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 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 63 24 27
Rank change year-on-year -39 +3 -3
Permanent jobs citing Windows 391 455 479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.82% 9.61% 8.39%
As % of the Operating Systems category 48.09% 61.32% 49.48%
Number of salaries quoted 286 272 339
10th Percentile £24,250 £26,250 £22,000
25th Percentile £26,700 £30,375 £26,680
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £36,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +25.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £62,833 £55,000
90th Percentile £64,750 £71,250 £65,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £43,876
% change year-on-year -11.11% +2.56% -2.50%

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 813 742 968
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 12.11% 15.66% 16.96%
Number of salaries quoted 424 430 565
10th Percentile £25,200 £28,113 £24,250
25th Percentile £28,950 £35,000 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £64,000
90th Percentile £78,375 £77,715 £71,250
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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +22 154 £40,000 -15.79% 46
Glasgow -101 141 £48,000 -4.00% 24
Aberdeen -18 23 £28,000 -34.12% 8
Argyll and Bute - 17 £27,400 - 3
Dundee -3 14 £49,990 +33.31%
Fife -3 9 £55,000 -22.81% 4
West Lothian -12 7 £28,500 -12.31% 1
East Ayrshire - 5 £24,500 -
North Lanarkshire -8 4 £30,750 +23.00% 2
Banffshire - 4 £22,000 - 1
Aberdeenshire +3 3 £28,500 -56.15% 5
Stirling - 2 £34,750 -
West Dunbartonshire - 2 £17,000 -
South Ayrshire +1 1 - -
Renfrewshire -4 1 - -
Highlands -7 1 - - 1
Dumfries and Galloway -10 1 £23,000 -21.37% 1
Lanarkshire -12 1 £27,500 -11.29% 7
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 (7.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (4.09%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.56%) Apache
4 4 (1.02%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.77%) IIS
6 1 (0.26%) JOnAS
Applications
1 25 (6.39%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (3.32%) Unit4 Business World
2 2 (0.51%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.26%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 126 (32.23%) Microsoft 365
2 119 (30.43%) Azure
3 43 (11.00%) Entra ID
4 38 (9.72%) AWS
5 32 (8.18%) SaaS
6 26 (6.65%) GCP
7 23 (5.88%) IaaS
8 22 (5.63%) PaaS
9 11 (2.81%) Amazon S3
10 10 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (1.28%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (1.28%) OneDrive
12 5 (1.28%) OpenShift
12 5 (1.28%) Power Platform
13 4 (1.02%) Google Docs
13 4 (1.02%) Google Workspace
13 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (1.02%) Mimecast
13 4 (1.02%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 48 (12.28%) Firewall
2 35 (8.95%) TCP/IP
2 35 (8.95%) VPN
3 33 (8.44%) WAN
4 18 (4.60%) VoIP
5 17 (4.35%) Internet
6 15 (3.84%) Wi-Fi
6 15 (3.84%) Wireless
7 14 (3.58%) Modbus
7 14 (3.58%) SAN
7 14 (3.58%) SD-WAN
8 13 (3.32%) DHCP
8 13 (3.32%) DNS
8 13 (3.32%) LAN
9 11 (2.81%) SNMP
10 10 (2.56%) IPsec
10 10 (2.56%) VLAN
11 9 (2.30%) Cisco IOS
12 8 (2.05%) NAS
13 7 (1.79%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 13 (3.32%) DB2
3 10 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (2.56%) MongoDB
4 7 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (1.79%) Big Data
5 3 (0.77%) Ingres
6 2 (0.51%) DTS
6 2 (0.51%) InfluxDB
6 2 (0.51%) MySQL
6 2 (0.51%) Power BI
6 2 (0.51%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.51%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.26%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 19 (4.86%) GitLab
2 18 (4.60%) JIRA
3 15 (3.84%) Visual Studio
4 7 (1.79%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.02%) IBM UrbanCode
6 3 (0.77%) Git
7 2 (0.51%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.26%) GoCD
8 1 (0.26%) Gradle
8 1 (0.26%) Maven
8 1 (0.26%) MSI
8 1 (0.26%) Subversion
General
1 103 (26.34%) Social Skills
2 58 (14.83%) Finance
3 23 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
4 20 (5.12%) Public Sector
5 18 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (4.09%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.09%) Law
7 15 (3.84%) Legal
8 14 (3.58%) Military
9 12 (3.07%) Banking
10 11 (2.81%) Telecoms
11 8 (2.05%) Retail
12 4 (1.02%) Billing
13 3 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.77%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.77%) Marketing
13 3 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.51%) Games
14 2 (0.51%) Police
15 1 (0.26%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 70 (17.90%) Senior
2 60 (15.35%) IT Support
3 53 (13.55%) Analyst
4 43 (11.00%) Support Engineer
5 40 (10.23%) IT Engineer
6 33 (8.44%) 2nd Line Support
7 32 (8.18%) Support Analyst
8 29 (7.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 28 (7.16%) IT Manager
10 25 (6.39%) IT Analyst
11 24 (6.14%) IT Support Engineer
12 23 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
12 23 (5.88%) Software Engineer
13 22 (5.63%) Senior Software Engineer
14 19 (4.86%) Infrastructure Support
15 18 (4.60%) Support Technician
16 17 (4.35%) 1st Line Support
17 16 (4.09%) Systems Engineer
18 15 (3.84%) IT Support Analyst
19 14 (3.58%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (5.88%) .NET
