Vector Markup Language (VML)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for VML skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VML over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 559 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VML 19 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.21% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

VML is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,956 13,731 24,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.64% 23.25% 27.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,224 10,014 17,633
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 153 241
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £40.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +10.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.44 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year -25.78% +29.29% +10.00%

VML
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VML in the UK

VML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for VML in the UK

VML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for VML in the UK

VML
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VML within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
England - 19 - - 5
London - 14 - - 5
Work from Home - 5 - -
UK excluding London - 5 - -
South West - 3 - -
East of England - 2 - -

VML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (15.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (10.53%) Anypoint
Business Applications
1 19 (100.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) BigCommerce
2 8 (42.11%) AWS
2 8 (42.11%) Azure
3 4 (21.05%) Serverless
4 3 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (15.79%) GCP
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (10.53%) SaaS
5 2 (10.53%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 1 (5.26%) GitHub
6 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.26%) Google Analytics
6 1 (5.26%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) Firewall
1 3 (15.79%) VoIP
1 3 (15.79%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (10.53%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) MySQL
2 2 (10.53%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Maven
2 2 (10.53%) Git
3 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.26%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 19 (100.00%) Retail
2 17 (89.47%) Marketing
3 16 (84.21%) Social Skills
4 5 (26.32%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (21.05%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (15.79%) Finance
6 3 (15.79%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Analyst
1 4 (21.05%) Business Analyst
1 4 (21.05%) Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Delivery Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Network Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Senior
2 3 (15.79%) Service Delivery Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Service Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Technical Analyst
2 3 (15.79%) Technical Business Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Cloud Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Desktop Support
3 2 (10.53%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Delivery Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Service Delivery Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Service Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Serverless Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) Spring
2 3 (15.79%) AngularJS
2 3 (15.79%) CSS
2 3 (15.79%) J2EE
2 3 (15.79%) jQuery
2 3 (15.79%) REST
2 3 (15.79%) Sass
2 3 (15.79%) Spring MVC
2 3 (15.79%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 3 (15.79%) Web Services
3 2 (10.53%) GraphQL
3 2 (10.53%) Kafka
3 2 (10.53%) Node.js
3 2 (10.53%) OAuth
3 2 (10.53%) OAuth2
3 2 (10.53%) OpenID
3 2 (10.53%) RESTful
4 1 (5.26%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Data Centre
1 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.53%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Windows
2 3 (15.79%) Linux
2 3 (15.79%) Unix
3 2 (10.53%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) B2B
1 19 (100.00%) Customer Acquisition
2 14 (73.68%) Customer Experience
3 13 (68.42%) Technology Strategy
4 12 (63.16%) Global Marketing
5 11 (57.89%) Agile
5 11 (57.89%) E-Commerce
5 11 (57.89%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (47.37%) Time Management
7 8 (42.11%) DevOps
8 6 (31.58%) Software Delivery
9 5 (26.32%) Design Patterns
9 5 (26.32%) TDD
9 5 (26.32%) User Stories
10 4 (21.05%) Acceptance Criteria
10 4 (21.05%) Analytics
10 4 (21.05%) Business Process Mapping
10 4 (21.05%) Commercial Awareness
10 4 (21.05%) Decision-Making
10 4 (21.05%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) Java
2 4 (21.05%) JavaScript
2 4 (21.05%) TypeScript
3 3 (15.79%) Python
4 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.26%) Go
5 1 (5.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (100.00%) Adobe
1 19 (100.00%) Salesforce
1 19 (100.00%) SAP
1 19 (100.00%) Sitecore
2 14 (73.68%) Microsoft
3 12 (63.16%) Dell
3 12 (63.16%) Intel
4 5 (26.32%) CheckPoint
5 4 (21.05%) Google
6 3 (15.79%) Aruba
6 3 (15.79%) Cisco
6 3 (15.79%) F5
6 3 (15.79%) Meraki
7 2 (10.53%) Apple
7 2 (10.53%) MuleSoft
7 2 (10.53%) Sophos
8 1 (5.26%) Optimizely