Windows Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Microsoft Windows
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Windows skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 21 21
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Windows 50 57 62
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 6.76% 9.06% 7.58%
As % of the Operating Systems category 65.79% 67.86% 60.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 29 45
10th Percentile £158 £162 £179
25th Percentile £206 £190 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £315 £280
Median % change year-on-year +30.95% +12.50% +1.82%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £494
90th Percentile £583 £675 £634
Scotland median daily rate £425 £444 £370
% change year-on-year -4.23% +19.93% -1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 7
10th Percentile - £19.53 £18.08
25th Percentile £52.50 £21.00 £18.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £22.44 £18.27
Median % change year-on-year +145.13% +22.81% +3.16%
75th Percentile £57.50 £23.81 -
90th Percentile - £27.55 £21.36
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £22.00 £18.27
% change year-on-year -26.14% +20.42% +3.10%

All Operating Systems
Edinburgh

Windows falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 76 84 103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 10.27% 13.35% 12.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 44 72
10th Percentile £174 £175 £193
25th Percentile £206 £229 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £410
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +15.92% -8.94%
75th Percentile £575 £527 £569
90th Percentile - £638 £634
Scotland median daily rate £425 £464 £425
% change year-on-year -8.31% +9.06% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 12
10th Percentile - £19.53 £18.13
25th Percentile £52.50 £21.00 £18.24
Median hourly rate £55.00 £22.44 £22.14
Median % change year-on-year +145.13% +1.37% +24.92%
75th Percentile £57.50 £23.81 £60.75
90th Percentile - £27.55 -
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £22.00 £39.25
% change year-on-year -26.14% -43.95% -17.77%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Windows job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Windows
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Windows.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Windows

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Edinburgh

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Windows.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Windows

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) assyst
1 1 (2.00%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 20 (40.00%) Azure
2 12 (24.00%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (14.00%) Entra ID
4 6 (12.00%) AWS
5 4 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (8.00%) Amazon S3
5 4 (8.00%) OneDrive
5 4 (8.00%) Power Platform
6 3 (6.00%) Nutanix
7 2 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.00%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.00%) GCP
8 1 (2.00%) GitHub
8 1 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (30.00%) VPN
2 12 (24.00%) Firewall
2 12 (24.00%) LAN
2 12 (24.00%) Wi-Fi
3 11 (22.00%) SD-WAN
4 10 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 10 (20.00%) DNS
4 10 (20.00%) WAN
5 7 (14.00%) DHCP
6 6 (12.00%) IPsec
6 6 (12.00%) Network Security
6 6 (12.00%) Unified Communications
7 4 (8.00%) SAN
8 3 (6.00%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (6.00%) Internet
9 1 (2.00%) Intranet
9 1 (2.00%) SSL
9 1 (2.00%) VXLAN
9 1 (2.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.00%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Git
1 1 (2.00%) GitLab
1 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.00%) Postman
General
1 11 (22.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.00%) Public Sector
3 6 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.00%) Finance
5 2 (4.00%) Italian Language
6 1 (2.00%) Banking
6 1 (2.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (26.00%) Network Engineer
2 6 (12.00%) Desktop Support
2 6 (12.00%) Support Technician
3 4 (8.00%) Analyst
3 4 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (8.00%) Desktop Support Technician
3 4 (8.00%) Desktop Technician
3 4 (8.00%) Field Engineer
3 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (8.00%) Network Field Engineer
4 3 (6.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (6.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 3 (6.00%) DBA
4 3 (6.00%) IT Analyst
4 3 (6.00%) Security Specialist
4 3 (6.00%) Senior
4 3 (6.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 3 (6.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (6.00%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Help Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.00%) .NET
1 1 (2.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (2.00%) Node.js
1 1 (2.00%) REST
1 1 (2.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (12.00%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (8.00%) PKI
4 3 (6.00%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (6.00%) NVMe
4 3 (6.00%) Smartphone
5 2 (4.00%) Clustering
5 2 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 17 (34.00%) Linux
2 15 (30.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.00%) Android
4 2 (4.00%) Apple iOS
4 2 (4.00%) Mac OS
4 2 (4.00%) Solaris
4 2 (4.00%) Unix
5 1 (2.00%) VME
5 1 (2.00%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (28.00%) Roadmaps
2 12 (24.00%) High Availability
2 12 (24.00%) Load Balancing
3 11 (22.00%) Network Management
4 9 (18.00%) Migration
4 9 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (16.00%) ITIL
6 6 (12.00%) Agile
6 6 (12.00%) DevOps
6 6 (12.00%) Digital Innovation
6 6 (12.00%) Network Monitoring
6 6 (12.00%) Programme Delivery
7 5 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (8.00%) Customer Service
8 4 (8.00%) Incident Management
8 4 (8.00%) Mentoring
8 4 (8.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (6.00%) Bash
2 3 (6.00%) Python
2 3 (6.00%) SQL
3 2 (4.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.00%) COBOL
4 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.00%) JCL
4 1 (2.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (12.00%) CCNA
3 4 (8.00%) CCNP
3 4 (8.00%) MCSE
3 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (6.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (4.00%) CTC Cleared
5 2 (4.00%) Degree
5 2 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.00%) CEH
6 1 (2.00%) CISSP
6 1 (2.00%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.00%) NCDA
6 1 (2.00%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (2.00%) VCP6
6 1 (2.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (12.00%) QA
3 1 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.00%) GDPR
3 1 (2.00%) NCSC
3 1 (2.00%) NIST
3 1 (2.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 5 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (6.00%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (10.00%) SCCM
2 3 (6.00%) Grafana
2 3 (6.00%) Terraform
2 3 (6.00%) vMotion
3 2 (4.00%) Ansible
3 2 (4.00%) vRealize
4 1 (2.00%) Data Guard
4 1 (2.00%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (2.00%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (2.00%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 20 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (32.00%) Cisco
3 12 (24.00%) F5
3 12 (24.00%) Palo Alto
4 5 (10.00%) VMware
5 3 (6.00%) Commvault
6 2 (4.00%) Apple
6 2 (4.00%) Brocade
6 2 (4.00%) Citrix
6 2 (4.00%) NetApp
6 2 (4.00%) Oracle
6 2 (4.00%) RedGate
6 2 (4.00%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.00%) Aruba
7 1 (2.00%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (2.00%) ForgeRock
7 1 (2.00%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.00%) Fujitsu
7 1 (2.00%) Qualys
7 1 (2.00%) Veeam