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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 238 292 298
Rank change year-on-year +54 +6 +51
Permanent jobs citing VMS 22 33 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.32% 0.26% 0.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.42% 1.99% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 9 30 7
10th Percentile - £33,801 £26,300
25th Percentile £71,250 £52,813 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £57,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.09% +35.29% -27.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £61,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,500 £88,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £57,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +17.39% +21.05% -31.16%

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 909 1,659 1,256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.15% 12.90% 14.35%
Number of salaries quoted 589 1,333 813
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,500 £25,100
25th Percentile £29,250 £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 £48,750 £53,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -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 31 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
West Midlands +62 20 £72,500 +26.09% 10
East Midlands +26 2 £80,000 +39.13% 4
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 17 (77.27%) Confluence
2 3 (13.64%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 21 (95.45%) AWS
2 20 (90.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 20 (90.91%) Amazon EC2
2 20 (90.91%) Amazon ELB
2 20 (90.91%) Amazon S3
2 20 (90.91%) AWS KMS
2 20 (90.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 17 (77.27%) Amazon Glacier
4 6 (27.27%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (22.73%) Azure
6 3 (13.64%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 3 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (13.64%) Route 53
6 3 (13.64%) Serverless
7 1 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (4.55%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 19 (86.36%) Firewall
2 9 (40.91%) DNS
3 8 (36.36%) FTP
3 8 (36.36%) HTTP
3 8 (36.36%) SMTP
3 8 (36.36%) SSH
4 3 (13.64%) IMAP
4 3 (13.64%) OpenLDAP
4 3 (13.64%) SSL
5 1 (4.55%) 4G
5 1 (4.55%) 5G
5 1 (4.55%) VPN
5 1 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (90.91%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (13.64%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 20 (90.91%) Jenkins
1 20 (90.91%) Vagrant
2 17 (77.27%) Git
2 17 (77.27%) JIRA
3 6 (27.27%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (13.64%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (4.55%) GitLab
General
1 11 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 6 (27.27%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) AWS Engineer
2 9 (40.91%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure Support
4 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 7 (31.82%) Platform Engineer
4 7 (31.82%) Support Engineer
5 5 (22.73%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (22.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 5 (22.73%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Graduate
7 1 (4.55%) Graduate Technical Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) LDAP
2 1 (4.55%) RESTful
2 1 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (59.09%) Replication
2 1 (4.55%) CCTV
2 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) IoT
2 1 (4.55%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 20 (90.91%) Linux
2 17 (77.27%) Windows
3 9 (40.91%) Amazon Linux
4 6 (27.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (95.45%) DevOps
2 20 (90.91%) Cloud Security
2 20 (90.91%) Configuration Management
3 17 (77.27%) Change Management
4 11 (50.00%) Patch Management
5 10 (45.45%) Platform Engineering
6 8 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (27.27%) Agile
8 4 (18.18%) CI/CD
9 3 (13.64%) Asset Management
9 3 (13.64%) Capacity Management
9 3 (13.64%) Key Management
9 3 (13.64%) Log Aggregation
9 3 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
9 3 (13.64%) Server Management
9 3 (13.64%) Validation
10 2 (9.09%) Servant Leadership
10 2 (9.09%) Vulnerability Remediation
10 2 (9.09%) Workshop Facilitation
11 1 (4.55%) Edge Computing
Programming Languages
1 20 (90.91%) Python
2 19 (86.36%) Groovy
3 17 (77.27%) PowerShell
4 9 (40.91%) Java
4 9 (40.91%) Perl
5 3 (13.64%) Ruby
5 3 (13.64%) Shell Script
5 3 (13.64%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (72.73%) SC Cleared
1 16 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 6 (27.27%) Degree
3 5 (22.73%) AWS Certification
3 5 (22.73%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 16 (72.73%) Active Directory
2 13 (59.09%) DFS Replication
3 12 (54.55%) Docker
4 3 (13.64%) Dovecot
4 3 (13.64%) Postfix
4 3 (13.64%) Squid
4 3 (13.64%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (13.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (95.45%) Terraform
2 17 (77.27%) Grafana
2 17 (77.27%) Prometheus
3 12 (54.55%) Ansible
4 6 (27.27%) Nessus
4 6 (27.27%) Proxmox
5 3 (13.64%) Nagios
6 1 (4.55%) Consul
6 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
6 1 (4.55%) Packer
Vendors
1 17 (77.27%) ServiceNow
2 11 (50.00%) Juniper
3 3 (13.64%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (4.55%) NVIDIA