VMS Jobs with Work from Home Options

VMS
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 441 519 856
Rank change year-on-year +78 +337 -258
Permanent jobs citing VMS 92 60 56
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.33% 0.18% 0.071%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.50% 1.19% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 64 39 28
10th Percentile £48,750 £31,250 £37,275
25th Percentile £53,750 £34,469 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £49,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.58% -17.08% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £81,000 £82,625
UK median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +21.05% -20.83% -

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

VMS falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,681 5,038 13,892
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.18% 15.35% 17.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,659 3,865 7,674
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £30,538
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +5.00%

VMS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing VMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

VMS trend for jobs with a WFH option

VMS
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing VMS.

VMS salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

VMS
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing VMS over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

VMS salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (9.78%) IIS
2 4 (4.35%) CMS
2 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.35%) Umbraco
3 3 (3.26%) CloudStack
4 2 (2.17%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.09%) JBoss
5 1 (1.09%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 64 (69.57%) Azure
2 43 (46.74%) Power Platform
3 7 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (7.61%) Entra ID
4 6 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (5.43%) AWS
6 4 (4.35%) GitHub
6 4 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (4.35%) SaaS
7 3 (3.26%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (3.26%) OCI
8 2 (2.17%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.17%) IaaS
9 1 (1.09%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (1.09%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.09%) GCP
9 1 (1.09%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.09%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 42 (45.65%) Broadband
2 34 (36.96%) Firewall
3 27 (29.35%) Internet
3 27 (29.35%) LAN
3 27 (29.35%) VPN
3 27 (29.35%) WAN
4 6 (6.52%) DNS
5 3 (3.26%) iSCSI
6 2 (2.17%) DHCP
7 1 (1.09%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (58.70%) SQL Server
2 45 (48.91%) Azure SQL Database
3 42 (45.65%) Power BI
4 1 (1.09%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.09%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (4.35%) Octopus Deploy
1 4 (4.35%) TeamCity
2 3 (3.26%) Git
General
1 72 (78.26%) Social Skills
2 27 (29.35%) Retail
3 5 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.26%) Finance
4 3 (3.26%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.17%) Advertising
6 1 (1.09%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (1.09%) Local Government
6 1 (1.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 42 (45.65%) DBA
1 42 (45.65%) SQL DBA
2 25 (27.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 18 (19.57%) Senior
3 18 (19.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (13.04%) Azure Engineer
5 10 (10.87%) Architect
6 9 (9.78%) Infrastructure Architect
7 6 (6.52%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) Lead
9 4 (4.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Lead DevOps
9 4 (4.35%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Operations Engineer
10 2 (2.17%) Azure Consultant
10 2 (2.17%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 2 (2.17%) IT Systems Administrator
10 2 (2.17%) Junior IT Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.52%) .NET
2 2 (2.17%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.17%) JSON
3 1 (1.09%) CSS
3 1 (1.09%) HTML
3 1 (1.09%) jQuery
3 1 (1.09%) Twitter Bootstrap
3 1 (1.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.43%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.09%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (48.91%) Windows
2 31 (33.70%) Linux
3 27 (29.35%) Ubuntu
4 8 (8.70%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.26%) SUSE
5 3 (3.26%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 2 (2.17%) Apple iOS
6 2 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.09%) Solaris
7 1 (1.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (54.35%) High Availability
2 46 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 44 (47.83%) Disaster Recovery
4 42 (45.65%) Business Intelligence
4 42 (45.65%) Collaborative Working
5 31 (33.70%) Collaborative Culture
6 29 (31.52%) Agile
7 27 (29.35%) Application Security
7 27 (29.35%) DevSecOps
8 26 (28.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 19 (20.65%) Actionable Insight
10 14 (15.22%) DevOps
11 11 (11.96%) CI/CD
12 10 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
13 6 (6.52%) Continuous Improvement
14 5 (5.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 4 (4.35%) Deployment Automation
15 4 (4.35%) Process Improvement
15 4 (4.35%) Release Management
15 4 (4.35%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 47 (51.09%) SQL
2 43 (46.74%) T-SQL
3 7 (7.61%) PowerShell
4 4 (4.35%) Python
5 3 (3.26%) Go
5 3 (3.26%) Perl
6 1 (1.09%) Bash
6 1 (1.09%) C#
6 1 (1.09%) Java
6 1 (1.09%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.09%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 43 (46.74%) Microsoft Certification
2 28 (30.43%) Security Cleared
3 27 (29.35%) DV Cleared
4 7 (7.61%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.17%) Degree
6 1 (1.09%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.09%) HNC
6 1 (1.09%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.35%) QA
2 3 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.09%) SLA
System Software
1 49 (53.26%) Virtual Machines
2 35 (38.04%) Active Directory
3 5 (5.43%) Docker
4 4 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (3.26%) Ceph
5 3 (3.26%) Gluster
5 3 (3.26%) KVM
5 3 (3.26%) oVirt
6 2 (2.17%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (33.70%) Ansible
2 29 (31.52%) Terraform
3 8 (8.70%) Kubernetes
4 3 (3.26%) Graylog
4 3 (3.26%) Observium
4 3 (3.26%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.26%) Puppet
4 3 (3.26%) ZABBIX
5 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.09%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 52 (56.52%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.35%) Oracle
3 2 (2.17%) VMware
4 1 (1.09%) BMC
4 1 (1.09%) Databricks
4 1 (1.09%) Google
4 1 (1.09%) Remedy