VMS Contracts in the UK excluding London

VMS
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 344 371 450
Rank change year-on-year +27 +79 -36
Contract jobs citing VMS 57 59 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.26% 0.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.68% 1.38% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 46 34
10th Percentile £293 £363 £433
25th Percentile £367 £459 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -13.08% -2.09% +33.52%
75th Percentile £619 £645 £700
90th Percentile £658 £842 £750
UK median daily rate £450 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -25.00% +14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £25.25 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -54.09% - -
75th Percentile - £57.50 -
90th Percentile £34.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £25.25 £70.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year -63.93% +6.06% -5.71%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,391 4,276 5,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.90% 18.84% 19.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,208 2,930 3,824
10th Percentile £176 £165 £150
25th Percentile £275 £250 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +8.82% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £540
90th Percentile £672 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 307 426
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.57
25th Percentile £15.25 £17.70 £15.05
Median hourly rate £24.18 £40.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.43% +102.95% +17.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £49.43
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £46.75 £22.25
% change year-on-year -50.80% +110.11% +27.14%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for VMS in the UK excluding London

VMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for VMS in the UK excluding London

VMS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMS in the UK excluding London

VMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for VMS in the UK excluding London

VMS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +16 19 £563 -27.42% 12
South East +13 15 £475 -7.77% 7
Yorkshire +23 12 £588 -6.00% 4
South West +5 12 £439 -2.18% 3
North West +17 7 £500 +25.00% 7
Midlands +17 5 £813 - 9
Scotland +51 4 £358 -28.40% 1
West Midlands +18 4 £1,000 - 1
Wales +17 1 - -
East Midlands +7 1 £625 - 8
East of England +5 1 £225 -65.38%
VMS
UK

VMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 15 (26.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (14.04%) IIS
3 2 (3.51%) Apache
3 2 (3.51%) Confluence
3 2 (3.51%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.51%) WordPress
4 1 (1.75%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 18 (31.58%) Azure
2 11 (19.30%) Entra ID
3 10 (17.54%) Dynamics 365
4 8 (14.04%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (12.28%) Azure Logic Apps
5 7 (12.28%) Power Platform
6 6 (10.53%) IaaS
7 5 (8.77%) OpenShift
7 5 (8.77%) PaaS
8 3 (5.26%) AWS
9 2 (3.51%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (3.51%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.75%) GitHub
10 1 (1.75%) Nutanix
10 1 (1.75%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 15 (26.32%) Firewall
2 9 (15.79%) SAN
3 8 (14.04%) DNS
4 4 (7.02%) NAS
5 3 (5.26%) DHCP
5 3 (5.26%) TCP/IP
5 3 (5.26%) VLAN
6 2 (3.51%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (3.51%) iSCSI
6 2 (3.51%) SSL
6 2 (3.51%) VPN
6 2 (3.51%) Wireless
7 1 (1.75%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.04%) Azure SQL Database
1 8 (14.04%) Big Data
1 8 (14.04%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (12.28%) Power BI
3 6 (10.53%) MongoDB
3 6 (10.53%) SQL Server
4 5 (8.77%) NoSQL
4 5 (8.77%) Oracle Database
5 4 (7.02%) MySQL
5 4 (7.02%) RDBMS
5 4 (7.02%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.75%) DB2
Development Applications
1 12 (21.05%) Git
2 8 (14.04%) GitLab
3 5 (8.77%) Jenkins
3 5 (8.77%) JIRA
4 2 (3.51%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.51%) JMeter
4 2 (3.51%) Selenium
5 1 (1.75%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.75%) MSI
5 1 (1.75%) Oracle APEX
General
1 9 (15.79%) Finance
2 4 (7.02%) Fire and Rescue
2 4 (7.02%) Local Government
3 3 (5.26%) Automotive
3 3 (5.26%) Manufacturing
3 3 (5.26%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.51%) Banking
4 2 (3.51%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (3.51%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (17.54%) Linux Engineer
2 9 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (14.04%) Data Centre Engineer
3 8 (14.04%) Data Migration Engineer
3 8 (14.04%) Migration Engineer
4 6 (10.53%) Wintel Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Architect
6 4 (7.02%) Support Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Applications Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Automation Test Lead
7 3 (5.26%) Lead
7 3 (5.26%) Platform Specialist
7 3 (5.26%) Test Leader
8 2 (3.51%) Automation Specialist
8 2 (3.51%) Infrastructure Test Manager
8 2 (3.51%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.28%) RESTful
2 2 (3.51%) .NET
2 2 (3.51%) .NET Core
2 2 (3.51%) ADSI
2 2 (3.51%) AngularJS
2 2 (3.51%) Kafka
2 2 (3.51%) LAMP
3 1 (1.75%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.75%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.30%) Data Centre
2 8 (14.04%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (10.53%) CCTV
4 5 (8.77%) Clustering
5 4 (7.02%) Replication
5 4 (7.02%) Social Media
6 3 (5.26%) Smart Meter
7 2 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (3.51%) PKI
7 2 (3.51%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (35.09%) Windows
2 18 (31.58%) Linux
3 14 (24.56%) Unix
3 14 (24.56%) Windows Server
4 8 (14.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (12.28%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (10.53%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (5.26%) Windows 2000
7 3 (5.26%) Windows XP
8 2 (3.51%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (3.51%) Solaris
8 2 (3.51%) Ubuntu
8 2 (3.51%) Windows 10
8 2 (3.51%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (42.11%) Migration
2 20 (35.09%) Containerisation
3 11 (19.30%) CI/CD
4 9 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (14.04%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (12.28%) Agile
6 7 (12.28%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (10.53%) DevOps
7 6 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (8.77%) Build Automation
8 5 (8.77%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (8.77%) Project Delivery
8 5 (8.77%) Release Management
8 5 (8.77%) Runbook
8 5 (8.77%) Scrum
8 5 (8.77%) Test Automation
9 4 (7.02%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (7.02%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (7.02%) Re-Platforming
10 3 (5.26%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 21 (36.84%) SQL
2 10 (17.54%) PowerShell
3 7 (12.28%) Python
3 7 (12.28%) Shell Script
4 6 (10.53%) Bash
5 1 (1.75%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 13 (22.81%) Security Cleared
2 12 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.26%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.51%) Degree
4 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 23 (40.35%) Active Directory
2 15 (26.32%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (22.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (19.30%) vSphere
5 6 (10.53%) Docker
5 6 (10.53%) Hyper-V
6 2 (3.51%) KVM
6 2 (3.51%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.75%) Firmware
7 1 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.75%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.75%) XenApp
7 1 (1.75%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 12 (21.05%) Kubernetes
2 11 (19.30%) Ansible
3 8 (14.04%) Packer
3 8 (14.04%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (12.28%) vRealize
5 5 (8.77%) Terraform
6 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (5.26%) SCCM
7 1 (1.75%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (1.75%) VxRail
Vendors
1 18 (31.58%) VMware
2 12 (21.05%) Microsoft
3 11 (19.30%) Oracle
4 8 (14.04%) CA
5 4 (7.02%) Arqiva
5 4 (7.02%) Veeam
5 4 (7.02%) Veritas
6 3 (5.26%) Fortinet
6 3 (5.26%) Juniper
6 3 (5.26%) Palo Alto
6 3 (5.26%) Red Hat
6 3 (5.26%) SolarWinds
7 2 (3.51%) Aruba
7 2 (3.51%) Cisco
7 2 (3.51%) FireEye
7 2 (3.51%) ProCurve
7 2 (3.51%) SAP
7 2 (3.51%) Synology
7 2 (3.51%) Tanium
7 2 (3.51%) Zerto