VMS Jobs in the Midlands

VMS
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 293 312 345
Rank change year-on-year +19 +33 -54
Permanent jobs citing VMS 30 13 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.26% 0.14% 0.073%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.89% 1.02% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 28 7 7
10th Percentile £45,000 £26,300 £44,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £30,500 £51,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £42,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -27.35% +1.74%
75th Percentile £61,250 £68,750 £67,875
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £73,450
England median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +21.05% -32.14% +30.23%

All Operating Systems
Midlands

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 advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,589 1,271 2,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.55% 13.71% 19.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,309 844 1,448
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,500 £24,000
25th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for VMS in the Midlands

VMS
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for VMS in the Midlands

VMS
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for VMS in the Midlands

VMS
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 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
East Midlands - 17 £57,500 - 3
West Midlands +17 13 £57,500 +35.29% 2
VMS
England

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 6 (20.00%) IIS
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (13.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (6.67%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Adobe XD
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (23.33%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (6.67%) Shopify
3 1 (3.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 20 (66.67%) Azure
2 8 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (26.67%) Power Platform
3 7 (23.33%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (20.00%) Entra ID
5 4 (13.33%) OneDrive
5 4 (13.33%) SaaS
6 3 (10.00%) AWS
7 2 (6.67%) Figma
7 2 (6.67%) Google Workspace
7 2 (6.67%) Mimecast
8 1 (3.33%) Anthos
8 1 (3.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (26.67%) Firewall
1 8 (26.67%) WAN
2 6 (20.00%) Broadband
3 4 (13.33%) DHCP
3 4 (13.33%) DNS
3 4 (13.33%) Fibre Channel
3 4 (13.33%) iSCSI
3 4 (13.33%) LAN
3 4 (13.33%) SD-WAN
3 4 (13.33%) SNMP
4 2 (6.67%) Internet
4 2 (6.67%) IP Telephony
4 2 (6.67%) NAS
4 2 (6.67%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (6.67%) TCP/IP
4 2 (6.67%) VPN
4 2 (6.67%) WLAN
5 1 (3.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (26.67%) Power BI
3 6 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.33%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.33%) MariaDB
4 1 (3.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (23.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (13.33%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (13.33%) TeamCity
3 2 (6.67%) Git
General
1 17 (56.67%) Social Skills
2 9 (30.00%) Law
3 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Legal
5 1 (3.33%) Games
5 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Developer
2 7 (23.33%) Dynamics 365 Developer
2 7 (23.33%) Dynamics AX Developer
3 6 (20.00%) DBA
3 6 (20.00%) IT Manager
3 6 (20.00%) SQL DBA
4 4 (13.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Manager
4 4 (13.33%) IT Infrastructure Manager
4 4 (13.33%) Lead
4 4 (13.33%) Lead DevOps
4 4 (13.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Systems Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Web Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) REST
1 3 (10.00%) Vue
2 2 (6.67%) .NET
2 2 (6.67%) .NET Core
2 2 (6.67%) CSS
2 2 (6.67%) HTML
2 2 (6.67%) HTML5
2 2 (6.67%) JSON
2 2 (6.67%) Razor View Engine
2 2 (6.67%) Sass
2 2 (6.67%) Tailwind CSS
2 2 (6.67%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 2 (6.67%) XML
3 1 (3.33%) GraphQL
3 1 (3.33%) Laravel
3 1 (3.33%) React
3 1 (3.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 6 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 4 (13.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 3 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (6.67%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 15 (50.00%) Windows
2 6 (20.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (6.67%) Android
3 2 (6.67%) Apple iOS
3 2 (6.67%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) DevOps
2 10 (33.33%) High Availability
2 10 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 10 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (26.67%) Collaborative Working
3 8 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (23.33%) ERP
4 7 (23.33%) Migration
5 6 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
5 6 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 6 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (20.00%) ITIL
5 6 (20.00%) Project Management
6 5 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (13.33%) CI/CD
7 4 (13.33%) Information Security
7 4 (13.33%) Network Design
7 4 (13.33%) Network Management
7 4 (13.33%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (40.00%) SQL
2 6 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.67%) C#
5 1 (3.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) Azure Certification
1 8 (26.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (20.00%) Degree
3 2 (6.67%) MCSA
3 2 (6.67%) MCSE
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) QA
2 2 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (6.67%) GDPR
2 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 6 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (13.33%) pfSense
2 4 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.33%) SCCM
3 1 (3.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) BroadSoft
2 4 (13.33%) Brocade
2 4 (13.33%) Cisco
2 4 (13.33%) Dell
2 4 (13.33%) Dell Compellent
2 4 (13.33%) Fortinet
2 4 (13.33%) QNAP
2 4 (13.33%) Ubiquiti
2 4 (13.33%) Veeam
2 4 (13.33%) VMware
2 4 (13.33%) Zerto
3 3 (10.00%) Apple
3 3 (10.00%) Google
4 2 (6.67%) Adobe
4 2 (6.67%) Meraki
4 2 (6.67%) Sophos