VMS Contract Job Trends in the City of London

VMS
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring VMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 115 120
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 +33
Contract jobs citing VMS 10 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.42% 0.12% 0.19%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.62% 0.94% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £390 £261 -
25th Percentile £413 £286 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £344 £675
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% -49.07% -11.10%
75th Percentile £525 £398 £688
90th Percentile £593 £422 -
Central London median daily rate £463 £344 £575
% change year-on-year +34.55% -40.22% -24.27%

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 151 213 280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 6.41% 12.61% 13.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 155 191
10th Percentile £190 £253 £219
25th Percentile £250 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £518 £501
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% +3.40% -6.88%
75th Percentile £638 £649 £675
90th Percentile £675 £723 £750
Central London median daily rate £475 £518 £450
% change year-on-year -8.21% +15.00% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £19.41 £24.35 -
25th Percentile £19.64 £25.25 £21.25
Median hourly rate £20.88 £28.50 £24.38
Median % change year-on-year -26.73% +16.92% -51.25%
75th Percentile £22.72 £108.88 £27.59
90th Percentile £23.31 £156.05 £28.66
Central London median hourly rate £20.88 £26.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.20% +15.22% -45.88%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

VMS job vacancy trend in the City of London

VMS
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VMS

VMS
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 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMS in the City of London

VMS
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VMS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing VMS

VMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) SAN
2 1 (10.00%) VLAN
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
1 1 (10.00%) Law
1 1 (10.00%) Mandarin Language
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) CCTV Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Project Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) CCTV
2 1 (10.00%) Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (10.00%) SUSE
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) High Availability
1 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (20.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (10.00%) Converged Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (10.00%) ITSM
2 1 (10.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (10.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (10.00%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (10.00%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (10.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (10.00%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) CCNA
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) MCSE
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (20.00%) Firmware
2 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (20.00%) vSphere
3 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (10.00%) PowerCLI
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
1 1 (10.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (10.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) Dell
2 2 (20.00%) EMC
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Databricks
3 1 (10.00%) Isilon
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow