VMS Contracts in the South East

VMS
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 185 198 238
Rank change year-on-year +13 +40 -23
Contract jobs citing VMS 15 17 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.26% 0.30% 0.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.48% 1.48% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 14
10th Percentile £253 £372 £458
25th Percentile £334 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £515 £581
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% -11.40% +29.17%
75th Percentile £631 £600 £700
90th Percentile £650 £636 -
England median daily rate £475 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -24.00% +13.64% +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.75 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £38.50 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% - -
75th Percentile £40.25 £57.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £25.25 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -63.93% - -

All Operating Systems
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,016 1,148 1,451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.66% 20.27% 18.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 659 777 937
10th Percentile £205 £195 £160
25th Percentile £325 £250 £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - +10.77%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £663 £638 £650
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 67 98
10th Percentile £15.99 £17.25 £12.54
25th Percentile £18.00 £22.51 £14.00
Median hourly rate £48.75 £57.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +219.44% -16.28%
75th Percentile £69.06 £69.38 £27.74
90th Percentile £73.88 £75.00 £58.25
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 South East

Job postings citing VMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for VMS in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMS in the South East.

Daily rate trend for VMS in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMS in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMS in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMS in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for VMS in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the South East 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
Thames Valley +5 7 £525 +1.94% 7
Berkshire -13 7 £525 +1.94% 7
Hampshire -6 5 - -
West Sussex - 3 £372 -
VMS
England

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (13.33%) Apache
1 2 (13.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) IaaS
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) PaaS
4 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) SSL
2 1 (6.67%) DNS
2 1 (6.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (40.00%) MongoDB
3 4 (26.67%) MySQL
3 4 (26.67%) Oracle Database
3 4 (26.67%) RDBMS
3 4 (26.67%) Relational Database
4 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) GitLab
2 7 (46.67%) Git
3 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
3 2 (13.33%) JIRA
3 2 (13.33%) JMeter
3 2 (13.33%) Selenium
4 1 (6.67%) Artifactory
4 1 (6.67%) MSI
General
1 2 (13.33%) Automotive
1 2 (13.33%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Linux Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Automation Specialist
3 2 (13.33%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Platform Specialist
3 2 (13.33%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Commissioning Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Linux Support
4 1 (6.67%) Linux Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Wintel Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) .NET
1 2 (13.33%) .NET Core
1 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
1 2 (13.33%) Kafka
1 2 (13.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (20.00%) Smart Meter
3 2 (13.33%) CCTV
3 2 (13.33%) PKI
3 2 (13.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) Clustering
4 1 (6.67%) Replication
4 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (80.00%) Linux
2 8 (53.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (40.00%) Unix
4 4 (26.67%) Windows
5 3 (20.00%) Windows Server
6 2 (13.33%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (13.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Agile
1 7 (46.67%) Containerisation
2 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (33.33%) Build Automation
3 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 5 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 5 (33.33%) Runbook
3 5 (33.33%) Scrum
4 4 (26.67%) Re-Platforming
5 3 (20.00%) Migration
6 2 (13.33%) Change Management
6 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (13.33%) High Availability
6 2 (13.33%) Incident Management
6 2 (13.33%) Problem Management
6 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (13.33%) Project Management
6 2 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Python
2 6 (40.00%) Bash
3 4 (26.67%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) SC Cleared
1 8 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) vSphere
2 6 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (26.67%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
5 2 (13.33%) Hyper-V
5 2 (13.33%) KVM
6 1 (6.67%) Docker
6 1 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (6.67%) VMware NSX
6 1 (6.67%) XenApp
6 1 (6.67%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 10 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 8 (53.33%) Ansible
2 8 (53.33%) Packer
3 7 (46.67%) vRealize
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (6.67%) SCCM
4 1 (6.67%) Terraform
4 1 (6.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) Oracle
2 9 (60.00%) VMware
3 4 (26.67%) Arqiva
3 4 (26.67%) Veritas
4 3 (20.00%) Red Hat
4 3 (20.00%) SolarWinds
5 2 (13.33%) FireEye
5 2 (13.33%) SAP
5 2 (13.33%) Tanium
6 1 (6.67%) Citrix
6 1 (6.67%) Dell