VMS Contracts in the East of England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for VMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMS over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the East of England region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMS
Rank 119 121 104
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -17
Contract jobs citing VMS 1 10 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.046% 0.340% 0.851%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.175% 1.389% 3.395%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 15
Average daily rate £310 £369 £220
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.93% +67.61%
UK excluding London average daily rate £343 £375 £225
% change year-on-year
-8.66% +66.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £33.93
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - £22.15
All Operating Systems
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 571 720 648
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 26.19% 24.51% 25.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 295 239
Average daily rate £305 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.15% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £113 £170 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 124 159
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.63 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.18% +30.83%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £40.00 £35.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
VMS
England

VMS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VMS across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

East of England VMS Jobs Demand Trend

VMS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VMS across the East of England region.

East of England VMS Daily Rate Trend

VMS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VMS across the East of England region.

East of England VMS Hourly Rate Trend

VMS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cambridgeshire - 1 £310 -
VMS
England

VMS
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Bash shell
2 2 (66.67%) Puppet
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (66.67%) Git (software)
2 2 (66.67%) Postfix
2 2 (66.67%) Sendmail
2 2 (66.67%) Debian
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) Kerberos
2 2 (66.67%) RHCE
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) Nagios
2 2 (66.67%) LAMP
2 2 (66.67%) Subversion
3 1 (33.33%) Test Management
3 1 (33.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (33.33%) Perforce
3 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (33.33%) POSIX
3 1 (33.33%) NUnit
3 1 (33.33%) Jenkins

VMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) LAMP
2 1 (33.33%) POSIX
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
1 2 (66.67%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git (software)
1 2 (66.67%) Subversion
2 1 (33.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (33.33%) NUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Bash shell
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
3 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) RHCE
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
1 2 (66.67%) Postfix
1 2 (66.67%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Puppet
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Satellite
1 2 (66.67%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) Perforce
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