OpenVMS Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

OpenVMS
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring OpenVMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 335 -
Rank change year-on-year -87 - -
Contract jobs citing OpenVMS 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.007% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.17% 0.042% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £410 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -
75th Percentile £473 - -
90th Percentile £549 - -
UK median daily rate £420 £500 £438
% change year-on-year -16.00% +14.29% -12.50%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

OpenVMS 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,941 2,373 3,354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.16% 17.77% 16.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,943 1,468 2,200
10th Percentile £163 £180 £163
25th Percentile £213 £243 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £430 £430
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% - -9.47%
75th Percentile £538 £555 £575
90th Percentile £626 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £465
% change year-on-year -5.26% +2.15% -9.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 313 121 311
10th Percentile £14.20 £16.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.81 £28.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.54% +12.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £68.00 £68.75 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £23.50 £30.78 £25.06
% change year-on-year -23.65% +22.84% -5.75%

OpenVMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OpenVMS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

OpenVMS job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

OpenVMS
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OpenVMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OpenVMS

OpenVMS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenVMS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for OpenVMS in the UK excluding London

OpenVMS
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OpenVMS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing OpenVMS

OpenVMS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenVMS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 February 2026. 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
East Midlands - 3 £420 -
Midlands - 3 £420 -
South East -34 2 £600 +50.00% 3
OpenVMS
UK

OpenVMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Systems Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) IT Manager
3 1 (20.00%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Issue Tracking
1 3 (60.00%) Project Delivery
1 3 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) AI
2 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) Proactive Maintenance
2 1 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Release Management
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C
1 1 (20.00%) Fortran
1 1 (20.00%) Korn
1 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (20.00%) ProC
1 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft