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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 543 567 651
Rank change year-on-year +24 +84 +54
Permanent jobs citing VMS 43 182 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.26% 0.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.87% 1.72% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 28 162 77
10th Percentile £32,000 £38,750 £35,400
25th Percentile £40,500 £49,063 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +15.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £56,250 £57,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.17% +21.05% -31.16%

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 4,932 10,560 9,816
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.58% 14.87% 16.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,097 8,172 6,217
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,101 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £73,750
UK median annual salary £46,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.22% -14.29% -

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 12 May 2025.

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 12 May 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
Midlands +51 11 £80,000 +39.13% 8
Scotland +108 10 £33,000 -42.61% 6
East of England +41 9 £45,000 -21.74% 15
South East +59 8 £52,500 -8.70% 22
West Midlands +56 8 - - 6
North of England +13 4 £66,250 +15.22% 11
Yorkshire +60 3 £65,000 +13.04% 5
East Midlands +28 3 £80,000 +39.13% 2
Wales +38 1 £49,104 +9.12% 4
North West -32 1 £67,500 +17.39% 6
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 10 (23.26%) SharePoint
2 8 (18.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (11.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 25 (58.14%) Azure
2 20 (46.51%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (23.26%) AWS
4 8 (18.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (18.60%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (18.60%) Amazon ELB
4 8 (18.60%) Amazon Glacier
4 8 (18.60%) Amazon S3
4 8 (18.60%) AWS KMS
4 8 (18.60%) Entra ID
4 8 (18.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (13.95%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (13.95%) Azure Storage
6 5 (11.63%) IaaS
6 5 (11.63%) PaaS
7 4 (9.30%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (9.30%) Serverless
8 3 (6.98%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (6.98%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (6.98%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 19 (44.19%) DNS
2 15 (34.88%) Firewall
3 11 (25.58%) DHCP
3 11 (25.58%) VPN
4 9 (20.93%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (13.95%) TCP/IP
5 6 (13.95%) Wireless
5 6 (13.95%) Wireless Security
6 5 (11.63%) DKIM
6 5 (11.63%) DMARC
7 3 (6.98%) SSL
7 3 (6.98%) WAN
8 2 (4.65%) 4G
8 2 (4.65%) 5G
8 2 (4.65%) Converged Networks
8 2 (4.65%) FTP
8 2 (4.65%) HTTP
8 2 (4.65%) PBX
8 2 (4.65%) SMTP
8 2 (4.65%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.60%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (11.63%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.65%) Data Mining
4 2 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 9 (20.93%) Git
2 8 (18.60%) Jenkins
2 8 (18.60%) Vagrant
3 5 (11.63%) JIRA
3 5 (11.63%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (6.98%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (6.98%) GitLab
5 2 (4.65%) JUnit
5 2 (4.65%) Selenium
5 2 (4.65%) TeamCity
5 2 (4.65%) TestNG
6 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 12 (27.91%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.65%) Aerospace
4 2 (4.65%) Electronics
4 2 (4.65%) Military
4 2 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (4.65%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.33%) Legal
5 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (23.26%) Administrator
1 10 (23.26%) Systems Administrator
2 8 (18.60%) Lead
2 8 (18.60%) Senior
2 8 (18.60%) Support Engineer
3 7 (16.28%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 7 (16.28%) 3rd Line Support
3 7 (16.28%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 7 (16.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (16.28%) Systems Engineer
3 7 (16.28%) Team Leader
4 6 (13.95%) Systems Support
4 6 (13.95%) Systems Support Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) Help Desk Team Lead
6 4 (9.30%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 4 (9.30%) Technical Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.65%) ARM Templates
1 2 (4.65%) OpenFin
2 1 (2.33%) RESTful
2 1 (2.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (9.30%) Mobile App
2 4 (9.30%) Replication
3 2 (4.65%) CCTV
3 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.65%) IoT
3 2 (4.65%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.65%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.65%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (58.14%) Windows
2 16 (37.21%) Linux
3 7 (16.28%) Windows Server
4 5 (11.63%) Unix
5 3 (6.98%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (6.98%) Ubuntu
6 2 (4.65%) Apple iOS
6 2 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (4.65%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (37.21%) DevOps
2 9 (20.93%) Cloud Security
2 9 (20.93%) Configuration Management
3 8 (18.60%) Agile
3 8 (18.60%) CI/CD
3 8 (18.60%) Incident Response
4 7 (16.28%) Network Virtualisation
5 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (13.95%) Project Management
5 6 (13.95%) Storage Management
6 5 (11.63%) Change Management
6 5 (11.63%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (11.63%) IT Strategy
6 5 (11.63%) ITIL
6 5 (11.63%) Mentoring
6 5 (11.63%) Patch Management
6 5 (11.63%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (11.63%) Remote Monitoring and Management
6 5 (11.63%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 22 (51.16%) PowerShell
2 12 (27.91%) Python
3 10 (23.26%) Java
4 8 (18.60%) Perl
5 7 (16.28%) Groovy
5 7 (16.28%) SQL
6 3 (6.98%) Ruby
6 3 (6.98%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.65%) Bicep
7 2 (4.65%) C#
7 2 (4.65%) C++
7 2 (4.65%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.65%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (13.95%) Azure Certification
2 4 (9.30%) Degree
2 4 (9.30%) SC Cleared
2 4 (9.30%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.65%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.65%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (4.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.33%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (53.49%) Active Directory
2 8 (18.60%) Hyper-V
3 7 (16.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (13.95%) Docker
5 5 (11.63%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (11.63%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (9.30%) DFS Replication
7 2 (4.65%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 16 (37.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (34.88%) Terraform
3 7 (16.28%) Ansible
3 7 (16.28%) Grafana
3 7 (16.28%) Prometheus
4 6 (13.95%) Kubernetes
5 3 (6.98%) Nagios
5 3 (6.98%) Nessus
5 3 (6.98%) Proxmox
6 2 (4.65%) cPanel
6 2 (4.65%) Puppet
7 1 (2.33%) Consul
7 1 (2.33%) Packer
7 1 (2.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (39.53%) Microsoft
2 8 (18.60%) VMware
3 5 (11.63%) Apple
3 5 (11.63%) Juniper
3 5 (11.63%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.65%) Atlassian
4 2 (4.65%) Cisco
4 2 (4.65%) Citrix
4 2 (4.65%) Draytek
4 2 (4.65%) New Relic
4 2 (4.65%) NVIDIA
4 2 (4.65%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.33%) PagerDuty
5 1 (2.33%) SolarWinds