VMS Contracts in the North West

VMS
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 150 174
Rank change year-on-year +18 +24 -39
Contract jobs citing VMS 6 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.22% 0.16% 0.12%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.73% 0.93% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile £363 - -
25th Percentile £381 £325 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -33.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £481 £488 £663
90th Percentile £508 - £685
England median daily rate £450 £713 £588
% change year-on-year -36.84% +21.28% +23.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £41.25
Median hourly rate £25.25 - £42.50
75th Percentile - - £43.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £25.25 £85.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -70.29% +100.00% -

All Operating Systems
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 346 536 779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.73% 16.97% 19.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 367 550
10th Percentile £170 £173 £158
25th Percentile £282 £313 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +11.76% +13.33%
75th Percentile £582 £575 £588
90th Percentile £825 £650 £650
England median daily rate £463 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 48 36
10th Percentile - £15.69 £14.38
25th Percentile £10.95 £20.64 £15.99
Median hourly rate £16.00 £29.30 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -45.39% +60.55% +7.35%
75th Percentile £18.81 £44.56 £28.75
90th Percentile £42.23 £49.52 £46.16
England median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -42.86% +75.00% +23.80%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing VMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for VMS in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMS in the North West.

Daily rate trend for VMS in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMS in the North West over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMS in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMS in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for VMS in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the North West region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Manchester +22 5 £500 +5.26% 3
Cheshire +5 1 £350 - 7
VMS
England

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (66.67%) Fire and Rescue
2 1 (16.67%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) CCTV
1 4 (66.67%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
1 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
1 1 (16.67%) DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) Release Management
1 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft