VMS Jobs in the South East

VMS
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 319 318 424
Rank change year-on-year -1 +106 -30
Permanent jobs citing VMS 35 43 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.23% 0.37% 0.39%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.46% 1.82% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 31 32 8
10th Percentile £41,250 - £41,000
25th Percentile £47,250 £35,400 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -24.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £67,500 £57,500 £75,875
90th Percentile £68,750 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +21.05% -20.83% -

All Operating Systems
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,401 2,368 4,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 15.91% 20.43% 19.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,783 1,696 2,844
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £26,822
25th Percentile £34,000 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,300 £45,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.11% -3.23% -2.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,313 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,500 £77,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +5.00%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing VMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for VMS in the South East

VMS
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VMS in the South East.

Salary trend for VMS in the South East

VMS
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMS in the South East over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for VMS in the South East

VMS
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Thames Valley +17 21 £52,500 +10.53% 3
Berkshire +7 9 £52,500 +5.53% 2
Buckinghamshire - 9 £42,500 -
Kent -10 5 £65,000 - 1
Oxfordshire -16 3 £56,509 +18.97% 1
Surrey -20 3 £77,500 +29.17%
West Sussex - 3 £65,000 -
East Sussex +19 1 £57,500 +36.40%
Hampshire -35 1 £57,500 +12.47% 1
Sussex - 1 £35,000 -
VMS
England

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 13 (37.14%) Microsoft Exchange
1 13 (37.14%) SharePoint
2 5 (14.29%) JBoss
2 5 (14.29%) WebSphere
3 4 (11.43%) IIS
3 4 (11.43%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 24 (68.57%) Azure
2 13 (37.14%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (31.43%) OneDrive
4 10 (28.57%) Entra ID
5 8 (22.86%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (20.00%) Power Platform
7 6 (17.14%) Azure App Service
8 2 (5.71%) AWS
8 2 (5.71%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (5.71%) GCP
8 2 (5.71%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.00%) Broadband
2 6 (17.14%) DNS
3 5 (14.29%) Firewall
4 4 (11.43%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (11.43%) iSCSI
4 4 (11.43%) NAS
4 4 (11.43%) SAN
4 4 (11.43%) VPN
4 4 (11.43%) Wireless
5 2 (5.71%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 13 (37.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (20.00%) Power BI
4 5 (14.29%) Oracle Database
5 2 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
General
1 13 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 6 (17.14%) Finance
3 6 (17.14%) Legal
4 2 (5.71%) Electronics
4 2 (5.71%) Marketing
4 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.71%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) Systems Engineer
2 8 (22.86%) Software Support Engineer
2 8 (22.86%) Support Engineer
3 7 (20.00%) DBA
3 7 (20.00%) SQL DBA
4 6 (17.14%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (17.14%) Senior
4 6 (17.14%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Network Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Administrator
6 3 (8.57%) IT Administrator
6 3 (8.57%) IT Systems Administrator
6 3 (8.57%) Systems Administrator
7 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Junior
7 2 (5.71%) Junior IT Administrator
7 2 (5.71%) Junior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.29%) .NET
2 4 (11.43%) LAMP
3 2 (5.71%) ARM Templates
3 2 (5.71%) EDI
3 2 (5.71%) LDAP
3 2 (5.71%) OpenMP
3 2 (5.71%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Public Cloud
2 4 (11.43%) Chip and PIN
2 4 (11.43%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (11.43%) Mobile Payment
2 4 (11.43%) Replication
3 2 (5.71%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.71%) CUDA
3 2 (5.71%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.71%) Fat Client
3 2 (5.71%) SCADA
3 2 (5.71%) Thin Client
4 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (25.71%) Windows
2 8 (22.86%) Linux
3 7 (20.00%) Windows Server
4 6 (17.14%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (11.43%) Ubuntu
5 4 (11.43%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (5.71%) Apple iOS
6 2 (5.71%) Unix
7 1 (2.86%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.71%) Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.71%) OO
1 9 (25.71%) Project Management
2 8 (22.86%) DevOps
3 7 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 7 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (20.00%) High Availability
3 7 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (17.14%) Configuration Management
5 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (5.71%) Business Strategy
7 2 (5.71%) Containerisation
7 2 (5.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (5.71%) Microservices
7 2 (5.71%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (5.71%) Roadmaps
7 2 (5.71%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (5.71%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 22 (62.86%) SQL
2 7 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 6 (17.14%) PowerShell
4 5 (14.29%) Java
5 2 (5.71%) Bash
5 2 (5.71%) Bicep
5 2 (5.71%) C
5 2 (5.71%) C++
5 2 (5.71%) C-shell
5 2 (5.71%) Fortran
5 2 (5.71%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (22.86%) Azure Certification
2 7 (20.00%) Degree
2 7 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (14.29%) HNC
3 5 (14.29%) HND
4 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.71%) CCNA
4 2 (5.71%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.71%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.71%) Master's Degree
4 2 (5.71%) PhD
4 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 13 (37.14%) Active Directory
2 9 (25.71%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (11.43%) vSphere
4 3 (8.57%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (5.71%) Hyper-V
5 2 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (22.86%) Kubernetes
2 6 (17.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (11.43%) SCCM
4 2 (5.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 12 (34.29%) VMware
3 9 (25.71%) Oracle
4 7 (20.00%) Citrix
5 4 (11.43%) Aruba
5 4 (11.43%) Palo Alto
5 4 (11.43%) ProCurve
5 4 (11.43%) Synology
5 4 (11.43%) Veeam
5 4 (11.43%) Zerto
6 2 (5.71%) IBM
6 2 (5.71%) SAP