VMS Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

VMS
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring VMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 70 79
Rank change year-on-year -10 +9 +17
Contract jobs citing VMS 7 6 12
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.53% 0.71% 0.92%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.83% 3.19% 4.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 10
10th Percentile - - £622
25th Percentile - £450 £634
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £650
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -28.85% -
75th Percentile - £497 -
90th Percentile - £514 £663
South East median daily rate £488 £365 £650
% change year-on-year +33.56% -43.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £81.25 -
South East median hourly rate - £81.25 -

All Operating Systems
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 247 188 254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 18.85% 22.14% 19.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 132 109
10th Percentile £256 £263 £201
25th Percentile £450 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -9.95% -
75th Percentile £600 £613 £650
90th Percentile £650 £675 £713
South East median daily rate £447 £430 £400
% change year-on-year +3.95% +7.50% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 13 26
10th Percentile £15.62 £55.60 £19.62
25th Percentile £19.00 £61.25 £42.81
Median hourly rate £25.08 £62.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.88% +0.81% +160.61%
75th Percentile £48.75 £71.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £49.13 £81.00 £78.00
South East median hourly rate £20.79 £57.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -63.52% -0.87% +210.81%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

VMS job vacancy trend in Hampshire

VMS
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing VMS

VMS
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing VMS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing VMS

VMS
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 2 January 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
Southampton - 5 £500 - 1
VMS
South East

VMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 (28.57%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
1 1 (14.29%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
General
1 1 (14.29%) Legal
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) Design Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Developer
1 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Software Design Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Source to Pay
2 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
2 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
3 1 (14.29%) API Development
3 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
3 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C
1 1 (14.29%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
1 3 (42.86%) Rsyslog
1 3 (42.86%) SCOM
2 2 (28.57%) Cilium
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) NVIDIA