The first table below looks at the demand for VMS skills in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VMS over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the North West region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMS
Rank 231 244 224
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -20
Permanent jobs citing VMS 10 1 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.141% 0.014% 0.177%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.543% 0.052% 0.752%
Number of salaries quoted 8 1 12
Average salary £42,500 £18,250 £47,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+132.87% -61.17%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% -5.55%
All Operating Systems
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
1841 1926 1596
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 25.91% 27.17% 23.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1569 1683 1415
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £22,500 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £47,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VMS
England

VMS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing VMS across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

North West VMS Jobs Demand Trend

VMS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing VMS across the North West region.

North West VMS Salary Trend

VMS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VMS across the North West region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

North West VMS Salary Histogram

VMS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the North West region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cheshire - 6 £42,500 -
Manchester -11 4 £37,250 +104.10%
VMS
England

VMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing VMS also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited VMS.

1 11 (91.67%) UNIX
1 11 (91.67%) Windows
1 11 (91.67%) Incident Management
2 10 (83.33%) Problem Management
3 7 (58.33%) Mainframe
3 7 (58.33%) AS400
4 6 (50.00%) HP
4 6 (50.00%) Change Management
4 6 (50.00%) zOS
4 6 (50.00%) NonStop SQL
4 6 (50.00%) Workflow
5 5 (41.67%) Banking
5 5 (41.67%) SQL
5 5 (41.67%) DB2
6 4 (33.33%) Risk Management
6 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
6 4 (33.33%) AIX
6 4 (33.33%) Linux
6 4 (33.33%) OpenVMS
6 4 (33.33%) IBM
6 4 (33.33%) Performance Management
6 4 (33.33%) WebSphere
7 3 (25.00%) Finance
8 1 (8.333%) CICS
8 1 (8.333%) REXX
8 1 (8.333%) Financial Institution
8 1 (8.333%) Management Information System
8 1 (8.333%) Tandem
8 1 (8.333%) Microsoft
8 1 (8.333%) TCP/IP

VMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing VMS also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited VMS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (33.33%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (8.333%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (8.333%) MS Office
1 1 (8.333%) MS Excel
1 1 (8.333%) MS Visio
1 1 (8.333%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Bond Adapt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.333%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) NonStop SQL
2 5 (41.67%) DB2
3 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (8.333%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 5 (41.67%) Banking
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (8.333%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Operations Manager
2 5 (41.67%) Service Manager
3 4 (33.33%) Applications Support Specialist
3 4 (33.33%) Applications Specialist
3 4 (33.33%) Support Specialist
3 4 (33.33%) Applications Support
4 2 (16.67%) Analyst
5 1 (8.333%) Operations Analyst
5 1 (8.333%) Report Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Mainframe
1 7 (58.33%) AS400
2 1 (8.333%) Tandem
2 1 (8.333%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) UNIX
1 11 (91.67%) Windows
2 6 (50.00%) zOS
3 4 (33.33%) AIX
3 4 (33.33%) Linux
3 4 (33.33%) OpenVMS
4 1 (8.333%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Incident Management
2 10 (83.33%) Problem Management
3 6 (50.00%) Change Management
3 6 (50.00%) Workflow
4 4 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 4 (33.33%) Performance Management
5 1 (8.333%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
2 1 (8.333%) REXX
2 1 (8.333%) JCL
Systems Management
1 1 (8.333%) Tivoli NetView
1 1 (8.333%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) HP
2 4 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (8.333%) Microsoft