VMS
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 644 902 899
Rank change year-on-year +258 -3 -207
Permanent jobs citing VMS 86 170 182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.14% 0.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.94% 0.84% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 43 96 98
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £30,125
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,750 £66,750
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% -11.99% +2.69%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £94,000 £95,000 £101,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +60.00% -5.06%

All Operating Systems
UK

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 with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 9,131 20,345 22,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.23% 16.56% 17.36%
Number of salaries quoted 7,096 13,692 16,198
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,839 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000

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 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for VMS in the UK

VMS
Top 11 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 7 December 2023. 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 +266 82 £55,000 -3.08% 57
London +234 50 £60,000 +7.14% 31
Work from Home +228 38 £58,750 -9.62% 11
UK excluding London +201 22 £55,000 -8.33% 25
South East +123 12 £55,000 +29.41% 11
North of England +137 6 £37,617 -42.13% 5
North West +111 5 £32,734 -49.64% 3
Midlands +129 2 £42,500 -39.29% 4
West Midlands +124 2 £42,500 -39.29% 3
South West +77 2 £72,500 +45.00% 3
North East - 1 £50,000 - 1

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 23 (26.74%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.49%) IIS
3 2 (2.33%) WordPress
4 1 (1.16%) CMS
4 1 (1.16%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (3.49%) Misys Midas
2 2 (2.33%) Adaptiv
3 1 (1.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 47 (54.65%) Azure
2 22 (25.58%) IaaS
3 20 (23.26%) PaaS
4 17 (19.77%) Azure Monitor
5 14 (16.28%) Serverless
6 13 (15.12%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (15.12%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (13.95%) AWS
8 10 (11.63%) GitHub
9 8 (9.30%) Entra ID
10 5 (5.81%) Power Platform
11 4 (4.65%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (3.49%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (3.49%) OneDrive
13 2 (2.33%) Amazon ELB
13 2 (2.33%) Amazon Glacier
13 2 (2.33%) Amazon S3
13 2 (2.33%) Mimecast
13 2 (2.33%) SaaS
13 2 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 32 (37.21%) Firewall
2 25 (29.07%) VPN
3 21 (24.42%) Internet
4 18 (20.93%) LAN
4 18 (20.93%) WAN
5 12 (13.95%) DNS
6 7 (8.14%) SMTP
7 5 (5.81%) TCP/IP
8 4 (4.65%) Network Security
8 4 (4.65%) Wireless
9 3 (3.49%) FTP
10 2 (2.33%) BGP
10 2 (2.33%) DHCP
10 2 (2.33%) HTTP
10 2 (2.33%) IPsec
10 2 (2.33%) iSCSI
10 2 (2.33%) MPLS
10 2 (2.33%) OSPF
10 2 (2.33%) SAN
10 2 (2.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.47%) Azure SQL Database
1 9 (10.47%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.33%) Data Lake
2 2 (2.33%) Power BI
2 2 (2.33%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.16%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (17.44%) Jenkins
2 14 (16.28%) Octopus Deploy
3 13 (15.12%) Git
3 13 (15.12%) GitLab
3 13 (15.12%) TeamCity
4 2 (2.33%) Subversion
4 2 (2.33%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.16%) Cypress.io
General
1 31 (36.05%) Social Skills
2 19 (22.09%) Retail
3 11 (12.79%) Finance
4 6 (6.98%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.49%) Banking
6 3 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.33%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.33%) Games
7 2 (2.33%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.33%) Legal
7 2 (2.33%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.33%) Marketing
7 2 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.16%) Law
8 1 (1.16%) Multimedia
8 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (20.93%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (19.77%) Architect
2 17 (19.77%) Infrastructure Architect
3 13 (15.12%) Microsoft Engineer
4 12 (13.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (11.63%) Support Engineer
6 8 (9.30%) Analyst
6 8 (9.30%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (8.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 7 (8.14%) 3rd Line Support
7 7 (8.14%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 6 (6.98%) Senior
9 5 (5.81%) IT Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
11 3 (3.49%) Consultant
11 3 (3.49%) Desktop Engineer
11 3 (3.49%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 3 (3.49%) Principal Engineer
11 3 (3.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 3 (3.49%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (16.28%) .NET
2 7 (8.14%) ARM Templates
3 3 (3.49%) ASP.NET
4 2 (2.33%) LAMP
5 1 (1.16%) ADO
5 1 (1.16%) CSS
5 1 (1.16%) HTML
5 1 (1.16%) Jest
5 1 (1.16%) LDAP
5 1 (1.16%) Next.js
5 1 (1.16%) Node.js
5 1 (1.16%) PostGIS
5 1 (1.16%) React
5 1 (1.16%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.12%) Mobile App
2 10 (11.63%) Blog
3 6 (6.98%) Data Centre
4 5 (5.81%) Mainframe
4 5 (5.81%) Public Cloud
5 4 (4.65%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (4.65%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.65%) Virtual Team
6 3 (3.49%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.49%) PKI
6 3 (3.49%) Replication
7 2 (2.33%) Clustering
7 2 (2.33%) Credit Risk
7 2 (2.33%) Hedge funds
7 2 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.33%) VAX
8 1 (1.16%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.16%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.16%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 59 (68.60%) Windows
2 34 (39.53%) Linux
3 19 (22.09%) Ubuntu
4 16 (18.60%) Windows Server
5 5 (5.81%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (3.49%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (3.49%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (2.33%) Android
7 2 (2.33%) Solaris
7 2 (2.33%) Unix
7 2 (2.33%) Windows 7
7 2 (2.33%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.16%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.16%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (32.56%) DevSecOps
2 24 (27.91%) Agile
2 24 (27.91%) DevOps
3 17 (19.77%) Actionable Insight
3 17 (19.77%) Application Security
3 17 (19.77%) Collaborative Culture
3 17 (19.77%) Configuration Management
4 15 (17.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 14 (16.28%) CI/CD
6 13 (15.12%) API Management
6 13 (15.12%) Artificial Intelligence
6 13 (15.12%) Build Automation
6 13 (15.12%) Digital Engineering
6 13 (15.12%) Software Engineering
7 12 (13.95%) Open Source
8 11 (12.79%) Continuous Integration
8 11 (12.79%) People Management
8 11 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (10.47%) Migration
10 8 (9.30%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 29 (33.72%) PowerShell
2 16 (18.60%) Bash
2 16 (18.60%) Python
3 13 (15.12%) C#
3 13 (15.12%) Java
3 13 (15.12%) Ruby
4 12 (13.95%) SQL
5 11 (12.79%) Go
5 11 (12.79%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.65%) Perl
7 3 (3.49%) Bicep
7 3 (3.49%) VB
8 2 (2.33%) Groovy
8 2 (2.33%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (29.07%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.95%) Degree
3 11 (12.79%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (11.63%) SC Cleared
5 6 (6.98%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (4.65%) Azure Certification
6 4 (4.65%) MCSA
7 3 (3.49%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.49%) MCSE
8 2 (2.33%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.33%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (1.16%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.65%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.49%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.49%) SLA
3 2 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 46 (53.49%) Active Directory
2 21 (24.42%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (19.77%) Docker
4 13 (15.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (13.95%) Hyper-V
6 6 (6.98%) Firmware
7 4 (4.65%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (3.49%) BitLocker
8 3 (3.49%) vSphere
9 2 (2.33%) NFS
9 2 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (1.16%) KVM
10 1 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 36 (41.86%) Terraform
2 20 (23.26%) Ansible
3 16 (18.60%) Kubernetes
4 14 (16.28%) SCCM
5 11 (12.79%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (8.14%) NetBackup
6 7 (8.14%) SCOM
7 5 (5.81%) SCSM
8 2 (2.33%) BMC PATROL
8 2 (2.33%) Control-M
8 2 (2.33%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (2.33%) Grafana
8 2 (2.33%) Nagios
8 2 (2.33%) Nessus
8 2 (2.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (2.33%) SafeCom
8 2 (2.33%) SolarWinds Orion
8 2 (2.33%) WSUS
9 1 (1.16%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (1.16%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 40 (46.51%) Microsoft
2 15 (17.44%) VMware
3 8 (9.30%) Cisco
4 7 (8.14%) HP
4 7 (8.14%) Veritas
5 6 (6.98%) Citrix
5 6 (6.98%) Oracle
6 5 (5.81%) Juniper
6 5 (5.81%) Meraki
7 4 (4.65%) Dell
7 4 (4.65%) SolarWinds
8 3 (3.49%) Veeam
9 2 (2.33%) Adobe
9 2 (2.33%) Aruba
9 2 (2.33%) JD Edwards
9 2 (2.33%) Nortel
9 2 (2.33%) ProCurve
9 2 (2.33%) Synology
9 2 (2.33%) Wallstreet Suite
9 2 (2.33%) Zerto