VMS Job Trends in the Midlands

VMS
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring VMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 215 285
Rank change year-on-year -35 +70 +19
Permanent jobs citing VMS 7 11 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.054% 0.22% 0.25%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.17% 1.19% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 7 1 28
10th Percentile - - £45,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £77,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £80,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -46.88% +39.13% +35.29%
75th Percentile £65,000 £82,500 £61,250
90th Percentile - - £88,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% +4.35% +21.05%

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 597 927 1,574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.61% 18.33% 13.43%
Number of salaries quoted 460 602 1,303
10th Percentile £26,375 £26,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £28,500 £29,250 £26,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,250 £36,925 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% -7.69% -11.11%
75th Percentile £48,750 £48,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £61,250
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

VMS job vacancy trend in the Midlands

VMS
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing VMS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing VMS

VMS
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram 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 12 May 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
East Midlands -30 4 £42,500 -46.88% 4
West Midlands -30 3 £65,000 - 1
VMS
England

VMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) DNS
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
1 4 (57.14%) MQTT
1 4 (57.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (57.14%) MongoDB
3 3 (42.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (42.86%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Applications Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Applications Support
1 4 (57.14%) Applications Support Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Senior
1 4 (57.14%) Senior Applications Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Senior Applications Support
1 4 (57.14%) Senior Support Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Support Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) DBA
2 3 (42.86%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) IoT
2 3 (42.86%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
1 4 (57.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) AI
1 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (57.14%) High Availability
1 4 (57.14%) Incident Management
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (57.14%) Systems Engineering
1 4 (57.14%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (42.86%) Change Control
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (42.86%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 4 (57.14%) Python
3 3 (42.86%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft