VMS Job Trends in the South East

VMS
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring VMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 272 327
Rank change year-on-year -44 +55 -51
Permanent jobs citing VMS 12 16 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.067% 0.18% 0.077%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.96% 1.29% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 12 14 10
10th Percentile £47,000 £46,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £66,875 £48,750 £50,353
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £59,000 £56,509
Median % change year-on-year +22.88% +4.41% +13.58%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £68,438
90th Percentile - £77,500 £70,875
England median annual salary £52,500 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -19.23% +23.81% +5.26%

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 1,247 1,238 1,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 6.96% 13.80% 15.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,060 975 1,313
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -20.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £67,500 £47,500 £63,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £69,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.76% -18.00% -4.76%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

VMS job vacancy trend in the South East

VMS
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VMS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VMS

VMS
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMS in the South East over the 6 months to 8 September 2026.

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 8 September 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
West Sussex - 9 £75,000 -
Surrey -34 2 £45,000 -21.74% 5
Hampshire -60 1 £70,000 +47.37% 1
VMS
England

VMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (25.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
1 1 (8.33%) GitHub
1 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Lead
1 9 (75.00%) Team Leader
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 9 (75.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) CentOS
1 3 (25.00%) Debian
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
1 3 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) Coaching
3 3 (25.00%) ITIL
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
1 3 (25.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Ansible
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (25.00%) Grafana
2 3 (25.00%) Puppet
2 3 (25.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Dell
1 2 (16.67%) NetApp
1 2 (16.67%) VMware
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft