VMS Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

VMS
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring VMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 43 -
Rank change year-on-year -32 - -
Contract jobs citing VMS 9 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.36% 1.10% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.09% 4.88% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 0
10th Percentile £418 £491 -
25th Percentile £437 £549 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £599 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.48% - -
75th Percentile £615 £623 -
90th Percentile £620 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £530 £599 -
% change year-on-year -11.48% - -

All Operating Systems
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 127 82 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 19.18% 22.65% 11.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 48 19
10th Percentile £321 £209 £182
25th Percentile £368 £445 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £535 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.32% -6.91% +6.48%
75th Percentile £538 £606 £638
90th Percentile £663 £650 £688
South Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £533 £525
% change year-on-year -9.94% +1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - £16.28 £18.95
25th Percentile - £17.86 £19.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.00 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.76% -1.18% +51.79%
75th Percentile - £21.50 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £21.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year +19.76% -1.18% +44.07%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

VMS job vacancy trend in Sheffield

VMS
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing VMS

VMS
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for VMS in Sheffield

VMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (22.22%) Firewall
2 2 (22.22%) NAS
2 2 (22.22%) SAN
3 1 (11.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (22.22%) Git
2 2 (22.22%) GitLab
3 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Migration Specialist
1 2 (22.22%) Platform Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Server Migration Specialist
1 2 (22.22%) Server Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
1 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Automation
1 4 (44.44%) Migration
1 4 (44.44%) Source to Pay
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
3 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
3 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Kanban
3 2 (22.22%) Network Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Scrum
3 2 (22.22%) Server Migrations
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (11.11%) Data Flow Diagram
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Shell Script
2 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (22.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
1 2 (22.22%) OCP
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (11.11%) VCAP
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (33.33%) VMware NSX
2 3 (33.33%) vSphere
3 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
4 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Ansible
2 3 (33.33%) Terraform
2 3 (33.33%) vCenter Server
3 2 (22.22%) vRealize
4 1 (11.11%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) F5
1 3 (33.33%) VMware
2 2 (22.22%) Dell
2 2 (22.22%) Pure Storage
3 1 (11.11%) Broadcom