VMS Contracts in the UK excluding London

VMS
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 337 403 472
Rank change year-on-year +66 +69 -62
Contract jobs citing VMS 54 54 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.23% 0.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.66% 1.17% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 42 32
10th Percentile £350 £353 £413
25th Percentile £375 £452 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +37.14%
75th Percentile £619 £769 £703
90th Percentile £673 £846 £750
UK median daily rate £444 £625 £563
% change year-on-year -28.96% +11.11% +13.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.50 £41.25
Median hourly rate £25.25 £55.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -54.09% +29.41% -
75th Percentile - £57.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £34.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £25.25 £85.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year -70.29% +28.79% +20.00%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,249 4,616 5,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.80% 19.32% 19.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,159 3,216 3,896
10th Percentile £175 £163 £150
25th Percentile £258 £250 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £538
90th Percentile £675 £680 £638
UK median daily rate £470 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -6.93% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 319 340 465
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.78
25th Percentile £14.22 £17.43 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +50.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £61.60 £61.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.71 £63.25
UK median hourly rate £22.08 £39.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -43.40% +73.33% +25.80%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing VMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for VMS in the UK excluding London

VMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for VMS in the UK excluding London

VMS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for VMS in the UK excluding London

VMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for VMS in the UK excluding London

VMS
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 VMS within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +25 19 £563 -27.42% 15
South East +20 14 £600 +16.50% 8
Yorkshire +32 13 £563 -10.00%
South West +25 12 £439 -2.39% 4
North West +20 6 £425 +6.25% 15
Scotland +42 4 £358 -28.40% 2
Midlands +30 4 £1,000 - 5
West Midlands +26 3 £1,000 - 2
East Midlands +23 1 £625 - 3
Wales +13 1 - -
VMS
UK

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 15 (27.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (14.81%) IIS
3 2 (3.70%) Apache
3 2 (3.70%) Confluence
3 2 (3.70%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.70%) WordPress
4 1 (1.85%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 17 (31.48%) Azure
2 11 (20.37%) Entra ID
3 10 (18.52%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (12.96%) Azure Logic Apps
4 7 (12.96%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (12.96%) Power Platform
5 6 (11.11%) IaaS
6 5 (9.26%) OpenShift
6 5 (9.26%) PaaS
7 3 (5.56%) AWS
8 2 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (3.70%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.85%) GitHub
9 1 (1.85%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.85%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 14 (25.93%) Firewall
2 9 (16.67%) SAN
3 7 (12.96%) DNS
4 4 (7.41%) NAS
5 2 (3.70%) DHCP
5 2 (3.70%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (3.70%) iSCSI
5 2 (3.70%) SSL
5 2 (3.70%) TCP/IP
5 2 (3.70%) VLAN
5 2 (3.70%) VPN
5 2 (3.70%) Wireless
6 1 (1.85%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (14.81%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (14.81%) Big Data
3 7 (12.96%) MongoDB
3 7 (12.96%) Power BI
4 5 (9.26%) MySQL
4 5 (9.26%) NoSQL
4 5 (9.26%) Oracle Database
4 5 (9.26%) RDBMS
4 5 (9.26%) Relational Database
4 5 (9.26%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.85%) DB2
Development Applications
1 13 (24.07%) Git
2 9 (16.67%) GitLab
3 5 (9.26%) Jenkins
3 5 (9.26%) JIRA
4 2 (3.70%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.70%) JMeter
4 2 (3.70%) Selenium
5 1 (1.85%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.85%) Oracle APEX
General
1 9 (16.67%) Finance
2 4 (7.41%) Fire and Rescue
2 4 (7.41%) Local Government
3 3 (5.56%) Automotive
3 3 (5.56%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.70%) Banking
4 2 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.85%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (20.37%) Linux Engineer
2 9 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (14.81%) Data Centre Engineer
3 8 (14.81%) Data Migration Engineer
3 8 (14.81%) Migration Engineer
4 6 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (11.11%) Wintel Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Architect
7 3 (5.56%) Automation Test Lead
7 3 (5.56%) Lead
7 3 (5.56%) Support Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Test Leader
8 2 (3.70%) Automation Specialist
8 2 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Infrastructure Test Manager
8 2 (3.70%) IT Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.96%) RESTful
2 2 (3.70%) .NET
2 2 (3.70%) .NET Core
2 2 (3.70%) ADSI
2 2 (3.70%) AngularJS
2 2 (3.70%) Kafka
2 2 (3.70%) LAMP
3 1 (1.85%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.37%) Data Centre
2 9 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (9.26%) CCTV
3 5 (9.26%) Clustering
4 4 (7.41%) Social Media
5 3 (5.56%) Replication
5 3 (5.56%) Smart Meter
6 2 (3.70%) PKI
6 2 (3.70%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 19 (35.19%) Linux
2 18 (33.33%) Windows
3 15 (27.78%) Unix
4 13 (24.07%) Windows Server
5 9 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (5.56%) Windows 2000
7 3 (5.56%) Windows XP
8 2 (3.70%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (3.70%) Solaris
8 2 (3.70%) Ubuntu
8 2 (3.70%) Windows 10
8 2 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (42.59%) Migration
2 21 (38.89%) Containerisation
3 12 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 9 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (14.81%) Agile
6 7 (12.96%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (11.11%) Build Automation
7 6 (11.11%) DevOps
7 6 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (11.11%) Project Delivery
7 6 (11.11%) Runbook
7 6 (11.11%) Scrum
7 6 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (9.26%) Release Management
8 5 (9.26%) Test Automation
9 4 (7.41%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (7.41%) Re-Platforming
10 3 (5.56%) Virtual Environments
11 2 (3.70%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 19 (35.19%) SQL
2 10 (18.52%) PowerShell
3 8 (14.81%) Python
4 7 (12.96%) Bash
4 7 (12.96%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.85%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 11 (20.37%) SC Cleared
1 11 (20.37%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.70%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.85%) Degree
3 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 23 (42.59%) Active Directory
2 12 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (20.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (20.37%) vSphere
4 6 (11.11%) Docker
5 5 (9.26%) Hyper-V
6 2 (3.70%) KVM
7 1 (1.85%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (24.07%) Kubernetes
2 12 (22.22%) Ansible
3 9 (16.67%) Packer
4 8 (14.81%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (14.81%) vRealize
5 5 (9.26%) Terraform
6 3 (5.56%) SCCM
7 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.85%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (1.85%) VxRail
Vendors
1 18 (33.33%) VMware
2 12 (22.22%) Oracle
3 10 (18.52%) Microsoft
4 8 (14.81%) CA
5 5 (9.26%) Arqiva
5 5 (9.26%) Veritas
6 4 (7.41%) Veeam
7 3 (5.56%) Fortinet
7 3 (5.56%) Juniper
7 3 (5.56%) Palo Alto
7 3 (5.56%) Red Hat
8 2 (3.70%) Aruba
8 2 (3.70%) Cisco
8 2 (3.70%) ProCurve
8 2 (3.70%) SAP
8 2 (3.70%) SolarWinds
8 2 (3.70%) Synology
8 2 (3.70%) Zerto
9 1 (1.85%) IBM
9 1 (1.85%) ICL