (3.57%) Police
10 2 (1.79%) Fire and Rescue
10 2 (1.79%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 32 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 29 (25.89%) Senior
3 26 (23.21%) Administrator
4 25 (22.32%) Network Engineer
5 20 (17.86%) VMWare Administrator
6 17 (15.18%) Systems Administrator
7 15 (13.39%) Architect
7 15 (13.39%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (9.82%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 11 (9.82%) Infrastructure Architect
8 11 (9.82%) Senior Network Engineer
9 8 (7.14%) Security Engineer
10 7 (6.25%) Lead
11 6 (5.36%) SOC Engineer
12 5 (4.46%) IT Administrator
13 4 (3.57%) Azure Architect
13 4 (3.57%) Cloud Architect
13 4 (3.57%) Cloud Solutions Architect
13 4 (3.57%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
13 4 (3.57%) IT Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 41 (36.61%) Data Centre
2 20 (17.86%) Replication
3 19 (16.96%) Public Cloud
4 16 (14.29%) Management Information System
5 15 (13.39%) PKI
6 13 (11.61%) IoT
7 8 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (5.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (4.46%) PMI
10 4 (3.57%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (1.79%) Enterprise Storage
12 1 (0.89%) CCTV
12 1 (0.89%) Clustering
12 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.89%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 60 (53.57%) Windows
2 53 (47.32%) Linux
3 26 (23.21%) Windows Server
4 15 (13.39%) Ubuntu
5 11 (9.82%) SUSE
5 11 (9.82%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (3.57%) Android
6 4 (3.57%) Apple iOS
6 4 (3.57%) CentOS
6 4 (3.57%) DC/OS
6 4 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (3.57%) Windows 10
7 3 (2.68%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (33.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (25.00%) Agile
3 28 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
4 26 (23.21%) ITIL
5 25 (22.32%) Task Automation
6 21 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
7 19 (16.96%) Asset Management
8 18 (16.07%) Capacity Planning
8 18 (16.07%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (16.07%) DevOps
8 18 (16.07%) Technical Leadership
9 17 (15.18%) Cloud Enablement
10 16 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
11 15 (13.39%) Actionable Insight
11 15 (13.39%) Presales
12 14 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
13 13 (11.61%) Decision-Making
13 13 (11.61%) Network Virtualisation
13 13 (11.61%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 29 (25.89%) PowerShell
2 23 (20.54%) Bash
3 19 (16.96%) Perl
3 19 (16.96%) Python
4 14 (12.50%) SQL
5 4 (3.57%) C#
5 4 (3.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 26 (23.21%) Security Cleared
2 21 (18.75%) Microsoft Certification
3 19 (16.96%) Degree
4 17 (15.18%) MCSE
5 15 (13.39%) MCSA
6 13 (11.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 11 (9.82%) DV Cleared
8 8 (7.14%) CCNA
8 8 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (5.36%) CISA
9 6 (5.36%) CISSP
9 6 (5.36%) GIAC
9 6 (5.36%) JNCIA
10 5 (4.46%) PMI Certification
11 4 (3.57%) Master's Degree
11 4 (3.57%) Network+ Certification
11 4 (3.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.61%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 5 (4.46%) PCI DSS
2 5 (4.46%) QA
3 4 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.57%) NCSC
4 2 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.79%) NIST
5 1 (0.89%) GDPR
System Software
1 70 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 48 (42.86%) Active Directory
3 35 (31.25%) vSphere
4 26 (23.21%) VMware NSX
5 15 (13.39%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (11.61%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (9.82%) vCloud
8 8 (7.14%) Firmware
9 4 (3.57%) Docker
9 4 (3.57%) VMware Server
10 2 (1.79%) Hyper-V
10 2 (1.79%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.89%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 8 (7.14%) SCCM
2 4 (3.57%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.57%) vCenter Server
2 4 (3.57%) vRealize
2 4 (3.57%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (2.68%) SCOM
4 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 70 (62.50%) VMware
2 42 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 22 (19.64%) Veeam
4 21 (18.75%) Cisco
5 14 (12.50%) HP
6 11 (9.82%) Fujitsu
7 7 (6.25%) Fortinet
8 6 (5.36%) Juniper
8 6 (5.36%) Splunk
9 5 (4.46%) Avaya
9 5 (4.46%) BT
9 5 (4.46%) Mitel
9 5 (4.46%) SolarWinds
9 5 (4.46%) Zscaler
10 4 (3.57%) Google
11 1 (0.89%) Aderant
11 1 (0.89%) Citrix
11 1 (0.89%) iManage
11 1 (0.89%) Sophos