VMS Contracts in the West Midlands

VMS
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 137 167
Rank change year-on-year +31 +30 -44
Contract jobs citing VMS 3 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.16% 0.17% 0.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.22% 0.94% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 6
10th Percentile - - £619
25th Percentile - - £628
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,000 £625 £688
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -9.09% +96.43%
75th Percentile - - £750
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £456 £694 £563
% change year-on-year -34.23% +23.33% +18.42%

All Operating Systems
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 245 425 667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.69% 17.62% 18.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 285 459
10th Percentile £182 £173 £150
25th Percentile £250 £350 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £510 £400
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +27.50% +10.34%
75th Percentile £550 £563 £516
90th Percentile £693 £691 £600
England median daily rate £463 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -10.19% +3.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 11 37
10th Percentile £14.83 £15.10 £11.05
25th Percentile £18.31 £15.74 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +7.39% -
75th Percentile £23.75 £18.63 £20.00
90th Percentile £48.13 £26.38 £22.85
England median hourly rate £22.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -37.14% +62.79% +20.99%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing VMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for VMS in the West Midlands

VMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMS in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for VMS in the West Midlands

VMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMS in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for VMS in the West Midlands

VMS
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 VMS within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
Birmingham +15 3 £1,000 - 3
VMS
England

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (66.67%) IIS
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
1 2 (66.67%) WordPress
2 1 (33.33%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (66.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) iSCSI
1 2 (66.67%) NAS
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
1 2 (66.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) DB2
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) COBOL Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Ubuntu
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Aruba
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Palo Alto
1 2 (66.67%) ProCurve
1 2 (66.67%) Synology
1 2 (66.67%) Veeam
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
1 2 (66.67%) Zerto
2 1 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) ICL