VMS Contracts in the North of England

VMS
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 166 182 243
Rank change year-on-year +16 +61 -55
Contract jobs citing VMS 19 20 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.39% 0.37% 0.11%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.75% 2.29% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 18 6
10th Percentile £238 £360 £450
25th Percentile £488 £491 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £775 £550
Median % change year-on-year -27.42% +40.91% +7.32%
75th Percentile £619 £844 £681
90th Percentile £660 £850 £705
England median daily rate £475 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -24.00% +13.64% +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.25 - -
England median hourly rate £25.25 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -63.93% - -

All Operating Systems
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 691 872 1,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.26% 16.02% 19.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 605 989
10th Percentile £165 £169 £150
25th Percentile £264 £250 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £546 £586 £550
90th Percentile £654 £675 £638
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 63 75
10th Percentile - £13.16 £12.68
25th Percentile £10.95 £16.25 £15.59
Median hourly rate £16.00 £22.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.89% +25.00% +12.50%
75th Percentile £19.39 £41.49 £23.10
90th Percentile £48.00 £48.60 £73.00
England median hourly rate £22.51 £45.06 £21.50
% change year-on-year -50.04% +109.56% +21.13%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing VMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for VMS in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMS in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for VMS in the North of England

VMS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMS in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMS in the North of England

VMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMS in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for VMS in the North of England

VMS
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
Yorkshire +23 12 £588 -6.00% 4
North West +17 7 £500 +25.00% 7
VMS
England

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 6 (31.58%) IIS
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.26%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) SAN
2 5 (26.32%) DNS
3 3 (15.79%) DHCP
3 3 (15.79%) TCP/IP
3 3 (15.79%) VLAN
4 2 (10.53%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) Big Data
2 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Git
1 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (42.11%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Fire and Rescue
3 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Data Centre Engineer
1 8 (42.11%) Data Migration Engineer
1 8 (42.11%) Migration Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Wintel Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) IT Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) IT Support
4 2 (10.53%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Server Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) ADSI
2 1 (5.26%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Data Centre
2 4 (21.05%) CCTV
2 4 (21.05%) Clustering
2 4 (21.05%) Social Media
3 1 (5.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (47.37%) Windows
2 7 (36.84%) Windows Server
3 4 (21.05%) Linux
3 4 (21.05%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (21.05%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (10.53%) Windows 10
4 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Migration
2 1 (5.26%) CI/CD
2 1 (5.26%) Containerisation
2 1 (5.26%) DevOps
2 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (5.26%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (5.26%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (5.26%) Release Management
2 1 (5.26%) Server Virtualisation
2 1 (5.26%) Task Automation
2 1 (5.26%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) SQL
2 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 10 (52.63%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (10.53%) Hyper-V
3 2 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (5.26%) Docker
4 1 (5.26%) Firmware
4 1 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) VMware
3 2 (10.53%) Cisco
3 2 (10.53%) Veeam