VMS Contracts in the South West

VMS
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 143 157 167
Rank change year-on-year +14 +10 -28
Contract jobs citing VMS 12 10 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.38% 0.28% 0.27%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.41% 1.39% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 5
10th Percentile £370 £395 £333
25th Percentile £400 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% -18.18% +91.30%
75th Percentile £500 £600 £623
90th Percentile £504 £667 £707
England median daily rate £456 £713 £588
% change year-on-year -35.96% +21.28% +22.08%

All Operating Systems
South 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 South West with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 497 718 754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.54% 19.80% 20.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 520 446
10th Percentile £170 £166 £153
25th Percentile £235 £274 £215
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% +13.04%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £549
90th Percentile £700 £675 £638
England median daily rate £463 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 85 78
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.18 £16.34
25th Percentile £40.00 £49.68 £21.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £53.49
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +21.51% +113.97%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £22.00 £38.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -42.11% +76.74% +21.06%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for VMS in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for VMS in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMS in the South West over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMS in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for VMS in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 29 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
Bristol +27 10 £439 -41.44% 1
Gloucestershire +6 2 £450 -14.29%
VMS
England

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) Azure
2 9 (75.00%) Dynamics 365
3 8 (66.67%) Entra ID
4 7 (58.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 7 (58.33%) Power Platform
5 3 (25.00%) PaaS
6 2 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (8.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) Power BI
2 6 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle APEX
General
1 4 (33.33%) Local Government
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Automation Test Lead
3 3 (25.00%) Lead
3 3 (25.00%) Test Leader
4 2 (16.67%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Test Manager
4 2 (16.67%) Test Automation Manager
4 2 (16.67%) Test Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) ICT Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) ICT Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Unix
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
1 3 (25.00%) Windows 2000
1 3 (25.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Migration
2 8 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 7 (58.33%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
6 2 (16.67%) Cost Control
7 1 (8.33%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
4 2 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (66.67%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (25.00%) Ansible
2 3 (25.00%) Terraform
3 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) CA
2 4 (33.33%) VMware
3 3 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 3 (25.00%) Juniper
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle
4 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto