VMS Jobs in the North of England

VMS
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 302 295 427
Rank change year-on-year -7 +132 -32
Permanent jobs citing VMS 23 7 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.16% 0.081% 0.082%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.86% 0.48% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 8 5 9
10th Percentile - £30,999 £51,700
25th Percentile £48,869 £31,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £42,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% -34.62% +73.33%
75th Percentile £57,500 £46,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £60,500 £50,000 -
England median annual salary £50,055 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year -8.99% -1.79% -14.83%

All Operating Systems
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,238 1,467 3,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.73% 17.01% 17.63%
Number of salaries quoted 639 1,020 1,918
10th Percentile £25,950 £26,250 £24,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £56,250 £63,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,985 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.93% -2.89% +5.00%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for VMS in the North of England

VMS
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for VMS in the North of England

VMS
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing VMS in the North of England over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Salary histogram for VMS in the North of England

VMS
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 31 October 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 West -31 16 £50,055 +33.06% 3
Yorkshire - 7 £55,000 - 2
VMS
England

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (21.74%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Simulink
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) Azure
2 3 (13.04%) Azure Stack
3 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.35%) GitHub
3 1 (4.35%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (56.52%) RS-422
2 8 (34.78%) Ethernet
3 7 (30.43%) Firewall
4 5 (21.74%) Network Security
4 5 (21.74%) RS-232
4 5 (21.74%) Software-Defined Radio
5 3 (13.04%) DNS
6 2 (8.70%) DHCP
7 1 (4.35%) LAN
7 1 (4.35%) NAS
7 1 (4.35%) SAN
7 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
7 1 (4.35%) VPN
7 1 (4.35%) WAN
7 1 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Rational DOORS
2 5 (21.74%) JIRA
2 5 (21.74%) LabVIEW
General
1 5 (21.74%) Aerospace
1 5 (21.74%) Electronics
1 5 (21.74%) Military
1 5 (21.74%) Telecoms
2 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Senior
1 8 (34.78%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 8 (34.78%) Systems Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Digital Hardware Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Hardware Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Lead
6 1 (4.35%) Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Network Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Service Desk Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Service Desk Team Leader
6 1 (4.35%) Service Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) .NET
1 3 (13.04%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Data Centre
1 5 (21.74%) Fibre Optics
2 2 (8.70%) SCADA
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) Windows
2 5 (21.74%) Linux
2 5 (21.74%) Unix
2 5 (21.74%) VxWorks
3 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.35%) Windows 7
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Systems Engineering
2 8 (34.78%) Business Strategy
2 8 (34.78%) Contract Negotiation
2 8 (34.78%) Requirements Management
2 8 (34.78%) Supplier Management
2 8 (34.78%) SysML
2 8 (34.78%) UML
3 5 (21.74%) Agile
3 5 (21.74%) Communications Security
3 5 (21.74%) DevOps
3 5 (21.74%) Security Patching
3 5 (21.74%) Tech Ops
4 4 (17.39%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (13.04%) API Management
5 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (13.04%) Software Engineering
6 2 (8.70%) Asset Management
6 2 (8.70%) Network Design
6 2 (8.70%) Network Planning
6 2 (8.70%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Java
1 8 (34.78%) PowerShell
2 7 (30.43%) Python
3 5 (21.74%) C
3 5 (21.74%) MATLAB
3 5 (21.74%) Perl
4 3 (13.04%) SQL
5 2 (8.70%) Bicep
5 2 (8.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Degree
2 5 (21.74%) Network+ Certification
3 2 (8.70%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (4.35%) MCP
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.70%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Ansible
2 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 5 (21.74%) Atlassian
3 2 (8.70%) VMware
4 1 (4.35%) Citrix
4 1 (4.35%) Ubiquiti