VMS Contracts in Scotland

VMS
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for VMS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VMS over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 158 171
Rank change year-on-year +27 +13 -20
Contract jobs citing VMS 4 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.18% 0.070% 0.14%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.11% 0.38% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £352 - -
25th Percentile £355 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £500 £200
Median % change year-on-year -28.40% +150.00% -52.94%
75th Percentile £365 £525 £259
90th Percentile £373 - £366
UK median daily rate £448 £634 £525
% change year-on-year -29.39% +20.71% +10.53%

All Operating Systems
Scotland

VMS is in the Operating Systems 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 operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 361 526 516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 16.14% 18.38% 14.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 368 346
10th Percentile £182 £160 £137
25th Percentile £325 £260 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.61% +9.35% +12.50%
75th Percentile £626 £600 £538
90th Percentile £744 £740 £600
UK median daily rate £465 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.27% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 24
10th Percentile £17.23 £17.72 £15.04
25th Percentile £18.27 £20.79 £17.03
Median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +162.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £60.75 £59.03 £49.85
90th Percentile £62.50 £65.36 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.00 £22.39
% change year-on-year -42.11% +69.72% +26.00%

VMS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for VMS in Scotland

VMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for VMS in Scotland

VMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for VMS in Scotland

VMS
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 VMS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 25 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
Glasgow - 4 £358 - 3
VMS
UK

VMS
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 4 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) RESTful
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Release Management
2 3 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker