VMS Contracts in England

VMS
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 439 518 609
Rank change year-on-year +79 +91 -38
Contract jobs citing VMS 98 133 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.28% 0.24%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.98% 1.70% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 96 90
10th Percentile £328 £413 £424
25th Percentile £380 £513 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £650 £563
Median % change year-on-year -29.81% +15.56% +13.07%
75th Percentile £570 £805 £669
90th Percentile £646 £848 £713
UK median daily rate £445 £600 £538
% change year-on-year -25.83% +11.63% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile - £59.00 -
25th Percentile - £68.75 £41.25
Median hourly rate £25.25 £85.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -70.29% +100.00% -
75th Percentile - - £43.75
90th Percentile £34.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £25.25 £85.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year -70.29% +28.79% -5.71%

All Operating Systems
England

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 England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,944 7,824 10,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.59% 16.24% 15.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,374 5,533 7,535
10th Percentile £185 £193 £175
25th Percentile £300 £325 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.10% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £469 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.20% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 370 532
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.89 £13.38
25th Percentile £14.83 £17.73 £15.93
Median hourly rate £22.00 £38.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.11% +72.73% +23.94%
75th Percentile £61.60 £64.88 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.08 £39.05 £23.00
% change year-on-year -43.47% +69.78% +31.43%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing VMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for VMS in England

VMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMS in England.

Daily rate trend for VMS in England

VMS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMS in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMS in England

VMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMS in England.

Hourly rate trend for VMS in England

VMS
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the England region over the 6 months to 16 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
London +69 45 £425 -45.16% 24
North of England +26 19 £563 -27.42% 15
South East +13 14 £600 +16.50% 5
Yorkshire +24 12 £588 -6.00% 3
South West +13 12 £439 -2.18% 3
North West +21 7 £500 +25.00% 11
Midlands +29 5 £813 - 10
West Midlands +28 4 £1,000 - 3
East Midlands +13 1 £625 - 7
VMS
UK

