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 10 August 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
10 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 70 60
Rank change year-on-year -18 -10 +37
Contract jobs citing VMware 32 42 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.84% 2.25% 4.08%
As % of the Vendors category 3.92% 5.78% 10.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 23 68
10th Percentile £408 £225 £362
25th Percentile £411 £438 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.44% +20.59%
75th Percentile £485 £648 £583
90th Percentile £550 £736 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £513 £513
% change year-on-year +7.32% - +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £18.38 -
UK median hourly rate £31.39 £64.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -51.34% +7.50% +34.98%

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 817 727 1,055
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 47.09% 38.90% 40.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 465 696
10th Percentile £244 £172 £181
25th Percentile £368 £280 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.43% -7.89% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £688 £629
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 34 26
10th Percentile £16.02 £12.63 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.02 £15.54 £12.50
Median hourly rate £19.05 £18.13 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +5.07% +2.31% -10.73%
75th Percentile £25.15 £22.48 £57.50
90th Percentile £27.11 £41.18 £65.78
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £29.39 £40.00
% change year-on-year -14.41% -26.54% +77.78%

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

VMware
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

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in Scotland over the 6 months to 10 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in Scotland

VMware
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 10 August 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
Edinburgh -10 15 £477 -4.60% 1
Glasgow -14 15 £421 -19.81% 9
Banffshire - 1 £190 -
VMware
UK

VMware
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 1 (3.13%) Apache
1 1 (3.13%) IIS
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.13%) nginx
1 1 (3.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 9 (28.13%) IaaS
2 7 (21.88%) AWS
3 4 (12.50%) Azure
3 4 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.13%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) SAN
2 2 (6.25%) Firewall
2 2 (6.25%) VPN
3 1 (3.13%) DHCP
3 1 (3.13%) DNS
3 1 (3.13%) IMAP
3 1 (3.13%) Network Security
3 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.13%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (34.38%) Git
2 9 (28.13%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.00%) Finance
3 5 (15.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (12.50%) Law
5 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Linux Engineer
2 10 (31.25%) Platform Engineer
3 9 (28.13%) Python Engineer
4 8 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
5 5 (15.63%) Senior
6 4 (12.50%) Senior Storage Engineer
6 4 (12.50%) Server Engineer
6 4 (12.50%) Storage Engineer
7 3 (9.38%) Architect
8 2 (6.25%) .NET Developer
8 2 (6.25%) Developer
8 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Architect
8 2 (6.25%) Linux Server Engineer
9 1 (3.13%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
9 1 (3.13%) Data Centre Architect
9 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
9 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
9 1 (3.13%) Network Infrastructure Architect
9 1 (3.13%) Network Security Architect
9 1 (3.13%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) .NET
1 3 (9.38%) .NET Core
1 3 (9.38%) .NET Framework
1 3 (9.38%) ActiveMQ
1 3 (9.38%) Ajax
1 3 (9.38%) AngularJS
1 3 (9.38%) CSS
1 3 (9.38%) Entity Framework
1 3 (9.38%) HTML
1 3 (9.38%) JMS
1 3 (9.38%) Middleware
1 3 (9.38%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (3.13%) Loki
2 1 (3.13%) Node.js
2 1 (3.13%) React
2 1 (3.13%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) Distributed Systems
1 9 (28.13%) Virtual Team
2 8 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 4 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 4 (12.50%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (12.50%) Product Ownership
4 2 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.13%) Driving Licence
5 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
5 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (87.50%) Linux
2 12 (37.50%) Unix
3 11 (34.38%) Windows
4 7 (21.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (21.88%) Windows Server
5 5 (15.63%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (9.38%) AIX
7 1 (3.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) Agile
2 10 (31.25%) Platform Engineering
3 9 (28.13%) Collaborative Working
3 9 (28.13%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (25.00%) High Availability
5 5 (15.63%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (15.63%) ITIL
5 5 (15.63%) Mentoring
5 5 (15.63%) Problem Management
5 5 (15.63%) Project Delivery
5 5 (15.63%) Service-Level Objective
5 5 (15.63%) Technical Debt
6 4 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (9.38%) Case Management
7 3 (9.38%) Cloud Security
7 3 (9.38%) OWASP
7 3 (9.38%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (9.38%) Storage Management
7 3 (9.38%) TOGAF
7 3 (9.38%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 13 (40.63%) Python
1 13 (40.63%) SQL
2 9 (28.13%) Erlang
2 9 (28.13%) Perl
2 9 (28.13%) Prolog
3 3 (9.38%) JavaScript
3 3 (9.38%) PL/SQL
4 2 (6.25%) Bash
4 2 (6.25%) Java
4 2 (6.25%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.13%) VB
5 1 (3.13%) VB6
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) Degree
2 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.13%) CISSP
3 1 (3.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) NCSC
2 1 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 19 (59.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (3.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (15.63%) Ansible
2 1 (3.13%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (3.13%) Grafana
2 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
2 1 (3.13%) Terraform
2 1 (3.13%) vRealize
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (9.38%) Oracle
3 2 (6.25%) Citrix
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.13%) Dell
4 1 (3.13%) NVIDIA
4 1 (3.13%) Pegasus
4 1 (3.13%) Sage
4 1 (3.13%) Splunk
4 1 (3.13%) Tanium
4 1 (3.13%) Veritas
4 1 (3.13%) Xero