Windows Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Windows
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Windows skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 15 17
Rank change year-on-year -9 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Windows 167 276 306
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 7.69% 9.80% 8.69%
As % of the Operating Systems category 47.18% 52.47% 58.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 189 212
10th Percentile £157 £158 £129
25th Percentile £203 £188 £159
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £376 £335
Median % change year-on-year +11.70% +12.24% -10.67%
75th Percentile £606 £530 £475
90th Percentile £704 £613 £580
UK median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 21
10th Percentile £18.11 - £15.04
25th Percentile - £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £18.27 £20.79 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% +3.95% +60.00%
75th Percentile - £51.01 £50.77
90th Percentile £22.91 £59.79 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +12.50% +23.08%

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 contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 354 526 520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 16.30% 18.69% 14.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 369 347
10th Percentile £185 £160 £139
25th Percentile £324 £260 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £538
90th Percentile £750 £726 £600
UK median daily rate £470 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -6.93% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 24
10th Percentile £17.23 £17.72 £15.04
25th Percentile £18.27 £18.49 £17.03
Median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +162.50% +53.85%
75th Percentile £60.75 £58.96 £49.85
90th Percentile £62.50 £64.76 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £22.08 £39.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -43.40% +73.33% +25.80%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Scotland

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Scotland over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Scotland

