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 9 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 643 646 752
Rank change year-on-year +3 +106 +211
Permanent jobs citing VMS 84 269 169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.25% 0.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.19% 1.89% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 55 195 105
10th Percentile £32,000 £38,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £35,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +21.05% -26.92%
75th Percentile £73,750 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,500 £76,150 £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 7,077 14,246 15,295
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.56% 13.17% 16.38%
Number of salaries quoted 4,291 10,724 10,346
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £91,250
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 9 June 2025.

Salary histogram for VMS in the UK

VMS
Top 13 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 9 June 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 +5 72 £63,000 +9.57% 144
UK excluding London +59 68 £50,055 -12.95% 125
Midlands +80 27 £72,500 +26.09% 17
West Midlands +76 25 £72,500 +26.09% 12
North of England +25 17 £50,055 -12.95% 28
North West -18 16 £50,055 -12.95% 17
London +63 13 £72,500 +26.09% 41
Work from Home -23 11 £70,000 +21.74% 75
Scotland +98 10 £33,000 -42.61% 2
East of England +34 8 £45,000 -21.74% 25
South East +50 6 £57,500 - 37
East Midlands +34 2 £80,000 +39.13% 5
Yorkshire +41 1 £31,000 -46.09% 9

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 (27.38%) Confluence
2 8 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (9.52%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.57%) nginx
4 2 (2.38%) JOnAS
5 1 (1.19%) IIS
Applications
1 17 (20.24%) Simulink
2 6 (7.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 34 (40.48%) Azure
2 29 (34.52%) AWS
3 25 (29.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 25 (29.76%) Amazon EC2
3 25 (29.76%) Amazon ELB
3 25 (29.76%) Amazon S3
3 25 (29.76%) AWS KMS
3 25 (29.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 24 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (26.19%) Amazon Glacier
6 8 (9.52%) Entra ID
7 6 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (7.14%) Azure Storage
8 5 (5.95%) SaaS
9 4 (4.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 4 (4.76%) GitHub
9 4 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (4.76%) PaaS
9 4 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 34 (40.48%) Firewall
2 23 (27.38%) DNS
3 17 (20.24%) Ethernet
3 17 (20.24%) RS-422
4 12 (14.29%) DHCP
4 12 (14.29%) VPN
5 9 (10.71%) FTP
5 9 (10.71%) HTTP
5 9 (10.71%) SMTP
5 9 (10.71%) SSH
6 8 (9.52%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (8.33%) TCP/IP
8 6 (7.14%) Wireless
8 6 (7.14%) Wireless Security
9 5 (5.95%) DKIM
9 5 (5.95%) DMARC
10 3 (3.57%) IMAP
10 3 (3.57%) Network Security
10 3 (3.57%) OpenLDAP
10 3 (3.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (29.76%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.38%) Data Mining
4 2 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.19%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (29.76%) Git
1 25 (29.76%) Jenkins
1 25 (29.76%) JIRA
1 25 (29.76%) Vagrant
2 6 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (3.57%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (3.57%) GitLab
4 2 (2.38%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 16 (19.05%) Public Sector
1 16 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
3 5 (5.95%) Finance
4 3 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.38%) Electronics
5 2 (2.38%) Legal
5 2 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.38%) Retail
6 1 (1.19%) Advertising
6 1 (1.19%) Aviation
6 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.19%) Front Office
6 1 (1.19%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 25 (29.76%) Systems Engineer
2 24 (28.57%) Senior
3 20 (23.81%) Support Engineer
4 19 (22.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 18 (21.43%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 13 (15.48%) AWS Engineer
6 13 (15.48%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (13.10%) Infrastructure Support
7 11 (13.10%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 9 (10.71%) Lead
8 9 (10.71%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (9.52%) Administrator
9 8 (9.52%) Systems Administrator
10 7 (8.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 7 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support
10 7 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 7 (8.33%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
11 6 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 6 (7.14%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.57%) LDAP
1 3 (3.57%) Pandas
1 3 (3.57%) scikit-learn
2 2 (2.38%) Anaconda
3 1 (1.19%) .NET
3 1 (1.19%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.19%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (1.19%) RESTful
3 1 (1.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (22.62%) Replication
2 8 (9.52%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (3.57%) CCTV
3 3 (3.57%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.57%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.38%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.19%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.19%) IoT
5 1 (1.19%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.19%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.19%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.19%) VAX
5 1 (1.19%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 41 (48.81%) Windows
2 33 (39.29%) Linux
3 10 (11.90%) Amazon Linux
4 8 (9.52%) Windows Server
5 6 (7.14%) Ubuntu
6 5 (5.95%) Unix
7 2 (2.38%) Mac OS
7 2 (2.38%) Windows 10
7 2 (2.38%) Windows 7
8 1 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (46.43%) DevOps
2 28 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 27 (32.14%) Configuration Management
4 22 (26.19%) Change Management
5 18 (21.43%) Contract Negotiation
5 18 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 17 (20.24%) Business Strategy
6 17 (20.24%) Requirements Management
6 17 (20.24%) Supplier Management
6 17 (20.24%) Systems Engineering
7 14 (16.67%) Patch Management
8 13 (15.48%) Platform Engineering
9 11 (13.10%) CI/CD
10 10 (11.90%) Incident Response
11 9 (10.71%) Agile
12 8 (9.52%) Network Virtualisation
13 7 (8.33%) Project Management
14 6 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
14 6 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
14 6 (7.14%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (54.76%) PowerShell
2 30 (35.71%) Python
3 24 (28.57%) Groovy
4 10 (11.90%) Java
4 10 (11.90%) Perl
5 9 (10.71%) SQL
6 7 (8.33%) Bash
7 5 (5.95%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.57%) Ruby
9 1 (1.19%) Bicep
9 1 (1.19%) COBOL
9 1 (1.19%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (26.19%) Security Cleared
2 21 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 17 (20.24%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (13.10%) Degree
5 10 (11.90%) Azure Certification
6 6 (7.14%) AWS Certification
7 3 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.19%) CCSP
8 1 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.19%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.57%) GDPR
2 2 (2.38%) NIST
3 1 (1.19%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.19%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.19%) PSD2
3 1 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (48.81%) Active Directory
2 17 (20.24%) DFS Replication
3 16 (19.05%) Docker
4 11 (13.10%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (11.90%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (9.52%) Hyper-V
7 5 (5.95%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (3.57%) Dovecot
8 3 (3.57%) Postfix
8 3 (3.57%) Squid
9 2 (2.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (44.05%) Terraform
2 24 (28.57%) Grafana
2 24 (28.57%) Prometheus
3 18 (21.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (20.24%) Ansible
5 11 (13.10%) Kubernetes
6 6 (7.14%) Nessus
6 6 (7.14%) Proxmox
7 4 (4.76%) Packer
8 3 (3.57%) Nagios
9 2 (2.38%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (2.38%) Puppet
9 2 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (1.19%) CASB
10 1 (1.19%) Consul
10 1 (1.19%) Istio
10 1 (1.19%) linkerd
10 1 (1.19%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 24 (28.57%) ServiceNow
2 21 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 15 (17.86%) Juniper
4 11 (13.10%) VMware
5 5 (5.95%) Apple
6 3 (3.57%) Google
6 3 (3.57%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (2.38%) arcserve
7 2 (2.38%) Cisco
7 2 (2.38%) Citrix
7 2 (2.38%) Meraki
7 2 (2.38%) New Relic
7 2 (2.38%) Nimsoft
7 2 (2.38%) Sage
8 1 (1.19%) NVIDIA
8 1 (1.19%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.19%) Red Hat