VMS Contracts with Work from Home Options

VMS
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 302 406 537
Rank change year-on-year +104 +131 -112
Contract jobs citing VMS 45 61 82
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.30% 0.24% 0.19%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.88% 1.77% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 33 51
10th Percentile £372 £365 £413
25th Percentile £413 £458 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £584 £650 £644
90th Percentile £619 £844 £750
UK median daily rate £445 £625 £556
% change year-on-year -28.88% +12.36% +11.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £48.68
25th Percentile - - £59.81
Median hourly rate - - £66.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £25.25 £85.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year -70.29% +28.79% +20.00%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,563 3,454 5,394
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.35% 13.75% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,095 2,433 3,815
10th Percentile £222 £250 £298
25th Percentile £350 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £606
90th Percentile £683 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £468 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -8.24% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 101 158
10th Percentile £12.85 £19.00 £14.43
25th Percentile £14.27 £38.50 £17.94
Median hourly rate £17.69 £55.00 £42.92
Median % change year-on-year -67.84% +28.15% +15.99%
75th Percentile £65.00 £69.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -42.86% +71.11% +26.76%

VMS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing VMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

VMS trend for jobs with a WFH option

VMS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing VMS.

VMS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

VMS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing VMS over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

VMS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

VMS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing VMS.

VMS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (22.22%) IIS
1 10 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.67%) CMS
2 3 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.44%) Apache
3 2 (4.44%) nginx
3 2 (4.44%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.89%) Azure
2 7 (15.56%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (13.33%) Entra ID
3 6 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (11.11%) PaaS
5 4 (8.89%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (8.89%) IaaS
5 4 (8.89%) SaaS
6 3 (6.67%) AWS
6 3 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (6.67%) OneDrive
7 2 (4.44%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (4.44%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.22%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 1 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.22%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.78%) Firewall
2 7 (15.56%) DNS
3 6 (13.33%) SAN
4 5 (11.11%) Network Security
5 4 (8.89%) SSL
6 2 (4.44%) DHCP
6 2 (4.44%) NAS
6 2 (4.44%) VLAN
7 1 (2.22%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.78%) Big Data
2 7 (15.56%) Oracle Database
3 4 (8.89%) NoSQL
4 3 (6.67%) DB2
4 3 (6.67%) Oracle Database 10g
5 2 (4.44%) Couchbase
5 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Git
2 3 (6.67%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (4.44%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.44%) JIRA
3 2 (4.44%) Oracle Forms
General
1 13 (28.89%) Finance
2 8 (17.78%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.33%) Banking
4 3 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.22%) Publishing
5 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (17.78%) Data Centre Engineer
1 8 (17.78%) Data Migration Engineer
1 8 (17.78%) Migration Engineer
2 7 (15.56%) COBOL Developer
2 7 (15.56%) Developer
3 6 (13.33%) Lead
3 6 (13.33%) Wintel Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Architect
5 4 (8.89%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Oracle Architect
5 4 (8.89%) Technical Leader
6 3 (6.67%) Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) Applications Specialist
6 3 (6.67%) Business Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Business Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) SQL Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Consultant
7 2 (4.44%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.11%) ARM Templates
2 2 (4.44%) ADSI
2 2 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (4.44%) LAPP Stack
2 2 (4.44%) RESTful
3 1 (2.22%) .NET
3 1 (2.22%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.22%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 11 (24.44%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.89%) Clustering
2 4 (8.89%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.44%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.44%) VAX
Operating Systems
1 20 (44.44%) Windows
2 19 (42.22%) Linux
3 7 (15.56%) Solaris
3 7 (15.56%) Unix
3 7 (15.56%) Windows Server
4 6 (13.33%) OpenVMS
5 4 (8.89%) Oracle Linux
5 4 (8.89%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (8.89%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (4.44%) CentOS
6 2 (4.44%) Ubuntu
6 2 (4.44%) Windows 2000
6 2 (4.44%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (4.44%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (57.78%) Migration
2 11 (24.44%) Agile
3 10 (22.22%) DevOps
4 8 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (15.56%) CI/CD
6 6 (13.33%) Service Delivery
6 6 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
8 4 (8.89%) Configuration Management
8 4 (8.89%) Cost Reduction
8 4 (8.89%) Database Migration
8 4 (8.89%) ITIL
8 4 (8.89%) RBAC
8 4 (8.89%) Storage Management
9 3 (6.67%) Availability Management
9 3 (6.67%) Business Strategy
9 3 (6.67%) Change Management
9 3 (6.67%) Containerisation
9 3 (6.67%) Knowledge Transfer
9 3 (6.67%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 19 (42.22%) SQL
2 9 (20.00%) COBOL
2 9 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 6 (13.33%) DCL
4 3 (6.67%) Python
5 2 (4.44%) Bash
5 2 (4.44%) Go
5 2 (4.44%) REXX
5 2 (4.44%) SELCOPY
5 2 (4.44%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) QA
System Software
1 13 (28.89%) Active Directory
2 7 (15.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.89%) KVM
3 4 (8.89%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (6.67%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (4.44%) Docker
5 2 (4.44%) Hyper-V
5 2 (4.44%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (2.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (8.89%) Ansible
1 4 (8.89%) SCCM
1 4 (8.89%) Terraform
2 2 (4.44%) Grafana
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (4.44%) Prometheus
2 2 (4.44%) ZABBIX
3 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (24.44%) Oracle
2 7 (15.56%) VMware
3 5 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.67%) IBM
4 3 (6.67%) ICL
5 2 (4.44%) Fortinet
5 2 (4.44%) Juniper
5 2 (4.44%) Syncsort
6 1 (2.22%) Adobe
6 1 (2.22%) Avid
6 1 (2.22%) CA
6 1 (2.22%) Google
6 1 (2.22%) Okta
6 1 (2.22%) SAP
6 1 (2.22%) Zscaler