VMS Job Trends in the Thames Valley

VMS
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring VMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 182 176
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +91
Permanent jobs citing VMS 8 13 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.22% 0.30% 0.32%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.31% 2.26% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 6 11 8
10th Percentile - £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £72,500 - £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -18.18% +51.72%
75th Percentile £77,500 £57,854 -
90th Percentile - £68,750 £58,750
South East median annual salary £59,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +18.00% -9.09% +22.22%

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 347 576 747
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.71% 13.31% 21.82%
Number of salaries quoted 299 333 576
10th Percentile £27,800 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,750 £36,231
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - +6.86%
75th Percentile £47,875 £60,000 £59,380
90th Percentile £65,250 £78,500 £75,000
South East median annual salary £40,000 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -23.81% +16.67% -

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

VMS job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

VMS
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing VMS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing VMS

VMS
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 16 November 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
Buckinghamshire +18 6 £75,000 - 1
Berkshire -1 2 - -
VMS
South East

VMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (75.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 6 (75.00%) Entra ID
2 6 (75.00%) GitHub
2 6 (75.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon ELB
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon Glacier
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) AWS KMS
3 2 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) FTP
1 2 (25.00%) HTTP
1 2 (25.00%) SMTP
1 2 (25.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Git
1 8 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (25.00%) Vagrant
General
1 2 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (75.00%) Lead
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Linux Command Line
1 6 (75.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) Servant Leadership
2 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 6 (75.00%) Matrix Management
2 6 (75.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 6 (75.00%) Observability
2 6 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
2 6 (75.00%) RBAC
2 6 (75.00%) Resource Management
2 6 (75.00%) Task Automation
2 6 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Change Management
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 2 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (75.00%) Bash
3 2 (25.00%) Groovy
3 2 (25.00%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) Perl
3 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 8 (100.00%) Docker
2 2 (25.00%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
2 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (25.00%) Grafana
3 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow