VMS
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for VMS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited VMS over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 638 773 937
Rank change year-on-year +135 +164 -130
Permanent jobs citing VMS 262 179 306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.18% 0.19%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.88% 1.13% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 192 112 96
10th Percentile £38,750 £31,250 £39,000
25th Percentile £50,938 £36,038 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -31.16% +32.69%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £80,250
90th Percentile £77,350 £80,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -23.08% +39.04%

All Operating Systems
UK

VMS is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 13,934 15,823 30,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.81% 16.06% 18.87%
Number of salaries quoted 10,696 10,615 16,434
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,450
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for VMS in the UK

VMS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VMS.

Salary trend for VMS in the UK

VMS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMS over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for VMS in the UK

VMS
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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 +159 239 £57,500 +21.05% 61
UK excluding London +97 184 £57,500 +15.00% 41
Work from Home +130 152 £57,500 - 32
London +106 70 £57,500 +53.33% 26
North of England +68 53 £57,500 -11.54% 16
South East +10 46 £57,500 +21.05% 14
North West +19 35 £57,500 -11.54% 11
Midlands +10 32 £57,500 +35.29% 7
South West +1 20 £57,500 +24.32% 3
East Midlands - 18 £57,500 - 5
East of England +20 14 £57,500 - 1
West Midlands +9 14 £57,500 +35.29% 2
Scotland -44 14 £57,500 +1.77% 1
Yorkshire +87 13 £57,500 -11.54% 4
North East - 5 £57,500 - 1
Wales +11 4 £45,000 -2.62%
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

