VMS Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

VMS
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Ipswich requiring VMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VMS 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich 2.34% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 16.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £350 - -
25th Percentile £351 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £352 - -
75th Percentile £353 - -
90th Percentile £353 - -
Suffolk median daily rate £352 - -

All Operating Systems
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 18 10 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 14.06% 30.30% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 4
10th Percentile £352 £175 £233
25th Percentile £360 £195 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £375
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +20.00% +158.62%
75th Percentile £420 £525 £391
90th Percentile £430 £632 £396
Suffolk median daily rate £400 £223 £220
% change year-on-year +79.78% +1.14% +40.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.01 - -
Median hourly rate £17.12 £17.79 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.79% - -
75th Percentile £18.22 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Suffolk median hourly rate £17.12 £17.79 -
% change year-on-year -3.79% - -

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

VMS job vacancy trend in Ipswich

VMS
Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Ipswich citing VMS

VMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) 4G
1 3 (100.00%) 5G
1 3 (100.00%) Broadband
1 3 (100.00%) IPv4
1 3 (100.00%) IPv6
1 3 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (100.00%) Wireless
1 3 (100.00%) xDSL
2 2 (66.67%) PPP
2 2 (66.67%) UPnP
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Broadband Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Issue Tracking
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) Matrix Organization
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) QA Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker