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

6 months to
11 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 634 662 774
Rank change year-on-year +28 +112 +178
Permanent jobs citing VMS 86 268 168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.25% 0.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.22% 1.87% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 56 196 104
10th Percentile £32,000 £38,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £35,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,250 £57,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% +21.05% -26.92%
75th Percentile £73,750 £61,250 £67,500
90th Percentile - £75,750 £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 7,054 14,324 15,174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.60% 13.14% 16.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4,275 10,764 10,330
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 11 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 11 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 0 74 £61,500 +6.96% 125
UK excluding London +67 68 £50,055 -12.95% 111
Midlands +74 26 £72,500 +26.09% 14
West Midlands +82 25 £72,500 +26.09% 12
North of England +22 17 £50,055 -12.95% 23
North West 0 16 £50,055 -12.95% 12
London +54 15 £70,000 +21.74% 35
Scotland +103 10 £33,000 -42.61% 3
Work from Home -8 9 £70,000 +21.74% 67
East of England +33 8 £45,000 -21.74% 20
South East +40 6 £57,500 - 36
Yorkshire +46 1 £31,000 -46.09% 9
East Midlands +33 1 - - 2

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%) Confluence
2 8 (9.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (9.30%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.49%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.49%) nginx
4 2 (2.33%) JOnAS
5 1 (1.16%) IIS
Applications
1 17 (19.77%) Simulink
2 6 (6.98%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 34 (39.53%) Azure
2 27 (31.40%) AWS
3 25 (29.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 25 (29.07%) Amazon EC2
3 25 (29.07%) Amazon ELB
3 25 (29.07%) Amazon S3
3 25 (29.07%) AWS KMS
3 25 (29.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 24 (27.91%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (25.58%) Amazon Glacier
6 9 (10.47%) Entra ID
7 7 (8.14%) Azure Storage
8 6 (6.98%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (5.81%) PaaS
9 5 (5.81%) SaaS
10 4 (4.65%) GitHub
10 4 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (4.65%) IaaS
10 4 (4.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 35 (40.70%) Firewall
2 23 (26.74%) DNS
3 17 (19.77%) Ethernet
3 17 (19.77%) RS-422
4 12 (13.95%) DHCP
4 12 (13.95%) VPN
5 9 (10.47%) FTP
5 9 (10.47%) HTTP
5 9 (10.47%) SMTP
5 9 (10.47%) SSH
6 8 (9.30%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (8.14%) TCP/IP
8 6 (6.98%) Wireless
8 6 (6.98%) Wireless Security
9 5 (5.81%) DKIM
9 5 (5.81%) DMARC
10 3 (3.49%) IMAP
10 3 (3.49%) Network Security
10 3 (3.49%) OpenLDAP
10 3 (3.49%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (29.07%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (5.81%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.49%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (3.49%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.33%) Data Mining
4 2 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.16%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (29.07%) Git
1 25 (29.07%) JIRA
1 25 (29.07%) Vagrant
2 24 (27.91%) Jenkins
3 6 (6.98%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (3.49%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (2.33%) Artifactory
5 2 (2.33%) GitLab
6 1 (1.16%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 17 (19.77%) Social Skills
2 16 (18.60%) Public Sector
3 6 (6.98%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.81%) Finance
5 4 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.49%) Retail
7 2 (2.33%) Aviation
7 2 (2.33%) Electronics
7 2 (2.33%) Legal
7 2 (2.33%) Local Government
7 2 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.16%) Advertising
8 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.16%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 26 (30.23%) Senior
2 25 (29.07%) Systems Engineer
3 20 (23.26%) Support Engineer
4 19 (22.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 18 (20.93%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 12 (13.95%) AWS Engineer
7 11 (12.79%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (12.79%) Infrastructure Support
