VMS Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

VMS
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring VMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 94 111
Rank change year-on-year -27 +17 +33
Contract jobs citing VMS 5 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.30% 0.34% 0.099%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.47% 2.58% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £410 £368 -
25th Percentile £416 £376 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £410 £675
Median % change year-on-year +4.82% -39.26% -
75th Percentile £440 £440 -
90th Percentile £444 - -
England median daily rate £475 £475 £633
% change year-on-year - -24.90% +12.44%

All Operating Systems
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 341 194 305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 20.32% 13.22% 15.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 113 193
10th Percentile £158 £164 £158
25th Percentile £306 £230 £228
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +15.76%
75th Percentile £538 £578 £588
90th Percentile £610 £635 £688
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 16
10th Percentile £18.92 £15.22 £14.84
25th Percentile £21.30 £16.25 £17.14
Median hourly rate £25.15 £17.50 £20.66
Median % change year-on-year +43.71% -15.27% +1.30%
75th Percentile £28.75 £20.13 £22.00
90th Percentile £131.50 £21.50 £22.13
England median hourly rate £24.00 £60.72 £48.40
% change year-on-year -60.47% +25.44% +93.60%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

VMS job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

VMS
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing VMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing VMS

VMS
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing VMS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing VMS

VMS
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 October 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
South Yorkshire - 4 £430 - 2
West Yorkshire -11 1 - - 5
VMS
England

VMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) NAS
2 2 (40.00%) SAN
3 1 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) GitLab
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Migration Specialist
1 2 (40.00%) Server Migration Specialist
1 2 (40.00%) Server Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Kanban
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) Server Migrations
2 2 (40.00%) Source to Pay
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Data Flow Diagram
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) VCAP
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (60.00%) VMware NSX
1 3 (60.00%) vSphere
2 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) vCenter Server
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) vRealize
3 1 (20.00%) PowerCLI
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) F5
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Broadcom