VMS Contracts in Cheshire

VMS
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 57 - 61
Rank change year-on-year - - -6
Contract jobs citing VMS 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.22% - 0.38%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.72% - 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £350
75th Percentile - - £375
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £525 £500 £413
% change year-on-year +5.00% +21.21% -31.25%

All Operating Systems
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 58 77 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 12.92% 15.28% 21.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 43 85
10th Percentile £258 £126 £200
25th Percentile £343 £200 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £389 £390 £326
Median % change year-on-year -0.19% +19.63% -18.50%
75th Percentile £469 £487 £563
90th Percentile £515 £582 £611
North West median daily rate £393 £438 £476
% change year-on-year -10.17% -7.99% +11.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 5
10th Percentile - £14.00 £12.35
25th Percentile - £16.54 £14.00
Median hourly rate - £17.72 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year - -5.84% -5.90%
75th Percentile - - £22.41
90th Percentile - £17.73 £48.41
North West median hourly rate £17.44 £16.00 £29.30
% change year-on-year +9.00% -45.39% +62.78%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for VMS in Cheshire

VMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for VMS in Cheshire

VMS
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the Cheshire 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
Warrington - 1 - - 1
VMS
North West

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Military
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware