VMS Job Trends in the East Midlands

VMS
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring VMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 126 -
Rank change year-on-year -10 - -
Permanent jobs citing VMS 1 4 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.040% 0.17% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.47% 1.15% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £36,750 -
25th Percentile £51,250 £37,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £42,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% - -
75th Percentile £53,750 £64,375 -
90th Percentile - £75,250 -
England median annual salary £65,000 £57,004 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.03% +3.64% -1.79%

All Operating Systems
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 214 349 268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.49% 15.17% 16.51%
Number of salaries quoted 176 153 221
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,150 £25,750
25th Percentile £26,250 £28,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £35,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -26.32% +2.70%
75th Percentile £42,500 £53,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £53,188 £62,500 £65,000
England median annual salary £43,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.00% - -4.76%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

VMS job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

VMS
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing VMS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing VMS

VMS
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. 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
Leicestershire - 1 £52,500 -
VMS
England

VMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) IT Audit
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware