VMS Job Trends in Wales

VMS
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring VMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 - 88
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Permanent jobs citing VMS 2 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.075% - 0.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.34% - 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £33,300
25th Percentile - - £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 - £38,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.68%
75th Percentile - - £41,750
90th Percentile - - £43,700
UK median annual salary £56,250 £62,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +19.05% +7.97%

All Operating Systems
Wales

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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 149 76 172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 5.57% 9.36% 10.46%
Number of salaries quoted 117 68 126
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,223 £23,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £27,698
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,062 £41,067
Median % change year-on-year -20.10% +21.90% +19.90%
75th Percentile £52,500 £74,063 £53,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £79,125 £60,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -13.40% -7.62%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VMS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

VMS job vacancy trend in Wales

VMS
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing VMS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing VMS

VMS
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the Wales region over the 6 months to 14 August 2026. 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
South Wales - 2 £35,000 - 1
VMS
UK

VMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 2 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) 3rd Line Technical Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) 3rd Line Technical Support
1 2 (100.00%) Support Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Support
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 2 (100.00%) Major Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) MaaS360
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Apple
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft