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 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 449 298 575
Rank change year-on-year -151 +277 -29
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 537 1,196 916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 1.21% 0.57%
As % of the System Software category 4.48% 7.78% 3.10%
Number of salaries quoted 436 314 358
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,750 £42,500 £38,188
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 £77,188
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 11,980 15,379 29,531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.99% 15.51% 18.37%
Number of salaries quoted 9,464 10,075 15,564
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,860 £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 18 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 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 -94 480 £57,500 -4.17% 118
UK excluding London -189 408 £57,500 +5.62% 85
Work from Home +115 287 £57,500 -4.17% 77
South East -57 123 £59,500 +3.48% 30
London +60 112 £80,000 +10.34% 44
North of England -61 87 £55,000 +0.11% 17
Midlands -84 58 £46,250 -14.55% 8
South West -83 54 £55,000 +46.67% 19
North West -57 40 £57,500 -6.12% 7
West Midlands -42 36 £48,750 -8.45% 4
East of England -25 35 £55,000 +69.23% 9
Yorkshire +9 34 £42,500 -5.56% 9
Wales -24 31 £45,000 -3.74% 1
East Midlands -40 22 £46,250 -31.48% 4
Scotland -166 20 £57,500 +4.55% 2
North East 0 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 (12.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 45 (8.38%) SharePoint
3 14 (2.61%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.61%) IIS
4 11 (2.05%) Apache
5 9 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.12%) Skype for Business
7 5 (0.93%) Confluence
7 5 (0.93%) Solana
8 4 (0.74%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.56%) CloudStack
10 2 (0.37%) Resin
10 2 (0.37%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
Applications
1 24 (4.47%) 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
1 383 (71.32%) Azure
2 123 (22.91%) Microsoft 365
3 86 (16.01%) Power Platform
4 82 (15.27%) Entra ID
5 79 (14.71%) AWS
6 69 (12.85%) Azure DevOps
7 53 (9.87%) Serverless
8 50 (9.31%) SaaS
9 49 (9.12%) IaaS
10 42 (7.82%) Azure Monitor
11 38 (7.08%) Azure Functions
11 38 (7.08%) Azure Storage
12 29 (5.40%) Amazon S3
12 29 (5.40%) Azure AKS
12 29 (5.40%) GCP
12 29 (5.40%) GitHub
13 26 (4.84%) Azure App Service
14 25 (4.66%) AWS Lambda
14 25 (4.66%) PaaS
15 24 (4.47%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 103 (19.18%) Firewall
2 89 (16.57%) DNS
3 76 (14.15%) Broadband
4 68 (12.66%) VPN
5 50 (9.31%) DHCP
6 28 (5.21%) LAN
7 26 (4.84%) WAN
8 24 (4.47%) VLAN
9 22 (4.10%) SAN
10 20 (3.72%) HTTP
11 19 (3.54%) Internet
11 19 (3.54%) Wireless
12 18 (3.35%) Network Security
13 16 (2.98%) 5G
14 15 (2.79%) VoIP
15 14 (2.61%) TCP/IP
16 12 (2.23%) NetScaler
17 10 (1.86%) iSCSI
17 10 (1.86%) NAS
18 9 (1.68%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (23.28%) SQL Server
2 90 (16.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 81 (15.08%) Power BI
4 17 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (1.68%) Apache Hive
5 9 (1.68%) Presto
6 8 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (1.12%) BigQuery
7 6 (1.12%) 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 (9.31%) Git
2 30 (5.59%) Jenkins
3 24 (4.47%) JIRA
4 11 (2.05%) 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 (40.60%) Social Skills
2 98 (18.25%) Finance
3 35 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (4.47%) Banking
4 24 (4.47%) Games
5 22 (4.10%) Telecoms
6 17 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (2.98%) Automotive
8 14 (2.61%) Manufacturing
9 13 (2.42%) Electronics
10 11 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (2.05%) Retail
11 7 (1.30%) Public Sector
12 6 (1.12%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.12%) Law
12 6 (1.12%) Local Government
12 6 (1.12%) Marketing
13 4 (0.74%) Back Office
13 4 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 87 (16.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 74 (13.78%) DBA
2 74 (13.78%) SQL DBA
3 64 (11.92%) Senior
4 46 (8.57%) Architect
5 38 (7.08%) Cloud Engineer
6 37 (6.89%) Lead
7 35 (6.52%) DevOps Engineer
8 29 (5.40%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 27 (5.03%) IT Support
10 23 (4.28%) Azure Engineer
10 23 (4.28%) Support Engineer
11 22 (4.10%) IT Engineer
12 20 (3.72%) Infrastructure Architect
12 20 (3.72%) Software Engineer
13 17 (3.17%) Linux Engineer
13 17 (3.17%) Support Specialist
14 16 (2.98%) Analyst
14 16 (2.98%) Consultant
14 16 (2.98%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (7.82%) ARM Templates
