VMS
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 640 786 947
Rank change year-on-year +146 +161 -131
Permanent jobs citing VMS 268 170 329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.18% 0.19%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.88% 1.11% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 194 106 96
10th Percentile £38,750 £31,250 £40,625
25th Percentile £50,000 £35,400 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -26.92% +24.40%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £76,550 £80,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +21.05% -26.92% +34.02%

All Operating Systems
UK

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 requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 14,230 15,371 32,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.30% 16.37% 18.70%
Number of salaries quoted 10,742 10,375 16,496
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £91,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VMS in the UK

VMS
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for VMS in the UK

VMS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMS over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Salary histogram for VMS in the UK

VMS
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
England +113 245 £57,500 +21.05% 51
UK excluding London +58 190 £57,500 +21.05% 33
Work from Home +115 153 £57,500 +24.43% 20
London +84 70 £57,500 +51.82% 15
North of England +53 56 £57,500 -11.54% 14
South East -3 45 £57,500 +21.05% 6
North West +12 37 £57,500 -11.54% 9
Midlands +15 35 £57,500 +48.39% 9
South West -16 21 £57,500 +24.32% 5
East Midlands - 20 £57,500 - 7
West Midlands -18 15 £57,500 +48.39% 2
Yorkshire +76 14 £57,500 -11.54% 4
East of England -3 14 £57,500 -
Scotland -61 14 £57,500 +1.77%
North East - 5 £57,500 - 1
Wales +11 4 £45,000 -2.62%
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 31 (11.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (8.96%) SharePoint
3 23 (8.58%) IIS
4 9 (3.36%) WordPress
5 8 (2.99%) Umbraco
6 5 (1.87%) JBoss
6 5 (1.87%) Solana
6 5 (1.87%) WebSphere
7 4 (1.49%) CMS
8 3 (1.12%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.75%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.75%) Exchange Server 2013
10 1 (0.37%) Apache
10 1 (0.37%) JOnAS
Applications
1 6 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.49%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 21 (7.84%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.75%) Shopify
3 1 (0.37%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.37%) Misys Opics
3 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 158 (58.96%) Azure
2 82 (30.60%) Power Platform
3 41 (15.30%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (10.82%) Entra ID
5 27 (10.07%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (9.33%) Dynamics 365
7 23 (8.58%) OneDrive
8 15 (5.60%) AWS
9 14 (5.22%) PaaS
10 12 (4.48%) IaaS
11 8 (2.99%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (2.99%) SaaS
12 7 (2.61%) GCP
12 7 (2.61%) Serverless
13 6 (2.24%) Azure App Service
14 5 (1.87%) Nutanix
15 4 (1.49%) Figma
15 4 (1.49%) GitHub
15 4 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
16 3 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 81 (30.22%) Firewall
2 74 (27.61%) Broadband
3 56 (20.90%) WAN
4 53 (19.78%) VPN
5 52 (19.40%) LAN
6 42 (15.67%) Internet
7 34 (12.69%) DNS
8 18 (6.72%) NAS
9 16 (5.97%) iSCSI
9 16 (5.97%) Network Security
10 14 (5.22%) DHCP
11 13 (4.85%) Fibre Channel
11 13 (4.85%) SAN
12 10 (3.73%) Wireless
13 8 (2.99%) TCP/IP
14 4 (1.49%) SD-WAN
14 4 (1.49%) SNMP
14 4 (1.49%) VLAN
14 4 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
14 4 (1.49%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (41.42%) SQL Server
2 83 (30.97%) Azure SQL Database
3 76 (28.36%) Power BI
4 6 (2.24%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.75%) MySQL
7 1 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.37%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.37%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.37%) Firebird
7 1 (0.37%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 21 (7.84%) Team Foundation Server
2 12 (4.48%) Git
3 9 (3.36%) Octopus Deploy
3 9 (3.36%) TeamCity
4 8 (2.99%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.61%) GitLab
6 3 (1.12%) Subversion
General
1 149 (55.60%) Social Skills
2 49 (18.28%) Retail
3 23 (8.58%) Law
4 19 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.22%) Manufacturing
6 12 (4.48%) Games
7 11 (4.10%) Finance
8 10 (3.73%) Electronics
9 8 (2.99%) Legal
9 8 (2.99%) Marketing
10 7 (2.61%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.61%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.12%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.12%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.75%) Advertising
13 2 (0.75%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.75%) Military
14 1 (0.37%) Fire and Rescue
14 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (27.61%) DBA
1 74 (27.61%) SQL DBA
2 44 (16.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 37 (13.81%) Senior
4 30 (11.19%) Developer
5 25 (9.33%) Azure Engineer
6 23 (8.58%) Architect
7 21 (7.84%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 21 (7.84%) Infrastructure Architect
8 18 (6.72%) Dynamics AX Developer
8 18 (6.72%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (5.22%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (4.85%) Analyst
11 12 (4.48%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (4.48%) Vulnerability Analyst
12 11 (4.10%) Support Engineer
13 8 (2.99%) Network Engineer
13 8 (2.99%) Software Support Engineer
13 8 (2.99%) Systems Engineer
13 8 (2.99%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.09%) .NET
2 10 (3.73%) LAMP
3 9 (3.36%) ARM Templates
4 8 (2.99%) React
5 7 (2.61%) HTML
5 7 (2.61%) JSON
6 6 (2.24%) .NET Core
7 5 (1.87%) CSS
7 5 (1.87%) REST
7 5 (1.87%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 5 (1.87%) Vue
7 5 (1.87%) XML
8 4 (1.49%) HTML5
8 4 (1.49%) LDAP
8 4 (1.49%) Razor View Engine
8 4 (1.49%) Sass
8 4 (1.49%) Tailwind CSS
8 4 (1.49%) YAML
9 2 (0.75%) Node.js
10 1 (0.37%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.34%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (4.10%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (4.10%) Replication
3 8 (2.99%) Cloud Native
3 8 (2.99%) Data Centre
4 7 (2.61%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.24%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.87%) Blockchain
6 5 (1.87%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.49%) Chip and PIN
7 4 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.49%) IoT
7 4 (1.49%) Mobile Payment
7 4 (1.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (1.12%) CCTV
9 2 (0.75%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.75%) Smartphone
10 1 (0.37%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.37%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.37%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 120 (44.78%) Windows
2 68 (25.37%) Linux
3 51 (19.03%) Ubuntu
4 38 (14.18%) Windows Server
5 16 (5.97%) Windows 10
6 14 (5.22%) Unix
7 13 (4.85%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (3.36%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (1.87%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (1.49%) Windows 7
11 3 (1.12%) Android
11 3 (1.12%) Apple iOS
11 3 (1.12%) Mac OS
11 3 (1.12%) SUSE
11 3 (1.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.75%) OpenVMS
12 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.37%) AIX
13 1 (0.37%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (32.84%) Collaborative Working
2 83 (30.97%) High Availability
3 78 (29.10%) Business Intelligence
3 78 (29.10%) Performance Tuning
4 76 (28.36%) Disaster Recovery
5 65 (24.25%) DevOps
6 52 (19.40%) Agile
7 48 (17.91%) Collaborative Culture
8 46 (17.16%) Actionable Insight
9 45 (16.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 44 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
11 41 (15.30%) DevSecOps
12 39 (14.55%) Application Security
13 22 (8.21%) Cybersecurity
14 21 (7.84%) Configuration Management
14 21 (7.84%) Migration
15 19 (7.09%) CI/CD
16 18 (6.72%) Customer Service
16 18 (6.72%) ERP
17 16 (5.97%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 108 (40.30%) SQL
2 75 (27.99%) T-SQL
3 32 (11.94%) PowerShell
4 12 (4.48%) C#
5 10 (3.73%) Java
5 10 (3.73%) JavaScript
6 9 (3.36%) Python
7 8 (2.99%) Bash
8 7 (2.61%) Bicep
8 7 (2.61%) Go
9 5 (1.87%) Ruby
9 5 (1.87%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.12%) Perl
11 2 (0.75%) Scala
12 1 (0.37%) C++
12 1 (0.37%) PHP
12 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 94 (35.07%) Microsoft Certification
2 60 (22.39%) Security Cleared
3 37 (13.81%) DV Cleared
4 26 (9.70%) Degree
5 21 (7.84%) Azure Certification
6 17 (6.34%) SC Cleared
7 6 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.87%) HNC
8 5 (1.87%) HND
9 2 (0.75%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.75%) MCSA
9 2 (0.75%) MCSE
10 1 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.37%) MCP
10 1 (0.37%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.49%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.49%) QA
4 3 (1.12%) SLA
5 2 (0.75%) GDPR
6 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 98 (36.57%) Virtual Machines
2 89 (33.21%) Active Directory
3 17 (6.34%) Hyper-V
4 16 (5.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (5.60%) Docker
6 11 (4.10%) vSphere
7 10 (3.73%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (1.49%) pfSense
9 3 (1.12%) Ceph
9 3 (1.12%) Gluster
9 3 (1.12%) KVM
9 3 (1.12%) oVirt
9 3 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.37%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 53 (19.78%) Terraform
2 47 (17.54%) Ansible
3 25 (9.33%) Kubernetes
4 21 (7.84%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (7.84%) SCCM
5 15 (5.60%) WSUS
6 4 (1.49%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.12%) Graylog
7 3 (1.12%) Observium
7 3 (1.12%) Puppet
7 3 (1.12%) ZABBIX
8 2 (0.75%) Grafana
8 2 (0.75%) Nessus
8 2 (0.75%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.75%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.37%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.37%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 146 (54.48%) Microsoft
2 39 (14.55%) VMware
3 17 (6.34%) Veeam
4 15 (5.60%) Apple
4 15 (5.60%) Oracle
5 14 (5.22%) Citrix
6 13 (4.85%) Zerto
7 9 (3.36%) Aruba
7 9 (3.36%) Palo Alto
7 9 (3.36%) ProCurve
7 9 (3.36%) Synology
8 8 (2.99%) Cisco
9 5 (1.87%) Dell
9 5 (1.87%) Google
9 5 (1.87%) SAP
9 5 (1.87%) Ubiquiti
10 4 (1.49%) Brocade
10 4 (1.49%) Dell Compellent
10 4 (1.49%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.49%) QNAP