VMS Jobs in the UK excluding London

VMS
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for VMS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited VMS over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 591 658 723
Rank change year-on-year +67 +65 -115
Permanent jobs citing VMS 182 103 144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.17% 0.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.71% 1.02% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 162 77 44
10th Percentile £38,750 £35,400 £32,500
25th Percentile £49,063 £41,250 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £49,750 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.58% -21.65% +51.19%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £78,500 £86,375
UK median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £69,000
% change year-on-year +21.05% -31.16% +38.00%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

VMS is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 10,614 10,085 14,879
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.04% 16.45% 20.89%
Number of salaries quoted 8,239 6,376 9,438
10th Percentile £25,300 £25,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +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 6 May 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 6 May 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 +81 53 £57,500 -11.54% 16
South East +12 46 £57,500 +21.05% 7
North West +34 35 £57,500 -11.54% 15
Midlands +32 30 £57,500 +35.29% 5
South West -16 20 £57,500 +24.32% 4
East Midlands - 17 £57,500 - 3
East of England +25 14 £57,500 -34.29% 3
Scotland -50 14 £57,500 +1.77% 2
Yorkshire +101 13 £57,500 -8.00% 1
West Midlands +26 13 £57,500 +35.29% 2
North East - 5 £57,500 -
Wales - 4 £45,000 -
Northern Ireland - 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 23 (12.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (9.89%) SharePoint
3 14 (7.69%) IIS
4 6 (3.30%) Umbraco
5 5 (2.75%) JBoss
5 5 (2.75%) WebSphere
6 4 (2.20%) CMS
6 4 (2.20%) WordPress
7 3 (1.65%) CloudStack
8 2 (1.10%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.55%) JOnAS
Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Adobe XD
1 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 14 (7.69%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.10%) Shopify
3 1 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 134 (73.63%) Azure
2 78 (42.86%) Power Platform
3 33 (18.13%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (14.84%) Entra ID
5 18 (9.89%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (9.89%) OneDrive
6 14 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (5.49%) AWS
8 6 (3.30%) Azure App Service
9 5 (2.75%) Nutanix
10 4 (2.20%) GitHub
10 4 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.20%) PaaS
10 4 (2.20%) SaaS
11 3 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (1.65%) OCI
12 2 (1.10%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (1.10%) Figma
12 2 (1.10%) IaaS
12 2 (1.10%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 74 (40.66%) Broadband
2 33 (18.13%) Firewall
3 26 (14.29%) DNS
4 15 (8.24%) WAN
5 14 (7.69%) Network Security
6 12 (6.59%) DHCP
6 12 (6.59%) NAS
7 11 (6.04%) iSCSI
7 11 (6.04%) LAN
8 10 (5.49%) VPN
9 8 (4.40%) Fibre Channel
10 7 (3.85%) TCP/IP
11 6 (3.30%) SAN
12 4 (2.20%) SD-WAN
12 4 (2.20%) SNMP
12 4 (2.20%) VLAN
12 4 (2.20%) Wireless
12 4 (2.20%) WLAN
13 3 (1.65%) Internet
13 3 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (56.04%) SQL Server
2 81 (44.51%) Azure SQL Database
3 76 (41.76%) Power BI
4 5 (2.75%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.55%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.55%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.55%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (7.69%) Team Foundation Server
2 5 (2.75%) Git
3 4 (2.20%) Octopus Deploy
3 4 (2.20%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.55%) Jenkins
General
1 103 (56.59%) Social Skills
2 16 (8.79%) Law
3 13 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.49%) Finance
4 10 (5.49%) Games
5 9 (4.95%) Manufacturing
6 8 (4.40%) Legal
7 7 (3.85%) Retail
7 7 (3.85%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.30%) Electronics
9 5 (2.75%) Marketing
10 4 (2.20%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.65%) Tech for Good
12 2 (1.10%) Advertising
12 2 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.10%) Military
13 1 (0.55%) Fire and Rescue
13 1 (0.55%) Local Government
13 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (40.66%) DBA
1 74 (40.66%) SQL DBA
2 21 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 20 (10.99%) Azure Engineer
3 20 (10.99%) Developer
4 14 (7.69%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 14 (7.69%) Dynamics AX Developer
5 12 (6.59%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (6.04%) Senior
7 10 (5.49%) Analyst
7 10 (5.49%) Support Engineer
7 10 (5.49%) Vulnerability Analyst
8 9 (4.95%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (4.40%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 8 (4.40%) Software Support Engineer
10 7 (3.85%) Systems Engineer
11 6 (3.30%) IT Manager
11 6 (3.30%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 5 (2.75%) Senior Technical Engineer
12 5 (2.75%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.69%) .NET
2 4 (2.20%) ARM Templates
2 4 (2.20%) HTML
2 4 (2.20%) LAMP
2 4 (2.20%) LDAP
2 4 (2.20%) YAML
3 3 (1.65%) .NET Core
3 3 (1.65%) CSS
3 3 (1.65%) JSON
3 3 (1.65%) REST
3 3 (1.65%) Twitter Bootstrap
3 3 (1.65%) Vue
3 3 (1.65%) XML
4 2 (1.10%) HTML5
4 2 (1.10%) Razor View Engine
4 2 (1.10%) Sass
4 2 (1.10%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (0.55%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (0.55%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.55%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.59%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (4.95%) Data Centre
3 6 (3.30%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.30%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.75%) Replication
5 4 (2.20%) Chip and PIN
5 4 (2.20%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.20%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.20%) Mobile Payment
5 4 (2.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (1.65%) IoT
7 2 (1.10%) PKI
7 2 (1.10%) Smartphone
7 2 (1.10%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.55%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 60 (32.97%) Windows
2 28 (15.38%) Windows Server
3 19 (10.44%) Linux
4 15 (8.24%) Windows 10
5 10 (5.49%) Unix
6 6 (3.30%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (2.20%) Ubuntu
7 4 (2.20%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (2.20%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.65%) SUSE
8 3 (1.65%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (1.10%) Android
9 2 (1.10%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.10%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.55%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (46.15%) Collaborative Working
1 84 (46.15%) High Availability
2 78 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
2 78 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
3 76 (41.76%) Disaster Recovery
4 42 (23.08%) DevOps
5 34 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 19 (10.44%) Cybersecurity
8 16 (8.79%) Project Management
9 15 (8.24%) Customer Service
10 14 (7.69%) ERP
10 14 (7.69%) Migration
11 13 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (6.59%) ITIL
13 11 (6.04%) Server Management
14 10 (5.49%) Actionable Insight
14 10 (5.49%) Change Advisory Board
14 10 (5.49%) Change Management
14 10 (5.49%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 99 (54.40%) SQL
2 75 (41.21%) T-SQL
3 17 (9.34%) PowerShell
4 5 (2.75%) C#
4 5 (2.75%) Java
4 5 (2.75%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.20%) Bicep
5 4 (2.20%) Python
6 3 (1.65%) Go
6 3 (1.65%) Perl
7 1 (0.55%) PHP
7 1 (0.55%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 90 (49.45%) Microsoft Certification
2 23 (12.64%) Degree
3 18 (9.89%) Azure Certification
4 13 (7.14%) Security Cleared
5 10 (5.49%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.75%) HNC
7 5 (2.75%) HND
8 2 (1.10%) MCSA
8 2 (1.10%) MCSE
9 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.20%) QA
3 2 (1.10%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.10%) GDPR
4 1 (0.55%) SLA
System Software
1 84 (46.15%) Virtual Machines
2 39 (21.43%) Active Directory
3 15 (8.24%) Hyper-V
4 14 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (5.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (3.85%) Docker
7 6 (3.30%) vSphere
8 4 (2.20%) pfSense
8 4 (2.20%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (1.65%) Ceph
9 3 (1.65%) Gluster
9 3 (1.65%) KVM
9 3 (1.65%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 18 (9.89%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.24%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (7.69%) SCCM
4 12 (6.59%) WSUS
5 5 (2.75%) Terraform
6 4 (2.20%) Ansible
6 4 (2.20%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.65%) Grafana
7 3 (1.65%) Graylog
7 3 (1.65%) Observium
7 3 (1.65%) Puppet
7 3 (1.65%) ZABBIX
8 2 (1.10%) Nessus
8 2 (1.10%) SolarWinds Orion
8 2 (1.10%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.55%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 123 (67.58%) Microsoft
2 31 (17.03%) VMware
3 12 (6.59%) Apple
3 12 (6.59%) Citrix
3 12 (6.59%) Oracle
4 10 (5.49%) Veeam
5 8 (4.40%) Cisco
5 8 (4.40%) Zerto
6 6 (3.30%) Dell
7 5 (2.75%) SAP
8 4 (2.20%) Aruba
8 4 (2.20%) BroadSoft
8 4 (2.20%) Brocade
8 4 (2.20%) Dell Compellent
8 4 (2.20%) Fortinet
8 4 (2.20%) Palo Alto
8 4 (2.20%) ProCurve
8 4 (2.20%) QNAP
8 4 (2.20%) Synology
8 4 (2.20%) Ubiquiti