2 40 (7.45%) .NET
3 19 (3.54%) JWT
4 17 (3.17%) RESTful
5 14 (2.61%) http4s
5 14 (2.61%) Lambda Expressions
6 6 (1.12%) 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%) Keycloak
10 2 (0.37%) Middleware
10 2 (0.37%) OAuth
10 2 (0.37%) OpenAPI
10 2 (0.37%) SOAP
10 2 (0.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.26%) Data Centre
2 35 (6.52%) Self-Motivation
3 29 (5.40%) Hybrid Cloud
4 27 (5.03%) Management Information System
5 23 (4.28%) Mobile App
6 22 (4.10%) Cloud Native
6 22 (4.10%) PKI
7 15 (2.79%) IoT
8 13 (2.42%) Replication
9 11 (2.05%) Driving Licence
10 8 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.30%) Cyberattack
12 6 (1.12%) CCTV
12 6 (1.12%) Onboarding
13 5 (0.93%) Blockchain
13 5 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
13 5 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
14 3 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
14 3 (0.56%) IBM Storwize
14 3 (0.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 226 (42.09%) Windows
2 134 (24.95%) Windows Server
3 116 (21.60%) Linux
4 100 (18.62%) VMS
5 43 (8.01%) Windows Server 2019
6 38 (7.08%) Windows Server 2016
7 28 (5.21%) Windows 10
8 24 (4.47%) Unix
9 16 (2.98%) 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 (1.68%) CentOS
12 9 (1.68%) Solaris
13 8 (1.49%) Windows Server 2008
14 6 (1.12%) Apple iOS
15 5 (0.93%) Android
16 3 (0.56%) SUSE
16 3 (0.56%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (29.80%) DevOps
2 147 (27.37%) Disaster Recovery
3 102 (18.99%) High Availability
4 101 (18.81%) CI/CD
5 95 (17.69%) Collaborative Working
6 94 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
7 93 (17.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 82 (15.27%) Business Intelligence
8 82 (15.27%) Infrastructure as Code
9 78 (14.53%) Performance Tuning
10 72 (13.41%) Agile
11 66 (12.29%) Containerisation
11 66 (12.29%) Network Virtualisation
12 61 (11.36%) ITIL
13 51 (9.50%) Configuration Management
14 50 (9.31%) Microservices
15 42 (7.82%) Software Engineering
16 41 (7.64%) Computer Science
17 40 (7.45%) Actionable Insight
17 40 (7.45%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 125 (23.28%) SQL
2 116 (21.60%) PowerShell
3 98 (18.25%) T-SQL
4 71 (13.22%) Python
5 60 (11.17%) Bash
6 39 (7.26%) C#
6 39 (7.26%) Java
7 36 (6.70%) Bicep
8 18 (3.35%) Perl
9 15 (2.79%) VB
10 14 (2.61%) Kotlin
10 14 (2.61%) Scala
10 14 (2.61%) VBScript
11 12 (2.23%) Go
12 8 (1.49%) Ruby
13 7 (1.30%) Rust
14 6 (1.12%) VB.NET
15 5 (0.93%) C
15 5 (0.93%) C++
15 5 (0.93%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 98 (18.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 79 (14.71%) Degree
3 64 (11.92%) Security Cleared
4 36 (6.70%) SC Cleared
5 27 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (4.66%) Azure Certification
7 14 (2.61%) DV Cleared
7 14 (2.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 10 (1.86%) DBS Check
9 9 (1.68%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (1.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 6 (1.12%) 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%) CISM
14 2 (0.37%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.10%) Cyber Essentials
2 19 (3.54%) QA
3 14 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.42%) 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 (26.82%) Active Directory
2 95 (17.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 70 (13.04%) Hyper-V
4 54 (10.06%) Docker
5 31 (5.77%) Virtual Desktop
6 29 (5.40%) vSphere
7 20 (3.72%) Firmware
8 16 (2.98%) pfSense
9 15 (2.79%) VMware ESXi
10 14 (2.61%) NFS
11 12 (2.23%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (1.49%) Ceph
13 7 (1.30%) XenApp
14 6 (1.12%) 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 91 (16.95%) Terraform
2 83 (15.46%) Kubernetes
3 57 (10.61%) Ansible
4 37 (6.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 31 (5.77%) SCCM
6 25 (4.66%) ZABBIX
7 23 (4.28%) Grafana
8 20 (3.72%) SCOM
9 18 (3.35%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 16 (2.98%) SCDPM
10 16 (2.98%) WSUS
11 14 (2.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 13 (2.42%) Puppet
13 11 (2.05%) Progress Chef
14 10 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
15 8 (1.49%) vCenter Server
16 7 (1.30%) Nagios
16 7 (1.30%) Prometheus
17 6 (1.12%) CASB
17 6 (1.12%) QRadar
Vendors
1 299 (55.68%) Microsoft
2 124 (23.09%) VMware
3 32 (5.96%) Veeam
4 26 (4.84%) Cisco
4 26 (4.84%) Fortinet
5 24 (4.47%) Google
6 19 (3.54%) Citrix
7 17 (3.17%) Juniper
7 17 (3.17%) Red Hat
8 16 (2.98%) ForgeRock
8 16 (2.98%) Sitecore
9 14 (2.61%) Oracle
10 12 (2.23%) HP
11 10 (1.86%) Commvault
11 10 (1.86%) McAfee
11 10 (1.86%) ServiceNow
12 9 (1.68%) Databricks
13 7 (1.30%) IBM
14 6 (1.12%) Dell
14 6 (1.12%) Epicor