VMS Job Trends in the East of England

VMS
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring VMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 165 207
Rank change year-on-year -14 +42 +10
Permanent jobs citing VMS 7 8 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.11% 0.26% 0.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.61% 2.25% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3 8 13
10th Percentile £61,500 £36,300 -
25th Percentile £63,750 £41,438 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £45,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -21.74% -
75th Percentile £96,250 £47,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £104,500 - -
England median annual salary £70,000 £63,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% +9.57% +21.05%

All Operating Systems
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 434 355 1,145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 6.93% 11.64% 16.54%
Number of salaries quoted 357 277 968
10th Percentile £26,621 £27,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £62,500 £58,086 £57,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £70,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -14.29%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

VMS job vacancy trend in the East of England

VMS
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing VMS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing VMS

VMS
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMS in the East of England over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Salary histogram for VMS in the East of England

VMS
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the East of England region over the 6 months to 17 June 2026. 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
Cambridgeshire - 4 - - 1
Essex -18 1 £100,000 +122.22% 1
Hertfordshire -20 1 £60,000 +79.10% 1
Bedfordshire - 1 £75,000 - 1
VMS
England

VMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Entra ID
2 4 (57.14%) IaaS
2 4 (57.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) DHCP
1 4 (57.14%) DNS
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
1 4 (57.14%) TCP/IP
1 4 (57.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (28.57%) Finance
4 1 (14.29%) Legal
4 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Consultant
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Sales Director
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
1 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC 5
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) Entity Framework
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
1 4 (57.14%) Windows Server
1 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) AI
1 4 (57.14%) Capacity Management
1 4 (57.14%) Change Management
1 4 (57.14%) Cost Management
1 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (57.14%) ITIL
1 4 (57.14%) Performance Tuning
1 4 (57.14%) Proactive Maintenance
1 4 (57.14%) Project Delivery
1 4 (57.14%) Root Cause Analysis
1 4 (57.14%) Runbook
1 4 (57.14%) Server Building
1 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (14.29%) Lead Generation
2 1 (14.29%) Market Segmentation
2 1 (14.29%) SOLID
2 1 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Azure Certification
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (57.14%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
1 4 (57.14%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (57.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 4 (57.14%) SolarWinds Orion
1 4 (57.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
1 4 (57.14%) SolarWinds
1 4 (57.14%) VMware