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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 452 294 565
Rank change year-on-year -158 +271 -12
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 539 1,196 914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 1.20% 0.57%
As % of the System Software category 4.49% 7.74% 3.09%
Number of salaries quoted 436 314 357
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,750 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,987 £97,625 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £54,441 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.62% +20.98% -

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 11,996 15,462 29,557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.00% 15.54% 18.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9,466 10,135 15,538
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,000
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 £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 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 19 May 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 19 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 -106 482 £57,500 -4.17% 117
UK excluding London -190 408 £57,500 +5.62% 84
Work from Home +111 287 £57,500 -4.17% 77
South East -63 123 £59,500 +3.48% 28
London +52 114 £80,000 +10.34% 43
North of England -74 87 £55,000 +0.11% 17
Midlands -82 58 £46,250 -14.55% 9
South West -68 54 £55,000 +46.67% 19
North West -61 40 £57,500 -6.12% 8
West Midlands -40 36 £48,750 -8.45% 5
East of England -28 35 £55,000 +69.23% 8
Yorkshire +7 34 £42,500 -5.56% 8
Wales -26 31 £45,000 -3.74% 1
East Midlands -43 22 £46,250 -31.48% 4
Scotland -172 20 £57,500 +4.55% 2
North East +4 13 £56,250 -2.17% 1

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 67 (12.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 45 (8.35%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.78%) Apache Spark
4 14 (2.60%) IIS
5 12 (2.23%) Apache
6 10 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (1.11%) Skype for Business
8 5 (0.93%) Confluence
8 5 (0.93%) Solana
9 4 (0.74%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.56%) CloudStack
11 2 (0.37%) Resin
11 2 (0.37%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
Applications
1 24 (4.45%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.19%) Misys Opics
Cloud Services
1 385 (71.43%) Azure
2 123 (22.82%) Microsoft 365
3 86 (15.96%) Power Platform
4 82 (15.21%) Entra ID
5 81 (15.03%) AWS
6 69 (12.80%) Azure DevOps
7 53 (9.83%) Serverless
8 50 (9.28%) SaaS
9 49 (9.09%) IaaS
10 42 (7.79%) Azure Monitor
11 38 (7.05%) Azure Functions
11 38 (7.05%) Azure Storage
12 31 (5.75%) GCP
13 29 (5.38%) Amazon S3
13 29 (5.38%) Azure AKS
13 29 (5.38%) GitHub
14 26 (4.82%) Azure App Service
15 25 (4.64%) AWS Lambda
15 25 (4.64%) PaaS
16 24 (4.45%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 103 (19.11%) Firewall
2 89 (16.51%) DNS
3 76 (14.10%) Broadband
4 68 (12.62%) VPN
5 50 (9.28%) DHCP
6 28 (5.19%) LAN
7 26 (4.82%) WAN
8 24 (4.45%) VLAN
9 22 (4.08%) SAN
10 20 (3.71%) HTTP
11 19 (3.53%) Internet
11 19 (3.53%) Wireless
12 18 (3.34%) Network Security
13 16 (2.97%) 5G
14 15 (2.78%) VoIP
15 14 (2.60%) TCP/IP
16 12 (2.23%) NetScaler
17 10 (1.86%) iSCSI
17 10 (1.86%) NAS
18 9 (1.67%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (23.19%) SQL Server
2 90 (16.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 81 (15.03%) Power BI
4 17 (3.15%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (1.86%) Apache Hive
5 10 (1.86%) Presto
6 8 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (1.11%) BigQuery
7 6 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.93%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.56%) Big Data
