VMS Jobs in the UK excluding London

VMS
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 566 605 731
Rank change year-on-year +39 +126 -65
Permanent jobs citing VMS 141 73 151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.15% 0.19%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.60% 0.86% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 126 59 36
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,020 £37,125
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,651 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -20.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £66,250 £72,813
90th Percentile £67,500 £78,000 £78,125
UK median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +21.05% -20.83% -

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 8,838 8,487 14,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.54% 17.63% 18.18%
Number of salaries quoted 6,376 5,618 9,333
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £74,250 £73,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +5.00%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing VMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for VMS in the UK excluding London

VMS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VMS in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for VMS in the UK excluding London

VMS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for VMS in the UK excluding London

VMS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +31 37 £57,500 -4.17% 4
Midlands +9 36 £56,250 +60.71% 4
South East -1 35 £57,500 +21.05% 7
North West +6 24 £52,500 -14.29% 2
East Midlands - 19 £42,500 - 2
South West +9 18 £55,000 +18.92% 2
West Midlands +7 17 £57,500 +64.29% 2
Yorkshire +63 10 £57,500 -4.17% 1
Scotland - 7 £57,500 -
East of England 0 5 £57,500 -
Wales +29 3 £45,000 -2.62%
North East - 3 £57,500 - 1
VMS
UK

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 22 (15.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (12.77%) IIS
3 17 (12.06%) SharePoint
4 10 (7.09%) Umbraco
5 5 (3.55%) JBoss
5 5 (3.55%) WebSphere
6 4 (2.84%) CMS
6 4 (2.84%) WordPress
7 3 (2.13%) CloudStack
8 2 (1.42%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.71%) JOnAS
Applications
1 7 (4.96%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.26%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.71%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (2.84%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.42%) Shopify
3 1 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 109 (77.30%) Azure
2 45 (31.91%) Power Platform
3 29 (20.57%) Entra ID
4 27 (19.15%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (15.60%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (10.64%) OneDrive
7 10 (7.09%) AWS
8 8 (5.67%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (4.26%) Azure App Service
9 6 (4.26%) Figma
10 5 (3.55%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (3.55%) Nutanix
11 4 (2.84%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (2.84%) GitHub
11 4 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.84%) SaaS
12 3 (2.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 3 (2.13%) OCI
13 2 (1.42%) GCP
13 2 (1.42%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 42 (29.79%) Broadband
2 26 (18.44%) Firewall
3 24 (17.02%) DNS
4 18 (12.77%) WAN
5 14 (9.93%) DHCP
5 14 (9.93%) LAN
6 13 (9.22%) NAS
7 11 (7.80%) iSCSI
8 8 (5.67%) Fibre Channel
8 8 (5.67%) VPN
9 7 (4.96%) SAN
9 7 (4.96%) TCP/IP
10 4 (2.84%) 4G
10 4 (2.84%) SD-WAN
10 4 (2.84%) SNMP
10 4 (2.84%) VLAN
10 4 (2.84%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (2.84%) Wireless
10 4 (2.84%) WLAN
11 3 (2.13%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (52.48%) SQL Server
2 49 (34.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 44 (31.21%) Power BI
4 5 (3.55%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.71%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.71%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (6.38%) Git
2 5 (3.55%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (2.84%) Octopus Deploy
3 4 (2.84%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (2.84%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.71%) Rational DOORS
General
1 77 (54.61%) Social Skills
2 13 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (8.51%) Law
4 10 (7.09%) Manufacturing
5 8 (5.67%) Electronics
5 8 (5.67%) Finance
6 7 (4.96%) Legal
7 5 (3.55%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.84%) Retail
9 3 (2.13%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.42%) Advertising
10 2 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.42%) Marketing
10 2 (1.42%) Military
10 2 (1.42%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.71%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.71%) Local Government
11 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (29.79%) DBA
1 42 (29.79%) SQL DBA
2 26 (18.44%) Azure Engineer
3 22 (15.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (9.93%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (8.51%) Developer
5 12 (8.51%) Senior
6 10 (7.09%) Support Engineer
6 10 (7.09%) Systems Engineer
7 9 (6.38%) Technical Engineer
8 8 (5.67%) IT Engineer
8 8 (5.67%) Software Support Engineer
9 7 (4.96%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (4.96%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 6 (4.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 6 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (4.26%) IT Manager
10 6 (4.26%) Lead
10 6 (4.26%) Web Developer
11 5 (3.55%) Senior Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.35%) .NET
2 7 (4.96%) CSS
2 7 (4.96%) HTML
2 7 (4.96%) JSON
2 7 (4.96%) Loki
2 7 (4.96%) REST
2 7 (4.96%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 7 (4.96%) Vue
2 7 (4.96%) XML
2 7 (4.96%) YAML
3 6 (4.26%) .NET Core
3 6 (4.26%) HTML5
3 6 (4.26%) Razor View Engine
3 6 (4.26%) Sass
3 6 (4.26%) Tailwind CSS
4 4 (2.84%) LAMP
5 3 (2.13%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.42%) EDI
6 2 (1.42%) LDAP
6 2 (1.42%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.38%) Data Centre
2 7 (4.96%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (4.26%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.26%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.55%) Replication
5 4 (2.84%) CCTV
5 4 (2.84%) Chip and PIN
5 4 (2.84%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.84%) IoT
5 4 (2.84%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.84%) Mobile Payment
5 4 (2.84%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (1.42%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.42%) CUDA
6 2 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.42%) Fat Client
6 2 (1.42%) SCADA
6 2 (1.42%) Smartphone
6 2 (1.42%) Thin Client
7 1 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 49 (34.75%) Windows
2 22 (15.60%) Windows Server
3 16 (11.35%) Linux
4 13 (9.22%) Windows 10
5 8 (5.67%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (2.84%) Apple iOS
6 4 (2.84%) Ubuntu
6 4 (2.84%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (2.13%) SUSE
7 3 (2.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 2 (1.42%) Android
8 2 (1.42%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.42%) Unix
8 2 (1.42%) Windows 7
8 2 (1.42%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (37.59%) Collaborative Working
2 50 (35.46%) High Availability
3 46 (32.62%) Performance Tuning
4 44 (31.21%) Business Intelligence
4 44 (31.21%) Disaster Recovery
5 41 (29.08%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (24.11%) DevOps
7 22 (15.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 16 (11.35%) Project Management
9 15 (10.64%) ITIL
10 13 (9.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (9.22%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (8.51%) Configuration Management
11 12 (8.51%) Containerisation
11 12 (8.51%) Cybersecurity
12 10 (7.09%) Collaborative Culture
13 9 (6.38%) CI/CD
13 9 (6.38%) Customer Service
13 9 (6.38%) OO
13 9 (6.38%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 69 (48.94%) SQL
2 43 (30.50%) T-SQL
3 12 (8.51%) PowerShell
4 8 (5.67%) JavaScript
5 7 (4.96%) C#
6 6 (4.26%) Python
7 5 (3.55%) Java
8 4 (2.84%) Bicep
9 3 (2.13%) Go
9 3 (2.13%) Perl
10 2 (1.42%) Bash
10 2 (1.42%) C
10 2 (1.42%) C++
10 2 (1.42%) C-shell
10 2 (1.42%) Fortran
11 1 (0.71%) PHP
11 1 (0.71%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 61 (43.26%) Microsoft Certification
2 27 (19.15%) Degree
3 24 (17.02%) Azure Certification
4 8 (5.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 5 (3.55%) HNC
6 5 (3.55%) HND
7 4 (2.84%) Security Cleared
8 2 (1.42%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.42%) CCNA
8 2 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.42%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.42%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.42%) MCSA
8 2 (1.42%) MCSE
8 2 (1.42%) PhD
8 2 (1.42%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.71%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (4.96%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (4.96%) ISO 9001
3 6 (4.26%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.84%) QA
5 2 (1.42%) GDPR
6 1 (0.71%) SLA
System Software
1 54 (38.30%) Virtual Machines
2 40 (28.37%) Active Directory
3 16 (11.35%) Hyper-V
4 15 (10.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (4.26%) vSphere
6 5 (3.55%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (2.84%) pfSense
8 3 (2.13%) Ceph
8 3 (2.13%) Docker
8 3 (2.13%) Gluster
8 3 (2.13%) KVM
8 3 (2.13%) oVirt
9 2 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 22 (15.60%) Kubernetes
2 12 (8.51%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (7.09%) Prometheus
4 9 (6.38%) Terraform
5 4 (2.84%) Ansible
5 4 (2.84%) SCCM
6 3 (2.13%) Graylog
6 3 (2.13%) Observium
6 3 (2.13%) Puppet
6 3 (2.13%) ZABBIX
7 2 (1.42%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.71%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.71%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 100 (70.92%) Microsoft
2 33 (23.40%) VMware
3 12 (8.51%) Oracle
4 10 (7.09%) Citrix
4 10 (7.09%) Veeam
5 8 (5.67%) Zerto
6 6 (4.26%) Adobe
6 6 (4.26%) Cisco
7 5 (3.55%) Ubiquiti
8 4 (2.84%) Aruba
8 4 (2.84%) BroadSoft
8 4 (2.84%) Brocade
8 4 (2.84%) Dell
8 4 (2.84%) Dell Compellent
8 4 (2.84%) Fortinet
8 4 (2.84%) Palo Alto
8 4 (2.84%) ProCurve
8 4 (2.84%) QNAP
8 4 (2.84%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.84%) Synology