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 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 17 39
Rank change year-on-year -16 +22 +3
Contract jobs citing Windows 29 64 44
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 4.75% 10.36% 4.93%
As % of the Operating Systems category 65.91% 71.11% 56.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 33 31
10th Percentile £158 £165 £150
25th Percentile £250 £190 £195
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £240 £425
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% -43.53% +6.25%
75th Percentile £519 £497 £634
90th Percentile £635 £685 £775
Scotland median daily rate £425 £425 £475
% change year-on-year - -10.53% +26.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 2
10th Percentile - £20.51 £13.09
25th Percentile - £21.00 £15.24
Median hourly rate - £22.94 £18.83
Median % change year-on-year - +21.85% +6.24%
75th Percentile - £24.02 £22.41
90th Percentile - £25.62 £24.57
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £22.00 £49.25
% change year-on-year -26.14% -55.33% +177.93%

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 44 90 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.21% 14.56% 8.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 47 51
10th Percentile £164 £179 £163
25th Percentile £294 £192 £317
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -30.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £519 £600
90th Percentile £615 £685 £688
Scotland median daily rate £400 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -11.11% -14.29% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 7
10th Percentile - £20.51 £20.26
25th Percentile - £21.00 £43.13
Median hourly rate - £22.94 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year - -62.09% +200.85%
75th Percentile - £24.02 £60.75
90th Percentile - £25.62 £61.05
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £22.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year -26.14% -63.64% +241.42%

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 17 February 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 3 (10.34%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (41.38%) Azure
2 6 (20.69%) AWS
2 6 (20.69%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (10.34%) GCP
3 3 (10.34%) OCI
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon S3
4 2 (6.90%) Entra ID
4 2 (6.90%) GitHub
4 2 (6.90%) Nutanix
4 2 (6.90%) OneDrive
5 1 (3.45%) Google Workspace
5 1 (3.45%) SaaS
5 1 (3.45%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (24.14%) Firewall
2 5 (17.24%) DHCP
2 5 (17.24%) DNS
3 4 (13.79%) LAN
3 4 (13.79%) WAN
4 3 (10.34%) Fibre Channel
4 3 (10.34%) SAN
4 3 (10.34%) SD-WAN
4 3 (10.34%) VPN
4 3 (10.34%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (6.90%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (3.45%) Intranet
6 1 (3.45%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (3.45%) IPsec
6 1 (3.45%) SSL
6 1 (3.45%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database 10g
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) JIRA
2 2 (6.90%) ClearCase
General
1 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Finance
3 4 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Banking
3 4 (13.79%) Legal
3 4 (13.79%) Public Sector
4 3 (10.34%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (10.34%) Retail
4 3 (10.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (13.79%) Windows Engineer
2 3 (10.34%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (10.34%) Implementation Manager
2 3 (10.34%) Implementation Project Manager
2 3 (10.34%) Implementation Specialist
2 3 (10.34%) Network Engineer
2 3 (10.34%) Project Implementation Manager
2 3 (10.34%) Project Manager
2 3 (10.34%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Analyst
3 2 (6.90%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Field Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) IT Support
3 2 (6.90%) Network Field Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Senior
3 2 (6.90%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Data Centre
2 3 (10.34%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (10.34%) NVMe
2 3 (10.34%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (6.90%) PKI
4 1 (3.45%) Clustering
4 1 (3.45%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.45%) Digital Signage
4 1 (3.45%) Graphic Design
4 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.45%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 9 (31.03%) Linux
2 6 (20.69%) Windows Server
3 4 (13.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (6.90%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.45%) Mac OS
5 1 (3.45%) Solaris
5 1 (3.45%) Unix
5 1 (3.45%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (34.48%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (31.03%) Migration
3 8 (27.59%) ITIL
4 6 (20.69%) Agile
4 6 (20.69%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (20.69%) Platform Engineering
4 6 (20.69%) Roadmaps
5 5 (17.24%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (17.24%) Incident Management
6 4 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (13.79%) Service Delivery
7 3 (10.34%) Decision-Making
7 3 (10.34%) Dependency Management
7 3 (10.34%) High Availability
7 3 (10.34%) Incident Response
7 3 (10.34%) Project Delivery
7 3 (10.34%) Runbook
7 3 (10.34%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 7 (24.14%) PowerShell
2 3 (10.34%) SQL
3 2 (6.90%) Bash
3 2 (6.90%) C
3 2 (6.90%) C++
3 2 (6.90%) Java
3 2 (6.90%) Python
3 2 (6.90%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.45%) COBOL
4 1 (3.45%) JCL
4 1 (3.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (10.34%) Degree
2 2 (6.90%) CCNP
2 2 (6.90%) CISSP
2 2 (6.90%) MCSE
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.45%) CCNA
3 1 (3.45%) CEH
3 1 (3.45%) CISM
3 1 (3.45%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (3.45%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.45%) NCDA
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (3.45%) RHCE
3 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) VCP6
3 1 (3.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) COBIT
1 3 (10.34%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 11 (37.93%) Active Directory
2 5 (17.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (10.34%) VMware NSX
4 2 (6.90%) Hyper-V
4 2 (6.90%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (3.45%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Ansible
1 5 (17.24%) SCCM
2 3 (10.34%) Grafana
2 3 (10.34%) Terraform
2 3 (10.34%) vMotion
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (6.90%) vRealize
4 1 (3.45%) Data Guard
4 1 (3.45%) Host Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (3.45%) Nagios
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (3.45%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 9 (31.03%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.69%) Cisco
2 6 (20.69%) Oracle
3 5 (17.24%) F5
3 5 (17.24%) VMware
4 4 (13.79%) NetApp
5 3 (10.34%) CheckPoint
5 3 (10.34%) Commvault
5 3 (10.34%) Dell
5 3 (10.34%) Dynatrace
5 3 (10.34%) HP
6 2 (6.90%) Brocade
6 2 (6.90%) Palo Alto
6 2 (6.90%) Veeam
7 1 (3.45%) Aruba
7 1 (3.45%) Fortinet
7 1 (3.45%) Fujitsu
7 1 (3.45%) Google
7 1 (3.45%) ICL
7 1 (3.45%) McAfee