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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 439 511 615
Rank change year-on-year +72 +104 -46
Contract jobs citing VMS 103 128 179
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.27% 0.25%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.03% 1.65% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 94 98
10th Percentile £305 £413 £413
25th Percentile £380 £491 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £634 £563
Median % change year-on-year -25.05% +12.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £815 £650
90th Percentile £688 £848 £711
UK median daily rate £448 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -25.42% +14.29% +1.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile - £55.75 -
25th Percentile - £60.63 -
Median hourly rate £25.25 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -63.93% - -
75th Percentile - £78.13 -
90th Percentile £34.25 £82.25 -
UK median hourly rate £25.25 £70.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year -63.93% +6.06% -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 5,069 7,744 10,885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.73% 16.22% 15.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,437 5,457 7,522
10th Percentile £185 £195 £175
25th Percentile £300 £330 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 374 358 503
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.29 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.86 £15.69
Median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +22.86%
75th Percentile £62.38 £65.00 £50.39
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.89
% change year-on-year -47.06% +94.15% +25.09%

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 2 June 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 2 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
London +73 46 £444 -42.71% 14
North of England +28 19 £563 -27.42% 16
South East +11 15 £550 +6.80% 6
Yorkshire +30 12 £588 -6.00% 6
South West +13 12 £439 -2.18% 4
North West +18 7 £500 +25.00% 9
Midlands +27 5 £813 - 8
West Midlands +17 4 £1,000 - 2
East Midlands +10 1 £625 - 6
East of England - 1 £225 - 1
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 19 (18.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (8.74%) IIS
3 4 (3.88%) CMS
3 4 (3.88%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.91%) Apache
5 2 (1.94%) Confluence
5 2 (1.94%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (1.94%) WordPress
6 1 (0.97%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.97%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (4.85%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.97%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 33 (32.04%) Azure
2 14 (13.59%) Entra ID
2 14 (13.59%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (12.62%) PaaS
4 12 (11.65%) IaaS
5 11 (10.68%) Power Platform
6 10 (9.71%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (6.80%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (4.85%) AWS
8 5 (4.85%) Azure Storage
8 5 (4.85%) SAP Fieldglass
9 4 (3.88%) OCI
9 4 (3.88%) OneDrive
9 4 (3.88%) Serverless
10 3 (2.91%) Azure App Service
10 3 (2.91%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (2.91%) SaaS
11 2 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.94%) GitHub
11 2 (1.94%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (15.53%) Firewall
2 10 (9.71%) DNS
3 9 (8.74%) SAN
4 7 (6.80%) VPN
5 4 (3.88%) NAS
6 3 (2.91%) DHCP
6 3 (2.91%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.91%) VLAN
7 2 (1.94%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (1.94%) iSCSI
7 2 (1.94%) SSL
7 2 (1.94%) Wireless
8 1 (0.97%) IPsec
8 1 (0.97%) Network Security
8 1 (0.97%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.97%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.97%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.53%) Oracle Database
2 10 (9.71%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (9.71%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (9.71%) Power BI
3 9 (8.74%) SQL Server
4 8 (7.77%) Big Data
5 7 (6.80%) MongoDB
5 7 (6.80%) MySQL
6 5 (4.85%) RDBMS
6 5 (4.85%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.88%) DB2
8 2 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.94%) Oracle Database 10g
8 2 (1.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (1.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.97%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.97%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.97%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (10.68%) GitLab
2 9 (8.74%) Git
3 5 (4.85%) JIRA
4 2 (1.94%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.94%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.94%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.94%) JMeter
4 2 (1.94%) Selenium
5 1 (0.97%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.97%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.97%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.97%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (16.50%) Social Skills
2 16 (15.53%) Finance
3 6 (5.83%) Banking
3 6 (5.83%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.85%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.88%) Fire and Rescue
5 4 (3.88%) Local Government
6 3 (2.91%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.91%) Automotive
6 3 (2.91%) Billing
6 3 (2.91%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.94%) Retail
8 1 (0.97%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.97%) Police
8 1 (0.97%) Publishing
8 1 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (18.45%) Architect
2 12 (11.65%) Administrator
3 11 (10.68%) Linux Engineer
3 11 (10.68%) Oracle Architect
4 10 (9.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (8.74%) Platform Engineer
6 8 (7.77%) Data Centre Engineer
6 8 (7.77%) Data Migration Engineer
6 8 (7.77%) Migration Engineer
7 7 (6.80%) Server Administrator
8 6 (5.83%) Infrastructure Architect
8 6 (5.83%) Lead
8 6 (5.83%) Windows Administrator
8 6 (5.83%) Windows Server Administrator
8 6 (5.83%) Wintel Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) Consultant
9 5 (4.85%) Developer
9 5 (4.85%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.88%) .NET
1 4 (3.88%) RESTful
2 3 (2.91%) Kafka
3 2 (1.94%) .NET Core
3 2 (1.94%) ADSI
3 2 (1.94%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.94%) ARM Templates
3 2 (1.94%) LAMP
3 2 (1.94%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.97%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.97%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.97%) SOAP
4 1 (0.97%) Web Services
4 1 (0.97%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.68%) Data Centre
2 9 (8.74%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (5.83%) CCTV
4 5 (4.85%) Clustering
5 4 (3.88%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.88%) Replication
5 4 (3.88%) Social Media
6 3 (2.91%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.91%) Smart Meter
7 2 (1.94%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.94%) PKI
7 2 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.97%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.97%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.97%) N-Tier
8 1 (0.97%) Tandem
8 1 (0.97%) VAX
Operating Systems
1 37 (35.92%) Windows
2 33 (32.04%) Linux
3 24 (23.30%) Windows Server
4 11 (10.68%) Oracle Linux
4 11 (10.68%) Solaris
4 11 (10.68%) Unix
5 10 (9.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (7.77%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (6.80%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (3.88%) OpenVMS
8 4 (3.88%) Windows 10
8 4 (3.88%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (2.91%) Windows 2000
9 3 (2.91%) Windows XP
10 2 (1.94%) Android
10 2 (1.94%) Apple iOS
10 2 (1.94%) Ubuntu
10 2 (1.94%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.97%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (39.81%) Migration
2 19 (18.45%) Containerisation
3 18 (17.48%) Agile
4 16 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (11.65%) Database Migration
6 11 (10.68%) CI/CD
6 11 (10.68%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (9.71%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (9.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (8.74%) Scrum
9 8 (7.77%) DevOps
9 8 (7.77%) Disaster Recovery
10 7 (6.80%) Computer Science
10 7 (6.80%) ERP
10 7 (6.80%) Platform Engineering
10 7 (6.80%) Vulnerability Management
11 6 (5.83%) Build Automation
11 6 (5.83%) Security Testing
11 6 (5.83%) User Acceptance Testing
11 6 (5.83%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 28 (27.18%) SQL
2 11 (10.68%) PowerShell
3 10 (9.71%) Python
4 7 (6.80%) Bash
4 7 (6.80%) Shell Script
5 6 (5.83%) COBOL
6 2 (1.94%) DCL
6 2 (1.94%) Java
6 2 (1.94%) REXX
6 2 (1.94%) SELCOPY
6 2 (1.94%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.97%) C
7 1 (0.97%) C#
7 1 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.97%) Go
7 1 (0.97%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.97%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.97%) Scala
7 1 (0.97%) VB
Qualifications
1 22 (21.36%) Security Cleared
2 18 (17.48%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.74%) Degree
4 7 (6.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.85%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.94%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.80%) QA
2 1 (0.97%) Data Quality
System Software
1 34 (33.01%) Active Directory
2 29 (28.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (24.27%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (13.59%) vSphere
5 11 (10.68%) KVM
6 6 (5.83%) Firmware
6 6 (5.83%) Hyper-V
7 3 (2.91%) Docker
8 2 (1.94%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (1.94%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (1.94%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (17.48%) Kubernetes
2 14 (13.59%) Ansible
3 10 (9.71%) Packer
4 8 (7.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (7.77%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (7.77%) vRealize
5 7 (6.80%) Terraform
6 3 (2.91%) Data Guard
7 2 (1.94%) SCCM
8 1 (0.97%) Argo
8 1 (0.97%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.97%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.97%) SCOM
8 1 (0.97%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.97%) VxRail
8 1 (0.97%) WSUS
Vendors
1 37 (35.92%) VMware
2 29 (28.16%) Oracle
3 20 (19.42%) Microsoft
4 13 (12.62%) Veeam
5 8 (7.77%) CA
5 8 (7.77%) SAP
6 6 (5.83%) Veritas
7 5 (4.85%) Arqiva
7 5 (4.85%) IBM
8 4 (3.88%) ICL
9 3 (2.91%) Cisco
9 3 (2.91%) Fortinet
9 3 (2.91%) Juniper
9 3 (2.91%) Palo Alto
9 3 (2.91%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.91%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.94%) FireEye
10 2 (1.94%) Synology
10 2 (1.94%) Tanium
10 2 (1.94%) Zerto