VMS Contracts in the East Midlands

VMS
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 67 83
Rank change year-on-year +3 +16 +11
Contract jobs citing VMS 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.42% 0.12% 0.098%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.66% 0.51% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% - -
75th Percentile £475 £638 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £475 £500 £633
% change year-on-year -5.00% -20.95% +15.00%

All Operating Systems
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 82 195 179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.37% 22.57% 17.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 109 125
10th Percentile £166 £130 £122
25th Percentile £200 £160 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £383 £375 £350
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% +7.14% +22.27%
75th Percentile £476 £500 £556
90th Percentile £527 £578 £675
England median daily rate £464 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.37% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 26 18
10th Percentile £14.96 £12.75 £11.80
25th Percentile £15.12 £14.27 £13.50
Median hourly rate £21.96 £15.86 £19.19
Median % change year-on-year +38.45% -17.35% -4.05%
75th Percentile £25.15 £23.14 £23.56
90th Percentile - £24.59 £39.54
England median hourly rate £20.00 £25.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -20.00% -41.18% +93.18%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing VMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for VMS in the East Midlands

VMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMS in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for VMS in the East Midlands

VMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMS in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for VMS in the East Midlands

VMS
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 July 2025. 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
Leicestershire - 3 £450 - 2
VMS
England

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure App Service
1 2 (66.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Storage
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
1 2 (66.67%) IaaS
1 2 (66.67%) PaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Anthos
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (33.33%) BigQuery
General
1 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) GCP Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Operations
1 2 (66.67%) Identity Management
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Network Virtualisation
1 2 (66.67%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google