VMS Contracts in South Wales

VMS
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 - 51
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VMS 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 0.41% - 0.80%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.78% - 4.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £550
75th Percentile - - £563
90th Percentile - - £585
Wales median daily rate - - £550

All Operating Systems
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 36 46 93
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 14.94% 14.84% 18.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 35 74
10th Percentile £177 £195 £146
25th Percentile £213 £354 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -32.41% +8.00% +14.93%
75th Percentile £438 £657 £575
90th Percentile £522 £703 £646
Wales median daily rate £365 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -27.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 5
10th Percentile £22.38 £12.67 £19.32
25th Percentile £28.13 £13.31 £21.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £14.36 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +161.14% -69.77% +2.70%
75th Percentile £41.25 £31.18 £50.00
90th Percentile £49.38 £41.27 £55.25
Wales median hourly rate £37.50 £14.36 £35.00
% change year-on-year +161.14% -58.97% -24.32%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings citing VMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for VMS in South Wales

VMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMS in South Wales.

Daily rate trend for VMS in South Wales

VMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMS in South Wales.

Hourly rate trend for VMS in South Wales

VMS
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 16 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
Cardiff - 1 - - 4
VMS
Wales

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Anaconda
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Munging
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform