VMS Job Trends in the North of England

VMS
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring VMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 304 322
Rank change year-on-year -25 +18 -3
Permanent jobs citing VMS 19 9 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.085% 0.094% 0.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.65% 0.49% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 14 6 19
10th Percentile £31,175 £30,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £33,625 £34,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,911 £50,027 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% +0.05% -13.04%
75th Percentile £52,250 £51,240 £55,625
90th Percentile - £51,870 £65,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £63,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +5.53%

All Operating Systems
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,153 1,828 1,551
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.15% 19.07% 10.23%
Number of salaries quoted 901 811 1,071
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,000 £25,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -12.94% -9.38%
75th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £74,987 £66,250 £66,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year +8.43% -14.43% -7.62%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

VMS job vacancy trend in the North of England

VMS
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing VMS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing VMS

VMS
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMS in the North of England over the 6 months to 20 August 2026.

Salary histogram for VMS in the North of England

VMS
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 20 August 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
North West -13 10 £37,500 -25.08% 5
Yorkshire -25 8 £50,911 +64.23% 1
North East - 1 £52,500 - 1
VMS
England

VMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (15.79%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.26%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (73.68%) Azure
2 12 (63.16%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (52.63%) Entra ID
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (10.53%) Mimecast
5 1 (5.26%) Azure App Service
5 1 (5.26%) GCP
5 1 (5.26%) IaaS
5 1 (5.26%) Nutanix
5 1 (5.26%) PaaS
5 1 (5.26%) Rubrik
5 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (63.16%) Firewall
2 8 (42.11%) DHCP
2 8 (42.11%) DNS
3 4 (21.05%) VLAN
4 3 (15.79%) LAN
4 3 (15.79%) VPN
4 3 (15.79%) WAN
5 2 (10.53%) Network Security
5 2 (10.53%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (10.53%) SNMP
5 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
6 1 (5.26%) SD-WAN
6 1 (5.26%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git
1 2 (10.53%) GitLab
1 2 (10.53%) IntelliJ
1 2 (10.53%) JUnit
1 2 (10.53%) Maven
1 2 (10.53%) Spock
2 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Legal
4 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Security Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
4 1 (5.26%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Service Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
1 2 (10.53%) SAML
1 2 (10.53%) Spring
2 1 (5.26%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (15.79%) Data Centre
2 3 (15.79%) Private Cloud
2 3 (15.79%) Replication
3 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
3 2 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 11 (57.89%) Windows
1 11 (57.89%) Windows Server
2 3 (15.79%) Linux
3 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (26.32%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (26.32%) Incident Response
2 5 (26.32%) Migration
3 4 (21.05%) AI
3 4 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (21.05%) DevOps
3 4 (21.05%) Software Testing
4 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
4 3 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (15.79%) High Availability
4 3 (15.79%) ITIL
4 3 (15.79%) ITSM
4 3 (15.79%) Kanban
5 2 (10.53%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (10.53%) Business Strategy
5 2 (10.53%) ERP
5 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (10.53%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) SQL
2 2 (10.53%) Groovy
2 2 (10.53%) Java
2 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
2 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
3 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Azure Certification
1 2 (10.53%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
1 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (36.84%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (10.53%) Docker
3 2 (10.53%) Hyper-V
3 2 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (10.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (10.53%) Ansible
2 2 (10.53%) FortiGate
2 2 (10.53%) SCCM
2 2 (10.53%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (10.53%) WSUS
3 1 (5.26%) VxRail
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Microsoft
2 5 (26.32%) VMware
3 3 (15.79%) ServiceNow
3 3 (15.79%) Veeam
4 2 (10.53%) Aderant
4 2 (10.53%) AppDynamics
4 2 (10.53%) iManage
4 2 (10.53%) LogicMonitor
4 2 (10.53%) SolarWinds
4 2 (10.53%) Splunk
5 1 (5.26%) Cisco
5 1 (5.26%) Meraki