Virtual Servers Contracts in Scotland

Virtual Servers
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Virtual Servers skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Servers over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 - 159
Rank change year-on-year - - +1
Contract jobs citing Virtual Servers 3 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.14% - 0.23%
As % of the System Software category 1.00% - 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile £268 - -
25th Percentile £325 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.53%
75th Percentile £534 - £475
90th Percentile £591 - £485
UK median daily rate £530 £523 £450
% change year-on-year +1.44% +16.11% +20.00%

All System Software Skills
Scotland

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 301 417 401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 13.99% 15.43% 11.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 297 284
10th Percentile £189 £195 £158
25th Percentile £313 £375 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.84% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £505 £538 £538
90th Percentile £634 £614 £617
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 12
10th Percentile £60.00 £24.34 £17.50
25th Percentile £60.13 £29.66 £19.38
Median hourly rate £60.50 £40.68 £42.25
Median % change year-on-year +48.72% -3.72% -35.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £50.80 £48.15
90th Percentile - £55.57 £48.75
UK median hourly rate £22.30 £54.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.70% +170.00% -9.09%

Virtual Servers
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Servers in Scotland

Virtual Servers
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Servers in Scotland

Virtual Servers
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Servers in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Servers in Scotland

Virtual Servers
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Servers in Scotland

Virtual Servers
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 Virtual Servers within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow - 2 £619 -
Edinburgh - 1 £240 -
Virtual Servers
UK

Virtual Servers
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 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Investment Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Unix
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
1 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) High Availability
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Investment Management
1 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
1 1 (33.33%) SDLC
1 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
1 1 (33.33%) Value Proposition
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Environments
1 1 (33.33%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Perl
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Meraki
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) VMware