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 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 20 12
Rank change year-on-year -8 -8 +16
Contract jobs citing Windows 48 59 84
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 6.05% 9.34% 9.61%
As % of the Operating Systems category 61.54% 65.56% 63.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 31 55
10th Percentile £177 £153 £138
25th Percentile £206 £187 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £250 £275
Median % change year-on-year +67.50% -9.09% -8.18%
75th Percentile £547 £550 £481
90th Percentile £584 £675 £634
Scotland median daily rate £425 £430 £340
% change year-on-year -1.16% +26.47% -10.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 10
10th Percentile £54.05 £19.04 £17.72
25th Percentile £56.38 £21.00 £18.03
Median hourly rate £61.50 £22.00 £18.20
Median % change year-on-year +179.55% +20.88% +2.77%
75th Percentile £65.38 £24.09 £18.27
90th Percentile £66.95 £28.51 £24.36
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £25.15 £18.20
% change year-on-year -35.39% +38.19% -0.68%

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 78 90 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.84% 14.24% 15.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 47 90
10th Percentile £203 £162 £180
25th Percentile £403 £195 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £355
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +26.76% -20.22%
75th Percentile £575 £534 £518
90th Percentile £600 £638 £634
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £400
% change year-on-year - +12.50% -15.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 15
10th Percentile £54.05 £19.04 £18.00
25th Percentile £56.38 £21.00 £18.13
Median hourly rate £61.50 £22.00 £18.27
Median % change year-on-year +179.55% +20.42% -47.96%
75th Percentile £65.38 £24.09 £59.13
90th Percentile £66.95 £28.51 £60.75
Scotland median hourly rate £16.17 £25.15 £26.00
% change year-on-year -35.71% -3.27% +8.97%

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 22 June 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 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) assyst
1 1 (2.08%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.08%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 20 (41.67%) Azure
2 10 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (12.50%) AWS
3 6 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 4 (8.33%) OneDrive
4 4 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 3 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 3 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (6.25%) Nutanix
6 1 (2.08%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.08%) GCP
6 1 (2.08%) GitHub
6 1 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (33.33%) VPN
2 14 (29.17%) Firewall
3 13 (27.08%) LAN
3 13 (27.08%) Wi-Fi
4 12 (25.00%) SD-WAN
5 9 (18.75%) Cisco Nexus
5 9 (18.75%) WAN
6 8 (16.67%) IPsec
6 8 (16.67%) Network Security
6 8 (16.67%) Unified Communications
7 6 (12.50%) DNS
8 5 (10.42%) Internet
9 4 (8.33%) SAN
10 3 (6.25%) DHCP
10 3 (6.25%) Fibre Channel
11 1 (2.08%) SSL
11 1 (2.08%) VXLAN
11 1 (2.08%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Git
1 1 (2.08%) GitLab
1 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.08%) JIRA
1 1 (2.08%) LabVIEW
1 1 (2.08%) Postman
General
1 10 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.58%) Public Sector
3 6 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.33%) Finance
5 2 (4.17%) Italian Language
6 1 (2.08%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (29.17%) Network Engineer
2 6 (12.50%) Desktop Support
2 6 (12.50%) Support Technician
3 4 (8.33%) DBA
3 4 (8.33%) Desktop Support Technician
3 4 (8.33%) Desktop Technician
4 3 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 3 (6.25%) Field Engineer
4 3 (6.25%) Network Field Engineer
4 3 (6.25%) Security Specialist
4 3 (6.25%) SQL DBA
4 3 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (6.25%) Telephony Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) Analyst
5 2 (4.17%) Architect
5 2 (4.17%) Help Desk Analyst
5 2 (4.17%) ICT Support
5 2 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.17%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.08%) .NET
1 1 (2.08%) AWS CDK
1 1 (2.08%) Node.js
1 1 (2.08%) REST
1 1 (2.08%) RESTful
1 1 (2.08%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 12 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (10.42%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (8.33%) PKI
4 3 (6.25%) NVMe
4 3 (6.25%) Smartphone
5 2 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.08%) Clustering
6 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.08%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 18 (37.50%) Linux
2 14 (29.17%) Windows Server
3 4 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.17%) Android
4 2 (4.17%) Apple iOS
4 2 (4.17%) Mac OS
4 2 (4.17%) Solaris
4 2 (4.17%) Unix
5 1 (2.08%) VME
5 1 (2.08%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (29.17%) Roadmaps
2 13 (27.08%) High Availability
2 13 (27.08%) Load Balancing
3 12 (25.00%) Network Management
4 8 (16.67%) Digital Innovation
4 8 (16.67%) Migration
4 8 (16.67%) Programme Delivery
5 7 (14.58%) Agile
5 7 (14.58%) DevOps
5 7 (14.58%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
7 5 (10.42%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (10.42%) ITIL
8 4 (8.33%) CI/CD
8 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (8.33%) ITSM
8 4 (8.33%) Security Operations
8 4 (8.33%) Service Delivery
9 3 (6.25%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (18.75%) PowerShell
2 3 (6.25%) Bash
2 3 (6.25%) Python
2 3 (6.25%) SQL
2 3 (6.25%) T-SQL
3 1 (2.08%) COBOL
3 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.08%) JCL
3 1 (2.08%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (22.92%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (12.50%) CCNA
3 5 (10.42%) CCNP
4 4 (8.33%) MCSE
4 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (8.33%) Security Cleared
5 2 (4.17%) CTC Cleared
5 2 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.08%) Degree
6 1 (2.08%) NCDA
6 1 (2.08%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (2.08%) VCP6
6 1 (2.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (20.83%) Disclosure Scotland
2 8 (16.67%) QA
3 1 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.08%) GDPR
3 1 (2.08%) NCSC
3 1 (2.08%) NIST
3 1 (2.08%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (22.92%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.33%) Hyper-V
4 3 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (6.25%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.08%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (10.42%) SCCM
3 4 (8.33%) Terraform
4 3 (6.25%) Grafana
4 3 (6.25%) vMotion
5 2 (4.17%) Ansible
5 2 (4.17%) vRealize
6 1 (2.08%) Data Guard
6 1 (2.08%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (2.08%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (2.08%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 17 (35.42%) Cisco
1 17 (35.42%) Microsoft
2 13 (27.08%) F5
2 13 (27.08%) Palo Alto
3 5 (10.42%) VMware
4 3 (6.25%) Citrix
4 3 (6.25%) Commvault
4 3 (6.25%) RedGate
4 3 (6.25%) SolarWinds
5 2 (4.17%) Apple
5 2 (4.17%) Brocade
5 2 (4.17%) NetApp
5 2 (4.17%) Oracle
6 1 (2.08%) Aruba
6 1 (2.08%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.08%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.08%) Fujitsu
6 1 (2.08%) ICL
6 1 (2.08%) Qualys
6 1 (2.08%) Veeam