Virtual Infrastructure Contracts in Scotland

Virtual Infrastructure
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Virtual Infrastructure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Infrastructure over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.12% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £433 - -
25th Percentile £444 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £494 - -
90th Percentile £498 - -
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -7.06% +7.60% -18.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Virtual Infrastructure falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Virtual Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Infrastructure in Scotland

Virtual Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Infrastructure in Scotland

Virtual Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Infrastructure in Scotland

Virtual Infrastructure
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 Virtual Infrastructure within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Glasgow - 1 £450 -
Renfrewshire - 1 £500 -
Virtual Infrastructure
UK

Virtual Infrastructure
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
1 2 (100.00%) HTTPS
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 2 (100.00%) Service Design
1 2 (100.00%) Software Distribution
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM
1 2 (100.00%) WSUS