VMS Jobs in the North West

VMS
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 256 284 325
Rank change year-on-year +28 +41 -81
Permanent jobs citing VMS 35 19 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.36% 0.24% 0.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.94% 1.65% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 31 19 10
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,125
25th Percentile £50,625 £62,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +30.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £70,688
90th Percentile £65,000 - £74,150
England median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +21.05% -32.14% +33.33%

All Operating Systems
North West

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 North West with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,189 1,150 1,699
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.27% 14.36% 18.07%
Number of salaries quoted 891 774 1,091
10th Percentile £25,000 £24,750 £24,000
25th Percentile £30,250 £30,563 £28,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,154 £58,125
90th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £73,675
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for VMS in the North West

VMS
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for VMS in the North West

VMS
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMS in the North West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for VMS in the North West

VMS
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the North West region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Manchester +30 16 £57,500 -11.54% 2
Cheshire - 11 £37,500 - 7
Merseyside +11 3 £57,500 +43.75% 3
Cumbria - 3 £57,500 -
Lancashire - 2 £57,500 - 2
VMS
England

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (11.43%) CMS
1 4 (11.43%) IIS
1 4 (11.43%) Umbraco
2 2 (5.71%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Business Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 23 (65.71%) Azure
2 12 (34.29%) Power Platform
3 4 (11.43%) AWS
3 4 (11.43%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (11.43%) GitHub
3 4 (11.43%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (5.71%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.86%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (34.29%) Broadband
2 9 (25.71%) DNS
2 9 (25.71%) Firewall
3 5 (14.29%) DHCP
3 5 (14.29%) LAN
3 5 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 5 (14.29%) WAN
4 2 (5.71%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (51.43%) SQL Server
2 13 (37.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (34.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (48.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (11.43%) Law
3 3 (8.57%) Tech for Good
4 2 (5.71%) Electronics
4 2 (5.71%) Games
4 2 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.71%) Military
4 2 (5.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) DBA
1 12 (34.29%) SQL DBA
2 6 (17.14%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Senior
3 5 (14.29%) Senior Technical Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Technical Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Developer
4 4 (11.43%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 4 (11.43%) Dynamics AX Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Embedded Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) IT Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) IT Support
6 2 (5.71%) IT Support Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) IoT
2 2 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (28.57%) Windows
2 4 (11.43%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.71%) Unix
4 1 (2.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (45.71%) High Availability
2 12 (34.29%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (34.29%) Collaborative Working
2 12 (34.29%) Disaster Recovery
2 12 (34.29%) Performance Tuning
3 11 (31.43%) DevOps
4 9 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (14.29%) Business Continuity
7 5 (14.29%) Customer Service
7 5 (14.29%) IT Audit
8 4 (11.43%) CI/CD
8 4 (11.43%) ERP
8 4 (11.43%) Migration
8 4 (11.43%) Process Improvement
8 4 (11.43%) Test Automation
9 3 (8.57%) Software Engineering
10 2 (5.71%) Software Testing
10 2 (5.71%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (37.14%) SQL
2 12 (34.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (48.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (14.29%) Degree
2 5 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (34.29%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (14.29%) Hyper-V
4 2 (5.71%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) SCCM
1 2 (5.71%) WSUS
2 1 (2.86%) Ansible
2 1 (2.86%) Grafana
2 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (68.57%) Microsoft
2 7 (20.00%) VMware
3 2 (5.71%) Apple