VMS Job Trends in London

VMS
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring VMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 376 466
Rank change year-on-year +10 +90 +60
Permanent jobs citing VMS 40 13 48
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.19% 0.11% 0.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.74% 0.84% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 22 10 28
10th Percentile - £64,800 £50,875
25th Percentile £77,500 £67,188 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £72,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.79% +26.09% +51.82%
75th Percentile £120,000 £89,688 £102,500
90th Percentile - £92,375 £167,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +21.74% +21.05%

All Operating Systems
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,460 1,556 2,949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 6.88% 12.86% 12.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,034 1,132 2,253
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,275 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £110,000 £105,000
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 London

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

VMS job vacancy trend in London

VMS
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing VMS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing VMS

VMS
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMS in London over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Salary histogram for VMS in London

VMS
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the London region over the 6 months to 7 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
South London - 8 £80,000 -
West London - 4 £85,000 -
Central London +3 2 £80,000 +12.28% 4
VMS
England

VMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 3 (7.50%) Apache
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 36 (90.00%) Azure
2 30 (75.00%) Azure Monitor
3 18 (45.00%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (45.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 15 (37.50%) Entra ID
5 12 (30.00%) Azure Functions
5 12 (30.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 12 (30.00%) Power Platform
5 12 (30.00%) SaaS
5 12 (30.00%) Serverless
6 10 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
7 8 (20.00%) Azure AKS
7 8 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 8 (20.00%) Datadog
7 8 (20.00%) GitHub
7 8 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (15.00%) Azure Storage
9 5 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (10.00%) AWS
11 3 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 17 (42.50%) Firewall
2 13 (32.50%) VPN
3 8 (20.00%) WAN
4 3 (7.50%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (2.50%) DHCP
5 1 (2.50%) DNS
5 1 (2.50%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (40.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (30.00%) Power BI
2 12 (30.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (15.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (7.50%) Git
General
1 9 (22.50%) Finance
2 3 (7.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 30 (75.00%) Azure Engineer
2 18 (45.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 18 (45.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (27.50%) Senior
4 10 (25.00%) Support Engineer
5 9 (22.50%) Senior Support Engineer
6 8 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 8 (20.00%) Reliability Engineer
6 8 (20.00%) Senior Reliability Engineer
7 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (12.50%) Principal DevOps Engineer
7 5 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
8 4 (10.00%) Lead
8 4 (10.00%) Support Team Leader
8 4 (10.00%) Team Leader
9 3 (7.50%) Site Engineer
9 3 (7.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 2 (5.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 1 (2.50%) 2nd Line Support
11 1 (2.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (45.00%) ADO
1 18 (45.00%) YAML
2 12 (30.00%) .NET
2 12 (30.00%) .NET Core
3 8 (20.00%) OAuth
3 8 (20.00%) SAML
4 5 (12.50%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.50%) Windows
2 3 (7.50%) Linux
2 3 (7.50%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.50%) Android
3 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (75.00%) Analytics
1 30 (75.00%) Log Analytics
2 20 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 19 (47.50%) CI/CD
4 18 (45.00%) DevOps
5 16 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
6 12 (30.00%) Capacity Planning
6 12 (30.00%) Cloud Operations
6 12 (30.00%) MVC
6 12 (30.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 12 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 10 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (22.50%) Zero Trust
9 8 (20.00%) Cost Management
9 8 (20.00%) Incident Response
9 8 (20.00%) Observability
9 8 (20.00%) RBAC
9 8 (20.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 30 (75.00%) SQL
2 25 (62.50%) PowerShell
3 20 (50.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 12 (30.00%) C#
5 3 (7.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (17.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 3 (7.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.00%) GDPR
1 8 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (20.00%) SOC 2
2 6 (15.00%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (45.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (7.50%) Docker
4 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (30.00%) Terraform
2 11 (27.50%) Ansible
3 3 (7.50%) Argo
3 3 (7.50%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (7.50%) Grafana
3 3 (7.50%) Istio
3 3 (7.50%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.50%) linkerd
3 3 (7.50%) Mesos
3 3 (7.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 8 (20.00%) Zscaler
3 1 (2.50%) Cisco
3 1 (2.50%) Meraki
3 1 (2.50%) VMware