VMS Contracts in Central London

VMS
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 169 179
Rank change year-on-year +42 +10 -13
Contract jobs citing VMS 6 5 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.25% 0.13% 0.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.94% 0.86% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - £723 £450
25th Percentile £558 £726 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £775 £531
Median % change year-on-year -27.10% +45.88% +25.00%
75th Percentile £573 £820 £594
90th Percentile - - £619
London median daily rate £435 £775 £563
% change year-on-year -43.94% +37.78% +13.64%

All Operating Systems
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 310 579 615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 12.83% 15.11% 13.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 414 481
10th Percentile £181 £161 £183
25th Percentile £280 £250 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +4.00% +1.57%
75th Percentile £649 £650 £606
90th Percentile £725 £735 £700
London median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 16
10th Percentile £19.86 £22.60 -
25th Percentile £21.25 £25.00 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% +42.86% +76.58%
75th Percentile £23.75 - £36.63
90th Percentile £25.70 £64.25 £64.38
London median hourly rate £22.00 £38.67 £24.50
% change year-on-year -43.11% +57.84% -42.35%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for VMS in Central London

VMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for VMS in Central London

VMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for VMS in Central London

VMS
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the Central London region over the 6 months to 5 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
City of London +47 5 - -
VMS
London

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (33.33%) IIS
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (16.67%) Apache
2 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2013
2 1 (16.67%) nginx
2 1 (16.67%) OpenStack
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (16.67%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) OneDrive
2 1 (16.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (16.67%) iSCSI
3 1 (16.67%) NAS
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) SAN
3 1 (16.67%) SSL
3 1 (16.67%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (16.67%) Couchbase
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (16.67%) LAMP
1 1 (16.67%) LAPP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (33.33%) Solaris
3 2 (33.33%) Ubuntu
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (16.67%) CentOS
4 1 (16.67%) OpenVMS
4 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (50.00%) Migration
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 2 (33.33%) Database Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Security Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) Cost Reduction
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) RBAC
3 1 (16.67%) Runbook
3 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Storage Management
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) Go
3 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) KVM
3 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) SCCM
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Grafana
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (16.67%) NetBackup
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) WSUS
2 1 (16.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle
3 2 (33.33%) Veeam
4 1 (16.67%) Aruba
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
4 1 (16.67%) ProCurve
4 1 (16.67%) Synology
4 1 (16.67%) Veritas
4 1 (16.67%) Zerto