2 15 (3.84%) WPF
3 14 (3.58%) .NET Framework
3 14 (3.58%) CSS
3 14 (3.58%) HTML
3 14 (3.58%) WinForms
4 10 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
4 10 (2.56%) YAML
5 7 (1.79%) LDAP
6 2 (0.51%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.51%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.51%) OpenCV
6 2 (0.51%) OpenVINO
6 2 (0.51%) RESTful
6 2 (0.51%) SAML
7 1 (0.26%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.26%) Blazor
7 1 (0.26%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.26%) REST
7 1 (0.26%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.42%) Data Centre
2 24 (6.14%) Public Cloud
3 23 (5.88%) Driving Licence
4 18 (4.60%) Cloud Native
5 15 (3.84%) Replication
6 10 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.56%) Video\Live Streaming
6 10 (2.56%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.53%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.53%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.02%) Learning Management System
9 3 (0.77%) Device Driver
9 3 (0.77%) iPhone
9 3 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (0.77%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.51%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.51%) Life Science
10 2 (0.51%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.51%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 154 (39.39%) Windows Server
2 140 (35.81%) Linux
3 51 (13.04%) Unix
4 45 (11.51%) Windows 10
5 23 (5.88%) Mac OS
6 20 (5.12%) Android
7 17 (4.35%) Mac OS X
8 13 (3.32%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (2.56%) Data ONTAP
9 10 (2.56%) Windows Server 2012
10 9 (2.30%) Apple iOS
11 7 (1.79%) CentOS
11 7 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (1.53%) Windows 7
13 4 (1.02%) Mesosphere
13 4 (1.02%) Windows 8
13 4 (1.02%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.77%) Debian
14 3 (0.77%) VMS
15 1 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (16.11%) Customer Service
1 63 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (15.35%) Cybersecurity
3 52 (13.30%) ITIL
4 50 (12.79%) Agile
4 50 (12.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 44 (11.25%) DevOps
6 38 (9.72%) Service Delivery
7 37 (9.46%) Mentoring
8 31 (7.93%) Disaster Recovery
9 30 (7.67%) Actionable Insight
10 27 (6.91%) Information Security
10 27 (6.91%) Software Engineering
11 26 (6.65%) Project Management
12 25 (6.39%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 25 (6.39%) Threat Intelligence
13 24 (6.14%) Analytics
14 22 (5.63%) Incident Response
14 22 (5.63%) Multithreading
15 21 (5.37%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (13.04%) SQL
2 27 (6.91%) C#
3 26 (6.65%) PowerShell
4 25 (6.39%) C++
5 24 (6.14%) Python
6 19 (4.86%) Bash
7 16 (4.09%) Java
8 4 (1.02%) Groovy
8 4 (1.02%) Ruby
8 4 (1.02%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.51%) C
9 2 (0.51%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.51%) Perl
9 2 (0.51%) PHP
9 2 (0.51%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.26%) Assembly Language
10 1 (0.26%) Swift
10 1 (0.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 66 (16.88%) Degree
2 38 (9.72%) Security Cleared
3 20 (5.12%) DV Cleared
4 18 (4.60%) Cisco Certification
4 18 (4.60%) CISM
4 18 (4.60%) CISSP
5 14 (3.58%) CCNA
5 14 (3.58%) GCIA
5 14 (3.58%) GCIH
5 14 (3.58%) GREM
6 13 (3.32%) CISA
7 11 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.79%) MCSE
11 6 (1.53%) AWS Certification
11 6 (1.53%) SC Cleared
12 5 (1.28%) Azure Certification
12 5 (1.28%) CCNP
13 4 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.32%) ITGC
1 13 (3.32%) PMO
1 13 (3.32%) SLA
2 12 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (2.81%) QA
4 9 (2.30%) GDPR
5 8 (2.05%) NIST
5 8 (2.05%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.02%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.26%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.26%) SOC 3
System Software
1 131 (33.50%) Active Directory
2 70 (17.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (7.67%) Hyper-V
4 26 (6.65%) Docker
5 13 (3.32%) VMware NSX
6 11 (2.81%) KVM
7 9 (2.30%) vSphere
8 8 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.77%) pfSense
11 2 (0.51%) Firmware
12 1 (0.26%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.26%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 46 (11.76%) Ansible
2 30 (7.67%) Kubernetes
3 29 (7.42%) Microsoft Intune
3 29 (7.42%) Terraform
4 21 (5.37%) SCCM
5 17 (4.35%) Prometheus
6 13 (3.32%) FortiGate
7 11 (2.81%) vCenter Server
8 10 (2.56%) ZABBIX
9 9 (2.30%) Progress Chef
10 8 (2.05%) Grafana
11 6 (1.53%) Puppet
12 5 (1.28%) McAfee ePO
13 4 (1.02%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.77%) WSUS
15 2 (0.51%) CASB
15 2 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
16 1 (0.26%) CA Endevor
16 1 (0.26%) SCOM
16 1 (0.26%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 123 (31.46%) Microsoft
2 99 (25.32%) VMware
3 43 (11.00%) Dell
4 36 (9.21%) Cisco
5 25 (6.39%) NetApp
6 17 (4.35%) Google
7 16 (4.09%) Oracle
7 16 (4.09%) Sage
8 15 (3.84%) Apple
9 14 (3.58%) SAP
10 13 (3.32%) Red Hat
11 12 (3.07%) ServiceNow
12 10 (2.56%) Citrix
12 10 (2.56%) Palo Alto
12 10 (2.56%) SolidFire
13 8 (2.05%) iManage
14 7 (1.79%) EMC
14 7 (1.79%) Mitel
15 6 (1.53%) Sophos
16 5 (1.28%) McAfee