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Scotland

Windows
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 Windows within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 4 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 -8 67 £500 +13.77% 17
Edinburgh +4 51 £429 +50.35% 48
South Lanarkshire +10 11 £550 +86.31%
South Ayrshire 0 8 £144 +5.79%
Renfrewshire -1 8 £538 +1.90%
Stirling 0 4 £420 +110.00% 1
Perthshire +6 3 £475 -13.24% 1
Dundee +6 2 £166 -51.18%
Aberdeen -1 2 - - 7
Fife -1 2 £365 +128.13% 5
West Lothian -1 2 £188 -54.55% 2
Lanarkshire -5 1 £185 +12.12% 5
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 22 (13.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (6.59%) IIS
3 9 (5.39%) SharePoint
4 6 (3.59%) SAS
5 5 (2.99%) Confluence
6 3 (1.80%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.60%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (0.60%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 26 (15.57%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.80%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.60%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 39 (23.35%) Microsoft 365
2 32 (19.16%) Azure
3 20 (11.98%) AWS
4 15 (8.98%) Entra ID
5 14 (8.38%) OpenShift
6 7 (4.19%) OneDrive
6 7 (4.19%) Power Platform
7 6 (3.59%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (2.40%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.80%) OCI
9 3 (1.80%) Oracle Service Cloud
10 2 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.60%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 28 (16.77%) Firewall
2 20 (11.98%) DNS
3 14 (8.38%) DHCP
3 14 (8.38%) SAN
4 13 (7.78%) VPN
5 11 (6.59%) LAN
6 9 (5.39%) Remote Desktop
6 9 (5.39%) WAN
7 7 (4.19%) Fibre Channel
7 7 (4.19%) iSCSI
7 7 (4.19%) NAS
8 6 (3.59%) Internet
9 5 (2.99%) SMTP
9 5 (2.99%) TCP/IP
10 3 (1.80%) Skype
10 3 (1.80%) SSL
10 3 (1.80%) Structured Cabling
10 3 (1.80%) VLAN
11 2 (1.20%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (1.20%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.79%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.19%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.40%) DB2
5 3 (1.80%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.20%) NonStop SQL
7 1 (0.60%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (7.78%) Git
2 12 (7.19%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.19%) JIRA
4 6 (3.59%) Gradle
4 6 (3.59%) Maven
5 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 65 (38.92%) Social Skills
2 40 (23.95%) Public Sector
3 27 (16.17%) Finance
4 17 (10.18%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.59%) Banking
6 7 (4.19%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.59%) Investment Banking
7 6 (3.59%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.80%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.20%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Automotive
10 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (15.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 20 (11.98%) IT Support
3 18 (10.78%) Analyst
4 15 (8.98%) Support Analyst
4 15 (8.98%) Windows Engineer
5 14 (8.38%) Support Engineer
6 13 (7.78%) Senior
7 10 (5.99%) Desktop Engineer
7 10 (5.99%) Desktop Support
7 10 (5.99%) Security Engineer
8 9 (5.39%) Support Officer
8 9 (5.39%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (4.79%) 1st Line Support
9 8 (4.79%) Architect
9 8 (4.79%) IT Analyst
9 8 (4.79%) IT Support Analyst
10 7 (4.19%) 2nd Line Support
10 7 (4.19%) 3rd Line Support
10 7 (4.19%) Linux Engineer
10 7 (4.19%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.59%) Flash
1 6 (3.59%) POSIX
2 5 (2.99%) LDAP
2 5 (2.99%) REST
3 3 (1.80%) .NET
3 3 (1.80%) Middleware
4 1 (0.60%) .NET Remoting
4 1 (0.60%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.60%) JSON
4 1 (0.60%) Kafka
4 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.60%) Redfish
4 1 (0.60%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.58%) Data Centre
2 11 (6.59%) PKI
3 8 (4.79%) Clustering
4 6 (3.59%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.59%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.99%) Client/Server
5 5 (2.99%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.99%) Tandem
6 4 (2.40%) iPhone
6 4 (2.40%) NVMe
6 4 (2.40%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.40%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.40%) Smartphone
7 3 (1.80%) CMDB
7 3 (1.80%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.80%) iPad
7 3 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.20%) Biopharmaceutical
8 2 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 52 (31.14%) Windows Server
2 39 (23.35%) Linux
3 35 (20.96%) Windows 10
4 27 (16.17%) Unix
5 14 (8.38%) Windows Server 2016
6 9 (5.39%) Apple iOS
6 9 (5.39%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (4.19%) Mac OS
7 7 (4.19%) Windows 7
8 6 (3.59%) CentOS
8 6 (3.59%) Debian
8 6 (3.59%) Mac OS X
8 6 (3.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (3.59%) Windows Server 2008
9 5 (2.99%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (2.40%) Data ONTAP
11 3 (1.80%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.60%) Android
12 1 (0.60%) Solaris
12 1 (0.60%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (21.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 36 (21.56%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (16.77%) ITIL
3 27 (16.17%) Customer Service
4 24 (14.37%) Agile
5 18 (10.78%) High Availability
6 17 (10.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 16 (9.58%) DevOps
8 15 (8.98%) Cybersecurity
9 13 (7.78%) Problem Management
10 12 (7.19%) Capacity Management
10 12 (7.19%) Customer Requirements
11 10 (5.99%) Asset Management
12 9 (5.39%) CI/CD
12 9 (5.39%) Project Delivery
12 9 (5.39%) Service Delivery
13 8 (4.79%) Roadmaps
13 8 (4.79%) SDLC
13 8 (4.79%) Security Patching
14 7 (4.19%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (22.75%) PowerShell
2 33 (19.76%) Python
3 13 (7.78%) SQL
4 10 (5.99%) Perl
5 9 (5.39%) Bash
6 6 (3.59%) Groovy
6 6 (3.59%) Java
6 6 (3.59%) Ruby
6 6 (3.59%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.20%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.60%) C
8 1 (0.60%) C#
Qualifications
1 38 (22.75%) Security Cleared
2 30 (17.96%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.98%) Degree
4 14 (8.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (7.19%) DV Cleared
5 12 (7.19%) MCSE
6 6 (3.59%) A+ Certification
6 6 (3.59%) MCSA
6 6 (3.59%) RHCT
7 5 (2.99%) CCNA
7 5 (2.99%) CCNP
7 5 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.40%) MCP
9 3 (1.80%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.60%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.60%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.99%) Disclosure Scotland
1 10 (5.99%) SLA
2 3 (1.80%) QA
3 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (0.60%) NIST
System Software
1 74 (44.31%) Active Directory
2 18 (10.78%) Hyper-V
3 14 (8.38%) VMware ESXi
4 13 (7.78%) BitLocker
5 9 (5.39%) Docker
5 9 (5.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (3.59%) KVM
6 6 (3.59%) NFS
7 5 (2.99%) Microsoft App-V
7 5 (2.99%) Terminal Services
8 4 (2.40%) GPFS
9 2 (1.20%) vSphere
10 1 (0.60%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 39 (23.35%) SCCM
2 15 (8.98%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (5.39%) Ansible
5 8 (4.79%) Terraform
6 7 (4.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (4.19%) vCenter Server
7 5 (2.99%) vMotion
7 5 (2.99%) WSUS
8 4 (2.40%) NetBackup
8 4 (2.40%) Veritas Storage Foundation
9 3 (1.80%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (1.20%) Grafana
10 2 (1.20%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (1.20%) Nagios
10 2 (1.20%) OpenView
10 2 (1.20%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.60%) vRealize
Vendors
1 73 (43.71%) Microsoft
2 23 (13.77%) VMware
3 22 (13.17%) Citrix
4 15 (8.98%) Apple
5 14 (8.38%) Cisco
6 10 (5.99%) Veritas
7 9 (5.39%) ServiceNow
8 8 (4.79%) McAfee
8 8 (4.79%) Splunk
9 7 (4.19%) Oracle
10 6 (3.59%) HP
10 6 (3.59%) Red Hat
11 5 (2.99%) F5
11 5 (2.99%) Google
11 5 (2.99%) Infoblox
12 4 (2.40%) Atlassian
12 4 (2.40%) Brocade
12 4 (2.40%) EMC
12 4 (2.40%) Fortinet
12 4 (2.40%) IBM