VMS Contracts in the South East

VMS
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 187 210 240
Rank change year-on-year +23 +30 -43
Contract jobs citing VMS 13 16 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.24% 0.27% 0.27%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.33% 1.32% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 10
10th Percentile £293 £350 £446
25th Percentile £442 £459 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £515 £588
Median % change year-on-year +16.50% -12.34% +38.24%
75th Percentile £650 - £681
90th Percentile - £600 £700
England median daily rate £456 £713 £588
% change year-on-year -35.96% +21.28% +23.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.75 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £38.50 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% - -
75th Percentile £40.25 £57.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £25.25 £85.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -70.29% +100.00% -

All Operating Systems
South East

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 South East with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 977 1,214 1,552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.68% 20.83% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 834 1,016
10th Percentile £200 £198 £150
25th Percentile £263 £263 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £666 £650
England median daily rate £463 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 69 109
10th Percentile £15.98 £18.08 £12.50
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +162.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.25 £67.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.75 £75.00 £64.50
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 the South East

Job postings citing VMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for VMS in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMS in the South East.

Daily rate trend for VMS in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for VMS in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMS in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for VMS in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the South East 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
Hampshire +7 6 - -
Thames Valley 0 4 £650 +26.21% 6
Berkshire -12 4 £650 +26.21% 4
West Sussex - 3 £372 -
VMS
England

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (15.38%) Apache
1 2 (15.38%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) IaaS
2 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
3 2 (15.38%) PaaS
4 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub
4 1 (7.69%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) SSL
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (69.23%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (53.85%) MongoDB
3 5 (38.46%) MySQL
3 5 (38.46%) RDBMS
3 5 (38.46%) Relational Database
4 4 (30.77%) Oracle Database
5 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (69.23%) GitLab
2 8 (61.54%) Git
3 2 (15.38%) Bitbucket
3 2 (15.38%) JIRA
3 2 (15.38%) JMeter
3 2 (15.38%) Selenium
4 1 (7.69%) Artifactory
General
1 2 (15.38%) Automotive
1 2 (15.38%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Linux Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Automation Specialist
3 2 (15.38%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Platform Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Linux Support
4 1 (7.69%) Linux Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) .NET
1 2 (15.38%) .NET Core
1 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
1 2 (15.38%) Kafka
1 2 (15.38%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (23.08%) Smart Meter
3 2 (15.38%) PKI
3 2 (15.38%) Public Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) Clustering
4 1 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (69.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (53.85%) Unix
4 3 (23.08%) Windows
4 3 (23.08%) Windows Server
5 2 (15.38%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (15.38%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Agile
1 8 (61.54%) Containerisation
2 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
3 6 (46.15%) Build Automation
3 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (46.15%) Platform Engineering
3 6 (46.15%) Project Delivery
3 6 (46.15%) Runbook
3 6 (46.15%) Scrum
4 4 (30.77%) Re-Platforming
5 3 (23.08%) Migration
6 2 (15.38%) Change Management
6 2 (15.38%) Database Migration
6 2 (15.38%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Incident Management
6 2 (15.38%) Problem Management
6 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (15.38%) Project Management
6 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Python
2 7 (53.85%) Bash
3 4 (30.77%) Shell Script
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) SC Cleared
1 8 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) vSphere
2 5 (38.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
3 3 (23.08%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (15.38%) KVM
5 1 (7.69%) Docker
5 1 (7.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (84.62%) Kubernetes
2 9 (69.23%) Ansible
2 9 (69.23%) Packer
3 8 (61.54%) vRealize
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Terraform
4 1 (7.69%) VxRail
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Oracle
2 9 (69.23%) VMware
3 5 (38.46%) Arqiva
3 5 (38.46%) Veritas
4 3 (23.08%) Red Hat
5 2 (15.38%) SAP
6 1 (7.69%) Dell
6 1 (7.69%) SolarWinds