VMS Contracts in London

VMS
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 347 415 491
Rank change year-on-year +68 +76 -50
Contract jobs citing VMS 46 72 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.26% 0.28% 0.32%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.21% 1.95% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 54 65
10th Percentile £330 £475 £413
25th Percentile £375 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £775 £525
Median % change year-on-year -42.71% +47.62% +1.45%
75th Percentile £519 £820 £630
90th Percentile £575 £849 £695
England median daily rate £475 £634 £563
% change year-on-year -25.05% +12.67% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
England median hourly rate £25.25 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -63.93% - -

All Operating Systems
London

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 London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,086 3,697 5,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.91% 14.53% 13.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,477 2,698 3,747
10th Percentile £206 £213 £228
25th Percentile £335 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £663
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
England median daily rate £475 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -6.40% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 61 82
10th Percentile £15.19 £16.13 £15.08
25th Percentile £18.13 £22.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £50.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.00% +108.33% -48.39%
75th Percentile £27.59 £64.50 £48.06
90th Percentile £60.43 £83.75 £62.95
England median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +22.86%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for VMS in London

VMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for VMS in London

VMS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMS in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMS in London

VMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for VMS in London

VMS
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Central London +38 7 £575 -24.27% 3
East London - 3 £380 -
South London +7 2 £238 -52.50%
VMS
England

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.52%) CMS
3 2 (4.35%) Exchange Server 2013
3 2 (4.35%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.17%) Apache
4 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.17%) IIS
4 1 (2.17%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (10.87%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 15 (32.61%) Azure
2 8 (17.39%) PaaS
3 6 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (10.87%) Azure Storage
4 5 (10.87%) IaaS
4 5 (10.87%) SAP Fieldglass
5 4 (8.70%) Power Platform
5 4 (8.70%) Serverless
6 3 (6.52%) Azure App Service
6 3 (6.52%) Entra ID
6 3 (6.52%) OCI
6 3 (6.52%) SaaS
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (4.35%) AWS
7 2 (4.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (4.35%) OneDrive
7 2 (4.35%) PowerApps
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.17%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.70%) VPN
2 2 (4.35%) DNS
3 1 (2.17%) Network Security
3 1 (2.17%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (2.17%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.22%) Oracle Database
2 3 (6.52%) DB2
2 3 (6.52%) Power BI
2 3 (6.52%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.35%) MySQL
3 2 (4.35%) Oracle Database 10g
3 2 (4.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.17%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (2.17%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (2.17%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.17%) Data Mining
4 1 (2.17%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.17%) MariaDB
4 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.17%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (2.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Artifactory
1 1 (2.17%) GitLab
1 1 (2.17%) IBM UrbanCode
1 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.17%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (2.17%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.22%) Finance
3 6 (13.04%) Banking
4 5 (10.87%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.52%) Billing
6 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.35%) Retail
7 1 (2.17%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.17%) Police
7 1 (2.17%) Publishing
7 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (26.09%) Administrator
2 11 (23.91%) Architect
3 7 (15.22%) Server Administrator
4 6 (13.04%) Windows Administrator
4 6 (13.04%) Windows Server Administrator
5 5 (10.87%) Consultant
5 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Architect
5 5 (10.87%) Oracle Architect
6 4 (8.70%) Developer
6 4 (8.70%) Senior
7 3 (6.52%) Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) Azure Consultant
7 3 (6.52%) COBOL Developer
7 3 (6.52%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) SAP Architect
8 2 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) COBOL Consultant
8 2 (4.35%) Data Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) IT Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) .NET
1 2 (4.35%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (2.17%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.17%) ASP.NET
2 1 (2.17%) Kafka
2 1 (2.17%) RESTful
2 1 (2.17%) SOAP
2 1 (2.17%) Web Services
2 1 (2.17%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (4.35%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.17%) Driving Licence
2 1 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (2.17%) N-Tier
2 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.17%) Tandem
2 1 (2.17%) VAX
Operating Systems
1 18 (39.13%) Windows
2 10 (21.74%) Windows Server
3 9 (19.57%) Linux
4 5 (10.87%) Oracle Linux
4 5 (10.87%) Solaris
5 4 (8.70%) OpenVMS
6 2 (4.35%) Android
6 2 (4.35%) Apple iOS
6 2 (4.35%) Windows 10
6 2 (4.35%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.17%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (28.26%) Migration
2 10 (21.74%) Agile
3 9 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (15.22%) ERP
4 7 (15.22%) Vulnerability Management
5 6 (13.04%) Database Migration
5 6 (13.04%) DevOps
5 6 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (13.04%) User Acceptance Testing
6 5 (10.87%) Computer Science
6 5 (10.87%) Impact Analysis
6 5 (10.87%) ITIL
6 5 (10.87%) Scenario Testing
6 5 (10.87%) Security Testing
6 5 (10.87%) Validation
6 5 (10.87%) WFM
7 4 (8.70%) Customer Service
7 4 (8.70%) Performance Improvement
7 4 (8.70%) Server Management
7 4 (8.70%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 11 (23.91%) SQL
2 5 (10.87%) COBOL
3 2 (4.35%) DCL
3 2 (4.35%) Java
3 2 (4.35%) Python
3 2 (4.35%) REXX
3 2 (4.35%) SELCOPY
3 2 (4.35%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.17%) C
4 1 (2.17%) C#
4 1 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.17%) Go
4 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.17%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.17%) Scala
4 1 (2.17%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (19.57%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.04%) Degree
2 6 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.35%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.22%) QA
2 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (28.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (23.91%) Active Directory
3 10 (21.74%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (10.87%) Firmware
4 5 (10.87%) KVM
5 3 (6.52%) vSphere
6 2 (4.35%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (4.35%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (2.17%) Docker
7 1 (2.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (8.70%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.52%) Data Guard
4 1 (2.17%) Ansible
4 1 (2.17%) NetBackup
4 1 (2.17%) Packer
4 1 (2.17%) SCOM
4 1 (2.17%) Terraform
4 1 (2.17%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (32.61%) VMware
2 13 (28.26%) Oracle
3 9 (19.57%) Veeam
4 8 (17.39%) Microsoft
5 6 (13.04%) SAP
6 4 (8.70%) IBM
7 3 (6.52%) ICL
8 2 (4.35%) Syncsort
9 1 (2.17%) Adobe
9 1 (2.17%) Avid
9 1 (2.17%) Cisco
9 1 (2.17%) Databricks
9 1 (2.17%) Google
9 1 (2.17%) Okta
9 1 (2.17%) Veritas