VMS Job Trends in Yorkshire

VMS
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring VMS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 149 200
Rank change year-on-year -40 +51 +78
Permanent jobs citing VMS 5 4 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.075% 0.15% 0.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.32% 0.82% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 12
10th Percentile - £33,700 £33,815
25th Percentile £30,500 £38,500 £39,536
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £48,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -16.52% -11.54%
75th Percentile £52,250 £58,500 £64,375
90th Percentile - £63,900 £73,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +17.39% +21.05%

All Operating Systems
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 378 489 785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 5.71% 18.29% 13.24%
Number of salaries quoted 285 293 646
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £26,750 £28,766
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,500 £32,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% -18.75% -5.88%
75th Percentile £45,000 £42,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £63,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £44,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +1.12% -1.11% -14.29%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

VMS job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

VMS
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing VMS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing VMS

VMS
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMS in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2026.

Salary histogram for VMS in Yorkshire

VMS
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
North Yorkshire -4 3 £51,500 - 1
West Yorkshire -31 2 £31,000 -35.42%
VMS
England

VMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) DHCP
2 2 (40.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) LAN
2 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (40.00%) VLAN
2 2 (40.00%) VPN
2 2 (40.00%) WAN
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (40.00%) ERP
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft