The first table below looks at the demand for VMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMS over the 3 months to 17 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 Yorkshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMS
Rank 110 - 100
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing VMS 3 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.158% - 0.055%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.593% - 0.275%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £275 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £343 £369 £225
% change year-on-year
-7.11% +63.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - £22.15
All Operating Systems
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
506 449 364
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 26.66% 19.59% 20.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 207 139
Average daily rate £325 £298 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.24% -8.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £138 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 71 59
Average hourly rate £12.88 £12.75 £15.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+0.98% -17.74%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £10.00 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £30.00 £24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.20
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.93%
VMS
England

VMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire VMS Daily Rate Trend

VMS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VMS across the Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire VMS Hourly Rate Trend

VMS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
West Yorkshire - 2 £275 -
South Yorkshire - 1 £335 -
VMS
England

VMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) HP
3 2 (33.33%) CSS
3 2 (33.33%) OpenVMS
3 2 (33.33%) VAX
4 1 (16.67%) Subversion
4 1 (16.67%) Blue Coat
4 1 (16.67%) SecurID
4 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Management
4 1 (16.67%) VLAN
4 1 (16.67%) NetScout
4 1 (16.67%) Degree
4 1 (16.67%) WCAG
4 1 (16.67%) WAI
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (16.67%) jQuery
4 1 (16.67%) Umbraco
4 1 (16.67%) Network Security
4 1 (16.67%) EPiServer
4 1 (16.67%) TippingPoint
4 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (16.67%) Git (software)
4 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (16.67%) HTML5
4 1 (16.67%) Social Media
4 1 (16.67%) Network Management
4 1 (16.67%) CSS3

VMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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.

Application Development
1 2 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) XHTML
2 1 (16.67%) jQuery
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (16.67%) HTML5
2 1 (16.67%) CSS3
2 1 (16.67%) Semantic HTML
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) IIS
1 1 (16.67%) CMS
1 1 (16.67%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Photoshop
1 1 (16.67%) Fireworks
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DHCP
1 1 (16.67%) FTP
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
1 1 (16.67%) SNMP
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
1 1 (16.67%) OSPF
1 1 (16.67%) BGP
1 1 (16.67%) VRRP
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) VLAN
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (16.67%) HSRP
1 1 (16.67%) GLBP
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
1 1 (16.67%) Subversion
1 1 (16.67%) Git (software)
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst Programmer
2 2 (33.33%) Programmer
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Support
3 1 (16.67%) UNIX Support Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) UNIX Support
3 1 (16.67%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Front-End Web Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Support Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (16.67%) Network Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Web Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) VAX
2 1 (16.67%) Social Media
2 1 (16.67%) W3C
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) OpenVMS
2 1 (16.67%) SUSE
2 1 (16.67%) Fedora
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (16.67%) UNIX
2 1 (16.67%) AIX
2 1 (16.67%) HPUX
2 1 (16.67%) Solaris
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) MVC
1 1 (16.67%) SEO
1 1 (16.67%) Information Security
1 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Management
1 1 (16.67%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CCNP
1 1 (16.67%) CCNA
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) WCAG
1 1 (16.67%) WAI
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (16.67%) Nokia
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
2 1 (16.67%) Open Text
2 1 (16.67%) Blue Coat
2 1 (16.67%) NetScout
2 1 (16.67%) EPiServer
2 1 (16.67%) TippingPoint
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Adobe