VME Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

ICL VME
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring VME skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VME 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.048% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £375 £563 -
% change year-on-year -33.33% - -

All Operating Systems
West Midlands

VME 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 321 299 302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.31% 15.77% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 184 206
10th Percentile £185 £188 £161
25th Percentile £256 £257 £202
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £375
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +23.33% -24.24%
75th Percentile £545 £582 £500
90th Percentile £600 £675 £614
England median daily rate £450 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% -2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 16
10th Percentile - £16.75 £16.54
25th Percentile £17.14 £20.30 £17.54
Median hourly rate £18.23 £22.50 £18.11
Median % change year-on-year -19.00% +24.24% +10.23%
75th Percentile £23.50 £28.97 £28.19
90th Percentile £42.00 £50.25 £28.75
England median hourly rate £23.00 £57.50 £39.08
% change year-on-year -60.00% +47.14% +56.31%

VME
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VME relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

VME job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

VME
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing VME.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing VME

VME
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing VME.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing VME

VME
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VME within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 November 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
Shropshire - 1 - - 1
VME
England

VME
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Structured Programming
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ICL