VMS Jobs in Birmingham

VMS
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring VMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited VMS over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 135 128
Rank change year-on-year +44 -7 +53
Permanent jobs citing VMS 12 10 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.91% 0.35% 0.32%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.90% 3.60% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 6 9 5
10th Percentile - £55,750 £28,100
25th Percentile £71,250 £56,250 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.09% +15.00% -31.27%
75th Percentile £73,750 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £72,500 £57,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +26.09% +35.29% -41.58%

All Operating Systems
Birmingham

VMS falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 174 278 238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.20% 9.62% 12.69%
Number of salaries quoted 120 225 202
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,750 £23,750
25th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £29,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,550 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.24% -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £71,835 £75,000 £76,150
West Midlands median annual salary £36,925 £37,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -1.53% -16.67% -

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing VMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for VMS in Birmingham

VMS
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VMS in Birmingham.

Salary trend for VMS in Birmingham

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (75.00%) Confluence
2 2 (16.67%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 12 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 12 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 12 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
1 12 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 12 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 10 (83.33%) Amazon Glacier
3 5 (41.67%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 3 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (25.00%) Serverless
5 2 (16.67%) Azure
5 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (16.67%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 12 (100.00%) Firewall
2 5 (41.67%) DNS
2 5 (41.67%) FTP
2 5 (41.67%) HTTP
2 5 (41.67%) SMTP
2 5 (41.67%) SSH
3 3 (25.00%) SSL
4 2 (16.67%) IMAP
4 2 (16.67%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 12 (100.00%) Vagrant
2 9 (75.00%) Git
2 9 (75.00%) JIRA
3 3 (25.00%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Support Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (75.00%) Windows
3 5 (41.67%) Amazon Linux
3 5 (41.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 12 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (75.00%) Change Management
3 8 (66.67%) Patch Management
3 8 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (33.33%) Agile
4 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Capacity Management
5 3 (25.00%) Key Management
5 3 (25.00%) Server Management
6 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
7 1 (8.33%) Asset Management
7 1 (8.33%) Log Aggregation
7 1 (8.33%) Validation
7 1 (8.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Groovy
1 12 (100.00%) Python
2 9 (75.00%) PowerShell
3 6 (50.00%) Java
3 6 (50.00%) Perl
4 3 (25.00%) Ruby
4 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
5 2 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 10 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 8 (66.67%) Docker
3 6 (50.00%) DFS Replication
4 3 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (16.67%) Dovecot
5 2 (16.67%) Postfix
5 2 (16.67%) Squid
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Terraform
2 9 (75.00%) Grafana
2 9 (75.00%) Prometheus
3 7 (58.33%) Ansible
4 5 (41.67%) Nessus
4 5 (41.67%) Proxmox
5 3 (25.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) ServiceNow
2 7 (58.33%) Juniper
3 2 (16.67%) Jaspersoft