vSphere Contracts in Scotland

VMware vSphere
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for vSphere skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited vSphere over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 135 151
Rank change year-on-year +17 +16 -14
Contract jobs citing vSphere 13 29 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.59% 1.02% 0.45%
As % of the System Software category 4.28% 6.70% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 20 11
10th Percentile £438 £430 £416
25th Percentile £441 £464 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +11.11% +16.13%
75th Percentile £619 £526 £475
90th Percentile £646 £538 £500
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £451
% change year-on-year +4.16% +6.44% +6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
UK median hourly rate £70.66 £54.50 £34.38
% change year-on-year +29.65% +58.55% -25.27%

All System Software Skills
Scotland

vSphere is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 304 433 392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 13.77% 15.17% 11.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 321 275
10th Percentile £188 £200 £158
25th Percentile £324 £379 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £576 £538 £538
90th Percentile £650 £631 £638
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 17
10th Percentile - £24.34 £17.50
25th Percentile £60.00 £29.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £60.50 £40.68 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year +48.72% -8.58% -31.01%
75th Percentile £60.75 £50.80 £48.75
90th Percentile - £55.57 £53.75
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £53.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.14% +168.75% -

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing vSphere as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in Scotland

vSphere
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing vSphere in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for vSphere in Scotland

vSphere
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vSphere in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for vSphere in Scotland

vSphere
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing vSphere in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for vSphere in Scotland

vSphere
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Edinburgh +37 9 £542 +8.40%
Renfrewshire 0 2 £525 -2.53%
Glasgow -6 2 £450 -14.29%
vSphere
UK

vSphere
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (7.69%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) VSAN
2 3 (23.08%) DHCP
2 3 (23.08%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) JIRA
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Banking
2 5 (38.46%) Billing
2 5 (38.46%) Finance
3 4 (30.77%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (30.77%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Consultant
2 4 (30.77%) Data Consultant
2 4 (30.77%) Migration Consultant
2 4 (30.77%) VMware Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Cisco Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Data Centre Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Data Migration Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Migration Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Server Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (15.38%) VMware Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Data Centre
2 4 (30.77%) VxBlock/Vblock
3 2 (15.38%) Clustering
3 2 (15.38%) PKI
4 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
1 3 (23.08%) Windows Server
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Data Migration
1 9 (69.23%) Migration
2 5 (38.46%) Business Impact Analysis
2 5 (38.46%) Impact Analysis
2 5 (38.46%) Process Improvement
3 4 (30.77%) Agile
3 4 (30.77%) Capacity Management
3 4 (30.77%) Data Protection
3 4 (30.77%) Decision-Making
3 4 (30.77%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (30.77%) Kanban
3 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (30.77%) Strategic Thinking
3 4 (30.77%) Time Management
3 4 (30.77%) TOGAF
4 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) Resource Management
5 2 (15.38%) Customer Service
5 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
5 2 (15.38%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Degree
2 3 (23.08%) DV Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) PMO
2 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 9 (69.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (46.15%) VMware NSX
3 5 (38.46%) Hyper-V
4 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
5 2 (15.38%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) vCenter Server
2 4 (30.77%) VxRail
3 2 (15.38%) McAfee ePO
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (7.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) VMware
2 10 (76.92%) Dell
3 7 (53.85%) Cisco
3 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
4 3 (23.08%) HP
5 2 (15.38%) Citrix
5 2 (15.38%) McAfee
5 2 (15.38%) Symantec
5 2 (15.38%) Veritas
6 1 (7.69%) Veeam