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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 638 797 947
Rank change year-on-year +159 +150 -159
Permanent jobs citing VMS 261 180 300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.18% 0.19%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.87% 1.13% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 192 114 100
10th Percentile £38,875 £31,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £36,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -31.16% +36.63%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £80,250
90th Percentile £77,350 £80,000 £95,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £51,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +12.20% -21.15% +44.44%

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 13,973 15,925 30,406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.99% 16.06% 18.92%
Number of salaries quoted 10,731 10,713 16,468
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,450
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,750
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 £92,500 £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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +148 237 £57,500 +21.05% 58
UK excluding London +55 182 £57,500 +12.20% 37
Work from Home +141 151 £57,500 -4.17% 29
London +99 68 £57,500 +53.33% 21
North of England +79 53 £57,500 -11.54% 16
South East +1 46 £57,500 +21.05% 6
North West +21 35 £57,500 -11.54% 12
Midlands +8 30 £57,500 +35.29% 10
South West -10 20 £57,500 +24.32% 4
East Midlands - 17 £57,500 - 6
East of England +15 14 £57,500 - 1
Scotland -49 14 £57,500 +1.77% 1
Yorkshire +89 13 £57,500 -11.54% 3
West Midlands +12 13 £57,500 +35.29% 4
North East - 5 £57,500 - 1
Wales +10 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 30 (11.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (9.58%) SharePoint
3 21 (8.05%) IIS
4 9 (3.45%) WordPress
5 6 (2.30%) Umbraco
6 5 (1.92%) JBoss
6 5 (1.92%) Solana
6 5 (1.92%) WebSphere
7 4 (1.53%) CMS
8 3 (1.15%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.77%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.77%) Exchange Server 2013
10 1 (0.38%) Apache
10 1 (0.38%) JOnAS
Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Adobe XD
1 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 21 (8.05%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.77%) Shopify
3 1 (0.38%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.38%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.38%) Misys Opics
3 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 155 (59.39%) Azure
2 83 (31.80%) Power Platform
3 41 (15.71%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 26 (9.96%) Dynamics 365
6 24 (9.20%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (8.81%) OneDrive
8 16 (6.13%) AWS
8 16 (6.13%) PaaS
9 14 (5.36%) IaaS
10 10 (3.83%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (3.45%) Serverless
12 8 (3.07%) SaaS
13 7 (2.68%) GCP
14 6 (2.30%) Azure App Service
15 5 (1.92%) GitHub
15 5 (1.92%) Nutanix
16 4 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
17 3 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
17 3 (1.15%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 77 (29.50%) Firewall
2 74 (28.35%) Broadband
3 51 (19.54%) VPN
3 51 (19.54%) WAN
4 47 (18.01%) LAN
5 39 (14.94%) Internet
6 33 (12.64%) DNS
7 17 (6.51%) NAS
8 16 (6.13%) iSCSI
8 16 (6.13%) Network Security
9 13 (4.98%) Fibre Channel
10 12 (4.60%) DHCP
10 12 (4.60%) SAN
11 10 (3.83%) Wireless
12 7 (2.68%) TCP/IP
13 4 (1.53%) SD-WAN
13 4 (1.53%) SNMP
13 4 (1.53%) VLAN
13 4 (1.53%) WLAN
14 3 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (41.76%) SQL Server
2 83 (31.80%) Azure SQL Database
3 76 (29.12%) Power BI
4 6 (2.30%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.77%) MySQL
7 1 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.38%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.38%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.38%) Firebird
7 1 (0.38%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 21 (8.05%) Team Foundation Server
2 11 (4.21%) Octopus Deploy
2 11 (4.21%) TeamCity
3 10 (3.83%) Git
3 10 (3.83%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.45%) GitLab
5 3 (1.15%) Subversion
General
1 143 (54.79%) Social Skills
2 48 (18.39%) Retail
3 23 (8.81%) Law
4 16 (6.13%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.75%) Manufacturing
6 13 (4.98%) Games
7 11 (4.21%) Finance
8 10 (3.83%) Marketing
9 9 (3.45%) Public Sector
10 8 (3.07%) Legal
11 7 (2.68%) Electronics
11 7 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (2.68%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.15%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.15%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.77%) Advertising
13 2 (0.77%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.77%) Military
14 1 (0.38%) Banking
14 1 (0.38%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 74 (28.35%) DBA
1 74 (28.35%) SQL DBA
2 42 (16.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 33 (12.64%) Senior
4 28 (10.73%) Developer
5 25 (9.58%) Azure Engineer
6 23 (8.81%) Architect
7 21 (8.05%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 21 (8.05%) Infrastructure Architect
8 18 (6.90%) Dynamics AX Developer
