VMS Jobs with Work from Home Options

VMS
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for VMS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited VMS over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 440 570 803
Rank change year-on-year +130 +233 -264
Permanent jobs citing VMS 152 81 67
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.45% 0.20% 0.093%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.29% 1.31% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 99 65 42
10th Percentile - £31,250 £37,200
25th Percentile £53,750 £32,500 £56,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £72,750
Median % change year-on-year - -20.96% +21.25%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £83,375
UK median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £69,000
% change year-on-year +21.05% -31.16% +32.69%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

VMS is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,619 6,180 12,844
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.60% 15.41% 17.89%
Number of salaries quoted 3,561 4,522 7,468
10th Percentile £30,313 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +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 23 May 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 (5.92%) IIS
2 4 (2.63%) CMS
2 4 (2.63%) Umbraco
3 3 (1.97%) CloudStack
4 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.66%) JBoss
5 1 (0.66%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 99 (65.13%) Azure
2 76 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 10 (6.58%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (4.61%) Entra ID
5 6 (3.95%) AWS
6 4 (2.63%) GitHub
6 4 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.63%) SaaS
7 3 (1.97%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (1.97%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (1.97%) IaaS
7 3 (1.97%) OCI
7 3 (1.97%) PaaS
8 2 (1.32%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.32%) GCP
8 2 (1.32%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.32%) Serverless
9 1 (0.66%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.66%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 74 (48.68%) Broadband
2 45 (29.61%) Firewall
3 40 (26.32%) VPN
4 38 (25.00%) Internet
4 38 (25.00%) LAN
4 38 (25.00%) WAN
5 14 (9.21%) Network Security
6 10 (6.58%) DNS
7 3 (1.97%) iSCSI
8 2 (1.32%) BGP
8 2 (1.32%) DHCP
8 2 (1.32%) IPsec
8 2 (1.32%) OSPF
9 1 (0.66%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (56.58%) SQL Server
2 77 (50.66%) Azure SQL Database
3 74 (48.68%) Power BI
4 2 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.66%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.63%) Octopus Deploy
1 4 (2.63%) TeamCity
2 3 (1.97%) Git
3 1 (0.66%) Jenkins
General
1 118 (77.63%) Social Skills
2 38 (25.00%) Retail
3 12 (7.89%) Games
4 6 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.29%) Finance
5 5 (3.29%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.97%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.97%) Marketing
7 2 (1.32%) Advertising
7 2 (1.32%) Electronics
7 2 (1.32%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.66%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (0.66%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 74 (48.68%) DBA
1 74 (48.68%) SQL DBA
2 26 (17.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 22 (14.47%) Architect
4 21 (13.82%) Infrastructure Architect
5 17 (11.18%) Senior
5 17 (11.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 15 (9.87%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (7.89%) Analyst
7 12 (7.89%) Vulnerability Analyst
8 8 (5.26%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (4.61%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (3.95%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.29%) Lead
12 4 (2.63%) Cloud Engineer
12 4 (2.63%) Lead DevOps
12 4 (2.63%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 4 (2.63%) Operations Engineer
13 3 (1.97%) Developer
14 2 (1.32%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.26%) .NET
2 3 (1.97%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.32%) HTML
3 2 (1.32%) JSON
3 2 (1.32%) LDAP
3 2 (1.32%) YAML
4 1 (0.66%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.66%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.66%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.66%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (0.66%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (0.66%) CSS
4 1 (0.66%) Entity Framework
4 1 (0.66%) jQuery
4 1 (0.66%) RESTful
4 1 (0.66%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 1 (0.66%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.89%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (3.29%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (1.32%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.32%) PKI
4 2 (1.32%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.66%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.66%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 68 (44.74%) Windows
2 47 (30.92%) Linux
3 38 (25.00%) Ubuntu
4 13 (8.55%) Unix
5 8 (5.26%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.97%) SUSE
6 3 (1.97%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.66%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (55.26%) High Availability
2 78 (51.32%) Performance Tuning
3 77 (50.66%) Collaborative Working
4 76 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 76 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 43 (28.29%) Actionable Insight
5 43 (28.29%) Collaborative Culture
6 41 (26.97%) Agile
7 38 (25.00%) Application Security
7 38 (25.00%) DevSecOps
8 27 (17.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 18 (11.84%) DevOps
10 13 (8.55%) Change Management
11 12 (7.89%) Change Advisory Board
11 12 (7.89%) Cybersecurity
11 12 (7.89%) Vulnerability Management
11 12 (7.89%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 11 (7.24%) CI/CD
12 11 (7.24%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (5.26%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 81 (53.29%) SQL
2 75 (49.34%) T-SQL
3 11 (7.24%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.63%) Python
5 3 (1.97%) C#
5 3 (1.97%) Go
5 3 (1.97%) Perl
6 2 (1.32%) Bicep
6 2 (1.32%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.66%) Bash
7 1 (0.66%) Java
7 1 (0.66%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 75 (49.34%) Microsoft Certification
2 50 (32.89%) Security Cleared
3 36 (23.68%) DV Cleared
4 12 (7.89%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.95%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.63%) Degree
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.66%) HNC
7 1 (0.66%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.63%) QA
2 3 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.32%) SLA
System Software
1 79 (51.97%) Virtual Machines
2 46 (30.26%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.26%) Docker
4 3 (1.97%) Ceph
4 3 (1.97%) Gluster
4 3 (1.97%) KVM
4 3 (1.97%) oVirt
5 2 (1.32%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 43 (28.29%) Terraform
2 42 (27.63%) Ansible
3 14 (9.21%) WSUS
4 12 (7.89%) Kubernetes
4 12 (7.89%) SCCM
5 4 (2.63%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.97%) Grafana
6 3 (1.97%) Graylog
6 3 (1.97%) Observium
6 3 (1.97%) Puppet
6 3 (1.97%) ZABBIX
7 2 (1.32%) Nessus
7 2 (1.32%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 85 (55.92%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.89%) Apple
3 4 (2.63%) Oracle
4 3 (1.97%) SAP
5 2 (1.32%) Cisco
5 2 (1.32%) Dell
5 2 (1.32%) Juniper
5 2 (1.32%) SolarWinds
5 2 (1.32%) VMware
6 1 (0.66%) BMC
6 1 (0.66%) Databricks
6 1 (0.66%) Freshdesk
6 1 (0.66%) Google
6 1 (0.66%) Remedy
6 1 (0.66%) Vermilion