VMS Contracts in the Thames Valley

VMS
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring VMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMS over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 138 -
Rank change year-on-year +27 - -
Contract jobs citing VMS 19 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.89% 0.15% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.46% 0.89% -
Number of daily rates quoted 17 2 0
10th Percentile £325 £659 -
25th Percentile £330 £672 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £725 -
Median % change year-on-year -51.72% - -
75th Percentile £380 £759 -
90th Percentile £550 £761 -
South East median daily rate £365 £645 £620
% change year-on-year -43.41% +4.03% +30.53%

All Operating Systems
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 294 450 642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.74% 16.94% 16.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 323 428
10th Percentile £200 £163 £162
25th Percentile £278 £206 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -20.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £570 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £638 £650
South East median daily rate £450 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 23 36
10th Percentile £16.32 £18.59 £11.00
25th Percentile £26.58 £21.13 £13.38
Median hourly rate £37.08 £30.00 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.61% +87.50% -43.36%
75th Percentile £57.62 £55.28 £22.31
90th Percentile £58.40 £66.05 £77.50
South East median hourly rate £62.50 £55.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% +223.53% -2.86%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing VMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for VMS in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMS in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for VMS in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMS in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMS in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for VMS in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Berkshire +24 19 £350 -51.72% 1
VMS
South East

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (21.05%) SAP S/4HANA
Development Applications
1 14 (73.68%) MSI
General
1 3 (15.79%) Automotive
2 2 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (73.68%) Analyst
1 14 (73.68%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 9 (47.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) Wintel Analyst
4 4 (21.05%) Lead
5 2 (10.53%) Workstream Lead
6 1 (5.26%) Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Functional Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Lead Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) SAP Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) SAP Functional Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Security Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.26%) CCTV
2 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (73.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) Application Packaging
1 14 (73.68%) Software Deployment
2 9 (47.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (26.32%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (26.32%) High Availability
Qualifications
1 14 (73.68%) SC Cleared
1 14 (73.68%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 14 (73.68%) Virtual Machines
1 14 (73.68%) VMware ESXi
1 14 (73.68%) VMware Infrastructure
1 14 (73.68%) vSphere
1 14 (73.68%) XenApp
1 14 (73.68%) XenDesktop
2 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 14 (73.68%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (73.68%) Citrix
1 14 (73.68%) VMware
2 4 (21.05%) SAP
3 2 (10.53%) IBM
4 1 (5.26%) Ariba
4 1 (5.26%) FireEye
4 1 (5.26%) SolarWinds
4 1 (5.26%) Tanium