Virtual Machines Jobs in Scotland

Virtual Machine (VM)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Virtual Machines skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Machines over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 235 76 214
Rank change year-on-year -159 +138 -32
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 17 153 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.30% 4.03% 0.61%
As % of the System Software category 3.12% 22.27% 3.74%
Number of salaries quoted 16 13 21
10th Percentile £26,750 £24,200 £33,575
25th Percentile £51,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,882 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.77% +9.76% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,931 £55,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £65,922 £62,629
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -

All System Software Skills
Scotland

Virtual Machines falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 545 687 990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.56% 18.11% 16.26%
Number of salaries quoted 300 331 632
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,500 £28,219
25th Percentile £33,000 £35,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,931
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -5.06% +21.96%
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in Scotland

Virtual Machines
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Virtual Machines in Scotland.

Salary trend for Virtual Machines in Scotland

Virtual Machines
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Virtual Machines in Scotland

Virtual Machines
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Machines within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh -18 8 £57,500 +0.10% 3
Aberdeenshire - 3 £28,500 -
Glasgow -135 2 £56,250 +2.27% 1
Aberdeen - 1 £57,500 -
Dundee - 1 £57,500 -
South Ayrshire - 1 £57,500 -
Dumfries and Galloway - 1 £57,500 -
Virtual Machines
UK

Virtual Machines
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 (17.65%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (17.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (64.71%) Entra ID
3 7 (41.18%) Azure Storage
4 6 (35.29%) Power Platform
5 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (23.53%) Azure Event Grid
5 4 (23.53%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (17.65%) Asana
6 3 (17.65%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (17.65%) Slack
7 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) Broadband
2 3 (17.65%) LAN
2 3 (17.65%) VPN
2 3 (17.65%) WAN
2 3 (17.65%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (17.65%) Wireless
3 1 (5.88%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) SQL Server
2 6 (35.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (35.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Git
General
1 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) DBA
1 6 (35.29%) SQL DBA
2 4 (23.53%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Cloud Automation Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Desktop Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) IT Support
3 3 (17.65%) IT Support Specialist
3 3 (17.65%) Support Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) ARM Templates
1 4 (23.53%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) VMS
2 4 (23.53%) Linux
2 4 (23.53%) Windows
3 3 (17.65%) Windows 10
3 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Incident Response
1 7 (41.18%) Threat Detection
2 6 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (35.29%) Collaborative Working
2 6 (35.29%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (35.29%) High Availability
2 6 (35.29%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
3 4 (23.53%) DevOps
3 4 (23.53%) Task Automation
4 3 (17.65%) Agile
4 3 (17.65%) Application Packaging
4 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
5 1 (5.88%) ITIL
5 1 (5.88%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) PowerShell
2 7 (41.18%) Kusto Query Language
3 6 (35.29%) SQL
3 6 (35.29%) T-SQL
4 4 (23.53%) Bicep
5 1 (5.88%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (17.65%) Degree
System Software
1 11 (64.71%) Active Directory
2 7 (41.18%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (17.65%) Hyper-V
3 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Terraform
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) VMware