Virtual Servers Contracts in Scotland

Virtual Servers
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Virtual Servers skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Servers 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 104 127 -
Rank change year-on-year +23 - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Servers 12 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.74% 0.090% -
As % of the System Software category 6.52% 0.65% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 0
10th Percentile £406 - -
25th Percentile £416 £610 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £619 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.30% - -
75th Percentile £475 £629 -
90th Percentile £600 - -
UK median daily rate £450 £537 £525
% change year-on-year -16.12% +2.19% +16.67%

All System Software Skills
Scotland

Virtual Servers falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 184 308 441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 11.32% 13.89% 15.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 190 326
10th Percentile £221 £192 £194
25th Percentile £410 £324 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £579 £538
90th Percentile £589 £650 £629
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 2
10th Percentile - - £24.34
25th Percentile - £60.00 £29.66
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.50 £40.68
Median % change year-on-year +15.70% +48.72% -8.58%
75th Percentile - £60.75 £50.80
90th Percentile - - £55.57
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +22.22% -57.88% +167.13%

Virtual Servers
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Servers in Scotland

Virtual Servers
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Servers in Scotland

Virtual Servers
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Servers in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Servers in Scotland

Virtual Servers
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Servers in Scotland

Virtual Servers
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 Servers 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 +12 11 £450 -27.30% 1
Virtual Servers
UK

Virtual Servers
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 7 (58.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) DHCP
1 4 (33.33%) DNS
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Banking
2 4 (33.33%) Investment Banking
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Scrum Master
2 3 (25.00%) Administrator
2 3 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) LDAP
1 3 (25.00%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (16.67%) Virtual Team
3 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) Linux
2 3 (25.00%) Mac OS
2 3 (25.00%) Unix
2 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (58.33%) Agile
2 7 (58.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (58.33%) Kanban
2 7 (58.33%) Scrum
2 7 (58.33%) Service Delivery
3 5 (41.67%) Conflict Resolution
3 5 (41.67%) DevOps
3 5 (41.67%) Roadmaps
3 5 (41.67%) Workflow
4 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (33.33%) Investment Management
4 4 (33.33%) Waterfall
4 4 (33.33%) Wealth Management
5 3 (25.00%) Business Continuity
5 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (25.00%) High Availability
5 3 (25.00%) Information Security
5 3 (25.00%) Load Balancing
5 3 (25.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Shell Script
2 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (16.67%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
1 3 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Dell
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (8.33%) VMware