Windows Jobs in Scotland

Microsoft Windows
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Windows skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Windows 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 68 20 35
Rank change year-on-year -48 +15 -16
Permanent jobs citing Windows 364 461 446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.32% 10.61% 7.32%
As % of the Operating Systems category 46.55% 62.81% 45.56%
Number of salaries quoted 273 263 302
10th Percentile £24,250 £25,150 £22,500
25th Percentile £26,700 £29,000 £26,358
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,052 £60,000
90th Percentile £64,750 £71,250 £65,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £44,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -2.22%

All Operating Systems
Scotland

Windows is in the Operating Systems 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 operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 782 734 979
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.42% 16.89% 16.07%
Number of salaries quoted 413 407 551
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -8.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Scotland

Windows
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Windows in Scotland

Windows
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows in Scotland

Windows
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 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
Glasgow -103 136 £48,500 +2.11% 26
Edinburgh +24 129 £40,000 -15.79% 39
Aberdeen -19 23 £28,000 -34.12% 13
Argyll and Bute - 17 £27,400 -
Dundee -4 14 £49,990 +33.31% 2
Fife -4 10 £55,000 - 5
West Lothian -12 8 £28,500 -12.31% 1
East Ayrshire - 5 £24,500 - 1
Aberdeenshire +1 4 £28,500 -56.15% 6
North Lanarkshire -4 4 £30,750 +23.00% 2
Banffshire - 4 £22,000 -
Stirling -5 2 £34,750 +34.95%
Lanarkshire -13 2 £40,000 +29.03% 14
West Dunbartonshire - 2 £17,000 -
South Ayrshire +1 1 - -
Perth and Kinross -4 1 - - 3
Dumfries and Galloway -7 1 £23,000 -21.37%
Windows
UK

Windows
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 28 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (4.12%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.75%) Apache
4 4 (1.10%) IIS
4 4 (1.10%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.27%) JOnAS
Applications
1 22 (6.04%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (3.02%) Unit4 Business World
2 2 (0.55%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 117 (32.14%) Microsoft 365
2 105 (28.85%) Azure
3 37 (10.16%) AWS
4 34 (9.34%) Entra ID
5 25 (6.87%) GCP
6 21 (5.77%) SaaS
7 20 (5.49%) IaaS
8 19 (5.22%) PaaS
9 11 (3.02%) Amazon S3
10 8 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.37%) OneDrive
13 4 (1.10%) Google Docs
13 4 (1.10%) OpenShift
14 3 (0.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 3 (0.82%) Azure Sentinel
14 3 (0.82%) Mimecast
14 3 (0.82%) Power Platform
14 3 (0.82%) Slack
14 3 (0.82%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 48 (13.19%) Firewall
2 35 (9.62%) VPN
3 33 (9.07%) WAN
4 32 (8.79%) TCP/IP
5 17 (4.67%) VoIP
6 16 (4.40%) SAN
7 15 (4.12%) Internet
7 15 (4.12%) Wi-Fi
8 14 (3.85%) DNS
9 13 (3.57%) LAN
9 13 (3.57%) Modbus
9 13 (3.57%) SD-WAN
10 12 (3.30%) DHCP
11 11 (3.02%) SNMP
11 11 (3.02%) Wireless
12 10 (2.75%) IPsec
12 10 (2.75%) VLAN
13 9 (2.47%) Cisco IOS
13 9 (2.47%) Network Security
14 8 (2.20%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.52%) SQL Server
2 11 (3.02%) DB2
3 10 (2.75%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (2.75%) MongoDB
4 7 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (1.92%) Big Data
5 3 (0.82%) Ingres
6 2 (0.55%) DTS
6 2 (0.55%) MySQL
6 2 (0.55%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.55%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (4.40%) JIRA
2 15 (4.12%) GitLab
3 14 (3.85%) Visual Studio
4 6 (1.65%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.82%) Git
6 2 (0.55%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.27%) GoCD
7 1 (0.27%) Gradle
7 1 (0.27%) Maven
7 1 (0.27%) Subversion
General
1 95 (26.10%) Social Skills
2 55 (15.11%) Finance
3 25 (6.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (5.77%) Organisational Skills
5 18 (4.95%) Public Sector
6 17 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (3.85%) Law
7 14 (3.85%) Legal
7 14 (3.85%) Military
8 11 (3.02%) Telecoms
9 10 (2.75%) Banking
9 10 (2.75%) Retail
10 5 (1.37%) Automotive
11 4 (1.10%) Billing
12 3 (0.82%) Electronics
12 3 (0.82%) Marketing
13 2 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.55%) Games
13 2 (0.55%) Police
13 2 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (16.48%) Senior
2 57 (15.66%) IT Support
3 51 (14.01%) Analyst
4 40 (10.99%) Support Engineer
5 37 (10.16%) IT Engineer
6 31 (8.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 31 (8.52%) Support Analyst
7 26 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support
8 24 (6.59%) IT Manager
9 23 (6.32%) IT Support Engineer
10 22 (6.04%) IT Analyst
11 19 (5.22%) Cloud Engineer
11 19 (5.22%) Software Engineer
12 18 (4.95%) Support Technician
13 17 (4.67%) Systems Engineer
14 16 (4.40%) 1st Line Support
14 16 (4.40%) Infrastructure Support
15 14 (3.85%) Consultant
15 14 (3.85%) IT Support Analyst
15 14 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.32%) .NET
2 13 (3.57%) .NET Framework
2 13 (3.57%) CSS
2 13 (3.57%) HTML
2 13 (3.57%) WinForms
2 13 (3.57%) WPF
3 10 (2.75%) RabbitMQ
3 10 (2.75%) YAML
4 7 (1.92%) LDAP
5 5 (1.37%) OpenCV
5 5 (1.37%) OpenVINO
6 3 (0.82%) ONNX
7 2 (0.55%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.55%) RESTful
7 2 (0.55%) SAML
8 1 (0.27%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.27%) Blazor
8 1 (0.27%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.52%) Data Centre
2 23 (6.32%) Public Cloud
3 22 (6.04%) Driving Licence
4 14 (3.85%) Replication
4 14 (3.85%) Video\Live Streaming
5 10 (2.75%) Cloud Native
6 8 (2.20%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.65%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.65%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.10%) Learning Management System
10 3 (0.82%) Cyberattack
10 3 (0.82%) Device Driver
10 3 (0.82%) iPhone
10 3 (0.82%) Video Conferencing
11 2 (0.55%) EPoS
11 2 (0.55%) Life Science
11 2 (0.55%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.55%) PKI
11 2 (0.55%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 147 (40.38%) Windows Server
2 129 (35.44%) Linux
3 47 (12.91%) Unix
4 38 (10.44%) Windows 10
5 18 (4.95%) Android
6 17 (4.67%) Mac OS X
7 14 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
8 13 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
9 11 (3.02%) Mac OS
10 10 (2.75%) Data ONTAP
11 7 (1.92%) Apple iOS
11 7 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (1.65%) CentOS
12 6 (1.65%) Windows 7
13 4 (1.10%) Debian
13 4 (1.10%) Mesosphere
13 4 (1.10%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.82%) VMS
14 3 (0.82%) Windows 8
15 1 (0.27%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (15.11%) Customer Service
3 48 (13.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 48 (13.19%) ITIL
4 45 (12.36%) Cybersecurity
5 38 (10.44%) DevOps
6 37 (10.16%) Service Delivery
7 33 (9.07%) Disaster Recovery
8 32 (8.79%) Agile
9 28 (7.69%) Actionable Insight
9 28 (7.69%) Mentoring
10 24 (6.59%) Project Management
11 21 (5.77%) Incident Response
11 21 (5.77%) Infrastructure Management
11 21 (5.77%) Software Engineering
12 20 (5.49%) Information Security
13 19 (5.22%) Business Intelligence
14 18 (4.95%) Coaching
14 18 (4.95%) Continuous Improvement
14 18 (4.95%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (11.81%) SQL
2 35 (9.62%) C++
3 27 (7.42%) C#
3 27 (7.42%) Python
4 19 (5.22%) PowerShell
5 17 (4.67%) Bash
6 15 (4.12%) Java
7 4 (1.10%) C
7 4 (1.10%) T-SQL
8 3 (0.82%) Groovy
8 3 (0.82%) Ruby
9 2 (0.55%) Embedded C
9 2 (0.55%) Embedded C++
9 2 (0.55%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.55%) PHP
9 2 (0.55%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.27%) Assembly Language
10 1 (0.27%) Perl
10 1 (0.27%) Swift
10 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 62 (17.03%) Degree
2 33 (9.07%) Security Cleared
3 18 (4.95%) Cisco Certification
4 15 (4.12%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.85%) CCNA
5 14 (3.85%) CISM
5 14 (3.85%) CISSP
5 14 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (3.85%) GCIA
5 14 (3.85%) GCIH
5 14 (3.85%) GREM
6 13 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (3.02%) CISA
8 9 (2.47%) MCSE
9 8 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.65%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.65%) SC Cleared
11 5 (1.37%) CCNP
11 5 (1.37%) MCSA
12 4 (1.10%) RHCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.30%) SLA
2 11 (3.02%) ITGC
2 11 (3.02%) PMO
2 11 (3.02%) QA
3 8 (2.20%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.65%) GDPR
5 4 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.82%) NIST
7 2 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.27%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 115 (31.59%) Active Directory
2 75 (20.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (8.52%) Hyper-V
4 27 (7.42%) Docker
5 13 (3.57%) VMware NSX
6 12 (3.30%) KVM
7 10 (2.75%) vSphere
8 6 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (1.10%) Firmware
9 4 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.82%) pfSense
11 2 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.55%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 43 (11.81%) Ansible
2 28 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 26 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 26 (7.14%) Terraform
4 15 (4.12%) Prometheus
5 14 (3.85%) SCCM
6 13 (3.57%) FortiGate
7 12 (3.30%) vCenter Server
8 10 (2.75%) ZABBIX
9 9 (2.47%) Progress Chef
10 6 (1.65%) Grafana
10 6 (1.65%) Puppet
11 5 (1.37%) McAfee ePO
12 4 (1.10%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.82%) WSUS
14 2 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
15 1 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
15 1 (0.27%) SCOM
Vendors
1 104 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 104 (28.57%) VMware
2 37 (10.16%) Cisco
3 33 (9.07%) Dell
4 25 (6.87%) NetApp
5 14 (3.85%) Apple
5 14 (3.85%) Red Hat
5 14 (3.85%) Sage
6 13 (3.57%) Oracle
7 12 (3.30%) Citrix
7 12 (3.30%) Google
7 12 (3.30%) SAP
8 11 (3.02%) ServiceNow
9 10 (2.75%) Palo Alto
9 10 (2.75%) SolidFire
10 7 (1.92%) EMC
10 7 (1.92%) iManage
10 7 (1.92%) Mitel
11 6 (1.65%) Sophos
12 5 (1.37%) McAfee