VMS
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 585 646 745
Rank change year-on-year +61 +99 +232
Permanent jobs citing VMS 150 253 152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.25% 0.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.03% 1.90% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 92 189 94
10th Percentile £38,675 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £48,869 £48,750 £35,659
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £57,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.95% +21.05% -26.92%
75th Percentile £73,750 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile - £73,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £57,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -12.95% +21.05% -26.92%

All Operating Systems
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 7,405 13,293 14,174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.32% 13.29% 16.80%
Number of salaries quoted 4,639 9,894 9,935
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £27,250
25th Percentile £31,750 £31,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £46,293 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.19% -11.82% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% -

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VMS in the UK

VMS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VMS.

Salary trend for VMS in the UK

VMS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMS over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Salary histogram for VMS in the UK

VMS
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the UK over the 6 months to 18 July 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
England +38 133 £50,055 -12.95% 76
UK excluding London +77 126 £50,055 -12.95% 63
North of England +39 58 £50,055 -12.95% 11
North West +29 57 £50,055 -12.95% 3
Midlands +65 39 £72,500 +26.09% 11
West Midlands +82 38 £72,500 +26.09% 8
London +55 15 £67,500 -2.81% 16
South East +23 12 £58,250 +1.30% 11
Scotland +88 9 £33,000 -42.61% 3
East of England +18 8 £45,000 -21.74% 16
Work from Home -42 7 £62,500 +8.70% 37
South West +71 1 £75,000 +30.43% 11
Yorkshire +25 1 £31,000 -46.09% 6
East Midlands +10 1 - - 3

