VMS Jobs in the West Midlands

VMS
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 235 261 290
Rank change year-on-year +26 +29 -66
Permanent jobs citing VMS 13 13 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.18% 0.19% 0.028%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.51% 1.56% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 12 7 2
10th Percentile £34,175 £26,300 £70,475
25th Percentile £53,750 £30,500 £70,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £42,500 £72,750
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -41.58% +26.52%
75th Percentile £88,750 £68,750 £75,813
90th Percentile - £85,000 £76,825
England median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +21.05% -32.14% +33.33%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 860 831 1,210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.89% 12.44% 16.69%
Number of salaries quoted 736 571 884
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £63,125 £70,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for VMS in the West Midlands

VMS
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for VMS in the West Midlands

VMS
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for VMS in the West Midlands

VMS
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 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
Birmingham -1 10 £57,500 +15.00% 1
Warwickshire +44 2 £34,000 - 1
Staffordshire - 1 £57,500 -
VMS
England

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 (46.15%) IIS
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (30.77%) SharePoint
3 2 (15.38%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) Entra ID
3 4 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (30.77%) OneDrive
3 4 (30.77%) SaaS
4 2 (15.38%) Figma
4 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) DHCP
1 4 (30.77%) DNS
1 4 (30.77%) Fibre Channel
1 4 (30.77%) Firewall
1 4 (30.77%) iSCSI
1 4 (30.77%) SD-WAN
1 4 (30.77%) SNMP
1 4 (30.77%) WAN
2 2 (15.38%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) SQL Server
2 2 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (15.38%) Power BI
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (7.69%) MariaDB
3 1 (7.69%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Octopus Deploy
1 4 (30.77%) TeamCity
2 2 (15.38%) Git
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Manager
1 4 (30.77%) IT Infrastructure Manager
1 4 (30.77%) IT Manager
1 4 (30.77%) Lead
1 4 (30.77%) Lead DevOps
1 4 (30.77%) Lead DevOps Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Operations Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) DBA
3 2 (15.38%) SQL DBA
3 2 (15.38%) Web Developer
4 1 (7.69%) PHP Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) REST
1 3 (23.08%) Vue
2 2 (15.38%) .NET
2 2 (15.38%) .NET Core
2 2 (15.38%) CSS
2 2 (15.38%) HTML
2 2 (15.38%) HTML5
2 2 (15.38%) JSON
2 2 (15.38%) Razor View Engine
2 2 (15.38%) Sass
2 2 (15.38%) Tailwind CSS
2 2 (15.38%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 2 (15.38%) XML
3 1 (7.69%) GraphQL
3 1 (7.69%) Laravel
3 1 (7.69%) React
3 1 (7.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Cloud Native
1 4 (30.77%) Data Centre
1 4 (30.77%) Management Information System
1 4 (30.77%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 2 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (76.92%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (61.54%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (46.15%) Collaborative Culture
3 6 (46.15%) DevOps
3 6 (46.15%) High Availability
3 6 (46.15%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
4 4 (30.77%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
4 4 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (30.77%) Data Centre Operations
4 4 (30.77%) IT Strategy
4 4 (30.77%) ITIL
4 4 (30.77%) Line Management
4 4 (30.77%) Network Management
4 4 (30.77%) Project Delivery
4 4 (30.77%) Project Management
4 4 (30.77%) Release Management
4 4 (30.77%) Server Management
4 4 (30.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
3 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 2 (15.38%) C#
4 2 (15.38%) T-SQL
5 1 (7.69%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) Azure Certification
2 4 (30.77%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (30.77%) Degree
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) QA
2 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
1 4 (30.77%) Hyper-V
1 4 (30.77%) pfSense
1 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) BroadSoft
2 4 (30.77%) Brocade
2 4 (30.77%) Cisco
2 4 (30.77%) Dell
2 4 (30.77%) Dell Compellent
2 4 (30.77%) Fortinet
2 4 (30.77%) QNAP
2 4 (30.77%) Ubiquiti
2 4 (30.77%) Veeam
2 4 (30.77%) VMware
2 4 (30.77%) Zerto
3 2 (15.38%) Adobe