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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 154 179
Rank change year-on-year -33 +25 +28
Permanent jobs citing VMS 8 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.11% 0.029% 0.038%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.00% 0.20% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 8 1 1
10th Percentile £30,500 - -
25th Percentile £42,313 £30,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,911 £31,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +64.23% -4.62% -45.83%
75th Percentile £52,250 £31,500 £33,750
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £52,500 £63,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +5.53%

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 401 492 523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 5.35% 14.48% 10.03%
Number of salaries quoted 326 363 366
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £32,500 £40,591
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -19.93% +1.48%
75th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £51,250
90th Percentile £69,195 £67,250 £62,875
England median annual salary £45,000 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.43% -17.00% -4.76%

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 29 August 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 29 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
North Yorkshire - 5 £51,500 -
West Yorkshire -32 3 £31,000 - 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (75.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (12.50%) Azure App Service
3 1 (12.50%) IaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Nutanix
3 1 (12.50%) PaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) DNS
2 3 (37.50%) LAN
2 3 (37.50%) WAN
3 2 (25.00%) DHCP
3 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (25.00%) VLAN
3 2 (25.00%) VPN
4 1 (12.50%) Network Security
4 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Security Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
1 5 (62.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (25.00%) ERP
3 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) DBS Check
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (12.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Meraki
2 1 (12.50%) VMware