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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 353 408
Rank change year-on-year +28 +55 +76
Contract jobs citing VMS 25 44 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.20% 0.25% 0.30%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.71% 2.12% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 30 56
10th Percentile £250 £314 £506
25th Percentile £363 £375 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £775
Median % change year-on-year - -45.16% +47.62%
75th Percentile £594 £484 £820
90th Percentile £640 £569 £849
England median daily rate £537 £450 £650
% change year-on-year +19.33% -30.77% +15.56%
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 1,466 2,071 3,764
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.83% 11.83% 14.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,016 1,474 2,752
10th Percentile £250 £200 £213
25th Percentile £375 £350 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £636 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
England median daily rate £470 £470 £513
% change year-on-year - -8.29% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 64 63
10th Percentile £17.72 £14.79 £18.93
25th Percentile £21.88 £18.04 £23.13
Median hourly rate £24.58 £22.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.73% -45.00% +61.62%
75th Percentile £28.85 £25.71 £67.25
90th Percentile £53.80 £60.00 £81.60
England median hourly rate £21.59 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year -1.86% -42.11% +72.73%

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 15 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 15 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 0 2 £344 -39.16% 3
West London - 2 £338 - 6
South London +2 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 (12.00%) Skype for Business
2 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 10 (40.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.00%) GitHub
2 5 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (16.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (12.00%) IaaS
4 3 (12.00%) OpenShift
4 3 (12.00%) SAP Fieldglass
5 2 (8.00%) Azure App Service
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Storage
6 1 (4.00%) GCP
6 1 (4.00%) OneDrive
6 1 (4.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) SAN
1 4 (16.00%) VoIP
1 4 (16.00%) VPN
2 3 (12.00%) DNS
2 3 (12.00%) Firewall
2 3 (12.00%) Skype
3 1 (4.00%) 5G
3 1 (4.00%) DHCP
3 1 (4.00%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (4.00%) Wireless
3 1 (4.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (16.00%) MySQL
3 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.00%) Git
General
1 7 (28.00%) Finance
2 3 (12.00%) Financial Institution
2 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Aviation
3 1 (4.00%) Banking
3 1 (4.00%) Law
3 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (16.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (16.00%) Senior
1 4 (16.00%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Administrator
2 3 (12.00%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) SAP Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Voice Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (8.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) OpenVMS Administrator
3 2 (8.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) VMS Administrator
3 2 (8.00%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Consultant
4 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Clustering
1 2 (8.00%) Hedge funds
2 1 (4.00%) CCTV
2 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.00%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (4.00%) IoT
2 1 (4.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (4.00%) Replication
2 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Windows
2 3 (12.00%) Linux
3 2 (8.00%) OpenVMS
3 2 (8.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (4.00%) Android
4 1 (4.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) Agile
2 7 (28.00%) DevOps
2 7 (28.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (24.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (24.00%) ITIL
4 5 (20.00%) ITSM
4 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (16.00%) Runbook
5 4 (16.00%) Waterfall
6 3 (12.00%) AOP
6 3 (12.00%) Configuration Management
6 3 (12.00%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (12.00%) High Availability
6 3 (12.00%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (12.00%) Service Delivery
6 3 (12.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 3 (12.00%) WFM
6 3 (12.00%) Workflow
7 2 (8.00%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 8 (32.00%) SQL
2 5 (20.00%) Bash
2 5 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (8.00%) C
3 2 (8.00%) C#
3 2 (8.00%) COBOL
3 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) Degree
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) SLA
2 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.00%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 6 (24.00%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (16.00%) Docker
4 3 (12.00%) KVM
5 2 (8.00%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (4.00%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (4.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) Terraform
2 5 (20.00%) Ansible
3 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) Cisco
2 3 (12.00%) Oracle
2 3 (12.00%) SAP
2 3 (12.00%) VMware
3 2 (8.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.00%) Google