10 3 (0.56%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.56%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.37%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.37%) MySQL
11 2 (0.37%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 50 (9.28%) Git
2 30 (5.57%) Jenkins
3 24 (4.45%) JIRA
4 11 (2.04%) GitLab
5 10 (1.86%) Trac
6 7 (1.30%) Octopus Deploy
6 7 (1.30%) TeamCity
7 5 (0.93%) eggPlant
8 4 (0.74%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.56%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.56%) JUnit
9 3 (0.56%) Selenium
9 3 (0.56%) Subversion
9 3 (0.56%) TestNG
9 3 (0.56%) Travis CI
10 2 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.19%) Burp Suite
General
1 218 (40.45%) Social Skills
2 98 (18.18%) Finance
3 35 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (4.45%) Banking
4 24 (4.45%) Games
5 22 (4.08%) Telecoms
6 17 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (2.97%) Automotive
8 14 (2.60%) Electronics
8 14 (2.60%) Manufacturing
9 11 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (2.04%) Retail
10 7 (1.30%) Public Sector
11 6 (1.11%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.11%) Law
11 6 (1.11%) Local Government
11 6 (1.11%) Marketing
12 4 (0.74%) Back Office
12 4 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 87 (16.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 74 (13.73%) DBA
2 74 (13.73%) SQL DBA
3 64 (11.87%) Senior
4 46 (8.53%) Architect
5 38 (7.05%) Cloud Engineer
5 38 (7.05%) Lead
6 35 (6.49%) DevOps Engineer
7 29 (5.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 27 (5.01%) IT Support
9 23 (4.27%) Azure Engineer
9 23 (4.27%) Support Engineer
10 22 (4.08%) IT Engineer
10 22 (4.08%) Software Engineer
11 20 (3.71%) Infrastructure Architect
12 17 (3.15%) Linux Engineer
12 17 (3.15%) Support Specialist
13 16 (2.97%) Analyst
13 16 (2.97%) Consultant
13 16 (2.97%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (7.79%) ARM Templates
2 40 (7.42%) .NET
3 19 (3.53%) JWT
4 17 (3.15%) RESTful
5 16 (2.97%) http4s
5 16 (2.97%) Lambda Expressions
6 6 (1.11%) REST
7 5 (0.93%) React
8 4 (0.74%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.56%) Azure Blueprints
9 3 (0.56%) Bazel
9 3 (0.56%) Flash
10 2 (0.37%) ADO
10 2 (0.37%) JSON
10 2 (0.37%) Middleware
10 2 (0.37%) OAuth
10 2 (0.37%) OpenAPI
10 2 (0.37%) SOAP
10 2 (0.37%) Swagger
10 2 (0.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.24%) Data Centre
2 35 (6.49%) Self-Motivation
3 29 (5.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 28 (5.19%) Management Information System
5 23 (4.27%) Mobile App
6 22 (4.08%) Cloud Native
6 22 (4.08%) PKI
7 15 (2.78%) IoT
8 13 (2.41%) Replication
9 11 (2.04%) Driving Licence
10 8 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.30%) Cyberattack
12 6 (1.11%) CCTV
12 6 (1.11%) Onboarding
13 5 (0.93%) Blockchain
13 5 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
13 5 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
14 3 (0.56%) IBM Storwize
14 3 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
14 3 (0.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 226 (41.93%) Windows
2 134 (24.86%) Windows Server
3 116 (21.52%) Linux
4 100 (18.55%) VMS
5 43 (7.98%) Windows Server 2019
6 38 (7.05%) Windows Server 2016
7 28 (5.19%) Windows 10
8 24 (4.45%) Unix
9 16 (2.97%) Ubuntu
10 12 (2.23%) Windows Server 2012
11 10 (1.86%) AIX
11 10 (1.86%) Debian
11 10 (1.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 9 (1.67%) CentOS
12 9 (1.67%) Solaris
13 8 (1.48%) Windows Server 2008
14 6 (1.11%) Apple iOS
15 5 (0.93%) Android
16 3 (0.56%) SUSE
16 3 (0.56%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (29.68%) DevOps
2 147 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
3 103 (19.11%) CI/CD
