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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 659 777 964
Rank change year-on-year +118 +187 -135
Permanent jobs citing VMS 269 168 325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.18% 0.19%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.88% 1.10% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 195 104 93
10th Percentile £38,750 £31,250 £40,250
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% +23.81%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £76,150 £80,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +21.05% -26.92% +31.31%

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 14,310 15,215 31,955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.20% 16.34% 18.59%
Number of salaries quoted 10,728 10,332 16,389
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £26,250
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 £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 9 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 9 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 +106 246 £57,500 +21.05% 45
UK excluding London +40 191 £57,500 +21.05% 27
Work from Home +131 153 £57,500 +24.43% 18
London +56 70 £57,500 +52.57% 15
North of England +61 56 £57,500 -11.54% 13
South East -7 45 £57,500 +21.05% 5
North West +16 37 £57,500 -11.54% 8
Midlands -4 36 £57,500 +48.39% 7
South West -12 21 £57,500 +24.32% 3
East Midlands - 21 £57,500 - 6
West Midlands -4 15 £57,500 +48.39% 1
Yorkshire +71 14 £57,500 -11.54% 4
East of England +1 14 £57,500 -
Scotland -50 14 £57,500 +1.77%
North East - 5 £57,500 - 1
Wales +14 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 (11.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (8.92%) SharePoint
3 23 (8.55%) IIS
4 9 (3.35%) WordPress
5 8 (2.97%) Umbraco
6 5 (1.86%) JBoss
6 5 (1.86%) Solana
6 5 (1.86%) WebSphere
7 4 (1.49%) CMS
8 3 (1.12%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.74%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.74%) Exchange Server 2013
10 1 (0.37%) Apache
10 1 (0.37%) JOnAS
Applications
1 6 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.49%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 21 (7.81%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.74%) 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
1 159 (59.11%) Azure
2 82 (30.48%) Power Platform
3 41 (15.24%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (11.15%) Entra ID
5 27 (10.04%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (9.29%) Dynamics 365
7 23 (8.55%) OneDrive
8 15 (5.58%) AWS
9 14 (5.20%) PaaS
10 12 (4.46%) IaaS
11 9 (3.35%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (2.97%) SaaS
13 7 (2.60%) GCP
13 7 (2.60%) Serverless
14 6 (2.23%) Azure App Service
15 5 (1.86%) Nutanix
16 4 (1.49%) Figma
16 4 (1.49%) GitHub
16 4 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
17 3 (1.12%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 81 (30.11%) Firewall
2 74 (27.51%) Broadband
3 56 (20.82%) WAN
4 53 (19.70%) VPN
5 52 (19.33%) LAN
6 42 (15.61%) Internet
7 34 (12.64%) DNS
8 18 (6.69%) NAS
9 16 (5.95%) iSCSI
9 16 (5.95%) Network Security
10 14 (5.20%) DHCP
11 13 (4.83%) Fibre Channel
11 13 (4.83%) SAN
12 10 (3.72%) Wireless
13 8 (2.97%) 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 (41.26%) SQL Server
2 83 (30.86%) Azure SQL Database
3 76 (28.25%) Power BI
4 6 (2.23%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.74%) 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 (7.81%) Team Foundation Server
2 12 (4.46%) Git
3 9 (3.35%) Octopus Deploy
3 9 (3.35%) TeamCity
4 8 (2.97%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.60%) GitLab
6 3 (1.12%) Subversion
7 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 150 (55.76%) Social Skills
2 49 (18.22%) Retail
3 24 (8.92%) Law
4 19 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.20%) Manufacturing
6 12 (4.46%) Games
7 11 (4.09%) Finance
8 10 (3.72%) Electronics
9 8 (2.97%) Legal
9 8 (2.97%) Marketing
10 7 (2.60%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.60%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.12%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.12%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.74%) Advertising
13 2 (0.74%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.74%) Military
14 1 (0.37%) Fire and Rescue
14 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (27.51%) DBA
1 74 (27.51%) SQL DBA
2 44 (16.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 37 (13.75%) Senior
4 30 (11.15%) Developer
5 26 (9.67%) Azure Engineer
6 23 (8.55%) Architect
7 21 (7.81%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 21 (7.81%) Infrastructure Architect
8 18 (6.69%) Dynamics AX Developer
