VMS Contracts in the North East

VMS
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 37 - 46
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VMS 1 0 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 0.31% - 3.07%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.22% - 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £325 - £775
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £800
75th Percentile £375 - £849
90th Percentile - - £850
England median daily rate £540 £450 £713
% change year-on-year +20.00% -36.84% +21.28%

All Operating Systems
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 45 40 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 14.06% 11.83% 19.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 28 64
10th Percentile £180 £171 £205
25th Percentile £188 £190 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £408 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.25% -22.38% +85.84%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £747
90th Percentile £615 £650 £775
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.25 £31.25
Median hourly rate £18.75 £17.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -46.15% +116.67%
75th Percentile £19.38 £18.75 £33.75
90th Percentile - - -
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 the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for VMS in the North East

VMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for VMS in the North East

VMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

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

Hourly rate trend for VMS in the North East

VMS
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the North East 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
Tyne and Wear - 1 £350 -
VMS
England

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Support
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Antivirus Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Server Migrations
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) VMware