9 15 (5.75%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (5.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (4.98%) Analyst
10 13 (4.98%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (4.60%) Vulnerability Analyst
12 11 (4.21%) Support Engineer
13 8 (3.07%) Network Engineer
13 8 (3.07%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.07%) Software Support Engineer
13 8 (3.07%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.51%) .NET
2 10 (3.83%) ARM Templates
2 10 (3.83%) LAMP
3 8 (3.07%) React
4 5 (1.92%) HTML
4 5 (1.92%) JSON
5 4 (1.53%) .NET Core
5 4 (1.53%) LDAP
5 4 (1.53%) YAML
6 3 (1.15%) CSS
6 3 (1.15%) Node.js
6 3 (1.15%) REST
6 3 (1.15%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 3 (1.15%) Vue
6 3 (1.15%) XML
7 2 (0.77%) HTML5
7 2 (0.77%) Razor View Engine
7 2 (0.77%) Sass
7 2 (0.77%) Tailwind CSS
8 1 (0.38%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.36%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (4.21%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (4.21%) Replication
3 10 (3.83%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.68%) Mobile App
5 7 (2.68%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.30%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.92%) Blockchain
8 4 (1.53%) Chip and PIN
8 4 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.53%) Mobile Payment
8 4 (1.53%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (1.15%) IoT
10 2 (0.77%) PKI
10 2 (0.77%) Smartphone
10 2 (0.77%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.38%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.38%) Blog
11 1 (0.38%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 117 (44.83%) Windows
2 66 (25.29%) Linux
3 48 (18.39%) Ubuntu
4 38 (14.56%) Windows Server
5 15 (5.75%) Windows 10
6 14 (5.36%) Unix
7 13 (4.98%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (2.30%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (1.15%) Android
11 3 (1.15%) Apple iOS
11 3 (1.15%) Mac OS
11 3 (1.15%) SUSE
11 3 (1.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 3 (1.15%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.77%) OpenVMS
12 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.38%) AIX
13 1 (0.38%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 84 (32.18%) High Availability
3 78 (29.89%) Business Intelligence
3 78 (29.89%) Performance Tuning
4 76 (29.12%) Disaster Recovery
5 64 (24.52%) DevOps
6 51 (19.54%) Agile
7 46 (17.62%) Actionable Insight
8 43 (16.48%) Collaborative Culture
8 43 (16.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 38 (14.56%) DevSecOps
9 38 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
10 36 (13.79%) Application Security
11 22 (8.43%) Configuration Management
12 21 (8.05%) CI/CD
12 21 (8.05%) Cybersecurity
12 21 (8.05%) Migration
13 18 (6.90%) ERP
13 18 (6.90%) Software Engineering
14 17 (6.51%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 106 (40.61%) SQL
2 75 (28.74%) T-SQL
3 34 (13.03%) PowerShell
4 10 (3.83%) Bash
4 10 (3.83%) C#
4 10 (3.83%) Java
5 9 (3.45%) Bicep
5 9 (3.45%) Python
6 8 (3.07%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.68%) Go
8 5 (1.92%) Ruby
8 5 (1.92%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.15%) Perl
10 2 (0.77%) Scala
11 1 (0.38%) C++
11 1 (0.38%) PHP
11 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 96 (36.78%) Microsoft Certification
2 59 (22.61%) Security Cleared
3 34 (13.03%) DV Cleared
4 25 (9.58%) Degree
5 20 (7.66%) Azure Certification
6 19 (7.28%) SC Cleared
7 6 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.92%) HNC
8 5 (1.92%) HND
9 2 (0.77%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.77%) MCSA
9 2 (0.77%) MCSE
10 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.07%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.92%) QA
3 2 (0.77%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.77%) GDPR
3 2 (0.77%) SLA
4 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 100 (38.31%) Virtual Machines
2 85 (32.57%) Active Directory
3 18 (6.90%) Docker
4 16 (6.13%) Hyper-V
4 16 (6.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (4.21%) vSphere
6 10 (3.83%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (1.53%) pfSense
7 4 (1.53%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.15%) Ceph
8 3 (1.15%) Gluster
8 3 (1.15%) KVM
8 3 (1.15%) oVirt
9 1 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 52 (19.92%) Terraform
2 43 (16.48%) Ansible
3 28 (10.73%) Kubernetes
4 21 (8.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (8.05%) SCCM
5 16 (6.13%) WSUS
6 4 (1.53%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.15%) Grafana
7 3 (1.15%) Graylog
7 3 (1.15%) Nessus
7 3 (1.15%) Observium
7 3 (1.15%) Puppet
7 3 (1.15%) ZABBIX
8 2 (0.77%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.77%) SolarWinds Orion
8 2 (0.77%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.38%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 142 (54.41%) Microsoft
2 38 (14.56%) VMware
3 17 (6.51%) Veeam
4 15 (5.75%) Apple
4 15 (5.75%) Oracle
5 13 (4.98%) Citrix
5 13 (4.98%) Zerto
6 9 (3.45%) Aruba
6 9 (3.45%) Cisco
6 9 (3.45%) Palo Alto
6 9 (3.45%) ProCurve
6 9 (3.45%) Synology
7 6 (2.30%) Dell
8 5 (1.92%) Google
8 5 (1.92%) SAP
9 4 (1.53%) BroadSoft
9 4 (1.53%) Brocade
9 4 (1.53%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.53%) QNAP
9 4 (1.53%) Ubiquiti