Docklands, London VMS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for VMS skills within the Docklands, London region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VMS over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester City of London Croydon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England England Feltham Glasgow Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Lancashire Liverpool London Merseyside Middlesex Midlands North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northwich Portsmouth Preston Scotland Solihull Somerset South East South West Staffordshire Staines Surrey Swindon UK West Midlands West Sussex Wiltshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	66	96
Rank change on same period last year	+30
Matching contract IT job ads	2	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	1.000 %	1.280 %
Daily rates quoted	2	6
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£403
Average daily rate	£300	£420
% change on same period last year	-28.57 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£437
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£393
% change on same period last year	-9.75 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.01	£24.07
% change on same period last year	+24.67 %
Operating Systems Docklands, London
Matching contract IT job ads	200	547
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.279 %	0.550 %
Daily rates quoted	86	271
Average minimum daily rate	£382	£444
Average daily rate	£400	£473
% change on same period last year	-15.46 %
Average maximum daily rate	£419	£502
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£332
% change on same period last year	-0.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	22
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.92	£19.71
Average hourly rate	£22.86	£21.21
% change on same period last year	+7.80 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.81	£22.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.90	£22.31
% change on same period last year	+2.65 %
VMS London

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing VMS across the Docklands, London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VMS across the Docklands, London region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMS across the Docklands, London region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VMS across the Docklands, London region.

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Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London region citing VMS also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited VMS.

1 2 (100.00 %) OpenVMS 1 2 (100.00 %) DECnet 1 2 (100.00 %) Project Management 1 2 (100.00 %) Finance 1 2 (100.00 %) Network Design 1 2 (100.00 %) VAX

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London region citing VMS also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited VMS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 2 (100.00 %) DECnet	General 1 2 (100.00 %) Finance
Miscellaneous 1 2 (100.00 %) VAX	Operating Systems 1 2 (100.00 %) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (100.00 %) Project Management 1 2 (100.00 %) Network Design