Windows Jobs in Edinburgh

Microsoft Windows
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 42 39
Rank change year-on-year +22 -3 -16
Permanent jobs citing Windows 154 148 178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 10.04% 6.89% 7.69%
As % of the Operating Systems category 61.60% 44.98% 45.52%
Number of salaries quoted 99 102 117
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £24,150
25th Percentile £27,250 £30,875 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% +32.35%
75th Percentile £55,000 £66,469 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £66,750
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +25.00% -10.00%

All Operating Systems
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 250 329 391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 16.30% 15.32% 16.88%
Number of salaries quoted 176 198 262
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,941 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% -0.11% +15.79%
75th Percentile £70,608 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £91,934 £80,000 £72,500
Scotland median annual salary £48,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.00% - +5.26%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Edinburgh

Windows
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Windows in Edinburgh

Windows
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows in Edinburgh

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 8 (5.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.25%) Apache
2 5 (3.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (5.84%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (8.44%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 51 (33.12%) Microsoft 365
2 43 (27.92%) Azure
3 23 (14.94%) SaaS
4 20 (12.99%) Entra ID
5 11 (7.14%) AWS
6 8 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.90%) GCP
8 5 (3.25%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (2.60%) Google Docs
9 4 (2.60%) Google Workspace
9 4 (2.60%) Mimecast
9 4 (2.60%) OneDrive
10 3 (1.95%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.95%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.30%) WhatsApp
12 1 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.65%) IaaS
12 1 (0.65%) PaaS
12 1 (0.65%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 19 (12.34%) Firewall
2 13 (8.44%) TCP/IP
3 10 (6.49%) Wireless
4 9 (5.84%) DHCP
4 9 (5.84%) DNS
5 8 (5.19%) Internet
5 8 (5.19%) VPN
6 7 (4.55%) WAN
7 6 (3.90%) SNMP
8 5 (3.25%) IPsec
9 3 (1.95%) LAN
9 3 (1.95%) WLAN
10 1 (0.65%) Cisco Firepower
10 1 (0.65%) NetScaler
10 1 (0.65%) Network Security
10 1 (0.65%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.44%) DB2
2 12 (7.79%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.25%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (3.25%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.95%) Big Data
6 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.65%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.65%) MySQL
6 1 (0.65%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (3.25%) JIRA
2 4 (2.60%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (1.30%) GitLab
4 1 (0.65%) Git
4 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.65%) MSI
4 1 (0.65%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.65%) Subversion
General
1 43 (27.92%) Social Skills
2 35 (22.73%) Finance
3 14 (9.09%) Military
4 13 (8.44%) Public Sector
5 11 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (6.49%) Banking
7 9 (5.84%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.60%) Billing
9 4 (2.60%) Legal
10 3 (1.95%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.95%) Retail
11 2 (1.30%) Law
11 2 (1.30%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.65%) Games
12 1 (0.65%) Marketing
12 1 (0.65%) Publishing
12 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (20.78%) Senior
2 27 (17.53%) Analyst
3 21 (13.64%) IT Engineer
3 21 (13.64%) Support Analyst
4 18 (11.69%) IT Support
4 18 (11.69%) Support Engineer
5 17 (11.04%) IT Manager
6 14 (9.09%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
7 12 (7.79%) Windows Engineer
8 10 (6.49%) IT Analyst
9 9 (5.84%) 2nd Line Support
9 9 (5.84%) Audit Manager
9 9 (5.84%) Consultant
9 9 (5.84%) IT Audit Manager
9 9 (5.84%) IT Support Engineer
9 9 (5.84%) Principal Engineer
9 9 (5.84%) Principal Software Engineer
9 9 (5.84%) Senior Software Engineer
9 9 (5.84%) Senior Windows Engineer
9 9 (5.84%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.25%) LDAP
1 5 (3.25%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (3.25%) YAML
2 1 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.49%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.84%) Virtual Team
3 7 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.90%) Driving Licence
4 6 (3.90%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.25%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.60%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.95%) Device Driver
8 2 (1.30%) EPoS
9 1 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.65%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.65%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.65%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.65%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 75 (48.70%) Linux
2 54 (35.06%) Windows Server
3 41 (26.62%) Unix
4 16 (10.39%) Mac OS X
5 14 (9.09%) Mac OS
6 13 (8.44%) Windows 10
7 5 (3.25%) Apple iOS
7 5 (3.25%) Data ONTAP
8 4 (2.60%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (2.60%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (1.95%) Android
9 3 (1.95%) CentOS
10 1 (0.65%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.65%) OpenWrt
10 1 (0.65%) VMS
10 1 (0.65%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (24.68%) Cybersecurity
2 37 (24.03%) Customer Service
3 32 (20.78%) Agile
4 27 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (16.88%) DevOps
5 26 (16.88%) ITIL
6 24 (15.58%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 24 (15.58%) Threat Intelligence
7 23 (14.94%) Analytics
8 22 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
8 22 (14.29%) Service Delivery
9 20 (12.99%) Information Security
10 19 (12.34%) Project Management
11 17 (11.04%) Creative Thinking
12 16 (10.39%) Incident Management
12 16 (10.39%) Incident Response
13 15 (9.74%) Security Operations
14 14 (9.09%) Open Source
14 14 (9.09%) Resource Management
14 14 (9.09%) Situational Awareness
Programming Languages
1 24 (15.58%) SQL
2 13 (8.44%) PowerShell
3 10 (6.49%) Bash
4 7 (4.55%) Python
5 3 (1.95%) Groovy
6 1 (0.65%) Assembly Language
6 1 (0.65%) C
6 1 (0.65%) C++
6 1 (0.65%) Perl
6 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (26.62%) Degree
2 14 (9.09%) CISM
2 14 (9.09%) CISSP
2 14 (9.09%) GCIA
2 14 (9.09%) GCIH
2 14 (9.09%) GREM
3 13 (8.44%) CISA
4 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.30%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.30%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.65%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.65%) MCSE
6 1 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.44%) ITGC
1 13 (8.44%) PMO
2 5 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.60%) SLA
3 4 (2.60%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.65%) GDPR
4 1 (0.65%) NIST
4 1 (0.65%) SOC 3
System Software
1 36 (23.38%) Active Directory
2 12 (7.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (7.14%) Docker
4 10 (6.49%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.30%) vSphere
7 1 (0.65%) Firmware
7 1 (0.65%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.65%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 20 (12.99%) Ansible
2 18 (11.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (9.09%) Kubernetes
4 11 (7.14%) Terraform
5 10 (6.49%) Prometheus
6 9 (5.84%) SCCM
7 6 (3.90%) vCenter Server
8 5 (3.25%) Grafana
9 3 (1.95%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.65%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.65%) CASB
10 1 (0.65%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.65%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.65%) WMI
10 1 (0.65%) WSUS
Vendors
1 46 (29.87%) Microsoft
2 33 (21.43%) Dell
3 25 (16.23%) VMware
4 15 (9.74%) Google
5 14 (9.09%) Oracle
6 13 (8.44%) Sage
6 13 (8.44%) SAP
7 6 (3.90%) iManage
7 6 (3.90%) NetApp
8 5 (3.25%) ConnectWise
8 5 (3.25%) HP
8 5 (3.25%) Palo Alto
8 5 (3.25%) Red Hat
8 5 (3.25%) ServiceNow
8 5 (3.25%) SolidFire
9 4 (2.60%) Aderant
9 4 (2.60%) Apple
9 4 (2.60%) BeyondTrust
9 4 (2.60%) Citrix
9 4 (2.60%) CyberArk