VMS Jobs in the North West

VMS
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 276 277 327
Rank change year-on-year +1 +50 -62
Permanent jobs citing VMS 37 13 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.32% 0.18% 0.16%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.92% 1.16% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 31 13 11
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,625 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +30.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £65,000 - £72,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £69,000
% change year-on-year +21.05% -31.16% +20.00%

All Operating Systems
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,265 1,123 1,715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 11.09% 15.47% 17.28%
Number of salaries quoted 906 732 1,072
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,000 £23,000
25th Percentile £30,126 £32,500 £27,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £57,682
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing VMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for VMS in the North West

VMS
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VMS in the North West.

Salary trend for VMS in the North West

VMS
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMS in the North West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for VMS in the North West

VMS
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the North West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Manchester +21 17 £57,500 -11.54% 5
Cheshire - 12 £37,500 - 1
Merseyside +6 3 £57,500 +43.75% 1
Cumbria - 3 £57,500 -
Lancashire - 2 £57,500 -
VMS
England

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (10.81%) CMS
1 4 (10.81%) IIS
1 4 (10.81%) Umbraco
2 2 (5.41%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Business Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 25 (67.57%) Azure
2 12 (32.43%) Power Platform
3 4 (10.81%) AWS
3 4 (10.81%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (10.81%) GitHub
3 4 (10.81%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (5.41%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.70%) GCP
5 1 (2.70%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (32.43%) Broadband
2 10 (27.03%) DNS
2 10 (27.03%) Firewall
3 6 (16.22%) DHCP
3 6 (16.22%) LAN
3 6 (16.22%) TCP/IP
3 6 (16.22%) WAN
4 2 (5.41%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (48.65%) SQL Server
2 13 (35.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (32.43%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (45.95%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (10.81%) Law
3 3 (8.11%) Tech for Good
4 2 (5.41%) Electronics
4 2 (5.41%) Games
4 2 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.41%) Military
4 2 (5.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (32.43%) DBA
1 12 (32.43%) SQL DBA
2 7 (18.92%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Senior
4 5 (13.51%) Senior Technical Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Technical Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Dynamics AX Developer
6 3 (8.11%) Embedded Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Software Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) IT Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) IT Support
7 2 (5.41%) IT Support Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Support Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Vulnerability Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) .NET
2 1 (2.70%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) IoT
2 2 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (27.03%) Windows
2 4 (10.81%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.41%) Unix
4 1 (2.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (43.24%) High Availability
2 12 (32.43%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (32.43%) Collaborative Working
2 12 (32.43%) DevOps
2 12 (32.43%) Disaster Recovery
2 12 (32.43%) Performance Tuning
3 9 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (21.62%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (16.22%) Business Continuity
5 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (13.51%) CI/CD
6 5 (13.51%) Customer Service
6 5 (13.51%) IT Audit
7 4 (10.81%) ERP
7 4 (10.81%) Migration
7 4 (10.81%) Process Improvement
7 4 (10.81%) Test Automation
8 3 (8.11%) Software Engineering
9 2 (5.41%) Change Management
9 2 (5.41%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (35.14%) SQL
2 12 (32.43%) T-SQL
3 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (45.95%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (18.92%) Degree
3 5 (13.51%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.70%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (32.43%) Virtual Machines
2 8 (21.62%) Active Directory
3 6 (16.22%) Hyper-V
4 2 (5.41%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.41%) Ansible
1 2 (5.41%) SCCM
1 2 (5.41%) WSUS
2 1 (2.70%) Grafana
2 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.70%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (67.57%) Microsoft
2 8 (21.62%) VMware
3 2 (5.41%) Apple