VMS Contracts in London

VMS
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 349 412 498
Rank change year-on-year +63 +86 -60
Contract jobs citing VMS 45 83 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.25% 0.31% 0.27%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.13% 2.15% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 63 57
10th Percentile £319 £513 £429
25th Percentile £375 £606 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £775 £550
Median % change year-on-year -45.16% +40.91% +12.82%
75th Percentile £488 £823 £650
90th Percentile £573 £848 £701
England median daily rate £456 £713 £588
% change year-on-year -35.96% +21.28% +23.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
England median hourly rate £25.25 £85.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -70.29% +100.00% -

All Operating Systems
London

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 London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,108 3,864 5,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.90% 14.27% 13.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,499 2,838 3,882
10th Percentile £200 £213 £225
25th Percentile £325 £400 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £628 £675 £669
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
England median daily rate £463 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 63 107
10th Percentile £15.40 £16.69 £16.08
25th Percentile £18.93 £22.63 £21.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £37.34 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.08% +52.41% -42.69%
75th Percentile £33.31 £64.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.80 £74.70
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -41.33% +74.42% +19.44%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for VMS in London

VMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for VMS in London

VMS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for VMS in London

VMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for VMS in London

VMS
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the London 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
Central London +42 6 £565 -27.10% 1
East London - 4 £380 -
South London +14 2 £238 -52.50%
VMS
England

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 5 (11.11%) Apache
1 5 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (11.11%) nginx
1 5 (11.11%) OpenStack
2 3 (6.67%) CMS
2 3 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.44%) Exchange Server 2013
3 2 (4.44%) IIS
4 1 (2.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (8.89%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.89%) Azure
2 8 (17.78%) PaaS
3 7 (15.56%) AWS
3 7 (15.56%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (8.89%) SAP Fieldglass
5 3 (6.67%) Amazon Kinesis
5 3 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 3 (6.67%) IaaS
5 3 (6.67%) OneDrive
6 2 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (4.44%) SaaS
7 1 (2.22%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Storage
7 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.22%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.89%) DNS
2 3 (6.67%) VPN
3 2 (4.44%) Firewall
3 2 (4.44%) Network Security
4 1 (2.22%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (2.22%) iSCSI
4 1 (2.22%) NAS
4 1 (2.22%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (2.22%) SAN
4 1 (2.22%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (2.22%) SSL
4 1 (2.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.56%) Oracle Database
2 5 (11.11%) Couchbase
2 5 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 5 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.67%) DB2
3 3 (6.67%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.44%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (4.44%) Oracle Database 10g
5 1 (2.22%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.22%) Power BI
5 1 (2.22%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Git
2 2 (4.44%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (2.22%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.22%) GitLab
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle Forms
General
1 13 (28.89%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.33%) Banking
2 6 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (11.11%) Finance
3 5 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 5 (11.11%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.22%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 9 (20.00%) Architect
2 8 (17.78%) Administrator
3 7 (15.56%) Server Administrator
4 6 (13.33%) Developer
4 6 (13.33%) Windows Administrator
4 6 (13.33%) Windows Server Administrator
5 5 (11.11%) COBOL Developer
5 5 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
5 5 (11.11%) Oracle Architect
6 3 (6.67%) Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) SQL Developer
7 2 (4.44%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (4.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) COBOL Consultant
7 2 (4.44%) IT Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Microsoft 365 Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (11.11%) LAPP Stack
2 2 (4.44%) .NET
2 2 (4.44%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.22%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.22%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.11%) Public Cloud
2 2 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (4.44%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.22%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.22%) Replication
3 1 (2.22%) Tandem
3 1 (2.22%) VAX
Operating Systems
1 20 (44.44%) Windows
2 16 (35.56%) Linux
3 11 (24.44%) Windows Server
4 7 (15.56%) Solaris
5 6 (13.33%) OpenVMS
5 6 (13.33%) Ubuntu
6 5 (11.11%) CentOS
6 5 (11.11%) Oracle Linux
7 3 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (4.44%) Android
8 2 (4.44%) Apple iOS
8 2 (4.44%) Unix
8 2 (4.44%) Windows 10
8 2 (4.44%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (4.44%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (2.22%) Windows 7
9 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (26.67%) Migration
2 11 (24.44%) Disaster Recovery
3 9 (20.00%) Agile
3 9 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (17.78%) CI/CD
4 8 (17.78%) DevOps
5 7 (15.56%) Configuration Management
5 7 (15.56%) Vulnerability Management
6 6 (13.33%) Database Migration
7 5 (11.11%) Computer Science
7 5 (11.11%) ITIL
7 5 (11.11%) Security Testing
7 5 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (11.11%) Validation
8 4 (8.89%) Performance Improvement
8 4 (8.89%) Requirements Gathering
8 4 (8.89%) Scenario Testing
8 4 (8.89%) Server Management
8 4 (8.89%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (8.89%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 14 (31.11%) SQL
2 7 (15.56%) COBOL
3 6 (13.33%) Python
4 5 (11.11%) Bash
4 5 (11.11%) Go
5 4 (8.89%) DCL
6 3 (6.67%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.44%) REXX
7 2 (4.44%) SELCOPY
8 1 (2.22%) C
8 1 (2.22%) C#
8 1 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (2.22%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (15.56%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.33%) Degree
3 5 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.44%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.78%) QA
System Software
1 13 (28.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (26.67%) Active Directory
3 11 (24.44%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (11.11%) Firmware
4 5 (11.11%) KVM
5 4 (8.89%) vSphere
6 2 (4.44%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (4.44%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (2.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (13.33%) Ansible
1 6 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (13.33%) Terraform
2 5 (11.11%) Grafana
2 5 (11.11%) Prometheus
2 5 (11.11%) ZABBIX
3 2 (4.44%) SCCM
4 1 (2.22%) NetBackup
4 1 (2.22%) Packer
4 1 (2.22%) SCOM
4 1 (2.22%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (33.33%) VMware
2 10 (22.22%) Oracle
2 10 (22.22%) Veeam
3 7 (15.56%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.89%) SAP
5 3 (6.67%) IBM
5 3 (6.67%) ICL
6 2 (4.44%) Syncsort
7 1 (2.22%) Adobe
7 1 (2.22%) Aruba
7 1 (2.22%) Avid
7 1 (2.22%) Cisco
7 1 (2.22%) Databricks
7 1 (2.22%) Google
7 1 (2.22%) Okta
7 1 (2.22%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.22%) ProCurve
7 1 (2.22%) Synology
7 1 (2.22%) Veritas
7 1 (2.22%) Zerto