7 11 (12.79%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 9 (10.47%) Lead
8 9 (10.47%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (9.30%) Administrator
9 8 (9.30%) Systems Administrator
10 7 (8.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 7 (8.14%) 3rd Line Support
10 7 (8.14%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 7 (8.14%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (6.98%) Systems Support
11 6 (6.98%) Systems Support Engineer
12 5 (5.81%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.49%) LDAP
1 3 (3.49%) Pandas
1 3 (3.49%) scikit-learn
2 2 (2.33%) Anaconda
3 1 (1.16%) .NET
3 1 (1.16%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 19 (22.09%) Replication
2 8 (9.30%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (5.81%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.65%) CCTV
5 2 (2.33%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.33%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.16%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.16%) IoT
6 1 (1.16%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.16%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.16%) VAX
6 1 (1.16%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 42 (48.84%) Windows
2 35 (40.70%) Linux
3 10 (11.63%) Amazon Linux
4 8 (9.30%) Windows Server
5 6 (6.98%) Ubuntu
6 5 (5.81%) Unix
7 3 (3.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (2.33%) Mac OS
8 2 (2.33%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (2.33%) Windows 10
8 2 (2.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (43.02%) DevOps
2 27 (31.40%) Cloud Security
2 27 (31.40%) Configuration Management
3 22 (25.58%) Change Management
4 18 (20.93%) Contract Negotiation
4 18 (20.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 17 (19.77%) Business Strategy
5 17 (19.77%) Requirements Management
5 17 (19.77%) Supplier Management
5 17 (19.77%) Systems Engineering
6 14 (16.28%) Patch Management
7 13 (15.12%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (11.63%) Agile
9 9 (10.47%) CI/CD
9 9 (10.47%) Incident Response
9 9 (10.47%) Network Virtualisation
10 8 (9.30%) Project Management
10 8 (9.30%) Storage Management
11 7 (8.14%) Cybersecurity
12 6 (6.98%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 45 (52.33%) PowerShell
2 29 (33.72%) Python
3 24 (27.91%) Groovy
4 10 (11.63%) Java
4 10 (11.63%) Perl
4 10 (11.63%) SQL
5 6 (6.98%) Bash
6 5 (5.81%) Shell Script
7 3 (3.49%) Ruby
8 1 (1.16%) Bicep
8 1 (1.16%) COBOL
8 1 (1.16%) PHP
Qualifications
1 23 (26.74%) Security Cleared
2 21 (24.42%) SC Cleared
3 17 (19.77%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (16.28%) Degree
5 11 (12.79%) Azure Certification
6 5 (5.81%) AWS Certification
6 5 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.16%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.16%) ISSEP
8 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.16%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.33%) Accessibility
1 2 (2.33%) GDPR
2 1 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.16%) NIST
2 1 (1.16%) PSD2
System Software
1 42 (48.84%) Active Directory
2 17 (19.77%) DFS Replication
3 16 (18.60%) Docker
4 13 (15.12%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (11.63%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (9.30%) Hyper-V
7 5 (5.81%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (3.49%) Dovecot
8 3 (3.49%) Postfix
8 3 (3.49%) Squid
9 2 (2.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (40.70%) Terraform
2 26 (30.23%) Grafana
3 24 (27.91%) Prometheus
4 18 (20.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (18.60%) Ansible
6 9 (10.47%) Kubernetes
7 6 (6.98%) Nessus
7 6 (6.98%) Proxmox
8 5 (5.81%) Nagios
9 3 (3.49%) Packer
10 2 (2.33%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (2.33%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (2.33%) Puppet
10 2 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (1.16%) CASB
11 1 (1.16%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 24 (27.91%) ServiceNow
2 21 (24.42%) Microsoft
3 15 (17.44%) Juniper
4 13 (15.12%) VMware
5 5 (5.81%) Apple
6 3 (3.49%) Cisco
6 3 (3.49%) Jaspersoft
6 3 (3.49%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.33%) arcserve
7 2 (2.33%) Citrix
7 2 (2.33%) Commvault
7 2 (2.33%) EMC
7 2 (2.33%) Google
7 2 (2.33%) Meraki
7 2 (2.33%) New Relic
7 2 (2.33%) Nimsoft
7 2 (2.33%) Oracle
7 2 (2.33%) Sage
7 2 (2.33%) Zerto
8 1 (1.16%) Qualys