VMS Jobs in Scotland

VMS
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 274 223
Rank change year-on-year +121 -51 +34
Permanent jobs citing VMS 11 14 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.37% 0.21% 0.022%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.64% 1.79% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 6 12 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32,000 £53,750 £54,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £57,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -42.61% +1.77% -
75th Percentile £49,750 £61,250 £58,250
90th Percentile £56,250 - -
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +21.05% -31.16%

All Operating Systems
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 195 782 747
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.55% 11.48% 16.60%
Number of salaries quoted 145 410 414
10th Percentile £36,250 £25,920 £27,506
25th Percentile £47,500 £29,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £49,990 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.02% +2.02% -6.67%
75th Percentile £69,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,100 £76,250 £74,700
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for VMS in Scotland

VMS
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for VMS in Scotland

VMS
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMS in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for VMS in Scotland

VMS
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 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
Perth and Kinross - 5 £33,000 -
Edinburgh +19 4 £55,000 -4.35% 1
Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
VMS
UK

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 7 (63.64%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (63.64%) SharePoint
2 2 (18.18%) JOnAS
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (54.55%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) Sentry
4 1 (9.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 1 (9.09%) IaaS
4 1 (9.09%) PaaS
4 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) Firewall
1 7 (63.64%) VPN
1 7 (63.64%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (45.45%) DHCP
2 5 (45.45%) DKIM
2 5 (45.45%) DMARC
2 5 (45.45%) DNS
3 2 (18.18%) Internet
3 2 (18.18%) NAS
3 2 (18.18%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Data Mining
1 2 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) JUnit
2 1 (9.09%) Selenium
2 1 (9.09%) TeamCity
2 1 (9.09%) TestNG
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Help Desk Team Lead
1 5 (45.45%) Lead
1 5 (45.45%) Team Leader
2 2 (18.18%) Administrator
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 2 (18.18%) Support Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) ARM Templates
1 1 (9.09%) OpenFin
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (27.27%) Mobile App
3 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
3 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
3 2 (18.18%) Replication
4 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Windows
2 5 (45.45%) Unix
3 3 (27.27%) Linux
4 2 (18.18%) Windows 10
4 2 (18.18%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (45.45%) Incident Response
1 5 (45.45%) IT Strategy
1 5 (45.45%) Remote Monitoring and Management
2 2 (18.18%) Customer Experience
2 2 (18.18%) Information Security
2 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
2 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
2 2 (18.18%) Tech Ops
3 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (9.09%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (9.09%) SDET
3 1 (9.09%) SDLC
3 1 (9.09%) Software Testing
3 1 (9.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Hyper-V
2 5 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 2 (18.18%) Grafana
3 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
3 2 (18.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 5 (45.45%) Apple
2 5 (45.45%) VMware
3 2 (18.18%) arcserve
3 2 (18.18%) New Relic
3 2 (18.18%) Nimsoft
3 2 (18.18%) Sage
3 2 (18.18%) ServiceNow