Windows Engineer Contracts in Edinburgh

Windows Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in Edinburgh is £150, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 70 99
Rank change year-on-year +9 +29 +25
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 6 2 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.96% 0.25% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.03% 0.26% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 11
10th Percentile - - £243
25th Percentile - £425 £257
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £150 £450 £270
Median % change year-on-year -66.67% +66.67% -30.32%
75th Percentile £294 £475 £286
90th Percentile £380 - £294
Scotland median daily rate £163 £575 £270
% change year-on-year -71.74% +112.96% -22.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.00 - -
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.27 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.42% - -
75th Percentile £23.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £18.27 -
% change year-on-year +20.42% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Edinburgh with a recognized job title 581 778 1,245
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 95.46% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 441 887
10th Percentile £211 £206 £247
25th Percentile £400 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £479 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% +0.84% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £545
90th Percentile £638 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 55 12
10th Percentile - £16.10 £13.62
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.86 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £50.00 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -55.13% +135.18% -10.48%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 £66.00 £54.43
Scotland median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
% change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%

Windows Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured Windows Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Engineer in Edinburgh

Windows Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Engineer in Edinburgh

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Engineer in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Engineer in Edinburgh

Windows Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Engineer in Edinburgh

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Windows Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) ITIL
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (83.33%) Customer Experience
2 5 (83.33%) Customer Service
2 5 (83.33%) Task Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (83.33%) A+ Certification
2 5 (83.33%) Device Driver
2 5 (83.33%) PowerShell
2 5 (83.33%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (33.33%) QA
3 2 (33.33%) Time Management
4 1 (16.67%) VMware
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
4 1 (16.67%) Linux
4 1 (16.67%) Unix
4 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
4 1 (16.67%) Ansible
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
4 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server

Windows Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Remote Desktop
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Device Driver
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Unix
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) ITIL
2 5 (83.33%) Customer Experience
2 5 (83.33%) Customer Service
2 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (83.33%) Task Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Time Management
4 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
4 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Service-Level Objective
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) A+ Certification
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) Tanium
2 1 (16.67%) VMware