VMS Contracts in the Midlands

VMS
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for VMS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VMS over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 160 188
Rank change year-on-year +30 +28 -40
Contract jobs citing VMS 4 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.15% 0.088% 0.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.95% 0.48% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile £690 - £533
25th Percentile £806 - £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,000 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.58%
75th Percentile - - £750
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £450 £713 £588
% change year-on-year -36.84% +21.28% +19.59%

All Operating Systems
Midlands

VMS is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 421 629 1,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.40% 18.43% 19.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 427 666
10th Percentile £145 £158 £136
25th Percentile £200 £250 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £463 £375
Median % change year-on-year -18.92% +23.33% +4.17%
75th Percentile £538 £556 £500
90th Percentile £606 £688 £581
England median daily rate £465 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.27% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 38 71
10th Percentile £12.98 £11.80 £13.25
25th Percentile £14.27 £14.64 £14.82
Median hourly rate £18.00 £17.61 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.21% +3.59% +6.25%
75th Percentile £23.75 £19.98 £22.50
90th Percentile - £30.61 £24.50
England median hourly rate £22.00 £37.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -41.33% +70.45% +22.22%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for VMS in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for VMS in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMS in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for VMS in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
West Midlands +26 3 £1,000 - 2
East Midlands +23 1 £625 - 3
VMS
England

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (50.00%) IIS
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (50.00%) WordPress
2 1 (25.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) OneDrive
3 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) iSCSI
1 2 (50.00%) NAS
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
1 2 (50.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (25.00%) DB2
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) COBOL Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365 Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) LAMP
2 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (50.00%) Replication
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) COBOL
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Aruba
2 2 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (50.00%) ProCurve
2 2 (50.00%) Synology
2 2 (50.00%) Veeam
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Zerto
3 1 (25.00%) IBM
3 1 (25.00%) ICL