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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 22 34
Rank change year-on-year -45 +12 -15
Permanent jobs citing Windows 366 468 460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.42% 10.29% 7.68%
As % of the Operating Systems category 46.68% 62.07% 47.03%
Number of salaries quoted 273 269 315
10th Percentile £24,250 £26,250 £22,200
25th Percentile £26,700 £30,000 £26,680
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,202 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.22% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,105 £57,500
90th Percentile £66,000 £71,250 £65,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% -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 784 754 978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.62% 16.58% 16.33%
Number of salaries quoted 409 416 557
10th Percentile £25,840 £27,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £32,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,875 £72,500
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 23 May 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 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +27 137 £40,000 -15.79% 37
Glasgow -99 134 £48,500 -3.00% 24
Aberdeen -20 23 £28,000 -34.12% 12
Argyll and Bute - 17 £27,400 - 1
Dundee -3 14 £49,990 +33.31% 1
Fife -3 9 £55,000 -8.33% 4
West Lothian -15 8 £28,500 -12.31% 2
East Ayrshire - 5 £24,500 - 1
North Lanarkshire -5 4 £30,750 +23.00%
Banffshire - 4 £22,000 -
Aberdeenshire +2 3 £28,500 -56.15% 4
Stirling - 2 £34,750 - 1
West Dunbartonshire - 2 £17,000 -
South Ayrshire +1 1 - -
Lanarkshire -9 1 £27,500 -11.29% 9
Dumfries and Galloway -10 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 26 (7.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (4.37%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.73%) Apache
4 4 (1.09%) IIS
4 4 (1.09%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.27%) JOnAS
Applications
1 22 (6.01%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (3.01%) Unit4 Business World
2 2 (0.55%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 117 (31.97%) Microsoft 365
2 110 (30.05%) Azure
3 37 (10.11%) Entra ID
4 36 (9.84%) AWS
5 26 (7.10%) GCP
5 26 (7.10%) SaaS
6 21 (5.74%) IaaS
7 20 (5.46%) PaaS
8 11 (3.01%) Amazon S3
9 8 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.37%) OneDrive
11 5 (1.37%) OpenShift
12 4 (1.09%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (1.09%) Google Docs
12 4 (1.09%) Mimecast
12 4 (1.09%) Power Platform
13 3 (0.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (0.82%) Slack
13 3 (0.82%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 46 (12.57%) Firewall
2 34 (9.29%) VPN
3 32 (8.74%) TCP/IP
3 32 (8.74%) WAN
4 17 (4.64%) VoIP
5 16 (4.37%) Internet
6 15 (4.10%) SAN
6 15 (4.10%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (3.83%) DNS
8 13 (3.55%) Modbus
8 13 (3.55%) SD-WAN
9 12 (3.28%) DHCP
9 12 (3.28%) LAN
10 11 (3.01%) SNMP
10 11 (3.01%) Wireless
11 10 (2.73%) IPsec
11 10 (2.73%) VLAN
12 9 (2.46%) Cisco IOS
13 8 (2.19%) NAS
13 8 (2.19%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (9.02%) SQL Server
2 11 (3.01%) DB2
3 10 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (2.73%) MongoDB
4 7 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (1.91%) 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
7 1 (0.27%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (4.37%) JIRA
2 15 (4.10%) GitLab
3 14 (3.83%) Visual Studio
4 6 (1.64%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.82%) Git
5 3 (0.82%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.27%) GoCD
6 1 (0.27%) Gradle
6 1 (0.27%) Maven
6 1 (0.27%) Subversion
General
1 94 (25.68%) Social Skills
2 54 (14.75%) Finance
3 24 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (5.74%) Organisational Skills
5 18 (4.92%) Public Sector
6 16 (4.37%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (4.10%) Law
8 14 (3.83%) Legal
8 14 (3.83%) Military
9 11 (3.01%) Banking
9 11 (3.01%) Telecoms
10 9 (2.46%) Retail
11 4 (1.09%) Billing
12 3 (0.82%) Automotive
12 3 (0.82%) Electronics
12 3 (0.82%) Marketing
12 3 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.55%) Games
13 2 (0.55%) Police
Job Titles
1 63 (17.21%) Senior
2 55 (15.03%) IT Support
3 49 (13.39%) Analyst
4 40 (10.93%) Support Engineer
5 38 (10.38%) IT Engineer
6 30 (8.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 29 (7.92%) Support Analyst
8 27 (7.38%) 2nd Line Support
9 24 (6.56%) IT Manager
10 23 (6.28%) IT Support Engineer
11 21 (5.74%) IT Analyst
11 21 (5.74%) Software Engineer
12 20 (5.46%) Cloud Engineer
13 18 (4.92%) Senior Software Engineer
13 18 (4.92%) Support Technician
14 17 (4.64%) Systems Engineer
15 16 (4.37%) 1st Line Support
