VMS Contract Job Trends in Derby

VMS
Derbyshire > Derby

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derby requiring VMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VMS 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Derby 1.32% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 11.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £513 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Derbyshire median daily rate £475 - -

All Operating Systems
Derby

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 Derby.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 18 14 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby 11.92% 15.38% 30.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 30
10th Percentile £256 £168 £145
25th Percentile £259 £170 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £200 £168
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% +19.40% -11.84%
75th Percentile £423 - £472
90th Percentile £500 £300 £588
Derbyshire median daily rate £275 £200 £175
% change year-on-year +37.50% +14.29% -46.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 11
10th Percentile £21.33 - £17.70
25th Percentile £21.33 - £18.86
Median hourly rate £22.81 £25.15 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% +25.75% +12.87%
75th Percentile £25.75 - £24.18
90th Percentile £25.76 - -
Derbyshire median hourly rate £22.81 £25.15 £20.00
% change year-on-year -9.30% +25.75% +12.87%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

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

VMS job vacancy trend in Derby

VMS
Daily Rate Trend in Derby

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing VMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing VMS

VMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derby 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Business Case
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks