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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 289 326
Rank change year-on-year -31 +37 +68
Permanent jobs citing VMS 9 4 50
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.046% 0.052% 0.29%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.00% 0.23% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 7 2 48
10th Percentile £30,500 £33,700 £36,250
25th Percentile £33,375 £38,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £48,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -16.52% -11.54%
75th Percentile £50,261 £58,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £64,063 £63,900 £65,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% +13.04% +21.05%

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 898 1,758 2,183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.64% 22.81% 12.79%
Number of salaries quoted 688 681 1,748
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% -
75th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,968
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

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 22 May 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 22 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
North West - 5 £51,772 - 2
Yorkshire -44 4 £35,500 -26.04% 2
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 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (44.44%) Entra ID
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 1 (11.11%) AWS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure AI
4 1 (11.11%) Azure App Service
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (11.11%) Firebase
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (11.11%) Mimecast
4 1 (11.11%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) DNS
1 5 (55.56%) Firewall
2 4 (44.44%) DHCP
3 3 (33.33%) VLAN
3 3 (33.33%) VPN
4 2 (22.22%) LAN
4 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
4 2 (22.22%) WAN
5 1 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (11.11%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Back Office
3 1 (11.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Web Developer
3 1 (11.11%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
3 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
1 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET Web Forms
1 1 (11.11%) OAuth
1 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
1 1 (11.11%) OpenID
1 1 (11.11%) React
1 1 (11.11%) React Native
1 1 (11.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Code
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
2 1 (11.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (11.11%) Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) AI
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (22.22%) Contract Management
3 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Ergonomics
3 2 (22.22%) ERP
3 2 (22.22%) Human Factors
3 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
3 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
3 2 (22.22%) System Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Security Hardening
4 1 (11.11%) Technology Transformation
4 1 (11.11%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
2 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
2 1 (11.11%) VMware NSX
2 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) FortiGate
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) Aderant
3 1 (11.11%) Foundry
3 1 (11.11%) iManage
3 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds