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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 256 90 233
Rank change year-on-year -166 +143 -57
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Machines 20 136 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.29% 3.13% 0.48%
As % of the System Software category 2.85% 18.73% 3.07%
Number of salaries quoted 19 8 19
10th Percentile £26,750 £41,325 £36,150
25th Percentile £53,125 £51,062 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,941 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.66% +22.09% -26.95%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,931 £47,500
90th Percentile £73,000 £58,027 £58,526
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +15.00% -

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 702 726 944
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.26% 16.70% 15.50%
Number of salaries quoted 388 355 579
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,200 £26,594
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% -4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £62,087 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,687
% change year-on-year -9.09% -1.23% +1.25%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -6 8 £65,000 +18.44% 2
Glasgow -171 3 £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 (15.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (15.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 9 (45.00%) Entra ID
4 6 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (15.00%) Asana
6 3 (15.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (15.00%) Azure Storage
6 3 (15.00%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (15.00%) Slack
7 2 (10.00%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (10.00%) SaaS
8 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
8 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (5.00%) Azure Functions
8 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (5.00%) Google Compute Engine
8 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (50.00%) Broadband
2 5 (25.00%) Wireless
3 4 (20.00%) VPN
4 3 (15.00%) Firewall
4 3 (15.00%) LAN
4 3 (15.00%) WAN
4 3 (15.00%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (10.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (65.00%) SQL Server
2 10 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (50.00%) Power BI
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
General
1 12 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) DBA
1 10 (50.00%) SQL DBA
2 3 (15.00%) IT Manager
2 3 (15.00%) IT Support
2 3 (15.00%) IT Support Specialist
2 3 (15.00%) Support Specialist
3 2 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) ARM Templates
1 2 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (50.00%) VMS
2 6 (30.00%) Linux
2 6 (30.00%) Windows
3 3 (15.00%) Windows 10
3 3 (15.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (10.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 11 (55.00%) High Availability
2 10 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 10 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (20.00%) DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (15.00%) Incident Response
4 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (15.00%) ITIL
4 3 (15.00%) Threat Detection
5 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (10.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (10.00%) Network Design
5 2 (10.00%) Task Automation
5 2 (10.00%) Ticket Management
6 1 (5.00%) Containerisation
6 1 (5.00%) Network Virtualisation
6 1 (5.00%) People Management
6 1 (5.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) SQL
2 10 (50.00%) T-SQL
3 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (15.00%) Bash
4 3 (15.00%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (10.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 10 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 9 (45.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (15.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Terraform
2 3 (15.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 17 (85.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) VMware
3 1 (5.00%) Google