8 18 (6.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (5.20%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (4.83%) Analyst
11 12 (4.46%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (4.46%) Vulnerability Analyst
12 11 (4.09%) Support Engineer
13 8 (2.97%) Network Engineer
13 8 (2.97%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (2.97%) Systems Engineer
13 8 (2.97%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.06%) .NET
2 10 (3.72%) LAMP
3 9 (3.35%) ARM Templates
4 8 (2.97%) React
5 7 (2.60%) HTML
5 7 (2.60%) JSON
6 6 (2.23%) .NET Core
7 5 (1.86%) CSS
7 5 (1.86%) REST
7 5 (1.86%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 5 (1.86%) Vue
7 5 (1.86%) XML
7 5 (1.86%) YAML
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
9 2 (0.74%) Node.js
10 1 (0.37%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.32%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (4.09%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (4.09%) Replication
3 8 (2.97%) Cloud Native
3 8 (2.97%) Data Centre
4 7 (2.60%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.23%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.86%) Blockchain
6 5 (1.86%) 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 (0.74%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.74%) Smartphone
10 1 (0.37%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.37%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 120 (44.61%) Windows
2 68 (25.28%) Linux
3 51 (18.96%) Ubuntu
4 38 (14.13%) Windows Server
5 16 (5.95%) Windows 10
6 14 (5.20%) Unix
7 13 (4.83%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (3.35%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (1.86%) 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 (0.74%) OpenVMS
12 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.37%) AIX
13 1 (0.37%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (32.71%) Collaborative Working
2 83 (30.86%) High Availability
3 78 (29.00%) Business Intelligence
3 78 (29.00%) Performance Tuning
4 76 (28.25%) Disaster Recovery
5 65 (24.16%) DevOps
6 52 (19.33%) Agile
7 48 (17.84%) Collaborative Culture
8 46 (17.10%) Actionable Insight
9 45 (16.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 44 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
11 41 (15.24%) DevSecOps
12 39 (14.50%) Application Security
13 22 (8.18%) Cybersecurity
14 21 (7.81%) Configuration Management
14 21 (7.81%) Migration
15 19 (7.06%) CI/CD
16 18 (6.69%) Customer Service
16 18 (6.69%) ERP
17 16 (5.95%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 108 (40.15%) SQL
2 75 (27.88%) T-SQL
3 32 (11.90%) PowerShell
4 12 (4.46%) C#
5 10 (3.72%) Java
5 10 (3.72%) JavaScript
6 9 (3.35%) Python
7 8 (2.97%) Bash
8 7 (2.60%) Bicep
8 7 (2.60%) Go
9 5 (1.86%) Ruby
9 5 (1.86%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.12%) Perl
11 2 (0.74%) 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 95 (35.32%) Microsoft Certification
2 60 (22.30%) Security Cleared
3 37 (13.75%) DV Cleared
4 27 (10.04%) Degree
5 22 (8.18%) Azure Certification
6 17 (6.32%) SC Cleared
7 6 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.86%) HNC
8 5 (1.86%) HND
9 2 (0.74%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.74%) MCSA
9 2 (0.74%) MCSE
10 1 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.37%) MCP
10 1 (0.37%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.97%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.49%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.49%) QA
4 3 (1.12%) SLA
5 2 (0.74%) GDPR
6 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.37%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 98 (36.43%) Virtual Machines
2 90 (33.46%) Active Directory
3 17 (6.32%) Hyper-V
4 16 (5.95%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (5.58%) Docker
6 11 (4.09%) vSphere
7 10 (3.72%) 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 54 (20.07%) Terraform
2 47 (17.47%) Ansible
3 26 (9.67%) Kubernetes
4 21 (7.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (7.81%) SCCM
5 15 (5.58%) WSUS
6 5 (1.86%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.12%) Graylog
7 3 (1.12%) Observium
7 3 (1.12%) Puppet
7 3 (1.12%) ZABBIX
8 2 (0.74%) Grafana
8 2 (0.74%) Nessus
8 2 (0.74%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.74%) 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
1 147 (54.65%) Microsoft
2 39 (14.50%) VMware
3 17 (6.32%) Veeam
4 15 (5.58%) Apple
4 15 (5.58%) Oracle
5 14 (5.20%) Citrix
6 13 (4.83%) Zerto
7 9 (3.35%) Aruba
7 9 (3.35%) Palo Alto
7 9 (3.35%) ProCurve
7 9 (3.35%) Synology
8 8 (2.97%) Cisco
9 5 (1.86%) Dell
9 5 (1.86%) Google
9 5 (1.86%) SAP
9 5 (1.86%) Ubiquiti
10 4 (1.49%) BroadSoft
10 4 (1.49%) Brocade
10 4 (1.49%) Dell Compellent
10 4 (1.49%) QNAP