VMS Contracts in London

VMS
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 345 408
Rank change year-on-year +18 +63 +85
Contract jobs citing VMS 26 46 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.21% 0.26% 0.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.73% 2.17% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 32 63
10th Percentile £250 £324 £513
25th Percentile £363 £375 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £435 £775
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -43.94% +39.33%
75th Percentile £619 £488 £823
90th Percentile £651 £572 £848
England median daily rate £540 £450 £713
% change year-on-year +20.00% -36.84% +21.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
England median hourly rate £82.50 £25.25 £85.00
% change year-on-year +226.73% -70.29% +100.00%

All Operating Systems
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,502 2,117 3,859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.97% 11.87% 14.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,043 1,510 2,826
10th Percentile £250 £200 £213
25th Percentile £375 £325 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £641 £629 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £764
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 69 61
10th Percentile £17.72 £15.30 £18.93
25th Percentile £21.89 £18.93 £22.63
Median hourly rate £24.66 £22.00 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year +12.09% -41.08% +52.41%
75th Percentile £32.75 £33.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £53.80 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +9.91% -42.11% +76.74%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing VMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for VMS in London

VMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMS in London.

Daily rate trend for VMS in London

VMS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMS in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMS in London

VMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMS in London.

Hourly rate trend for VMS in London

VMS
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London +1 3 £425 -24.78% 2
West London - 2 £338 - 4
South London +6 1 £251 +5.47%
VMS
England

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (11.54%) Skype for Business
2 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) Azure
2 5 (19.23%) GitHub
3 4 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (11.54%) Entra ID
4 3 (11.54%) IaaS
4 3 (11.54%) OpenShift
5 2 (7.69%) Azure App Service
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Storage
5 2 (7.69%) PaaS
5 2 (7.69%) SAP Fieldglass
6 1 (3.85%) GCP
6 1 (3.85%) OCI
6 1 (3.85%) SaaS
6 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (19.23%) SAN
2 4 (15.38%) Firewall
2 4 (15.38%) VoIP
2 4 (15.38%) VPN
3 3 (11.54%) DNS
3 3 (11.54%) Skype
4 1 (3.85%) 5G
4 1 (3.85%) DHCP
4 1 (3.85%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (3.85%) Wireless
4 1 (3.85%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) SQL Server
2 4 (15.38%) MySQL
3 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.85%) Git
General
1 6 (23.08%) Finance
2 3 (11.54%) Financial Institution
2 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Law
4 1 (3.85%) Aviation
4 1 (3.85%) Billing
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (15.38%) Administrator
1 4 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (15.38%) Senior
1 4 (15.38%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (11.54%) Voice Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Azure Specialist
3 2 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Consultant
3 2 (7.69%) Migration Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) OpenVMS Administrator
3 2 (7.69%) SAP Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) Support Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) VMS Administrator
3 2 (7.69%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Design Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Clustering
1 2 (7.69%) Hedge funds
1 2 (7.69%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Replication
2 1 (3.85%) CCTV
2 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.85%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (3.85%) IoT
2 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Windows
2 3 (11.54%) Linux
3 2 (7.69%) OpenVMS
4 1 (3.85%) Android
4 1 (3.85%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.85%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) DevOps
1 8 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (23.08%) Agile
2 6 (23.08%) CI/CD
2 6 (23.08%) ITIL
2 6 (23.08%) ITSM
3 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (15.38%) Containerisation
4 4 (15.38%) Runbook
5 3 (11.54%) Cloud Security
5 3 (11.54%) Configuration Management
5 3 (11.54%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (11.54%) High Availability
5 3 (11.54%) Service Delivery
6 2 (7.69%) AOP
6 2 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (7.69%) Incident Management
6 2 (7.69%) Migration
6 2 (7.69%) WFM
6 2 (7.69%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (30.77%) SQL
2 5 (19.23%) Bash
2 5 (19.23%) Python
3 2 (7.69%) C
3 2 (7.69%) C#
3 2 (7.69%) COBOL
3 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Azure Certification
2 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) SLA
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.85%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (38.46%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (19.23%) Active Directory
2 5 (19.23%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (15.38%) Docker
4 3 (11.54%) KVM
5 2 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (3.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Terraform
2 5 (19.23%) Ansible
3 4 (15.38%) Kubernetes
4 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.85%) CASB
5 1 (3.85%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) Cisco
2 3 (11.54%) Oracle
2 3 (11.54%) Palo Alto
2 3 (11.54%) VMware
3 2 (7.69%) SAP
4 1 (3.85%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.85%) Google