VMS Contracts with Work from Home Options

VMS
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 311 407 538
Rank change year-on-year +96 +131 -108
Contract jobs citing VMS 36 61 84
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.24% 0.25% 0.19%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.34% 1.82% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 33 53
10th Percentile £366 £365 £413
25th Percentile £403 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £614 £650 £625
90th Percentile £628 £844 £710
UK median daily rate £445 £600 £538
% change year-on-year -25.83% +11.63% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £48.68
25th Percentile - - £59.81
Median hourly rate - - £66.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £25.25 £85.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year -70.29% +28.79% -5.71%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,536 3,355 5,343
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.38% 13.61% 12.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,071 2,365 3,793
10th Percentile £225 £240 £300
25th Percentile £351 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £610
90th Percentile £680 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £469 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.20% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 103 148
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.00 £14.85
25th Percentile £14.27 £25.71 £19.66
Median hourly rate £17.69 £52.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.30% +16.67% +28.57%
75th Percentile £46.39 £67.50 £60.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £67.72
UK median hourly rate £22.08 £39.05 £23.00
% change year-on-year -43.47% +69.78% +31.43%

VMS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing VMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

VMS trend for jobs with a WFH option

VMS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing VMS.

VMS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

VMS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing VMS over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

VMS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

VMS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing VMS.

VMS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (27.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (16.67%) IIS
3 3 (8.33%) CMS
3 3 (8.33%) SharePoint
4 2 (5.56%) Apache
4 2 (5.56%) nginx
4 2 (5.56%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.67%) Azure
1 6 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (8.33%) AWS
2 3 (8.33%) OneDrive
3 2 (5.56%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.56%) OpenShift
3 2 (5.56%) PaaS
4 1 (2.78%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (2.78%) IaaS
4 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.78%) SaaS
4 1 (2.78%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.67%) SAN
2 4 (11.11%) Firewall
3 3 (8.33%) DNS
4 2 (5.56%) DHCP
4 2 (5.56%) NAS
4 2 (5.56%) VLAN
5 1 (2.78%) Network Security
5 1 (2.78%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.22%) Big Data
2 7 (19.44%) Oracle Database
3 4 (11.11%) NoSQL
4 3 (8.33%) DB2
4 3 (8.33%) Oracle Database 10g
5 2 (5.56%) Couchbase
5 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Git
2 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.56%) JIRA
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle Forms
General
1 13 (36.11%) Finance
2 6 (16.67%) Banking
3 4 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.78%) Publishing
5 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (22.22%) Data Centre Engineer
1 8 (22.22%) Data Migration Engineer
1 8 (22.22%) Migration Engineer
2 6 (16.67%) Wintel Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Architect
3 5 (13.89%) COBOL Developer
3 5 (13.89%) Developer
4 4 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Oracle Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Business Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Business Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Automation Test Lead
6 2 (5.56%) Consultant
6 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Lead
6 2 (5.56%) SQL Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) ADSI
1 2 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (5.56%) LAPP Stack
1 2 (5.56%) RESTful
2 1 (2.78%) .NET
2 1 (2.78%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.78%) ASP.NET
2 1 (2.78%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 11 (30.56%) Data Centre
2 4 (11.11%) Clustering
3 2 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.56%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.56%) VAX
Operating Systems
1 14 (38.89%) Linux
2 13 (36.11%) Windows
3 7 (19.44%) Windows Server
4 4 (11.11%) OpenVMS
4 4 (11.11%) Oracle Linux
4 4 (11.11%) Solaris
4 4 (11.11%) Unix
4 4 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (5.56%) CentOS
5 2 (5.56%) Ubuntu
5 2 (5.56%) Windows 2000
5 2 (5.56%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (5.56%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (58.33%) Migration
2 9 (25.00%) Agile
3 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (13.89%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 4 (11.11%) Configuration Management
4 4 (11.11%) Database Migration
5 3 (8.33%) Containerisation
5 3 (8.33%) DevOps
5 3 (8.33%) ITIL
5 3 (8.33%) Service Delivery
5 3 (8.33%) Waterfall
6 2 (5.56%) Analytics
6 2 (5.56%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (5.56%) Data Analytics
6 2 (5.56%) Data Protection
6 2 (5.56%) Fintech
6 2 (5.56%) Release Management
6 2 (5.56%) Software Engineering
6 2 (5.56%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 13 (36.11%) SQL
2 7 (19.44%) COBOL
3 5 (13.89%) PowerShell
4 4 (11.11%) DCL
5 3 (8.33%) Python
6 2 (5.56%) Bash
6 2 (5.56%) Go
6 2 (5.56%) REXX
6 2 (5.56%) SELCOPY
6 2 (5.56%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.78%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) QA
System Software
1 9 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (19.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (11.11%) KVM
3 4 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (8.33%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (5.56%) Docker
5 2 (5.56%) Hyper-V
5 2 (5.56%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (2.78%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (2.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Ansible
1 4 (11.11%) Terraform
2 2 (5.56%) Grafana
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.56%) Prometheus
2 2 (5.56%) ZABBIX
3 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) Oracle
1 7 (19.44%) VMware
2 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.33%) IBM
3 3 (8.33%) ICL
4 2 (5.56%) Fortinet
4 2 (5.56%) Juniper
4 2 (5.56%) Syncsort
5 1 (2.78%) Adobe
5 1 (2.78%) Avid
5 1 (2.78%) CA
5 1 (2.78%) Google
5 1 (2.78%) Okta
5 1 (2.78%) SAP
5 1 (2.78%) Zscaler