VMS Contracts in Scotland

VMS
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring VMS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMS 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 115 125 161
Rank change year-on-year +10 +36 +6
Contract jobs citing VMS 1 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.062% 0.18% 0.070%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.29% 1.11% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - £352 -
25th Percentile - £355 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £358 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -28.40% +150.00%
75th Percentile - £365 £525
90th Percentile - £373 -
UK median daily rate £539 £444 £643
% change year-on-year +21.28% -30.89% +14.22%

All Operating Systems
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 341 359 535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 20.98% 16.19% 18.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 235 377
10th Percentile £191 £184 £160
25th Percentile £407 £324 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £479
Median % change year-on-year -7.10% +4.38% +6.44%
75th Percentile £550 £626 £600
90th Percentile £581 £745 £727
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 13
10th Percentile £16.33 £17.23 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.94 £18.27 £20.79
Median hourly rate £22.00 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.10% - +162.50%
75th Percentile £23.50 £60.75 £59.03
90th Percentile £24.43 £62.50 £65.36
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%

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 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 0 1 £350 -2.23% 2
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 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform