VMS Jobs in the South West

VMS
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 261 276 310
Rank change year-on-year +15 +34 -36
Permanent jobs citing VMS 21 5 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.23% 0.071% 0.025%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.29% 0.38% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 20 5 1
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,582 -
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £35,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% +33.80% -32.38%
75th Percentile £61,250 £50,000 £38,250
90th Percentile £61,625 £77,000 -
England median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +21.05% -32.14% +33.33%

All Operating Systems
South 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 South West with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,631 1,317 1,853
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 17.83% 18.81% 23.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,249 769 1,212
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,500 £32,500 £32,461
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £60,918 £61,250 £65,720
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for VMS in the South West

VMS
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for VMS in the South West

VMS
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMS in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for VMS in the South West

VMS
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the South West region over the 6 months to 27 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
Wiltshire -8 7 £42,500 -12.82% 2
Bristol - 6 £57,500 - 1
Gloucestershire - 3 £57,500 -
Somerset +7 2 £57,500 +27.78%
Devon - 2 £57,500 -
Dorset -16 1 £57,500 -12.19%
VMS
England

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 3 (14.29%) CloudStack
Cloud Services
1 15 (71.43%) Azure
2 11 (52.38%) Power Platform
3 5 (23.81%) Nutanix
4 3 (14.29%) AWS
4 3 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (14.29%) OCI
5 1 (4.76%) Azure App Service
5 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (52.38%) Broadband
2 5 (23.81%) NAS
3 3 (14.29%) iSCSI
4 1 (4.76%) Internet
4 1 (4.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (52.38%) Azure SQL Database
1 11 (52.38%) Power BI
1 11 (52.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Git
General
1 12 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.76%) Games
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) DBA
1 11 (52.38%) SQL DBA
2 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) IoT
1 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (42.86%) Windows
2 8 (38.10%) Linux
3 5 (23.81%) Windows 10
3 5 (23.81%) Windows Server
4 3 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (14.29%) SUSE
4 3 (14.29%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) Collaborative Working
2 11 (52.38%) Business Intelligence
2 11 (52.38%) Disaster Recovery
2 11 (52.38%) High Availability
2 11 (52.38%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (23.81%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 5 (23.81%) Preventative Maintenance
4 5 (23.81%) Proactive Monitoring
4 5 (23.81%) Security Hardening
4 5 (23.81%) Server Building
4 5 (23.81%) Server Management
5 3 (14.29%) B2B
5 3 (14.29%) Configuration Management
5 3 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 3 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (14.29%) Resource Management
6 1 (4.76%) Change Advisory Board
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) SQL
1 11 (52.38%) T-SQL
2 3 (14.29%) Go
2 3 (14.29%) Perl
2 3 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 16 (76.19%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 19 (90.48%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (23.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (14.29%) Ceph
3 3 (14.29%) Docker
3 3 (14.29%) Gluster
3 3 (14.29%) KVM
3 3 (14.29%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Ansible
1 3 (14.29%) Graylog
1 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 3 (14.29%) Observium
1 3 (14.29%) Prometheus
1 3 (14.29%) Puppet
1 3 (14.29%) ZABBIX
2 1 (4.76%) SCCM
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (80.95%) Microsoft
2 5 (23.81%) VMware
3 3 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (4.76%) Apple