The first table below looks at the demand for VMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMS over the 3 months to 24 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 Merseyside 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMS
Rank - - 30
Contract jobs citing VMS 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside - - 0.403%
As % of the Operating Systems category - - 1.695%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £345
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £375 £225
% change year-on-year
-10.66% +66.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - £22.43
All Operating Systems
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
62 77 59
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 30.69% 29.50% 23.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 28 27
Average daily rate £325 £300 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% +3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £231 £140 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 18 10
Average hourly rate £11.25 £16.50 £11.19
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.81% +47.51%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.00 £12.30 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.12 £30.00 £20.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
VMS
North West

VMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside VMS Daily Rate Trend

VMS
Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) OpenVMS
1 1 (100.00%) Pascal
1 1 (100.00%) PowerHouse
1 1 (100.00%) DCL
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing

VMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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.

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Pascal
1 1 (100.00%) PowerHouse
1 1 (100.00%) DCL