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 36 (24.00%) Confluence
2 9 (6.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (6.00%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.67%) nginx
4 3 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.00%) JOnAS
5 1 (0.67%) IIS
Applications
1 61 (40.67%) Simulink
2 7 (4.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 47 (31.33%) Azure
2 42 (28.00%) AWS
3 38 (25.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 38 (25.33%) Amazon EC2
3 38 (25.33%) Amazon ELB
3 38 (25.33%) Amazon S3
3 38 (25.33%) AWS KMS
3 38 (25.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 34 (22.67%) Amazon Glacier
5 26 (17.33%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (10.00%) Entra ID
7 13 (8.67%) PaaS
8 11 (7.33%) Azure Storage
9 9 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (5.33%) IaaS
11 7 (4.67%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (4.00%) GitHub
12 6 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (4.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 61 (40.67%) Ethernet
1 61 (40.67%) RS-422
2 58 (38.67%) Firewall
3 34 (22.67%) DNS
4 19 (12.67%) FTP
4 19 (12.67%) HTTP
4 19 (12.67%) SMTP
4 19 (12.67%) SSH
5 13 (8.67%) DHCP
6 12 (8.00%) VPN
7 9 (6.00%) Network Security
7 9 (6.00%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (5.33%) TCP/IP
9 6 (4.00%) Wireless
9 6 (4.00%) Wireless Security
10 5 (3.33%) DKIM
10 5 (3.33%) DMARC
10 5 (3.33%) VLAN
11 4 (2.67%) IMAP
11 4 (2.67%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (25.33%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (2.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.67%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 39 (26.00%) Jenkins
2 38 (25.33%) Git
2 38 (25.33%) Vagrant
3 36 (24.00%) JIRA
4 10 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (2.00%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (2.00%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.33%) Artifactory
General
1 25 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 22 (14.67%) Social Skills
3 11 (7.33%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (4.67%) Finance
5 5 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.00%) Retail
7 2 (1.33%) Aviation
7 2 (1.33%) Electronics
7 2 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.33%) Legal
7 2 (1.33%) Local Government
8 1 (0.67%) Advertising
8 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.67%) Front Office
8 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 69 (46.00%) Systems Engineer
2 46 (30.67%) Senior
3 40 (26.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 24 (16.00%) Support Engineer
5 23 (15.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 21 (14.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (10.67%) AWS Engineer
8 14 (9.33%) Infrastructure Support
8 14 (9.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 14 (9.33%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (6.67%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (6.00%) Lead
11 8 (5.33%) Security Engineer
12 7 (4.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 7 (4.67%) 3rd Line Support
12 7 (4.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 7 (4.67%) Cloud Engineer
13 6 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
13 6 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 6 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.67%) LDAP
2 3 (2.00%) .NET
2 3 (2.00%) ARM Templates
2 3 (2.00%) Pandas
2 3 (2.00%) scikit-learn
3 2 (1.33%) Anaconda
Miscellaneous
1 28 (18.67%) Replication
2 8 (5.33%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (4.00%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.67%) CCTV
4 4 (2.67%) Cyber Defence
4 4 (2.67%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.67%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.67%) IoT
5 1 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.67%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.67%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.67%) VAX
5 1 (0.67%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 55 (36.67%) Windows
2 44 (29.33%) Linux
3 20 (13.33%) Amazon Linux
4 8 (5.33%) Windows Server
5 7 (4.67%) Ubuntu
6 5 (3.33%) Unix
7 3 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (2.00%) Windows 10
7 3 (2.00%) Windows 7
8 2 (1.33%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (41.33%) Contract Negotiation
2 61 (40.67%) Business Strategy
2 61 (40.67%) Requirements Management
2 61 (40.67%) Supplier Management
2 61 (40.67%) Systems Engineering
3 53 (35.33%) DevOps
4 45 (30.00%) Cloud Security
5 40 (26.67%) Configuration Management
6 34 (22.67%) Change Management
7 25 (16.67%) Patch Management
8 22 (14.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 21 (14.00%) Platform Engineering
10 14 (9.33%) Agile
10 14 (9.33%) Incident Response
11 13 (8.67%) CI/CD
12 12 (8.00%) Network Virtualisation
13 11 (7.33%) Cybersecurity
14 9 (6.00%) Infrastructure as Code
15 8 (5.33%) Problem-Solving
15 8 (5.33%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (42.00%) PowerShell
2 44 (29.33%) Python
3 37 (24.67%) Groovy
4 19 (12.67%) Java
4 19 (12.67%) Perl
4 19 (12.67%) SQL
5 6 (4.00%) Bash
6 5 (3.33%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.67%) Ruby
8 1 (0.67%) Bicep
8 1 (0.67%) C#
8 1 (0.67%) COBOL
8 1 (0.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 61 (40.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 34 (22.67%) Security Cleared
3 32 (21.33%) SC Cleared
4 22 (14.67%) Azure Certification
5 19 (12.67%) Degree
6 10 (6.67%) AWS Certification
7 5 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.67%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (2.67%) ISSEP
8 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.67%) SSCP
9 2 (1.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.33%) GDPR
2 4 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.67%) NIST
3 2 (1.33%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.67%) PSD2
System Software
1 61 (40.67%) Active Directory
2 28 (18.67%) Docker
3 25 (16.67%) DFS Replication
4 16 (10.67%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (6.00%) Hyper-V
6 8 (5.33%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (2.67%) Dovecot
8 4 (2.67%) Postfix
8 4 (2.67%) Squid
Systems Management
1 51 (34.00%) Terraform
2 37 (24.67%) Grafana
3 35 (23.33%) Prometheus
4 19 (12.67%) Ansible
5 18 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (6.00%) Kubernetes
7 7 (4.67%) Nessus
7 7 (4.67%) Proxmox
8 5 (3.33%) Nagios
9 4 (2.67%) CASB
10 3 (2.00%) Packer
11 2 (1.33%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (0.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 38 (25.33%) ServiceNow
2 28 (18.67%) Microsoft
3 18 (12.00%) Juniper
4 11 (7.33%) VMware
5 5 (3.33%) Apple
6 4 (2.67%) Cisco
6 4 (2.67%) Forcepoint
6 4 (2.67%) Jaspersoft
6 4 (2.67%) Qualys
7 3 (2.00%) arcserve
7 3 (2.00%) Nimsoft
7 3 (2.00%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.00%) Sage
8 2 (1.33%) Citrix
8 2 (1.33%) Commvault
8 2 (1.33%) EMC
8 2 (1.33%) Oracle
8 2 (1.33%) Zerto
9 1 (0.67%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.67%) Palo Alto