4 102 (18.92%) High Availability
5 95 (17.63%) Collaborative Working
6 94 (17.44%) Problem-Solving
7 93 (17.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 84 (15.58%) Infrastructure as Code
9 82 (15.21%) Business Intelligence
10 78 (14.47%) Performance Tuning
11 74 (13.73%) Agile
12 66 (12.24%) Containerisation
12 66 (12.24%) Network Virtualisation
13 61 (11.32%) ITIL
14 52 (9.65%) Microservices
15 51 (9.46%) Configuration Management
16 44 (8.16%) Software Engineering
17 42 (7.79%) Computer Science
18 41 (7.61%) Project Management
19 40 (7.42%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 125 (23.19%) SQL
2 116 (21.52%) PowerShell
3 98 (18.18%) T-SQL
4 72 (13.36%) Python
5 60 (11.13%) Bash
6 41 (7.61%) Java
7 39 (7.24%) C#
8 36 (6.68%) Bicep
9 18 (3.34%) Perl
10 16 (2.97%) Kotlin
10 16 (2.97%) Scala
11 15 (2.78%) VB
12 14 (2.60%) VBScript
13 12 (2.23%) Go
14 8 (1.48%) Ruby
15 7 (1.30%) Rust
16 6 (1.11%) VB.NET
17 5 (0.93%) C
17 5 (0.93%) C++
17 5 (0.93%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 98 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
2 80 (14.84%) Degree
3 64 (11.87%) Security Cleared
4 36 (6.68%) SC Cleared
5 28 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (4.64%) Azure Certification
7 14 (2.60%) DV Cleared
7 14 (2.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 10 (1.86%) DBS Check
9 9 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (1.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 6 (1.11%) MCP
12 5 (0.93%) ISEB
12 5 (0.93%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.56%) CCNA
13 3 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.56%) CISSP
13 3 (0.56%) MCSE
14 2 (0.37%) Linux+ Certification
14 2 (0.37%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.08%) Cyber Essentials
2 21 (3.90%) QA
3 14 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.41%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.86%) GDPR
5 10 (1.86%) PMO
6 7 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 7 (1.30%) SLA
7 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.19%) GRC
8 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 144 (26.72%) Active Directory
2 95 (17.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 70 (12.99%) Hyper-V
4 54 (10.02%) Docker
5 31 (5.75%) Virtual Desktop
6 29 (5.38%) vSphere
7 20 (3.71%) Firmware
8 16 (2.97%) pfSense
9 15 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
10 14 (2.60%) NFS
11 12 (2.23%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (1.48%) Ceph
13 7 (1.30%) XenApp
14 6 (1.11%) XenDesktop
15 5 (0.93%) KVM
16 4 (0.74%) Slurm Workload Manager
17 3 (0.56%) Gluster
17 3 (0.56%) oVirt
17 3 (0.56%) VirtualBox
18 1 (0.19%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 93 (17.25%) Terraform
2 83 (15.40%) Kubernetes
3 57 (10.58%) Ansible
4 37 (6.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 31 (5.75%) SCCM
6 25 (4.64%) ZABBIX
7 23 (4.27%) Grafana
8 20 (3.71%) SCOM
9 18 (3.34%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 16 (2.97%) SCDPM
10 16 (2.97%) WSUS
11 14 (2.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 13 (2.41%) Puppet
13 11 (2.04%) Progress Chef
14 10 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
15 8 (1.48%) vCenter Server
16 7 (1.30%) Nagios
16 7 (1.30%) Prometheus
17 6 (1.11%) CASB
17 6 (1.11%) QRadar
Vendors
1 301 (55.84%) Microsoft
2 124 (23.01%) VMware
3 32 (5.94%) Veeam
4 26 (4.82%) Cisco
4 26 (4.82%) Fortinet
4 26 (4.82%) Google
5 19 (3.53%) Citrix
6 17 (3.15%) Juniper
6 17 (3.15%) Red Hat
7 16 (2.97%) ForgeRock
7 16 (2.97%) Sitecore
8 14 (2.60%) Oracle
9 12 (2.23%) HP
10 10 (1.86%) Commvault
10 10 (1.86%) Databricks
10 10 (1.86%) McAfee
10 10 (1.86%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.30%) IBM
12 6 (1.11%) Dell
12 6 (1.11%) Epicor