vSphere Contract Job Trends in Scotland

VMware vSphere
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring vSphere skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 102 130
Rank change year-on-year -4 +28 +8
Contract jobs citing vSphere 3 10 8
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.20% 0.63% 0.35%
As % of the System Software category 2.24% 4.90% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 4
10th Percentile - £425 £312
25th Percentile £381 £536 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £709 £387
Median % change year-on-year -45.33% +83.38% -14.87%
75th Percentile £429 £780 £472
90th Percentile £451 £781 £511
UK median daily rate £525 £473 £511
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.58% +1.24%

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 134 204 332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 9.04% 12.81% 14.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 129 192
10th Percentile £205 £183 £188
25th Percentile £358 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% +12.23%
75th Percentile £538 £516 £627
90th Percentile £606 £611 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 11
10th Percentile £33.50 £21.00 £55.00
25th Percentile £49.06 £23.05 £55.70
Median hourly rate £75.00 £47.09 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.27% -21.52% +238.60%
75th Percentile - £71.25 £60.75
90th Percentile - £73.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £28.41 £51.25
% change year-on-year +67.19% -44.57% +91.59%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing vSphere relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

vSphere job vacancy trend in Scotland

vSphere
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing vSphere.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing vSphere

vSphere
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing vSphere.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing vSphere

vSphere
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 8 January 2026. 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 £388 - 1
vSphere
UK

vSphere
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (100.00%) VSAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (66.67%) API Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Go
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware