VMS Contract Job Trends in Derbyshire

VMS
East Midlands > Derbyshire

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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VMS 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Derbyshire 0.97% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 8.70% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £513 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £475 £450 £625
% change year-on-year +5.56% -28.00% -

All Operating Systems
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 23 14 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 11.11% 12.50% 23.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 28
10th Percentile £189 £168 £145
25th Percentile £256 £170 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £200 £180
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% +11.11% -44.62%
75th Percentile £384 - £511
90th Percentile £500 £300 £588
East Midlands median daily rate £275 £383 £375
% change year-on-year -28.20% +2.13% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 11
10th Percentile £21.33 - £17.00
25th Percentile £21.33 - £18.50
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 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £20.15 £21.96 £15.86
% change year-on-year -8.23% +38.45% -17.35%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

VMS job vacancy trend in Derbyshire

VMS
Daily Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing VMS

VMS
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 5 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Derby - 2 £475 - 1
VMS
East Midlands

VMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derbyshire 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