VMS Contracts in Berkshire

VMS
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring VMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 120 104
Rank change year-on-year +30 -16 +26
Contract jobs citing VMS 3 4 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.26% 0.20% 0.61%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.89% 1.47% 4.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 8
10th Percentile - - £350
25th Percentile - - £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £650 £515
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +26.21% -12.34%
75th Percentile - - £536
90th Percentile - - £600
South East median daily rate £625 £600 £515
% change year-on-year +4.17% +16.50% -12.34%

All Operating Systems
Berkshire

VMS falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 159 272 239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.55% 13.71% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 194 162
10th Percentile £250 £205 £271
25th Percentile £400 £244 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £514
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -17.27% +4.31%
75th Percentile £661 £575 £623
90th Percentile £700 £608 £699
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 11
10th Percentile - £56.40 £21.65
25th Percentile - £56.50 £37.25
Median hourly rate £24.66 £61.60 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.97% +12.00% -16.03%
75th Percentile - £63.30 £72.50
90th Percentile - £66.50 £81.37
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -10.38% +165.00%

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

VMS
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

VMS
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 1 May 2025. 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
Bracknell +18 2 £700 - 2
Windsor - 1 - -
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Database
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Database 12c
General
1 2 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) BCP
1 2 (66.67%) Business Continuity
1 2 (66.67%) Business Continuity Planning
1 2 (66.67%) Database Migration
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Data Guard
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft