VMS Jobs in the Midlands

VMS
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 224 299 300
Rank change year-on-year +75 +1 +53
Permanent jobs citing VMS 28 39 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.42% 0.27% 0.11%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.23% 2.16% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 15 32 6
10th Percentile - £34,226 £26,000
25th Percentile £71,250 £50,625 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £57,500 £38,750
Median % change year-on-year +26.09% +48.39% -33.76%
75th Percentile £73,750 £61,250 £50,313
90th Percentile - £88,750 £68,750
England median annual salary £57,000 £57,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -0.87% +21.05% -29.10%

All Operating Systems
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 866 1,809 1,227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.87% 12.66% 14.46%
Number of salaries quoted 627 1,336 816
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,925 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% -

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for VMS in the Midlands

VMS
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for VMS in the Midlands

VMS
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 June 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
West Midlands +84 27 £72,500 +26.09% 32
East Midlands +27 1 - - 26
VMS
England

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 24 (85.71%) Confluence
2 3 (10.71%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 27 (96.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 27 (96.43%) Amazon EC2
1 27 (96.43%) Amazon ELB
1 27 (96.43%) Amazon S3
1 27 (96.43%) AWS
1 27 (96.43%) AWS KMS
1 27 (96.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 24 (85.71%) Amazon Glacier
3 6 (21.43%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (17.86%) Azure
5 3 (10.71%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 3 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (10.71%) Route 53
5 3 (10.71%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 26 (92.86%) Firewall
2 11 (39.29%) DNS
3 10 (35.71%) FTP
3 10 (35.71%) HTTP
3 10 (35.71%) SMTP
3 10 (35.71%) SSH
4 3 (10.71%) IMAP
4 3 (10.71%) OpenLDAP
4 3 (10.71%) SSL
5 1 (3.57%) 4G
5 1 (3.57%) 5G
5 1 (3.57%) VPN
5 1 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (96.43%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (10.71%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (96.43%) Vagrant
2 26 (92.86%) Jenkins
3 24 (85.71%) Git
3 24 (85.71%) JIRA
4 6 (21.43%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (10.71%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 18 (64.29%) Public Sector
2 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 6 (21.43%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 13 (46.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (42.86%) AWS Engineer
2 12 (42.86%) Infrastructure Support
2 12 (42.86%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 12 (42.86%) Support Engineer
3 10 (35.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (28.57%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (10.71%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 3 (10.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 3 (10.71%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 3 (10.71%) Linux Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Graduate
8 1 (3.57%) Graduate Technical Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (64.29%) Replication
2 1 (3.57%) CCTV
2 1 (3.57%) IoT
2 1 (3.57%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 27 (96.43%) Linux
2 22 (78.57%) Windows
3 11 (39.29%) Amazon Linux
4 6 (21.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (96.43%) Cloud Security
1 27 (96.43%) Configuration Management
1 27 (96.43%) DevOps
2 24 (85.71%) Change Management
3 13 (46.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (46.43%) Patch Management
4 12 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
5 6 (21.43%) Agile
6 3 (10.71%) Asset Management
6 3 (10.71%) Capacity Management
6 3 (10.71%) CI/CD
6 3 (10.71%) Key Management
6 3 (10.71%) Log Aggregation
6 3 (10.71%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (10.71%) Server Management
6 3 (10.71%) Validation
7 2 (7.14%) Servant Leadership
7 2 (7.14%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 2 (7.14%) Workshop Facilitation
8 1 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 27 (96.43%) Python
2 26 (92.86%) Groovy
3 24 (85.71%) PowerShell
4 11 (39.29%) Java
4 11 (39.29%) Perl
5 3 (10.71%) Ruby
5 3 (10.71%) Shell Script
5 3 (10.71%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (82.14%) SC Cleared
1 23 (82.14%) Security Cleared
2 6 (21.43%) Degree
3 5 (17.86%) AWS Certification
3 5 (17.86%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 23 (82.14%) Active Directory
2 18 (64.29%) DFS Replication
3 14 (50.00%) Docker
4 3 (10.71%) Dovecot
4 3 (10.71%) Postfix
4 3 (10.71%) Squid
4 3 (10.71%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (10.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (96.43%) Terraform
2 24 (85.71%) Grafana
2 24 (85.71%) Prometheus
3 16 (57.14%) Ansible
4 6 (21.43%) Nessus
4 6 (21.43%) Proxmox
5 3 (10.71%) Nagios
Vendors
1 24 (85.71%) ServiceNow
2 16 (57.14%) Juniper
3 3 (10.71%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (3.57%) NVIDIA