16 15 (4.10%) Infrastructure Support
17 14 (3.83%) Consultant
17 14 (3.83%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.01%) .NET
2 13 (3.55%) .NET Framework
2 13 (3.55%) CSS
2 13 (3.55%) HTML
2 13 (3.55%) WinForms
2 13 (3.55%) WPF
3 10 (2.73%) RabbitMQ
3 10 (2.73%) YAML
4 7 (1.91%) 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 (8.47%) Data Centre
2 23 (6.28%) Public Cloud
3 22 (6.01%) Driving Licence
4 14 (3.83%) Cloud Native
4 14 (3.83%) Replication
5 13 (3.55%) Video\Live Streaming
6 8 (2.19%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.64%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.37%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.37%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.09%) 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%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 145 (39.62%) Windows Server
2 133 (36.34%) Linux
3 47 (12.84%) Unix
4 39 (10.66%) Windows 10
5 18 (4.92%) Android
6 17 (4.64%) Mac OS X
7 14 (3.83%) Mac OS
8 13 (3.55%) Windows Server 2016
9 11 (3.01%) Windows Server 2012
10 10 (2.73%) Data ONTAP
11 7 (1.91%) Apple iOS
11 7 (1.91%) CentOS
11 7 (1.91%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (1.09%) Debian
12 4 (1.09%) Mesosphere
12 4 (1.09%) Windows 7
12 4 (1.09%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.82%) VMS
13 3 (0.82%) Windows 8
14 1 (0.27%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (16.12%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (15.30%) Customer Service
3 51 (13.93%) ITIL
4 50 (13.66%) Cybersecurity
5 47 (12.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 40 (10.93%) DevOps
7 37 (10.11%) Agile
8 36 (9.84%) Service Delivery
9 31 (8.47%) Disaster Recovery
9 31 (8.47%) Mentoring
10 28 (7.65%) Actionable Insight
11 24 (6.56%) Project Management
12 23 (6.28%) Software Engineering
13 22 (6.01%) Information Security
14 21 (5.74%) Incident Response
14 21 (5.74%) Infrastructure Management
15 20 (5.46%) Business Intelligence
16 18 (4.92%) Coaching
16 18 (4.92%) Incident Management
16 18 (4.92%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 45 (12.30%) SQL
2 32 (8.74%) C++
3 27 (7.38%) Python
4 25 (6.83%) C#
5 19 (5.19%) PowerShell
6 18 (4.92%) Bash
7 15 (4.10%) Java
8 4 (1.09%) C
8 4 (1.09%) Groovy
8 4 (1.09%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.82%) Ruby
10 2 (0.55%) Embedded C
10 2 (0.55%) Embedded C++
10 2 (0.55%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.55%) PHP
10 2 (0.55%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.27%) Assembly Language
11 1 (0.27%) Perl
11 1 (0.27%) Swift
11 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 62 (16.94%) Degree
2 33 (9.02%) Security Cleared
3 18 (4.92%) Cisco Certification
4 15 (4.10%) CISM
4 15 (4.10%) CISSP
4 15 (4.10%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.83%) CCNA
5 14 (3.83%) GCIA
5 14 (3.83%) GCIH
5 14 (3.83%) GREM
6 13 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (3.01%) CISA
9 9 (2.46%) MCSE
10 8 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.64%) AWS Certification
11 6 (1.64%) SC Cleared
12 5 (1.37%) CCNP
12 5 (1.37%) MCSA
13 4 (1.09%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.28%) SLA
2 11 (3.01%) ITGC
2 11 (3.01%) PMO
2 11 (3.01%) QA
3 8 (2.19%) PCI DSS
4 7 (1.91%) GDPR
5 5 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.09%) NIST
7 2 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.27%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 117 (31.97%) Active Directory
2 73 (19.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (8.74%) Hyper-V
4 27 (7.38%) Docker
5 13 (3.55%) VMware NSX
6 12 (3.28%) KVM
7 10 (2.73%) vSphere
8 7 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (1.09%) Firmware
9 4 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.82%) pfSense
10 3 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.55%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 45 (12.30%) Ansible
2 28 (7.65%) Kubernetes
2 28 (7.65%) Terraform
3 27 (7.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (4.37%) SCCM
5 15 (4.10%) Prometheus
6 13 (3.55%) FortiGate
7 12 (3.28%) vCenter Server
8 10 (2.73%) Progress Chef
8 10 (2.73%) ZABBIX
9 6 (1.64%) Grafana
9 6 (1.64%) Puppet
10 5 (1.37%) McAfee ePO
11 4 (1.09%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.82%) WSUS
13 2 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
14 1 (0.27%) SCOM
Vendors
1 106 (28.96%) Microsoft
2 103 (28.14%) VMware
3 38 (10.38%) Dell
4 37 (10.11%) Cisco
5 25 (6.83%) NetApp
6 14 (3.83%) Apple
6 14 (3.83%) Red Hat
6 14 (3.83%) Sage
7 13 (3.55%) Google
7 13 (3.55%) Oracle
8 12 (3.28%) Citrix
8 12 (3.28%) SAP
9 11 (3.01%) ServiceNow
10 10 (2.73%) Palo Alto
10 10 (2.73%) SolidFire
11 8 (2.19%) iManage
12 7 (1.91%) EMC
12 7 (1.91%) Mitel
13 6 (1.64%) Sophos
14 5 (1.37%) HP