VMware Contracts in Scotland

VMware
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring knowledge or experience of VMware products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMware over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within VMware, Inc.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 59 54
Rank change year-on-year -10 -5 +26
Contract jobs citing VMware 50 74 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.10% 3.33% 4.72%
As % of the Vendors category 7.00% 8.34% 11.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 43 103
10th Percentile £409 £313 £378
25th Percentile £414 £413 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.27% +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £563 £650 £538
90th Percentile £616 £700 £586
UK median daily rate £528 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.50% -4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.79
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £23.86
Median % change year-on-year - +151.47% -47.14%
75th Percentile - - £26.93
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £72.50 £48.20 £65.00
% change year-on-year +50.43% -25.85% +36.84%

All Vendors
Scotland

VMware falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 714 887 1,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 44.24% 39.95% 39.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 543 823
10th Percentile £236 £183 £175
25th Percentile £363 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £467 £473
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% -1.27% +5.11%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £538
90th Percentile £625 £688 £633
UK median daily rate £515 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 52 16
10th Percentile £16.36 £13.28 £21.26
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £43.86
Median hourly rate £22.00 £17.50 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -70.35% +47.56%
75th Percentile £24.62 £55.63 £65.39
90th Percentile £28.26 £60.00 £69.38
UK median hourly rate £27.13 £22.15 £43.75
% change year-on-year +22.46% -49.37% +108.33%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for VMware in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in Scotland over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware in Scotland

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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 VMware within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 April 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 -3 26 £430 -25.22% 9
Edinburgh -1 21 £550 +25.57% 5
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UK

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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 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.00%) Apache
3 1 (2.00%) IIS
3 1 (2.00%) nginx
3 1 (2.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 13 (26.00%) Azure
2 8 (16.00%) AWS
3 6 (12.00%) IaaS
4 5 (10.00%) OpenShift
5 3 (6.00%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.00%) PaaS
6 1 (2.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.00%) DNS
1 4 (8.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (6.00%) DHCP
2 3 (6.00%) Firewall
2 3 (6.00%) Network Security
2 3 (6.00%) SAN
3 1 (2.00%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (2.00%) HTTP
3 1 (2.00%) LAN
3 1 (2.00%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (2.00%) SSL
3 1 (2.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (22.00%) Git
2 5 (10.00%) Bitbucket
2 5 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 23 (46.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (30.00%) Finance
3 6 (12.00%) Banking
4 5 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 4 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (8.00%) Law
6 3 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.00%) Legal
7 2 (4.00%) Investment Banking
7 2 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 8 (16.00%) Linux Engineer
2 7 (14.00%) Architect
2 7 (14.00%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (12.00%) Applications Support
3 6 (12.00%) Senior
4 5 (10.00%) Python Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) VMware Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Applications Specialist
5 4 (8.00%) Applications Support Specialist
5 4 (8.00%) Designer
5 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Support
5 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
5 4 (8.00%) Lead
5 4 (8.00%) Senior Storage Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Server Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Storage Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Support Specialist
5 4 (8.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.00%) Loki
2 6 (12.00%) Middleware
3 2 (4.00%) .NET
3 2 (4.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (4.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (4.00%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (4.00%) Ajax
3 2 (4.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (4.00%) CSS
3 2 (4.00%) Entity Framework
3 2 (4.00%) HTML
3 2 (4.00%) JMS
3 2 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.00%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (14.00%) Data Centre
3 5 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 5 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 5 (10.00%) Virtual Team
4 4 (8.00%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.00%) PKI
5 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 40 (80.00%) Linux
2 20 (40.00%) Windows
3 18 (36.00%) Unix
4 14 (28.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (20.00%) Windows Server
6 5 (10.00%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (8.00%) AIX
8 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (2.00%) Ubuntu
9 1 (2.00%) Windows 10
9 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (26.00%) ITIL
2 11 (22.00%) Agile
3 9 (18.00%) Data Protection
3 9 (18.00%) Problem Management
4 8 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (12.00%) High Availability
5 6 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (12.00%) Platform Engineering
5 6 (12.00%) Project Delivery
5 6 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
6 5 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (10.00%) Service-Level Objective
6 5 (10.00%) Technical Debt
7 4 (8.00%) Configuration Management
7 4 (8.00%) Mentoring
7 4 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (8.00%) Roadmaps
7 4 (8.00%) TOGAF
8 3 (6.00%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 15 (30.00%) Python
2 9 (18.00%) SQL
3 7 (14.00%) Shell Script
4 5 (10.00%) Erlang
4 5 (10.00%) Perl
4 5 (10.00%) Prolog
5 2 (4.00%) Bash
5 2 (4.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.00%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.00%) Java
6 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.00%) VB
6 1 (2.00%) VB6
Qualifications
1 3 (6.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (4.00%) CCNA
2 2 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (4.00%) Degree
2 2 (4.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.00%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.00%) CCNP
3 1 (2.00%) CISSP
3 1 (2.00%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (4.00%) NCSC
3 1 (2.00%) NIST
System Software
1 29 (58.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (16.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 6 (12.00%) Active Directory
4 4 (8.00%) Hyper-V
5 3 (6.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 3 (6.00%) Docker
5 3 (6.00%) VMware NSX
5 3 (6.00%) vSphere
6 2 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (2.00%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (2.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 17 (34.00%) Ansible
2 11 (22.00%) Terraform
3 8 (16.00%) Grafana
3 8 (16.00%) Prometheus
4 6 (12.00%) Kubernetes
5 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (4.00%) Progress Chef
5 2 (4.00%) Puppet
5 2 (4.00%) SCCM
6 1 (2.00%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (2.00%) PowerCLI
6 1 (2.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 14 (28.00%) Red Hat
2 8 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (16.00%) Splunk
2 8 (16.00%) Veritas
3 5 (10.00%) Oracle
4 4 (8.00%) Cisco
4 4 (8.00%) Citrix
5 2 (4.00%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.00%) Aruba
6 1 (2.00%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.00%) Dell
6 1 (2.00%) F5
6 1 (2.00%) HP
6 1 (2.00%) NVIDIA
6 1 (2.00%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.00%) Tanium