VMS Contracts in Croydon

VMS
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Croydon 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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 - 33
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VMS 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 1.25% - 1.27%
As % of the Operating Systems category 9.09% - 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £500
South London median daily rate £225 £238 £500
% change year-on-year -5.16% -52.50% -

All Operating Systems
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 11 14 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 13.75% 13.46% 24.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 34
10th Percentile £214 £425 £496
25th Percentile £260 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £511 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.85% -7.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £499 £563 £650
90th Percentile £540 £567 £725
South London median daily rate £425 £470 £500
% change year-on-year -9.57% -6.00% -13.04%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Job vacancy trend for VMS in Croydon

VMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Daily rate trend for VMS in Croydon

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Route 53
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) FTP
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) IMAP
1 1 (100.00%) OpenLDAP
1 1 (100.00%) SMTP
1 1 (100.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Vagrant
General
1 1 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) DFS Replication
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Dovecot
1 1 (100.00%) Postfix
1 1 (100.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Proxmox
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Jaspersoft
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow