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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 656 777 930
Rank change year-on-year +121 +153 -132
Permanent jobs citing VMS 265 175 313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.18% 0.19%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.89% 1.12% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 194 112 93
10th Percentile £38,750 £31,250 £41,400
25th Percentile £50,313 £36,038 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -31.16% +31.43%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £76,550 £80,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £49,875 £62,500
% change year-on-year +15.29% -20.20% +28.87%

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 13,986 15,669 31,425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.63% 16.10% 18.82%
Number of salaries quoted 10,693 10,509 16,510
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,250
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 £92,000 £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 28 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 28 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 +138 242 £57,500 +21.05% 52
UK excluding London +71 185 £57,500 +15.29% 35
Work from Home +138 153 £57,500 - 25
London +138 71 £57,500 +53.33% 16
North of England +76 53 £57,500 -11.54% 16
South East +2 46 £57,500 +21.05% 7
North West +23 35 £57,500 -11.54% 10
Midlands +15 32 £57,500 +35.29% 8
South West -9 21 £57,500 +24.32% 3
East Midlands - 18 £57,500 - 6
West Midlands +12 14 £57,500 +35.29% 2
East of England +8 14 £57,500 - 1
Scotland -43 14 £57,500 +1.77% 1
Yorkshire +85 13 £57,500 -11.54% 5
North East - 5 £57,500 - 1
Wales +5 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 (11.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (9.06%) SharePoint
3 22 (8.30%) IIS
4 9 (3.40%) WordPress
5 7 (2.64%) Umbraco
6 5 (1.89%) JBoss
6 5 (1.89%) Solana
6 5 (1.89%) WebSphere
7 4 (1.51%) CMS
8 3 (1.13%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.75%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.75%) Exchange Server 2013
10 1 (0.38%) Apache
10 1 (0.38%) JOnAS
Applications
1 3 (1.13%) Adobe XD
1 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 21 (7.92%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.75%) 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
1 156 (58.87%) Azure
2 83 (31.32%) Power Platform
3 41 (15.47%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (10.94%) Entra ID
5 26 (9.81%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (9.81%) Dynamics 365
6 23 (8.68%) OneDrive
7 16 (6.04%) AWS
8 15 (5.66%) PaaS
9 13 (4.91%) IaaS
10 9 (3.40%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (3.02%) SaaS
11 8 (3.02%) Serverless
12 7 (2.64%) GCP
13 6 (2.26%) Azure App Service
14 5 (1.89%) Nutanix
15 4 (1.51%) GitHub
15 4 (1.51%) GitHub Actions
16 3 (1.13%) Figma
16 3 (1.13%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 80 (30.19%) Firewall
2 74 (27.92%) Broadband
3 55 (20.75%) WAN
4 54 (20.38%) VPN
5 51 (19.25%) LAN
6 42 (15.85%) Internet
7 33 (12.45%) DNS
8 17 (6.42%) NAS
9 16 (6.04%) iSCSI
9 16 (6.04%) Network Security
10 13 (4.91%) Fibre Channel
11 12 (4.53%) DHCP
11 12 (4.53%) SAN
12 10 (3.77%) Wireless
13 7 (2.64%) TCP/IP
14 4 (1.51%) SD-WAN
14 4 (1.51%) SNMP
14 4 (1.51%) VLAN
14 4 (1.51%) WLAN
15 3 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (41.51%) SQL Server
2 83 (31.32%) Azure SQL Database
3 76 (28.68%) Power BI
4 6 (2.26%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.75%) 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 (7.92%) Team Foundation Server
2 11 (4.15%) Git
3 10 (3.77%) Octopus Deploy
3 10 (3.77%) TeamCity
4 9 (3.40%) Jenkins
5 8 (3.02%) GitLab
6 3 (1.13%) Subversion
General
1 148 (55.85%) Social Skills
2 50 (18.87%) Retail
3 23 (8.68%) Law
4 17 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.66%) Manufacturing
6 13 (4.91%) Games
7 11 (4.15%) Finance
8 9 (3.40%) Marketing
9 8 (3.02%) Electronics
9 8 (3.02%) Legal
9 8 (3.02%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.64%) Telecoms
11 6 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.13%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.13%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.75%) Advertising
13 2 (0.75%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.75%) Military
14 1 (0.38%) Fire and Rescue
14 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (27.92%) DBA
1 74 (27.92%) SQL DBA
2 45 (16.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 37 (13.96%) Senior
4 29 (10.94%) Developer
5 25 (9.43%) Azure Engineer
6 23 (8.68%) Architect
7 21 (7.92%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 21 (7.92%) Infrastructure Architect
8 18 (6.79%) Dynamics AX Developer
8 18 (6.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (5.66%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (4.91%) Analyst
10 13 (4.91%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (4.53%) Vulnerability Analyst
12 11 (4.15%) Support Engineer
13 8 (3.02%) Network Engineer
13 8 (3.02%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.02%) Software Support Engineer
13 8 (3.02%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.79%) .NET
2 10 (3.77%) LAMP
3 9 (3.40%) ARM Templates
4 8 (3.02%) React
5 6 (2.26%) HTML
5 6 (2.26%) JSON
6 5 (1.89%) .NET Core
7 4 (1.51%) CSS
7 4 (1.51%) LDAP
7 4 (1.51%) REST
7 4 (1.51%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 4 (1.51%) Vue
7 4 (1.51%) XML
7 4 (1.51%) YAML
8 3 (1.13%) HTML5
8 3 (1.13%) Node.js
8 3 (1.13%) Razor View Engine
8 3 (1.13%) Sass
8 3 (1.13%) Tailwind CSS
9 1 (0.38%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.66%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (4.15%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (4.15%) Replication
3 9 (3.40%) Cloud Native
3 9 (3.40%) Data Centre
4 7 (2.64%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.26%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.26%) Mobile App
6 5 (1.89%) Blockchain
7 4 (1.51%) Chip and PIN
7 4 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.51%) Mobile Payment
7 4 (1.51%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (1.13%) IoT
9 2 (0.75%) PKI
9 2 (0.75%) Smartphone
9 2 (0.75%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.38%) CCTV
10 1 (0.38%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.38%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 120 (45.28%) Windows
2 69 (26.04%) Linux
3 51 (19.25%) Ubuntu
4 38 (14.34%) Windows Server
5 15 (5.66%) Windows 10
6 14 (5.28%) Unix
7 13 (4.91%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (3.40%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (2.26%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (1.13%) Android
11 3 (1.13%) Apple iOS
11 3 (1.13%) Mac OS
11 3 (1.13%) SUSE
11 3 (1.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 3 (1.13%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.75%) OpenVMS
12 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.38%) AIX
13 1 (0.38%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (33.21%) Collaborative Working
2 84 (31.70%) High Availability
3 78 (29.43%) Business Intelligence
3 78 (29.43%) Performance Tuning
4 76 (28.68%) Disaster Recovery
5 65 (24.53%) DevOps
6 53 (20.00%) Agile
7 47 (17.74%) Collaborative Culture
8 46 (17.36%) Actionable Insight
8 46 (17.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 41 (15.47%) DevSecOps
9 41 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (14.72%) Application Security
11 22 (8.30%) Configuration Management
12 21 (7.92%) Cybersecurity
12 21 (7.92%) Migration
13 20 (7.55%) CI/CD
14 18 (6.79%) ERP
15 17 (6.42%) Customer Service
15 17 (6.42%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 107 (40.38%) SQL
2 75 (28.30%) T-SQL
3 33 (12.45%) PowerShell
4 11 (4.15%) C#
5 10 (3.77%) Java
6 9 (3.40%) Bash
6 9 (3.40%) JavaScript
6 9 (3.40%) Python
7 8 (3.02%) Bicep
8 7 (2.64%) Go
9 5 (1.89%) Ruby
9 5 (1.89%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.13%) Perl
11 2 (0.75%) 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 (35.85%) Microsoft Certification
2 61 (23.02%) Security Cleared
3 37 (13.96%) DV Cleared
4 25 (9.43%) Degree
5 20 (7.55%) Azure Certification
6 18 (6.79%) SC Cleared
7 6 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.89%) HNC
8 5 (1.89%) HND
9 2 (0.75%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.75%) MCSA
9 2 (0.75%) MCSE
10 1 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.02%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.89%) QA
3 3 (1.13%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.75%) GDPR
4 2 (0.75%) SLA
5 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 99 (37.36%) Virtual Machines
2 88 (33.21%) Active Directory
3 17 (6.42%) Docker
4 16 (6.04%) Hyper-V
4 16 (6.04%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (4.15%) vSphere
6 10 (3.77%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (1.51%) pfSense
7 4 (1.51%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.13%) Ceph
8 3 (1.13%) Gluster
8 3 (1.13%) KVM
8 3 (1.13%) oVirt
9 1 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 54 (20.38%) Terraform
2 46 (17.36%) Ansible
3 27 (10.19%) Kubernetes
4 21 (7.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (7.92%) SCCM
5 16 (6.04%) WSUS
6 4 (1.51%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.13%) Grafana
7 3 (1.13%) Graylog
7 3 (1.13%) Nessus
7 3 (1.13%) Observium
7 3 (1.13%) Puppet
7 3 (1.13%) ZABBIX
8 2 (0.75%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.75%) SolarWinds Orion
8 2 (0.75%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.38%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 143 (53.96%) Microsoft
2 38 (14.34%) VMware
3 17 (6.42%) Veeam
4 15 (5.66%) Apple
4 15 (5.66%) Oracle
5 13 (4.91%) Citrix
5 13 (4.91%) Zerto
6 9 (3.40%) Aruba
6 9 (3.40%) Cisco
6 9 (3.40%) Palo Alto
6 9 (3.40%) ProCurve
6 9 (3.40%) Synology
7 6 (2.26%) Dell
8 5 (1.89%) Google
8 5 (1.89%) SAP
9 4 (1.51%) Brocade
9 4 (1.51%) Dell Compellent
9 4 (1.51%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.51%) QNAP
9 4 (1.51%) Ubiquiti