VMS Contracts in England

VMS
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 438 522 620
Rank change year-on-year +84 +98 -45
Contract jobs citing VMS 97 141 159
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.26% 0.28% 0.22%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.92% 1.71% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 105 89
10th Percentile £332 £449 £423
25th Percentile £380 £515 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £713 £588
Median % change year-on-year -35.96% +21.28% +23.68%
75th Percentile £573 £820 £675
90th Percentile £646 £848 £720
UK median daily rate £445 £643 £550
% change year-on-year -30.82% +16.82% +11.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 2
10th Percentile - £59.00 -
25th Percentile - £68.75 £41.25
Median hourly rate £25.25 £85.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -70.29% +100.00% -
75th Percentile - - £43.75
90th Percentile £34.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £25.25 £85.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year -70.29% +28.79% +20.00%

All Operating Systems
England

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 England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,045 8,260 11,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.65% 16.34% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,433 5,890 7,674
10th Percentile £181 £190 £170
25th Percentile £285 £325 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £470 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -6.93% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 367 390 559
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £14.95 £17.73 £15.50
Median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.33% +74.42% +19.44%
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.75 £22.28
% change year-on-year -43.23% +73.92% +23.78%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for VMS in England

VMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for VMS in England

VMS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMS in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMS in England

VMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMS in England.

Hourly rate trend for VMS in England

VMS
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +63 45 £425 -45.16% 13
North of England +33 19 £563 -27.42% 16
Yorkshire +32 14 £563 -10.00% 1
South East +23 13 £600 +16.50% 7
South West +24 12 £439 -2.39% 4
North West +17 5 £500 +21.21% 15
Midlands +23 4 £1,000 +60.00% 6
West Midlands +30 3 £1,000 +60.00% 4
East Midlands +18 1 £625 - 2
VMS
UK

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 20 (20.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (11.34%) IIS
3 7 (7.22%) Apache
4 5 (5.15%) nginx
4 5 (5.15%) OpenStack
4 5 (5.15%) SharePoint
5 4 (4.12%) CMS
6 3 (3.09%) WordPress
7 2 (2.06%) Confluence
7 2 (2.06%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (4.12%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 32 (32.99%) Azure
2 15 (15.46%) Entra ID
2 15 (15.46%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (13.40%) PaaS
4 11 (11.34%) AWS
5 10 (10.31%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (9.28%) IaaS
7 8 (8.25%) Power Platform
8 7 (7.22%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (5.15%) OneDrive
10 4 (4.12%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (4.12%) SAP Fieldglass
11 3 (3.09%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (2.06%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (2.06%) SaaS
13 1 (1.03%) Azure Storage
13 1 (1.03%) Nutanix
13 1 (1.03%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 17 (17.53%) Firewall
2 12 (12.37%) DNS
3 10 (10.31%) SAN
4 5 (5.15%) NAS
4 5 (5.15%) VPN
5 4 (4.12%) SSL
6 3 (3.09%) Fibre Channel
6 3 (3.09%) iSCSI
6 3 (3.09%) Network Security
6 3 (3.09%) Wireless
7 2 (2.06%) DHCP
7 2 (2.06%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.06%) VLAN
8 1 (1.03%) IPsec
8 1 (1.03%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (1.03%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.46%) Oracle Database
2 14 (14.43%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (10.31%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (8.25%) Big Data
4 8 (8.25%) Power BI
4 8 (8.25%) SQL Server
5 7 (7.22%) MongoDB
6 5 (5.15%) Couchbase
6 5 (5.15%) MySQL
6 5 (5.15%) NoSQL
6 5 (5.15%) RDBMS
6 5 (5.15%) Relational Database
7 4 (4.12%) DB2
8 2 (2.06%) Oracle Database 10g
9 1 (1.03%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.03%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (13.40%) Git
2 10 (10.31%) GitLab
3 5 (5.15%) JIRA
4 3 (3.09%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (2.06%) Artifactory
5 2 (2.06%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.06%) JMeter
5 2 (2.06%) Selenium
6 1 (1.03%) Oracle Forms
General
1 15 (15.46%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.43%) Finance
3 7 (7.22%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (6.19%) Banking
4 6 (6.19%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.15%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.12%) Fire and Rescue
6 4 (4.12%) Local Government
7 3 (3.09%) Automotive
7 3 (3.09%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.03%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.03%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.03%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 16 (16.49%) Architect
2 12 (12.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (11.34%) Linux Engineer
4 10 (10.31%) Oracle Architect
5 8 (8.25%) Administrator
5 8 (8.25%) Data Centre Engineer
5 8 (8.25%) Data Migration Engineer
5 8 (8.25%) Migration Engineer
6 7 (7.22%) Developer
6 7 (7.22%) Server Administrator
7 6 (6.19%) COBOL Developer
7 6 (6.19%) Infrastructure Architect
7 6 (6.19%) Lead
7 6 (6.19%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (6.19%) Windows Administrator
7 6 (6.19%) Windows Server Administrator
7 6 (6.19%) Wintel Engineer
8 5 (5.15%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (5.15%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (5.15%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.15%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (5.15%) LAPP Stack
2 4 (4.12%) .NET
2 4 (4.12%) ARM Templates
3 3 (3.09%) LAMP
4 2 (2.06%) .NET Core
4 2 (2.06%) ADSI
4 2 (2.06%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.06%) Kafka
4 2 (2.06%) RESTful
5 1 (1.03%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.37%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (11.34%) Data Centre
3 7 (7.22%) Public Cloud
4 5 (5.15%) Clustering
5 4 (4.12%) CCTV
5 4 (4.12%) Replication
5 4 (4.12%) Social Media
6 3 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.09%) Smart Meter
7 2 (2.06%) PKI
8 1 (1.03%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.03%) Tandem
8 1 (1.03%) VAX
Operating Systems
1 40 (41.24%) Windows
2 39 (40.21%) Linux
3 25 (25.77%) Windows Server
4 12 (12.37%) Solaris
4 12 (12.37%) Unix
5 10 (10.31%) Oracle Linux
5 10 (10.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (9.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (8.25%) Ubuntu
8 7 (7.22%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (6.19%) OpenVMS
10 5 (5.15%) CentOS
11 4 (4.12%) Windows 10
11 4 (4.12%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (3.09%) Windows 2000
12 3 (3.09%) Windows XP
13 2 (2.06%) Android
13 2 (2.06%) Apple iOS
13 2 (2.06%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (1.03%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (40.21%) Migration
2 17 (17.53%) Agile
2 17 (17.53%) Containerisation
3 15 (15.46%) CI/CD
4 13 (13.40%) Disaster Recovery
4 13 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (11.34%) Database Migration
5 11 (11.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (10.31%) DevOps
6 10 (10.31%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (9.28%) Scrum
8 8 (8.25%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (8.25%) Runbook
9 7 (7.22%) Computer Science
9 7 (7.22%) Configuration Management
9 7 (7.22%) Platform Engineering
9 7 (7.22%) Vulnerability Management
10 6 (6.19%) Build Automation
10 6 (6.19%) Security Testing
10 6 (6.19%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 29 (29.90%) SQL
2 15 (15.46%) PowerShell
3 14 (14.43%) Python
4 12 (12.37%) Bash
5 8 (8.25%) COBOL
6 7 (7.22%) Shell Script
7 5 (5.15%) Go
8 4 (4.12%) DCL
9 2 (2.06%) REXX
9 2 (2.06%) SELCOPY
10 1 (1.03%) C
10 1 (1.03%) C#
10 1 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.03%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.03%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (18.56%) Security Cleared
2 16 (16.49%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.25%) Degree
4 7 (7.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.06%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.06%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.25%) QA
System Software
1 37 (38.14%) Active Directory
2 27 (27.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (24.74%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (15.46%) vSphere
5 10 (10.31%) KVM
6 5 (5.15%) Firmware
7 4 (4.12%) Hyper-V
8 2 (2.06%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (2.06%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (2.06%) VMware NSX
9 1 (1.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (18.56%) Ansible
2 13 (13.40%) Kubernetes
3 11 (11.34%) Terraform
4 10 (10.31%) Packer
5 8 (8.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (8.25%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (8.25%) vRealize
6 7 (7.22%) SCCM
7 5 (5.15%) Grafana
7 5 (5.15%) Prometheus
7 5 (5.15%) ZABBIX
8 2 (2.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.03%) NetBackup
9 1 (1.03%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (1.03%) SCOM
9 1 (1.03%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.03%) VxRail
9 1 (1.03%) WSUS
Vendors
1 37 (38.14%) VMware
2 25 (25.77%) Oracle
3 17 (17.53%) Microsoft
4 14 (14.43%) Veeam
5 8 (8.25%) CA
6 6 (6.19%) SAP
6 6 (6.19%) Veritas
7 5 (5.15%) Arqiva
8 4 (4.12%) IBM
8 4 (4.12%) ICL
8 4 (4.12%) Palo Alto
9 3 (3.09%) Aruba
9 3 (3.09%) Cisco
9 3 (3.09%) Fortinet
9 3 (3.09%) Juniper
9 3 (3.09%) ProCurve
9 3 (3.09%) Red Hat
9 3 (3.09%) Synology
9 3 (3.09%) Zerto
10 2 (2.06%) Syncsort