VMS Jobs in the South West

VMS
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South 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 273 251 321
Rank change year-on-year -22 +70 -32
Permanent jobs citing VMS 22 4 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.21% 0.062% 0.023%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.27% 0.33% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 21 4 1
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,262 -
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,701 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £46,250 £35,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.32% +30.28% -32.38%
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,313 £38,250
90th Percentile - £81,125 -
England median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £69,000
% change year-on-year +21.05% -31.16% +20.00%

All Operating Systems
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,734 1,219 1,939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.41% 18.91% 22.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,277 725 1,149
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,000 £26,737
25th Percentile £33,000 £32,500 £33,175
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for VMS in the South West

VMS
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for VMS in the South West

VMS
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for VMS in the South West

VMS
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the South 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
Wiltshire -1 7 £42,500 -10.53%
Bristol - 6 £57,500 -
Somerset +1 4 £55,000 +22.22%
Gloucestershire - 2 £57,500 - 2
Devon - 2 £57,500 -
Dorset -33 1 £57,500 -12.19%
VMS
England

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 3 (13.64%) CloudStack
Cloud Services
1 16 (72.73%) Azure
2 11 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (22.73%) Nutanix
4 3 (13.64%) AWS
4 3 (13.64%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (13.64%) OCI
5 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (9.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 11 (50.00%) Broadband
2 5 (22.73%) NAS
3 3 (13.64%) iSCSI
4 2 (9.09%) LAN
4 2 (9.09%) MPLS
4 2 (9.09%) WAN
5 1 (4.55%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 11 (50.00%) Power BI
1 11 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Git
General
1 11 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Telecoms
3 2 (9.09%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.55%) Games
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) DBA
1 11 (50.00%) SQL DBA
2 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Vulnerability Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (40.91%) Windows
2 8 (36.36%) Linux
3 5 (22.73%) Windows 10
3 5 (22.73%) Windows Server
4 3 (13.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (13.64%) SUSE
4 3 (13.64%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) Collaborative Working
2 11 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 11 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 11 (50.00%) High Availability
2 11 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (22.73%) Configuration Management
5 5 (22.73%) Creative Problem-Solving
5 5 (22.73%) Preventative Maintenance
5 5 (22.73%) Proactive Monitoring
5 5 (22.73%) Security Hardening
5 5 (22.73%) Server Building
5 5 (22.73%) Server Management
6 3 (13.64%) B2B
6 3 (13.64%) Containerisation
6 3 (13.64%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (13.64%) Resource Management
7 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) SQL
1 11 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 3 (13.64%) Go
2 3 (13.64%) Perl
2 3 (13.64%) Python
3 1 (4.55%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 16 (72.73%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 19 (86.36%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (22.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (13.64%) Ceph
3 3 (13.64%) Docker
3 3 (13.64%) Gluster
3 3 (13.64%) KVM
3 3 (13.64%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Ansible
1 3 (13.64%) Graylog
1 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
1 3 (13.64%) Observium
1 3 (13.64%) Prometheus
1 3 (13.64%) Puppet
1 3 (13.64%) ZABBIX
2 1 (4.55%) SCCM
2 1 (4.55%) Terraform
2 1 (4.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (81.82%) Microsoft
2 5 (22.73%) VMware
3 3 (13.64%) Oracle
4 2 (9.09%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.55%) Apple