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 20 (20.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (9.18%) IIS
3 7 (7.14%) Apache
4 5 (5.10%) nginx
4 5 (5.10%) OpenStack
4 5 (5.10%) SharePoint
5 4 (4.08%) CMS
6 3 (3.06%) WordPress
7 2 (2.04%) Confluence
7 2 (2.04%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (1.02%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (5.10%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 28 (28.57%) Azure
2 15 (15.31%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (13.27%) Entra ID
3 13 (13.27%) PaaS
4 10 (10.20%) AWS
4 10 (10.20%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (9.18%) Power Platform
6 8 (8.16%) IaaS
7 7 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (5.10%) OneDrive
8 5 (5.10%) SAP Fieldglass
9 3 (3.06%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (3.06%) OCI
10 2 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.04%) SaaS
10 2 (2.04%) Serverless
11 1 (1.02%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 1 (1.02%) GitHub
11 1 (1.02%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (16.33%) Firewall
2 11 (11.22%) DNS
3 10 (10.20%) SAN
4 5 (5.10%) NAS
4 5 (5.10%) VPN
5 3 (3.06%) DHCP
5 3 (3.06%) Fibre Channel
5 3 (3.06%) iSCSI
5 3 (3.06%) TCP/IP
5 3 (3.06%) VLAN
5 3 (3.06%) Wireless
6 2 (2.04%) SSL
7 1 (1.02%) IPsec
7 1 (1.02%) Network Security
7 1 (1.02%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (1.02%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.31%) Oracle Database
2 14 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (10.20%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (9.18%) Power BI
4 9 (9.18%) SQL Server
5 8 (8.16%) Big Data
6 7 (7.14%) MongoDB
7 6 (6.12%) NoSQL
8 5 (5.10%) Couchbase
8 5 (5.10%) MySQL
8 5 (5.10%) RDBMS
8 5 (5.10%) Relational Database
9 4 (4.08%) DB2
10 2 (2.04%) Oracle Database 10g
11 1 (1.02%) Data Lake
11 1 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.02%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (14.29%) Git
2 10 (10.20%) GitLab
3 5 (5.10%) JIRA
4 2 (2.04%) Artifactory
4 2 (2.04%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.04%) JMeter
4 2 (2.04%) Selenium
5 1 (1.02%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.02%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (1.02%) Oracle Forms
General
1 15 (15.31%) Finance
2 14 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.12%) Banking
5 5 (5.10%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (5.10%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.08%) Fire and Rescue
6 4 (4.08%) Local Government
7 3 (3.06%) Automotive
7 3 (3.06%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.04%) Billing
8 2 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.02%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.02%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 17 (17.35%) Architect
2 11 (11.22%) Administrator
2 11 (11.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (11.22%) Linux Engineer
3 10 (10.20%) Oracle Architect
4 8 (8.16%) Data Centre Engineer
4 8 (8.16%) Data Migration Engineer
4 8 (8.16%) Migration Engineer
4 8 (8.16%) Platform Engineer
5 7 (7.14%) Server Administrator
6 6 (6.12%) Developer
6 6 (6.12%) Infrastructure Architect
6 6 (6.12%) Windows Administrator
6 6 (6.12%) Windows Server Administrator
6 6 (6.12%) Wintel Engineer
7 5 (5.10%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (5.10%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (5.10%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.10%) COBOL Developer
8 4 (4.08%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.10%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (5.10%) LAPP Stack
2 4 (4.08%) .NET
3 3 (3.06%) LAMP
3 3 (3.06%) RESTful
4 2 (2.04%) .NET Core
4 2 (2.04%) ADSI
4 2 (2.04%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.04%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.04%) Kafka
5 1 (1.02%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.02%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.22%) Data Centre
2 10 (10.20%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (7.14%) Public Cloud
4 5 (5.10%) CCTV
4 5 (5.10%) Clustering
4 5 (5.10%) Replication
5 4 (4.08%) Social Media
6 3 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.06%) Smart Meter
7 2 (2.04%) PKI
8 1 (1.02%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.02%) Tandem
8 1 (1.02%) VAX
Operating Systems
1 37 (37.76%) Linux
2 35 (35.71%) Windows
3 24 (24.49%) Windows Server
4 11 (11.22%) Unix
5 10 (10.20%) Oracle Linux
5 10 (10.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (10.20%) Solaris
6 9 (9.18%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (8.16%) Ubuntu
8 7 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (5.10%) CentOS
9 5 (5.10%) OpenVMS
10 4 (4.08%) Windows 10
10 4 (4.08%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (3.06%) Windows 2000
11 3 (3.06%) Windows XP
12 2 (2.04%) Android
12 2 (2.04%) Apple iOS
12 2 (2.04%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (1.02%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (37.76%) Migration
2 18 (18.37%) Containerisation
3 16 (16.33%) Agile
4 14 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 14 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (13.27%) Disaster Recovery
6 11 (11.22%) Database Migration
7 10 (10.20%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (10.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (9.18%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (9.18%) DevOps
8 9 (9.18%) Scrum
9 7 (7.14%) Computer Science
9 7 (7.14%) Configuration Management
9 7 (7.14%) Platform Engineering
9 7 (7.14%) Vulnerability Management
10 6 (6.12%) Project Delivery
10 6 (6.12%) Runbook
10 6 (6.12%) Security Testing
10 6 (6.12%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (28.57%) SQL
2 14 (14.29%) Python
3 12 (12.24%) Bash
3 12 (12.24%) PowerShell
4 7 (7.14%) COBOL
4 7 (7.14%) Shell Script
5 5 (5.10%) Go
6 3 (3.06%) DCL
7 2 (2.04%) REXX
7 2 (2.04%) SELCOPY
8 1 (1.02%) C
8 1 (1.02%) C#
8 1 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.02%) Java
8 1 (1.02%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.02%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.02%) VB
Qualifications
1 20 (20.41%) Security Cleared
2 16 (16.33%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.18%) Degree
4 7 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (3.06%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.04%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.16%) QA
System Software
1 34 (34.69%) Active Directory
2 28 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
2 28 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (15.31%) vSphere
4 10 (10.20%) KVM
5 6 (6.12%) Firmware
6 5 (5.10%) Hyper-V
7 2 (2.04%) Docker
7 2 (2.04%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (2.04%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (2.04%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (18.37%) Ansible
2 15 (15.31%) Kubernetes
3 11 (11.22%) Terraform
4 10 (10.20%) Packer
5 9 (9.18%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (8.16%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (8.16%) vRealize
7 5 (5.10%) Grafana
7 5 (5.10%) Prometheus
7 5 (5.10%) ZABBIX
8 3 (3.06%) SCCM
9 2 (2.04%) Data Guard
10 1 (1.02%) NetBackup
10 1 (1.02%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (1.02%) SCOM
10 1 (1.02%) vCenter Server
10 1 (1.02%) VxRail
10 1 (1.02%) WSUS
Vendors
1 36 (36.73%) VMware
2 25 (25.51%) Oracle
3 18 (18.37%) Microsoft
4 14 (14.29%) Veeam
5 8 (8.16%) CA
6 7 (7.14%) SAP
7 6 (6.12%) Veritas
8 5 (5.10%) Arqiva
9 4 (4.08%) IBM
9 4 (4.08%) ICL
9 4 (4.08%) Palo Alto
10 3 (3.06%) Aruba
10 3 (3.06%) Cisco
10 3 (3.06%) Fortinet
10 3 (3.06%) Juniper
10 3 (3.06%) ProCurve
10 3 (3.06%) Red Hat
10 3 (3.06%) Synology
10 3 (3.06%) Zerto
11 2 (2.04%) Syncsort