VMS Contracts in the City of London

VMS
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 126 158
Rank change year-on-year +7 +32 +27
Contract jobs citing VMS 3 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 0.19% 0.20%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.28% 1.38% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £278 - £500
25th Percentile £328 £663 £537
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £675 £622
Median % change year-on-year -37.04% +8.56% +13.05%
75th Percentile £654 £688 £705
90th Percentile £784 - £741
Central London median daily rate £425 £575 £622
% change year-on-year -26.09% -7.52% +13.05%

All Operating Systems
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 235 289 495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 12.93% 13.51% 14.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 202 349
10th Percentile £256 £226 £153
25th Percentile £350 £350 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £496 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.28% -5.48% +3.19%
75th Percentile £664 £650 £650
90th Percentile £721 £725 £726
Central London median daily rate £518 £450 £501
% change year-on-year +15.00% -10.09% +0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £24.35 £21.81 £26.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.66 £34.38
Median hourly rate £28.50 £26.63 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.04% -46.75% +194.12%
75th Percentile £108.88 £27.59 £68.13
90th Percentile £156.05 £28.66 £77.50
Central London median hourly rate £28.50 £26.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year +8.57% -30.00% +87.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for VMS in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMS in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for VMS in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMS in the City of London over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMS in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMS in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for VMS in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 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%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Architect
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Security Architect
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%) 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
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
1 1 (33.33%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Trend Micro