VMS Jobs in England

VMS
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 639 591 745
Rank change year-on-year -48 +154 +129
Permanent jobs citing VMS 54 237 178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.27% 0.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.78% 1.90% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 38 176 112
10th Percentile £40,350 £38,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,938 £36,038
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +21.05% -32.14%
75th Percentile £73,750 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £78,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +21.05% -31.16%

All Operating Systems
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 6,956 12,487 14,270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.03% 14.45% 16.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4,146 9,837 9,792
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,760 £26,762
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for VMS in England

VMS
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for VMS in England

VMS
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMS in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for VMS in England

VMS
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the England region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Midlands +50 16 £72,500 +26.09% 13
London +61 15 £75,000 +30.43% 45
West Midlands +48 13 £72,500 +26.09% 7
East of England +34 9 £45,000 -21.74% 19
South East +52 8 £52,500 -8.70% 23
North of England -3 5 £65,000 +13.04% 11
Yorkshire +57 4 £48,000 -16.52% 5
East Midlands +9 3 £80,000 +39.13% 6
North West -35 1 £67,500 +17.39% 6
VMS
UK

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 11 (20.37%) Confluence
2 5 (9.26%) SharePoint
3 3 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.85%) IIS
4 1 (1.85%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (7.41%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 34 (62.96%) Azure
2 20 (37.04%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (33.33%) AWS
4 13 (24.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 13 (24.07%) Amazon EC2
4 13 (24.07%) Amazon ELB
4 13 (24.07%) Amazon S3
4 13 (24.07%) AWS KMS
4 13 (24.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 12 (22.22%) Amazon Glacier
5 12 (22.22%) Entra ID
6 7 (12.96%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (11.11%) Azure Storage
8 5 (9.26%) GitHub
9 4 (7.41%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (7.41%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (7.41%) GCP
9 4 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (7.41%) PaaS
9 4 (7.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (35.19%) Firewall
2 18 (33.33%) DNS
3 8 (14.81%) VPN
4 7 (12.96%) DHCP
4 7 (12.96%) Network Security
4 7 (12.96%) TCP/IP
5 6 (11.11%) WAN
5 6 (11.11%) Wireless
5 6 (11.11%) Wireless Security
6 5 (9.26%) FTP
6 5 (9.26%) HTTP
6 5 (9.26%) SMTP
6 5 (9.26%) SSH
7 4 (7.41%) 4G
7 4 (7.41%) LAN
7 4 (7.41%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (5.56%) SSL
8 3 (5.56%) VLAN
9 2 (3.70%) LLU
9 2 (3.70%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (24.07%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (9.26%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (27.78%) Git
2 13 (24.07%) Jenkins
2 13 (24.07%) JIRA
2 13 (24.07%) Vagrant
3 5 (9.26%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (5.56%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (3.70%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.85%) GitLab
6 1 (1.85%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 8 (14.81%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 5 (9.26%) Finance
4 4 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.56%) Electronics
5 3 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.70%) Aerospace
6 2 (3.70%) Legal
6 2 (3.70%) Military
6 2 (3.70%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.85%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 13 (24.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (20.37%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (18.52%) Support Engineer
4 9 (16.67%) Senior
5 8 (14.81%) Administrator
5 8 (14.81%) Systems Administrator
5 8 (14.81%) Systems Engineer
6 7 (12.96%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 7 (12.96%) 3rd Line Support
6 7 (12.96%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 7 (12.96%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (11.11%) Lead
7 6 (11.11%) Systems Support
7 6 (11.11%) Systems Support Engineer
8 5 (9.26%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (7.41%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (7.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 4 (7.41%) Security Engineer
9 4 (7.41%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.56%) Azure Blueprints
1 3 (5.56%) Pandas
1 3 (5.56%) scikit-learn
2 2 (3.70%) Anaconda
3 1 (1.85%) .NET
3 1 (1.85%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.85%) LDAP
3 1 (1.85%) RESTful
3 1 (1.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.96%) Replication
2 3 (5.56%) CCTV
2 3 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.56%) Security Posture
3 2 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.70%) IoT
3 2 (3.70%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (3.70%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (1.85%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (57.41%) Windows
2 23 (42.59%) Linux
3 10 (18.52%) Windows Server
4 6 (11.11%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (7.41%) Ubuntu
6 3 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (3.70%) Apple iOS
7 2 (3.70%) Mac OS
7 2 (3.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (53.70%) DevOps
2 18 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 15 (27.78%) Configuration Management
4 12 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 11 (20.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (18.52%) Change Management
6 10 (18.52%) Patch Management
7 9 (16.67%) Incident Response
7 9 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
8 8 (14.81%) Agile
8 8 (14.81%) Project Management
9 7 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (12.96%) Network Virtualisation
10 6 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (11.11%) ITIL
10 6 (11.11%) Software Engineering
10 6 (11.11%) Storage Management
11 5 (9.26%) Mentoring
12 4 (7.41%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 30 (55.56%) PowerShell
2 22 (40.74%) Python
3 12 (22.22%) Groovy
4 10 (18.52%) Java
4 10 (18.52%) Perl
5 9 (16.67%) Bash
5 9 (16.67%) SQL
6 5 (9.26%) Shell Script
7 3 (5.56%) Bicep
7 3 (5.56%) Ruby
8 2 (3.70%) C#
8 2 (3.70%) C++
8 2 (3.70%) R
9 1 (1.85%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (16.67%) Degree
1 9 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 9 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.96%) Azure Certification
3 6 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 5 (9.26%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (5.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (5.56%) CCSP
5 3 (5.56%) CISSP
5 3 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.70%) CCNA
6 2 (3.70%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (3.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.26%) GDPR
2 4 (7.41%) NIST
3 3 (5.56%) PCI DSS
3 3 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.85%) PSD2
System Software
1 35 (64.81%) Active Directory
2 12 (22.22%) Docker
2 12 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (12.96%) DFS Replication
3 7 (12.96%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (9.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (5.56%) Hyper-V
6 2 (3.70%) pfSense
6 2 (3.70%) vSphere
7 1 (1.85%) Dovecot
7 1 (1.85%) Postfix
7 1 (1.85%) Squid
Systems Management
1 28 (51.85%) Terraform
2 14 (25.93%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (20.37%) Kubernetes
4 10 (18.52%) Ansible
4 10 (18.52%) Grafana
4 10 (18.52%) Prometheus
5 4 (7.41%) Nessus
5 4 (7.41%) Packer
5 4 (7.41%) Proxmox
6 3 (5.56%) CASB
6 3 (5.56%) Istio
6 3 (5.56%) linkerd
6 3 (5.56%) Nagios
7 2 (3.70%) cPanel
7 2 (3.70%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.85%) Consul
8 1 (1.85%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 19 (35.19%) Microsoft
2 10 (18.52%) ServiceNow
3 7 (12.96%) Juniper
4 6 (11.11%) VMware
5 5 (9.26%) Google
6 4 (7.41%) Cisco
7 3 (5.56%) Citrix
7 3 (5.56%) Red Hat
8 2 (3.70%) Atlassian
8 2 (3.70%) Draytek
8 2 (3.70%) Meraki
8 2 (3.70%) NVIDIA
9 1 (1.85%) Jaspersoft
9 1 (1.85%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.85%) SolarWinds