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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 632 604 728
Rank change year-on-year -28 +124 +158
Permanent jobs citing VMS 53 244 169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.27% 0.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.79% 1.94% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 36 180 105
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £35,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% +21.05% -31.16%
75th Percentile £73,750 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £78,750 £81,500
UK median annual salary £62,750 £57,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +9.13% +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 6,714 12,557 14,010
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.71% 14.03% 16.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3,914 9,806 9,542
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,759 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,110 £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 £72,188
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £93,750
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 30 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 30 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 +73 20 £72,500 +26.09% 77
West Midlands +62 18 £72,500 +26.09% 41
London +56 13 £81,250 +41.30% 45
East of England +41 8 £45,000 -21.74% 70
South East +49 7 £57,500 - 100
Yorkshire +51 4 £48,000 -16.52% 35
North of England +2 4 £48,000 -16.52% 84
East Midlands +29 2 £80,000 +39.13% 32
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 16 (30.19%) Confluence
2 3 (5.66%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.77%) nginx
3 2 (3.77%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.89%) IIS
4 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (9.43%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 29 (54.72%) Azure
2 22 (41.51%) AWS
3 18 (33.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 18 (33.96%) Amazon EC2
3 18 (33.96%) Amazon ELB
3 18 (33.96%) Amazon S3
3 18 (33.96%) AWS KMS
3 18 (33.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 16 (30.19%) Amazon Glacier
4 16 (30.19%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (15.09%) Entra ID
6 6 (11.32%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (11.32%) Azure Storage
7 5 (9.43%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (7.55%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (7.55%) GitHub
8 4 (7.55%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (7.55%) PaaS
8 4 (7.55%) SaaS
8 4 (7.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (37.74%) Firewall
2 17 (32.08%) DNS
3 7 (13.21%) DHCP
3 7 (13.21%) FTP
3 7 (13.21%) HTTP
3 7 (13.21%) SMTP
3 7 (13.21%) SSH
3 7 (13.21%) TCP/IP
4 6 (11.32%) Wireless
4 6 (11.32%) Wireless Security
5 5 (9.43%) VPN
6 4 (7.55%) Network Security
7 3 (5.66%) SSL
8 2 (3.77%) IMAP
8 2 (3.77%) LAN
8 2 (3.77%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (3.77%) OpenVPN
8 2 (3.77%) WAN
9 1 (1.89%) VLAN
9 1 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (33.96%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (5.66%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.77%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (37.74%) Git
2 18 (33.96%) Jenkins
2 18 (33.96%) JIRA
2 18 (33.96%) Vagrant
3 5 (9.43%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (5.66%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (3.77%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.89%) GitLab
6 1 (1.89%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 11 (20.75%) Public Sector
2 8 (15.09%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.43%) Finance
4 4 (7.55%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.77%) Aerospace
6 2 (3.77%) Electronics
6 2 (3.77%) Legal
6 2 (3.77%) Military
6 2 (3.77%) Retail
6 2 (3.77%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.89%) Aviation
7 1 (1.89%) Front Office
7 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.89%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 15 (28.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (24.53%) Support Engineer
3 12 (22.64%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (16.98%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (15.09%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (15.09%) Systems Engineer
6 7 (13.21%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 7 (13.21%) 3rd Line Support
6 7 (13.21%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 7 (13.21%) Administrator
6 7 (13.21%) Senior
6 7 (13.21%) Systems Administrator
7 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure Support
7 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 6 (11.32%) Systems Support
7 6 (11.32%) Systems Support Engineer
8 5 (9.43%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (9.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (9.43%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (7.55%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.66%) Pandas
1 3 (5.66%) scikit-learn
2 2 (3.77%) Anaconda
2 2 (3.77%) Azure Blueprints
2 2 (3.77%) LDAP
3 1 (1.89%) .NET
3 1 (1.89%) RESTful
3 1 (1.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.75%) Replication
2 3 (5.66%) CCTV
2 3 (5.66%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.77%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.77%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.89%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.89%) IoT
4 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.89%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.89%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 30 (56.60%) Windows
2 26 (49.06%) Linux
3 8 (15.09%) Amazon Linux
3 8 (15.09%) Windows Server
4 5 (9.43%) Ubuntu
5 3 (5.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (3.77%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.89%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (60.38%) DevOps
2 22 (41.51%) Cloud Security
3 20 (37.74%) Configuration Management
4 15 (28.30%) Change Management
5 13 (24.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (22.64%) Patch Management
7 11 (20.75%) CI/CD
7 11 (20.75%) Platform Engineering
8 9 (16.98%) Agile
9 7 (13.21%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (13.21%) Network Virtualisation
9 7 (13.21%) Project Management
10 6 (11.32%) Incident Response
10 6 (11.32%) Software Engineering
10 6 (11.32%) Storage Management
11 4 (7.55%) Capacity Management
11 4 (7.55%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (7.55%) Disaster Recovery
11 4 (7.55%) ITIL
11 4 (7.55%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 34 (64.15%) PowerShell
2 26 (49.06%) Python
3 17 (32.08%) Groovy
4 11 (20.75%) Java
4 11 (20.75%) Perl
5 8 (15.09%) Bash
5 8 (15.09%) SQL
6 5 (9.43%) Shell Script
7 3 (5.66%) Ruby
8 2 (3.77%) Bicep
8 2 (3.77%) C#
8 2 (3.77%) C++
8 2 (3.77%) R
9 1 (1.89%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (28.30%) Security Cleared
2 14 (26.42%) SC Cleared
3 11 (20.75%) Degree
4 8 (15.09%) Azure Certification
5 6 (11.32%) AWS Certification
6 3 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (3.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (3.77%) CCSP
7 2 (3.77%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (3.77%) CISSP
7 2 (3.77%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (3.77%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.55%) GDPR
2 3 (5.66%) NIST
3 2 (3.77%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.89%) PSD2
System Software
1 34 (64.15%) Active Directory
2 14 (26.42%) Docker
3 12 (22.64%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (20.75%) DFS Replication
5 6 (11.32%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (9.43%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (3.77%) Dovecot
7 2 (3.77%) Hyper-V
7 2 (3.77%) Postfix
7 2 (3.77%) Squid
7 2 (3.77%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (60.38%) Terraform
2 15 (28.30%) Grafana
2 15 (28.30%) Prometheus
3 13 (24.53%) Ansible
4 11 (20.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (18.87%) Kubernetes
6 5 (9.43%) Nessus
6 5 (9.43%) Proxmox
7 4 (7.55%) Packer
8 3 (5.66%) Nagios
9 2 (3.77%) CASB
9 2 (3.77%) Istio
9 2 (3.77%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (3.77%) linkerd
9 2 (3.77%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (1.89%) Consul
10 1 (1.89%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.89%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (28.30%) Microsoft
1 15 (28.30%) ServiceNow
2 10 (18.87%) Juniper
3 6 (11.32%) VMware
4 4 (7.55%) Google
5 3 (5.66%) Citrix
5 3 (5.66%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.77%) Atlassian
6 2 (3.77%) Cisco
6 2 (3.77%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (3.77%) Meraki
7 1 (1.89%) NVIDIA
7 1 (1.89%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.89%) SolarWinds