Virtual Machines Jobs in Scotland

Virtual Machine (VM)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Virtual Machines skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Machines over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 263 115 205
Rank change year-on-year -148 +90 -31
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 19 113 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.28% 2.40% 0.56%
As % of the System Software category 2.59% 15.67% 3.48%
Number of salaries quoted 19 12 17
10th Percentile £26,750 £45,375 £35,550
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,062 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +22.22% -26.95%
75th Percentile £65,625 £58,375 -
90th Percentile £70,250 £58,750 £48,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +15.00% -9.09%

All System Software Skills
Scotland

Virtual Machines is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 735 721 920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.94% 15.31% 16.08%
Number of salaries quoted 424 368 581
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,000 £26,680
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,313 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £61,949 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,715 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £56,325
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.35% +2.41%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 +8 6 £65,000 +18.44% 2
Glasgow -156 4 £57,500 +4.55% 1
Aberdeenshire - 3 £28,500 -
Dundee - 2 £57,500 -
Dumfries and Galloway - 2 £57,500 -
Aberdeen - 1 £57,500 -
South Ayrshire - 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 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (15.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (52.63%) Power Platform
3 8 (42.11%) Entra ID
3 8 (42.11%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (26.32%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (15.79%) Asana
6 3 (15.79%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (15.79%) Slack
7 2 (10.53%) SaaS
8 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
8 1 (5.26%) AWS
8 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
8 1 (5.26%) GCP
8 1 (5.26%) Google Compute Engine
8 1 (5.26%) Serverless
8 1 (5.26%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 10 (52.63%) Broadband
2 7 (36.84%) Wireless
3 5 (26.32%) Firewall
4 4 (21.05%) Internet
4 4 (21.05%) VPN
5 3 (15.79%) LAN
5 3 (15.79%) WAN
5 3 (15.79%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (78.95%) SQL Server
2 10 (52.63%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (52.63%) Power BI
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.26%) BigQuery
General
1 11 (57.89%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) DBA
1 10 (52.63%) SQL DBA
2 5 (26.32%) IT Manager
3 3 (15.79%) IT Support
3 3 (15.79%) IT Support Specialist
3 3 (15.79%) Support Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (52.63%) VMS
2 8 (42.11%) Linux
2 8 (42.11%) Windows
3 5 (26.32%) Windows Server
4 4 (21.05%) CentOS
5 3 (15.79%) Windows 10
5 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Disaster Recovery
1 11 (57.89%) High Availability
2 10 (52.63%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (52.63%) Collaborative Working
2 10 (52.63%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (26.32%) ITIL
4 4 (21.05%) DevOps
4 4 (21.05%) Mentoring
4 4 (21.05%) Network Design
4 4 (21.05%) Ticket Management
5 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
6 1 (5.26%) Containerisation
6 1 (5.26%) Load Balancing
6 1 (5.26%) Migration
6 1 (5.26%) Network Virtualisation
6 1 (5.26%) People Management
6 1 (5.26%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (73.68%) SQL
2 10 (52.63%) T-SQL
3 5 (26.32%) Bash
3 5 (26.32%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (52.63%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (36.84%) Degree
System Software
1 8 (42.11%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.79%) Hyper-V
2 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Terraform
2 5 (26.32%) Ansible
3 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) VMware
3 1 (5.26%) Google