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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 126 124
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 +23
Contract jobs citing VMS 13 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.58% 0.057% 0.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.22% 0.55% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 2
10th Percentile £408 - £483
25th Percentile £443 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £870 £575
Median % change year-on-year -32.44% +51.30% +15.00%
75th Percentile £675 - £638
90th Percentile £719 - £668
Central London median daily rate £588 £870 £575
% change year-on-year -32.44% +51.30% +15.00%

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 209 182 268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.37% 10.44% 12.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 137 172
10th Percentile £220 £252 £250
25th Percentile £346 £325 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £521
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.72% +1.71%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £638
90th Percentile £725 £729 £725
Central London median daily rate £492 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -1.16% -0.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 5
10th Percentile £19.30 £24.25 £24.68
25th Percentile £19.38 £25.00 -
Median hourly rate £21.00 £27.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +1.85% -25.52%
75th Percentile £23.25 £29.50 £112.00
90th Percentile £23.70 £29.95 -
Central London median hourly rate £21.00 £26.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -19.23% -3.70% -25.52%

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 26 September 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) Exchange Server 2013
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.69%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 1 (7.69%) Finance
1 1 (7.69%) Law
1 1 (7.69%) Mandarin Language
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) CCTV Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) Network Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 1 (7.69%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) CyberArk Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Project Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Project Leader
4 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Middleware
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) CCTV
2 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.69%) Clustering
3 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Windows Server
3 2 (15.38%) OpenVMS
3 2 (15.38%) Windows 7
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (15.38%) Migration
2 2 (15.38%) Storage Management
3 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science
3 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (7.69%) Data Extraction
3 1 (7.69%) High Availability
3 1 (7.69%) Incident Management
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (7.69%) ITSM
3 1 (7.69%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (7.69%) Load Balancing
3 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
3 1 (7.69%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (7.69%) Reverse Engineering
3 1 (7.69%) Server Management
3 1 (7.69%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) Korn
2 1 (7.69%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) CCNA
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) MCSE
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
3 2 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (7.69%) Firmware
4 1 (7.69%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) NetBackup
1 2 (15.38%) WSUS
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (7.69%) PowerCLI
2 1 (7.69%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) VMware
2 3 (23.08%) Oracle
3 2 (15.38%) EMC
3 2 (15.38%) ServiceNow
3 2 (15.38%) Veeam
3 2 (15.38%) Veritas
4 1 (7.69%) BMC
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco
4 1 (7.69%) Commvault
4 1 (7.69%) CyberArk
4 1 (7.69%) Dell
4 1 (7.69%) Isilon
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.69%) Remedy