VMS Contract Job Trends in London

VMS
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring VMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 332 338
Rank change year-on-year -67 +6 +89
Contract jobs citing VMS 44 32 48
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.22% 0.24% 0.30%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.76% 2.07% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 23 34
10th Percentile £281 £263 £336
25th Percentile £408 £363 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £460
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -4.89% -18.58%
75th Percentile £600 £556 £572
90th Percentile £638 £615 £661
England median daily rate £475 £475 £514
% change year-on-year - -7.54% -14.38%

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 1,593 1,544 1,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.91% 11.39% 12.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,053 1,039 1,376
10th Percentile £208 £237 £220
25th Percentile £350 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
England median daily rate £475 £450 £493
% change year-on-year +5.56% -8.63% -1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 44 48
10th Percentile £17.60 £18.87 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.50% +14.32% -49.81%
75th Percentile £25.34 £26.13 £31.72
90th Percentile £54.40 £60.58 £60.43
England median hourly rate £35.22 £23.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year +53.13% -33.33% -13.75%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

VMS job vacancy trend in London

VMS
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing VMS

VMS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMS in London over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMS in London

VMS
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing VMS

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 13 August 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
Central London -11 14 £475 -26.64% 5
VMS
England

VMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.82%) Exchange Server 2013
1 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.27%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (52.27%) Azure
2 11 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (15.91%) Azure Monitor
3 7 (15.91%) Entra ID
4 6 (13.64%) Azure AKS
5 5 (11.36%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (6.82%) AWS
6 3 (6.82%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (6.82%) Azure Stack
6 3 (6.82%) GitHub
6 3 (6.82%) IaaS
6 3 (6.82%) PaaS
6 3 (6.82%) SAP Fieldglass
7 2 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (4.55%) GCP
7 2 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.64%) DNS
1 6 (13.64%) Firewall
2 5 (11.36%) VPN
3 4 (9.09%) VLAN
3 4 (9.09%) VSAN
4 3 (6.82%) Network Security
5 1 (2.27%) DHCP
5 1 (2.27%) Multicast
5 1 (2.27%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.27%) SSH
5 1 (2.27%) Unicast
5 1 (2.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.36%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.27%) Db2
3 1 (2.27%) Metadata
3 1 (2.27%) MySQL
3 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.27%) Power BI
3 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Git
2 3 (6.82%) GitLab
3 2 (4.55%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.55%) Selenium
3 2 (4.55%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.27%) JIRA
General
1 7 (15.91%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (4.55%) Manufacturing
2 2 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.27%) Finance
3 1 (2.27%) Law
3 1 (2.27%) Local Government
3 1 (2.27%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 9 (20.45%) Azure Engineer
2 7 (15.91%) CCTV Engineer
3 6 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (13.64%) Network Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Migration Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Consultant
6 2 (4.55%) Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Azure Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Project Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Support Engineer
7 1 (2.27%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 1 (2.27%) Coordinator
7 1 (2.27%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 1 (2.27%) SAP Consultant
7 1 (2.27%) Security Engineer
7 1 (2.27%) Senior Consultant
7 1 (2.27%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.09%) ADO
2 3 (6.82%) .NET
3 2 (4.55%) ARM Templates
3 2 (4.55%) JSON
3 2 (4.55%) Node.js
3 2 (4.55%) Pandas
3 2 (4.55%) Playwright
3 2 (4.55%) Spring
3 2 (4.55%) XML
3 2 (4.55%) YAML
4 1 (2.27%) REST
4 1 (2.27%) SAML
4 1 (2.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.91%) CCTV
2 5 (11.36%) Replication
3 4 (9.09%) Clustering
3 4 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (6.82%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.82%) Data Centre
4 3 (6.82%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.27%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.27%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.27%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 13 (29.55%) Windows
2 8 (18.18%) Windows Server
3 7 (15.91%) Linux
4 4 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (6.82%) OpenVMS
5 3 (6.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (6.82%) SUSE
5 3 (6.82%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (6.82%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (4.55%) Unix
6 2 (4.55%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (29.55%) DevOps
1 13 (29.55%) Migration
2 12 (27.27%) CI/CD
2 12 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (18.18%) High Availability
3 8 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (15.91%) Containerisation
4 7 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (15.91%) Validation
5 5 (11.36%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (11.36%) Observability
6 4 (9.09%) Agile
6 4 (9.09%) RBAC
6 4 (9.09%) Server Management
6 4 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (6.82%) AI
7 3 (6.82%) Cost Optimisation
7 3 (6.82%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (6.82%) Network Virtualisation
7 3 (6.82%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 13 (29.55%) Python
2 12 (27.27%) PowerShell
3 7 (15.91%) Bash
4 6 (13.64%) SQL
5 5 (11.36%) Bicep
6 3 (6.82%) Java
7 2 (4.55%) C#
7 2 (4.55%) Korn
8 1 (2.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (29.55%) Security Cleared
2 7 (15.91%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.36%) Azure Certification
4 3 (6.82%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.55%) Degree
5 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.27%) CCNA
6 1 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.27%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.27%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.27%) PMO
2 1 (2.27%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (22.73%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (18.18%) Docker
4 7 (15.91%) Active Directory
5 5 (11.36%) Firmware
5 5 (11.36%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (9.09%) vSphere
7 3 (6.82%) Hyper-V
8 1 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (2.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (34.09%) Terraform
2 8 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Clustering
3 4 (9.09%) VxRail
4 3 (6.82%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (6.82%) NetBackup
4 3 (6.82%) vCenter Server
5 2 (4.55%) Ansible
5 2 (4.55%) Rancher
5 2 (4.55%) WSUS
6 1 (2.27%) PowerCLI
6 1 (2.27%) SCOM
6 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (27.27%) Microsoft
1 12 (27.27%) VMware
2 6 (13.64%) Dell
3 5 (11.36%) Oracle
4 4 (9.09%) Databricks
4 4 (9.09%) Veeam
5 3 (6.82%) Cisco
5 3 (6.82%) Veritas
6 2 (4.55%) EMC
6 2 (4.55%) Foundry
6 2 (4.55%) Okta
6 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.55%) Splunk
7 1 (2.27%) Ariba
7 1 (2.27%) BMC
7 1 (2.27%) Commvault
7 1 (2.27%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.27%) Informatica
7 1 (2.27%) Isilon
7 1 (2.27%) Workday