VMS
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 30 (11.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (9.16%) SharePoint
3 22 (8.40%) IIS
4 9 (3.44%) WordPress
5 7 (2.67%) Umbraco
6 5 (1.91%) JBoss
6 5 (1.91%) Solana
6 5 (1.91%) WebSphere
7 4 (1.53%) CMS
8 3 (1.15%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.76%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.76%) Exchange Server 2013
10 1 (0.38%) Apache
10 1 (0.38%) JOnAS
Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Adobe XD
1 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 21 (8.02%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.76%) Shopify
3 1 (0.38%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.38%) Misys Opics
3 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 154 (58.78%) Azure
2 82 (31.30%) Power Platform
3 41 (15.65%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (11.07%) Entra ID
5 25 (9.54%) Dynamics 365
6 24 (9.16%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (8.78%) OneDrive
8 16 (6.11%) AWS
9 14 (5.34%) PaaS
10 12 (4.58%) IaaS
11 8 (3.05%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (3.05%) SaaS
12 7 (2.67%) GCP
12 7 (2.67%) Serverless
13 6 (2.29%) Azure App Service
14 5 (1.91%) Nutanix
15 4 (1.53%) GitHub
15 4 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
16 3 (1.15%) Figma
16 3 (1.15%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 79 (30.15%) Firewall
2 74 (28.24%) Broadband
3 53 (20.23%) VPN
3 53 (20.23%) WAN
4 49 (18.70%) LAN
5 41 (15.65%) Internet
6 33 (12.60%) DNS
7 17 (6.49%) NAS
8 16 (6.11%) iSCSI
8 16 (6.11%) Network Security
9 13 (4.96%) Fibre Channel
10 12 (4.58%) DHCP
10 12 (4.58%) SAN
11 10 (3.82%) Wireless
12 7 (2.67%) TCP/IP
13 4 (1.53%) SD-WAN
13 4 (1.53%) SNMP
13 4 (1.53%) VLAN
13 4 (1.53%) WLAN
14 3 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (41.98%) SQL Server
2 83 (31.68%) Azure SQL Database
3 76 (29.01%) Power BI
4 6 (2.29%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.76%) MySQL
7 1 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.38%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.38%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.38%) Firebird
7 1 (0.38%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 21 (8.02%) Team Foundation Server
2 10 (3.82%) Git
3 9 (3.44%) Octopus Deploy
3 9 (3.44%) TeamCity
4 8 (3.05%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.67%) GitLab
6 3 (1.15%) Subversion
General
1 147 (56.11%) Social Skills
2 49 (18.70%) Retail
3 23 (8.78%) Law
4 17 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.34%) Manufacturing
6 13 (4.96%) Games
7 11 (4.20%) Finance
8 9 (3.44%) Marketing
9 8 (3.05%) Electronics
9 8 (3.05%) Legal
9 8 (3.05%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.67%) Telecoms
11 6 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.15%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.15%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.76%) Advertising
13 2 (0.76%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.76%) Military
14 1 (0.38%) Banking
14 1 (0.38%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 74 (28.24%) DBA
1 74 (28.24%) SQL DBA
2 44 (16.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 35 (13.36%) Senior
4 29 (11.07%) Developer
5 25 (9.54%) Azure Engineer
6 23 (8.78%) Architect
7 21 (8.02%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 21 (8.02%) Infrastructure Architect
8 18 (6.87%) Dynamics AX Developer
9 17 (6.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 15 (5.73%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 13 (4.96%) Analyst
12 12 (4.58%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (4.58%) Vulnerability Analyst
13 11 (4.20%) Support Engineer
14 8 (3.05%) Network Engineer
14 8 (3.05%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 8 (3.05%) Software Support Engineer
14 8 (3.05%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.49%) .NET
2 10 (3.82%) LAMP
3 9 (3.44%) ARM Templates
4 8 (3.05%) React
5 6 (2.29%) HTML
5 6 (2.29%) JSON
6 5 (1.91%) .NET Core
7 4 (1.53%) CSS
7 4 (1.53%) LDAP
7 4 (1.53%) REST
7 4 (1.53%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 4 (1.53%) Vue
7 4 (1.53%) XML
7 4 (1.53%) YAML
8 3 (1.15%) HTML5
8 3 (1.15%) Node.js
8 3 (1.15%) Razor View Engine
8 3 (1.15%) Sass
8 3 (1.15%) Tailwind CSS
9 1 (0.38%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.73%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (4.20%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (4.20%) Replication
3 9 (3.44%) Cloud Native
3 9 (3.44%) Data Centre
4 7 (2.67%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.29%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.91%) Blockchain
6 5 (1.91%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.53%) Chip and PIN
7 4 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.53%) Mobile Payment
7 4 (1.53%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (1.15%) IoT
9 2 (0.76%) PKI
9 2 (0.76%) Smartphone
9 2 (0.76%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.38%) CCTV
10 1 (0.38%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.38%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 118 (45.04%) Windows
2 68 (25.95%) Linux
3 50 (19.08%) Ubuntu
4 38 (14.50%) Windows Server
5 15 (5.73%) Windows 10
6 14 (5.34%) Unix
7 13 (4.96%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (3.44%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (2.29%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (1.15%) Android
11 3 (1.15%) Apple iOS
11 3 (1.15%) Mac OS
11 3 (1.15%) SUSE
11 3 (1.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 3 (1.15%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.76%) OpenVMS
12 2 (0.76%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.38%) AIX
13 1 (0.38%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (33.59%) Collaborative Working
2 84 (32.06%) High Availability
3 78 (29.77%) Business Intelligence
3 78 (29.77%) Performance Tuning
4 76 (29.01%) Disaster Recovery
5 63 (24.05%) DevOps
6 52 (19.85%) Agile
7 46 (17.56%) Actionable Insight
7 46 (17.56%) Collaborative Culture
8 45 (17.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 40 (15.27%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (14.89%) DevSecOps
11 38 (14.50%) Application Security
12 21 (8.02%) Cybersecurity
12 21 (8.02%) Migration
13 20 (7.63%) Configuration Management
14 19 (7.25%) CI/CD
15 18 (6.87%) ERP
16 17 (6.49%) Customer Service
17 16 (6.11%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 107 (40.84%) SQL
2 75 (28.63%) T-SQL
3 32 (12.21%) PowerShell
4 10 (3.82%) C#
5 9 (3.44%) Java
6 8 (3.05%) Bash
6 8 (3.05%) Bicep
6 8 (3.05%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.05%) Python
7 6 (2.29%) Go
8 5 (1.91%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.53%) Ruby
10 3 (1.15%) Perl
11 2 (0.76%) Scala
12 1 (0.38%) C++
12 1 (0.38%) PHP
12 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 95 (36.26%) Microsoft Certification
2 59 (22.52%) Security Cleared
3 36 (13.74%) DV Cleared
4 25 (9.54%) Degree
5 20 (7.63%) Azure Certification
6 18 (6.87%) SC Cleared
7 6 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.91%) HNC
8 5 (1.91%) HND
9 2 (0.76%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.76%) MCSA
9 2 (0.76%) MCSE
10 1 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.05%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.91%) QA
3 3 (1.15%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.76%) GDPR
4 2 (0.76%) SLA
5 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 98 (37.40%) Virtual Machines
2 87 (33.21%) Active Directory
3 16 (6.11%) Docker
3 16 (6.11%) Hyper-V
3 16 (6.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (4.20%) vSphere
5 10 (3.82%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.53%) pfSense
6 4 (1.53%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.15%) Ceph
7 3 (1.15%) Gluster
7 3 (1.15%) KVM
7 3 (1.15%) oVirt
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 52 (19.85%) Terraform
2 45 (17.18%) Ansible
3 26 (9.92%) Kubernetes
4 21 (8.02%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (8.02%) SCCM
5 16 (6.11%) WSUS
6 4 (1.53%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.15%) Grafana
7 3 (1.15%) Graylog
7 3 (1.15%) Nessus
7 3 (1.15%) Observium
7 3 (1.15%) Puppet
7 3 (1.15%) ZABBIX
8 2 (0.76%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.76%) SolarWinds Orion
8 2 (0.76%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.38%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 141 (53.82%) Microsoft
2 38 (14.50%) VMware
3 17 (6.49%) Veeam
4 15 (5.73%) Apple
4 15 (5.73%) Oracle
5 13 (4.96%) Citrix
5 13 (4.96%) Zerto
6 9 (3.44%) Aruba
6 9 (3.44%) Cisco
6 9 (3.44%) Palo Alto
6 9 (3.44%) ProCurve
6 9 (3.44%) Synology
7 6 (2.29%) Dell
8 5 (1.91%) Google
8 5 (1.91%) SAP
9 4 (1.53%) BroadSoft
9 4 (1.53%) Brocade
9 4 (1.53%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.53%) QNAP
9 4 (1.53%) Ubiquiti