VMS Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

VMS
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring VMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 59 -
Rank change year-on-year -15 - -
Contract jobs citing VMS 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.46% 0.14% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.31% 0.92% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - -
75th Percentile £613 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £475 £500 £633
% change year-on-year -5.00% -20.95% +10.00%

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 121 109 151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.99% 14.91% 18.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 61 88
10th Percentile £132 £180 £130
25th Percentile £171 £325 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £400 £275
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% +45.45% -18.52%
75th Percentile £469 £488 £506
90th Percentile £491 £530 £625
England median daily rate £450 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% -4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 11 23
10th Percentile £18.28 £14.65 £12.15
25th Percentile £20.93 £17.58 £14.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% +36.46% +10.96%
75th Percentile - £24.74 £20.75
90th Percentile - £58.75 £49.55
England median hourly rate £23.00 £57.50 £38.75
% change year-on-year -60.00% +48.39% +55.00%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

VMS job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

VMS
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing VMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing VMS

VMS
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing VMS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing VMS

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 7 November 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 - 4 £513 - 2
VMS
England

VMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure App Service
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Storage
2 2 (50.00%) dbt
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) IaaS
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) RBAC
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) API Management
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Grafana
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks