VMS Contracts in Berkshire

VMS
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 105 123
Rank change year-on-year -8 +18 -22
Contract jobs citing VMS 5 12 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.26% 0.67% 0.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.85% 4.96% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 3
10th Percentile - £350 £479
25th Percentile - £474 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £515 £588
Median % change year-on-year +26.21% -12.34% -
75th Percentile - £536 £606
90th Percentile - £600 -
South East median daily rate £600 £515 £594
% change year-on-year +16.50% -13.26% +39.71%

All Operating Systems
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 271 242 310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.89% 13.49% 12.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 161 225
10th Percentile £205 £270 £141
25th Percentile £253 £363 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £513 £493
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% +4.06% +15.88%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £613
90th Percentile £608 £675 £656
South East median daily rate £455 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -4.21% +5.56% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 5
10th Percentile £56.40 £21.65 £34.75
25th Percentile £56.50 £37.25 £62.50
Median hourly rate £61.60 £55.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -16.03% +134.51%
75th Percentile £63.30 £72.50 £68.25
90th Percentile £66.50 £81.37 £79.80
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £54.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year -12.44% +171.25% -

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing VMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for VMS in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMS in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for VMS in Berkshire

VMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMS in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for VMS in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 4 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
Reading - 3 £650 - 3
Bracknell -13 2 - -
VMS
South East

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Commissioning Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (20.00%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Solaris
2 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (40.00%) Database Migration
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
1 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bash
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (40.00%) KVM
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (40.00%) vSphere
3 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Packer
1 2 (40.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (20.00%) FireEye
3 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (20.00%) Tanium