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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 182 -
Rank change year-on-year +25 - -
Permanent jobs citing VMS 2 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.048% 0.057% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.49% 0.34% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £82,500 £41,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £42,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% - -
75th Percentile £87,500 £43,750 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £65,000 £56,509 £57,500
% change year-on-year +15.03% -1.72% +2.68%

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 409 588 452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 9.78% 16.67% 18.55%
Number of salaries quoted 301 332 337
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,750 £30,000 £28,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% -12.09%
75th Percentile £52,750 £57,647 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £44,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -4.76%

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
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 14 January 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
Hertfordshire +10 2 £85,000 +100.00% 3
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform