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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 356 326
Rank change year-on-year +55 -30 +84
Permanent jobs citing VMS 10 46 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.10% 0.25% 0.38%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.79% 1.57% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 8 40 33
10th Percentile £26,250 £39,625 £35,400
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +21.05% -26.92%
75th Percentile £59,875 £62,813 £57,500
90th Percentile £64,000 £67,625 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,750 £57,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -3.04% +21.05% -26.92%

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 1,269 2,924 2,510
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 13.12% 15.60% 19.24%
Number of salaries quoted 934 2,271 1,756
10th Percentile £26,325 £26,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.45% -7.94%
75th Percentile £51,000 £58,750 £60,063
90th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £76,250
England median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% -

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 24 June 2025.

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 24 June 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
Surrey +46 4 £57,500 - 6
East Sussex +30 3 £27,500 -52.17% 7
Thames Valley +41 2 - - 12
Berkshire +33 2 - - 9
Kent +35 1 £60,000 -2.04% 3
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 2 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) Entra ID
3 5 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (40.00%) IaaS
4 4 (40.00%) PaaS
5 3 (30.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (30.00%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (30.00%) SaaS
6 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
6 2 (20.00%) Amazon Glacier
6 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
6 2 (20.00%) AWS
6 2 (20.00%) AWS KMS
6 2 (20.00%) Nutanix
6 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (10.00%) Mimecast
7 1 (10.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
1 3 (30.00%) VPN
2 2 (20.00%) DNS
2 2 (20.00%) FTP
2 2 (20.00%) HTTP
2 2 (20.00%) Network Security
2 2 (20.00%) SMTP
2 2 (20.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
1 2 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 2 (20.00%) Vagrant
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Junior
2 2 (20.00%) Junior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Junior IT Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Junior Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Junior Technical Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) CloudOps Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Replication
2 1 (10.00%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 4 (40.00%) ITIL
3 3 (30.00%) Analytics
3 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (30.00%) Log Analytics
3 3 (30.00%) Service Management
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Change Management
4 2 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Patch Management
4 2 (20.00%) Process Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) Servant Leadership
4 2 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
5 1 (10.00%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (20.00%) Groovy
2 2 (20.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) Perl
2 2 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (10.00%) ISSEP
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (10.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (30.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (20.00%) DFS Replication
3 2 (20.00%) Docker
3 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (20.00%) Grafana
3 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (10.00%) CASB
4 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (30.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix
3 1 (10.00%) Forcepoint
3 1 (10.00%) Qualys