VMS Contracts in Central London

VMS
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 126 127 169
Rank change year-on-year +1 +42 +15
Contract jobs citing VMS 3 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.15% 0.25% 0.078%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.07% 1.92% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £278 - £723
25th Percentile £328 £558 £726
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £565 £775
Median % change year-on-year -24.78% -27.10% +40.91%
75th Percentile £481 £573 £820
90th Percentile £508 - -
London median daily rate £450 £435 £775
% change year-on-year +3.57% -43.94% +39.33%

All Operating Systems
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 280 312 577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 14.02% 12.76% 14.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 224 412
10th Percentile £243 £182 £160
25th Percentile £350 £280 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £450 £523
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -13.88% +4.50%
75th Percentile £639 £642 £650
90th Percentile £710 £725 £730
London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 5
10th Percentile £35.38 £19.86 £22.60
25th Percentile £56.56 £21.25 £25.00
Median hourly rate £98.75 £22.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +338.89% -35.71% +42.86%
75th Percentile £146.56 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £171.13 £25.70 £64.25
London median hourly rate £24.66 £22.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year +12.09% -41.08% +52.41%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMS in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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

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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 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
City of London +6 3 £425 - 2
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Benchmarking
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
1 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
1 1 (33.33%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) CASB
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform