VMS Contracts in Cheshire

VMS
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for VMS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VMS over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 59 58
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 -
Contract jobs citing VMS 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.20% 0.38% 0.19%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.45% 2.06% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £350 -
North West median daily rate £500 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +25.00% -27.27% -4.35%

All Operating Systems
Cheshire

VMS is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 69 97 127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 13.69% 18.27% 23.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 71 70
10th Percentile £126 £200 £163
25th Percentile £200 £215 £201
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £375 £469
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -20.00% +17.19%
75th Percentile £445 £563 £575
90th Percentile £506 £600 £630
North West median daily rate £438 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -7.89% +5.56% +21.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 2
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.35 £20.18
25th Percentile £16.54 £14.00 £20.45
Median hourly rate £17.72 £18.82 £20.89
Median % change year-on-year -5.84% -9.91% +21.74%
75th Percentile - £22.41 £21.34
90th Percentile £17.73 £48.41 £21.60
North West median hourly rate £16.00 £29.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -45.39% +46.50% +23.23%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for VMS in Cheshire

VMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMS in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for VMS in Cheshire

VMS
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 15 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford - 1 £350 -
VMS
North West

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker