VMS Jobs with Work from Home Options

VMS
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 441 576 781
Rank change year-on-year +135 +205 -244
Permanent jobs citing VMS 152 87 71
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.45% 0.21% 0.10%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.25% 1.35% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 99 71 49
10th Percentile - £31,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £32,500 £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -23.33% +42.86%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £84,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £69,000
% change year-on-year +21.05% -31.16% +38.00%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,675 6,434 12,202
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.81% 15.47% 17.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3,625 4,713 7,444
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,800 £30,487
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £73,675
90th Percentile £82,500 £93,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

VMS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing VMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

VMS trend for jobs with a WFH option

VMS
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing VMS.

VMS salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

VMS
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing VMS over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

VMS salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (5.92%) IIS
2 4 (2.63%) CMS
2 4 (2.63%) Umbraco
3 3 (1.97%) CloudStack
4 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.66%) JBoss
5 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.66%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 100 (65.79%) Azure
2 76 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 11 (7.24%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (4.61%) Entra ID
5 6 (3.95%) AWS
6 5 (3.29%) GitHub
7 4 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (2.63%) IaaS
7 4 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.63%) PaaS
7 4 (2.63%) SaaS
8 3 (1.97%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.97%) OCI
8 3 (1.97%) Serverless
9 2 (1.32%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.32%) GCP
9 2 (1.32%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.66%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.66%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 74 (48.68%) Broadband
2 44 (28.95%) Firewall
3 39 (25.66%) VPN
4 37 (24.34%) Internet
4 37 (24.34%) LAN
4 37 (24.34%) WAN
5 14 (9.21%) Network Security
6 10 (6.58%) DNS
7 3 (1.97%) iSCSI
8 2 (1.32%) BGP
8 2 (1.32%) DHCP
8 2 (1.32%) IPsec
8 2 (1.32%) OSPF
9 1 (0.66%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (56.58%) SQL Server
2 77 (50.66%) Azure SQL Database
3 74 (48.68%) Power BI
4 2 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.66%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (3.29%) Octopus Deploy
1 5 (3.29%) TeamCity
2 4 (2.63%) Git
3 2 (1.32%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.66%) GitLab
General
1 117 (76.97%) Social Skills
2 37 (24.34%) Retail
3 12 (7.89%) Games
4 6 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.29%) Finance
5 5 (3.29%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.97%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.97%) Marketing
7 2 (1.32%) Advertising
7 2 (1.32%) Electronics
7 2 (1.32%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.66%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (0.66%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 74 (48.68%) DBA
1 74 (48.68%) SQL DBA
2 25 (16.45%) Architect
3 24 (15.79%) Infrastructure Architect
4 22 (14.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 15 (9.87%) Azure Engineer
6 13 (8.55%) Senior
6 13 (8.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (7.89%) Analyst
7 12 (7.89%) Vulnerability Analyst
8 8 (5.26%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (3.95%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.29%) Lead
11 4 (2.63%) Cloud Engineer
11 4 (2.63%) Lead DevOps
11 4 (2.63%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 4 (2.63%) Operations Engineer
12 3 (1.97%) Developer
13 2 (1.32%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.92%) .NET
2 3 (1.97%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.32%) HTML
3 2 (1.32%) JSON
3 2 (1.32%) LDAP
3 2 (1.32%) YAML
4 1 (0.66%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.66%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.66%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.66%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (0.66%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (0.66%) CSS
4 1 (0.66%) Entity Framework
4 1 (0.66%) jQuery
4 1 (0.66%) RESTful
4 1 (0.66%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 1 (0.66%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.89%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (3.29%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (1.32%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.32%) PKI
4 2 (1.32%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.66%) Blog
5 1 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.66%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.66%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.66%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 68 (44.74%) Windows
2 46 (30.26%) Linux
3 37 (24.34%) Ubuntu
4 13 (8.55%) Unix
5 8 (5.26%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.97%) SUSE
6 3 (1.97%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.66%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (55.26%) High Availability
2 78 (51.32%) Performance Tuning
3 77 (50.66%) Collaborative Working
4 76 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 76 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 46 (30.26%) Actionable Insight
6 42 (27.63%) Collaborative Culture
7 40 (26.32%) Agile
8 38 (25.00%) DevSecOps
9 37 (24.34%) Application Security
10 23 (15.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 19 (12.50%) DevOps
12 13 (8.55%) Change Management
13 12 (7.89%) Change Advisory Board
13 12 (7.89%) CI/CD
13 12 (7.89%) Cybersecurity
13 12 (7.89%) Vulnerability Management
13 12 (7.89%) Vulnerability Remediation
14 11 (7.24%) Problem-Solving
15 8 (5.26%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 81 (53.29%) SQL
2 75 (49.34%) T-SQL
3 12 (7.89%) PowerShell
4 5 (3.29%) Python
5 4 (2.63%) C#
5 4 (2.63%) Go
6 3 (1.97%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.97%) Perl
7 2 (1.32%) Bash
7 2 (1.32%) Bicep
7 2 (1.32%) Java
8 1 (0.66%) Ruby
8 1 (0.66%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 75 (49.34%) Microsoft Certification
2 49 (32.24%) Security Cleared
3 34 (22.37%) DV Cleared
4 12 (7.89%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.95%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.63%) Degree
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.66%) HNC
7 1 (0.66%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.63%) QA
2 3 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.32%) SLA
System Software
1 80 (52.63%) Virtual Machines
2 45 (29.61%) Active Directory
3 9 (5.92%) Docker
4 3 (1.97%) Ceph
4 3 (1.97%) Gluster
4 3 (1.97%) KVM
4 3 (1.97%) oVirt
5 2 (1.32%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 43 (28.29%) Terraform
2 41 (26.97%) Ansible
3 14 (9.21%) WSUS
4 13 (8.55%) Kubernetes
5 12 (7.89%) SCCM
6 4 (2.63%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.97%) Grafana
7 3 (1.97%) Graylog
7 3 (1.97%) Observium
7 3 (1.97%) Puppet
7 3 (1.97%) ZABBIX
8 2 (1.32%) Nessus
8 2 (1.32%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 86 (56.58%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.89%) Apple
3 4 (2.63%) Oracle
4 3 (1.97%) SAP
5 2 (1.32%) Cisco
5 2 (1.32%) Dell
5 2 (1.32%) Juniper
5 2 (1.32%) SolarWinds
5 2 (1.32%) VMware
6 1 (0.66%) BMC
6 1 (0.66%) Databricks
6 1 (0.66%) Freshdesk
6 1 (0.66%) Google
6 1 (0.66%) Remedy
6 1 (0.66%) Vermilion