VMS Jobs in the UK excluding London

VMS
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 582 648 688
Rank change year-on-year +66 +40 -55
Permanent jobs citing VMS 187 88 158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.16% 0.21%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.74% 0.92% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 165 67 38
10th Percentile £38,750 £35,400 £35,550
25th Percentile £48,750 £41,553 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -24.00% +28.87%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £78,500 £80,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £67,000
% change year-on-year +21.05% -29.10% +27.62%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 10,738 9,590 15,054
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.13% 16.96% 20.35%
Number of salaries quoted 8,185 5,970 9,259
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £73,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing VMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for VMS in the UK excluding London

VMS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VMS in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for VMS in the UK excluding London

VMS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for VMS in the UK excluding London

VMS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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 of England +66 55 £57,500 -11.54% 16
South East -7 45 £57,500 +21.05% 6
North West +17 36 £57,500 -11.54% 9
Midlands +10 33 £57,500 +48.39% 7
South West -9 21 £57,500 +24.32% 3
East Midlands - 19 £57,500 - 5
Yorkshire +70 14 £57,500 -11.54% 6
East of England +11 14 £57,500 - 1
West Midlands -10 14 £57,500 +48.39% 2
Scotland -52 14 £57,500 +1.77% 2
North East - 5 £57,500 - 1
Wales +10 4 £45,000 -2.62%
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
VMS
UK

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 24 (12.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (9.63%) SharePoint
3 15 (8.02%) IIS
4 7 (3.74%) Umbraco
5 5 (2.67%) JBoss
5 5 (2.67%) WebSphere
6 4 (2.14%) CMS
6 4 (2.14%) WordPress
7 3 (1.60%) CloudStack
8 2 (1.07%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.53%) JOnAS
Applications
1 5 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.60%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 14 (7.49%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.07%) Shopify
3 1 (0.53%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 137 (73.26%) Azure
2 78 (41.71%) Power Platform
3 33 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (14.44%) Entra ID
5 20 (10.70%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (9.63%) OneDrive
7 14 (7.49%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (5.35%) AWS
9 6 (3.21%) Azure App Service
10 5 (2.67%) Nutanix
11 4 (2.14%) GitHub
11 4 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.14%) PaaS
11 4 (2.14%) SaaS
12 3 (1.60%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (1.60%) Figma
12 3 (1.60%) OCI
13 2 (1.07%) GCP
13 2 (1.07%) Mimecast
13 2 (1.07%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 74 (39.57%) Broadband
2 34 (18.18%) Firewall
3 27 (14.44%) DNS
4 17 (9.09%) WAN
5 14 (7.49%) DHCP
5 14 (7.49%) Network Security
6 13 (6.95%) LAN
6 13 (6.95%) NAS
7 11 (5.88%) iSCSI
8 9 (4.81%) VPN
9 8 (4.28%) Fibre Channel
9 8 (4.28%) TCP/IP
10 7 (3.74%) SAN
11 4 (2.14%) SD-WAN
11 4 (2.14%) SNMP
11 4 (2.14%) VLAN
11 4 (2.14%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (2.14%) Wireless
11 4 (2.14%) WLAN
12 3 (1.60%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (55.08%) SQL Server
2 81 (43.32%) Azure SQL Database
3 76 (40.64%) Power BI
4 5 (2.67%) Oracle Database
5 4 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.53%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.53%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.53%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (7.49%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (3.21%) Git
3 4 (2.14%) Octopus Deploy
3 4 (2.14%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.53%) Jenkins
General
1 104 (55.61%) Social Skills
2 16 (8.56%) Law
3 15 (8.02%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.35%) Finance
4 10 (5.35%) Games
4 10 (5.35%) Manufacturing
5 8 (4.28%) Electronics
5 8 (4.28%) Legal
6 7 (3.74%) Retail
6 7 (3.74%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.67%) Marketing
8 4 (2.14%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.60%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.07%) Advertising
10 2 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.07%) Military
11 1 (0.53%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.53%) Local Government
11 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (39.57%) DBA
1 74 (39.57%) SQL DBA
2 21 (11.23%) Developer
3 20 (10.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (10.16%) Azure Engineer
5 14 (7.49%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 14 (7.49%) Dynamics AX Developer
6 11 (5.88%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (5.88%) Senior
7 10 (5.35%) Analyst
7 10 (5.35%) Support Engineer
7 10 (5.35%) Vulnerability Analyst
8 9 (4.81%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (4.28%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 8 (4.28%) Software Support Engineer
10 7 (3.74%) Systems Engineer
10 7 (3.74%) Technical Engineer
11 6 (3.21%) IT Manager
11 6 (3.21%) Lead
11 6 (3.21%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.02%) .NET
2 5 (2.67%) HTML
3 4 (2.14%) .NET Core
3 4 (2.14%) ARM Templates
3 4 (2.14%) CSS
3 4 (2.14%) JSON
3 4 (2.14%) LAMP
3 4 (2.14%) LDAP
3 4 (2.14%) REST
3 4 (2.14%) Twitter Bootstrap
3 4 (2.14%) Vue
3 4 (2.14%) XML
3 4 (2.14%) YAML
4 3 (1.60%) HTML5
4 3 (1.60%) Razor View Engine
4 3 (1.60%) Sass
4 3 (1.60%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (0.53%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (0.53%) Entity Framework
5 1 (0.53%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.49%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (4.28%) Data Centre
3 6 (3.21%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.21%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.67%) Replication
5 4 (2.14%) Chip and PIN
5 4 (2.14%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.14%) IoT
5 4 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.14%) Mobile Payment
5 4 (2.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (1.07%) CCTV
6 2 (1.07%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.53%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.53%) PKI
7 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 61 (32.62%) Windows
2 28 (14.97%) Windows Server
3 18 (9.63%) Linux
4 16 (8.56%) Windows 10
5 10 (5.35%) Unix
6 6 (3.21%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (2.14%) Ubuntu
7 4 (2.14%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.60%) SUSE
8 3 (1.60%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 3 (1.60%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.07%) Android
9 2 (1.07%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.07%) Mac OS
9 2 (1.07%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (44.92%) Collaborative Working
2 83 (44.39%) High Availability
3 78 (41.71%) Business Intelligence
3 78 (41.71%) Performance Tuning
4 76 (40.64%) Disaster Recovery
5 44 (23.53%) DevOps
6 38 (20.32%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (10.70%) Cybersecurity
7 20 (10.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 16 (8.56%) Customer Service
8 16 (8.56%) Project Management
9 14 (7.49%) ERP
9 14 (7.49%) Migration
10 12 (6.42%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (6.42%) ITIL
11 10 (5.35%) Change Advisory Board
11 10 (5.35%) Change Management
11 10 (5.35%) Configuration Management
11 10 (5.35%) Vulnerability Management
11 10 (5.35%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 100 (53.48%) SQL
2 75 (40.11%) T-SQL
3 16 (8.56%) PowerShell
4 6 (3.21%) C#
4 6 (3.21%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.67%) Java
6 4 (2.14%) Bicep
6 4 (2.14%) Python
7 3 (1.60%) Go
7 3 (1.60%) Perl
8 1 (0.53%) PHP
8 1 (0.53%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 90 (48.13%) Microsoft Certification
2 23 (12.30%) Degree
3 18 (9.63%) Azure Certification
4 13 (6.95%) Security Cleared
5 10 (5.35%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.67%) HNC
7 5 (2.67%) HND
8 2 (1.07%) MCSA
8 2 (1.07%) MCSE
9 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.53%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.74%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.14%) QA
3 3 (1.60%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.07%) GDPR
4 2 (1.07%) SLA
System Software
1 84 (44.92%) Virtual Machines
2 40 (21.39%) Active Directory
3 16 (8.56%) Hyper-V
4 14 (7.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (5.35%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (3.21%) Docker
6 6 (3.21%) vSphere
7 4 (2.14%) pfSense
8 3 (1.60%) Ceph
8 3 (1.60%) Gluster
8 3 (1.60%) KVM
8 3 (1.60%) oVirt
8 3 (1.60%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.02%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (7.49%) SCCM
4 11 (5.88%) WSUS
5 5 (2.67%) Terraform
6 4 (2.14%) Ansible
6 4 (2.14%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.60%) Graylog
7 3 (1.60%) Observium
7 3 (1.60%) Puppet
7 3 (1.60%) ZABBIX
8 2 (1.07%) Grafana
8 2 (1.07%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.53%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.53%) Nessus
9 1 (0.53%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 127 (67.91%) Microsoft
2 32 (17.11%) VMware
3 13 (6.95%) Citrix
4 12 (6.42%) Apple
4 12 (6.42%) Oracle
5 10 (5.35%) Veeam
6 8 (4.28%) Zerto
7 7 (3.74%) Cisco
8 5 (2.67%) Dell
8 5 (2.67%) SAP
8 5 (2.67%) Ubiquiti
9 4 (2.14%) Aruba
9 4 (2.14%) BroadSoft
9 4 (2.14%) Brocade
9 4 (2.14%) Dell Compellent
9 4 (2.14%) Fortinet
9 4 (2.14%) Palo Alto
9 4 (2.14%) ProCurve
9 4 (2.14%) QNAP
9 4 (2.14%) Synology