VMS Job Trends in Cardiff

VMS
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring VMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 - 61
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing VMS 2 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff 0.23% - 0.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 4.55% - 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 - £32,000
South Wales median annual salary £35,000 - £38,500

All Operating Systems
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 44 15 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 5.10% 5.81% 10.11%
Number of salaries quoted 35 13 53
10th Percentile £25,000 - £23,750
25th Percentile £35,500 £37,170 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £41,067
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +15.66% -2.80%
75th Percentile £54,875 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £69,798 £70,000
South Wales median annual salary £40,000 £50,250 £41,067
% change year-on-year -20.40% +22.36% +3.97%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VMS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cardiff.

VMS job vacancy trend in Cardiff

VMS
Salary Trend in Cardiff

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing VMS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing VMS

VMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 2 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) 3rd Line Technical Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) 3rd Line Technical Support
1 2 (100.00%) Support Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Support
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 2 (100.00%) Major Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) MaaS360
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Apple
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft