The first table below looks at the demand for VMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMS over the 3 months to 17 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 Kent 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMS
Rank - - 43
Contract jobs citing VMS 0 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent - - 0.627%
As % of the Operating Systems category - - 2.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £210
UK excluding London average daily rate £343 £369 £225
% change year-on-year
-7.11% +63.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - £22.15
All Operating Systems
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
100 82 97
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 32.68% 30.94% 30.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 39 55
Average daily rate £425 £263 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+61.59% -4.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £138 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £368 £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 20 5
Average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.57% +34.61%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.75 £13.50 £7.19
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £51.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
VMS
South East

VMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent VMS Hourly Rate Trend

VMS
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Intel
1 1 (100.00%) Avaya
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Nokia
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Backup Exec
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (100.00%) WebLOAD
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) iSeries
1 1 (100.00%) F5

VMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) WebLOAD
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Head of IT
1 1 (100.00%) Head of Infrastructure
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Intel
1 1 (100.00%) Avaya
1 1 (100.00%) Nokia
1 1 (100.00%) F5