VMS Contracts in Birmingham

VMS
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 59 77
Rank change year-on-year +19 +18 -
Contract jobs citing VMS 8 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.54% 0.39% 0.11%
As % of the Operating Systems category 11.27% 3.90% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £1,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -52.50% - -
75th Percentile £695 - -
90th Percentile £700 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £546 £1,000 £480
% change year-on-year -45.45% +108.33% -31.43%

All Operating Systems
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 71 77 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.65% 10.09% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 50 58
10th Percentile £108 £190 £192
25th Percentile £153 £200 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £350 £425
Median % change year-on-year - -17.65% -
75th Percentile £500 £538 £623
90th Percentile £689 £666 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £401 £438 £450
% change year-on-year -8.39% -2.78% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £14.52 £15.54
25th Percentile - £15.47 £15.98
Median hourly rate £18.51 £17.50 £17.49
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +0.06% +9.31%
75th Percentile - £20.56 £27.50
90th Percentile - £22.48 £43.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.51 £22.50 £19.25
% change year-on-year -17.73% +16.88% +14.93%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for VMS in Birmingham

VMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for VMS in Birmingham

VMS
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMS in Birmingham over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMS in Birmingham

VMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for VMS in Birmingham

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 4 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon Glacier
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) AWS KMS
1 4 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) DNS
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
1 4 (50.00%) FTP
1 4 (50.00%) HTTP
1 4 (50.00%) iSCSI
1 4 (50.00%) SMTP
1 4 (50.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Git
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
1 4 (50.00%) Vagrant
General
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Replication
2 2 (25.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon Linux
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Change Management
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 4 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
1 4 (50.00%) Patch Management
1 4 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 4 (50.00%) Storage Management
1 4 (50.00%) Storage Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Groovy
1 4 (50.00%) Java
1 4 (50.00%) Perl
1 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) SC Cleared
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (50.00%) DFS Replication
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
1 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Grafana
1 4 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 4 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Foundry