vSphere Contracts in Scotland

VMware vSphere
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring vSphere skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited vSphere 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 113 116 134
Rank change year-on-year +3 +18 +21
Contract jobs citing vSphere 3 13 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.18% 0.59% 1.01%
As % of the System Software category 1.63% 4.22% 6.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 20
10th Percentile £590 £438 £430
25th Percentile £622 £441 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £709 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +45.49% -2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £762 £619 £526
90th Percentile £774 £646 £538
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £480
% change year-on-year +10.00% +4.15% +6.68%

All System Software Skills
Scotland

vSphere 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%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in Scotland

vSphere
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for vSphere in Scotland

vSphere
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for vSphere in Scotland

vSphere
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for vSphere 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 vSphere 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
Edinburgh -1 3 £709 +30.86%
vSphere
UK

vSphere
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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Lead
1 3 (100.00%) Lead Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (100.00%) VMware