VMS Contract Job Trends in the Highlands

VMS
Scotland > Highlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Highlands requiring VMS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VMS 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Highlands 2.38% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 30.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Scotland median daily rate £563 - £358
% change year-on-year - - +35.09%

All Operating Systems
Highlands

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 Highlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 10 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Highlands 7.94% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £375 - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - -
75th Percentile £520 - -
90th Percentile £571 - -
Scotland median daily rate £375 £472 £400
% change year-on-year -20.55% +18.00% -15.79%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Highlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Highlands.

VMS job vacancy trend in the Highlands

VMS
Contract Job Locations in the Highlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the Highlands region over the 6 months to 19 September 2026. 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
Inverness - 3 - -
VMS
Scotland

VMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Highlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AtomSphere
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Boomi
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Integration Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (100.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Change Management
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 3 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 3 (100.00%) Time Management
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Salesforce