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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 17 38
Rank change year-on-year -18 +21 -7
Contract jobs citing Windows 31 63 40
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 4.87% 10.36% 4.78%
As % of the Operating Systems category 65.96% 71.59% 58.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 34 28
10th Percentile £161 £165 £159
25th Percentile £238 £189 £215
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £220 £465
Median % change year-on-year +93.18% -52.69% +60.62%
75th Percentile £538 £496 £650
90th Percentile £615 £623 £782
Scotland median daily rate £425 £438 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -12.50% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 1
Median hourly rate - £22.94 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - -11.78% +46.73%
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £22.00 £22.75
% change year-on-year -26.14% -3.30% +28.39%

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 47 88 68
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.39% 14.47% 8.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 48 41
10th Percentile £166 £174 £181
25th Percentile £256 £192 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £400 £510
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -21.57% +13.33%
75th Percentile £538 £519 £634
90th Percentile £585 £638 £750
Scotland median daily rate £401 £450 £535
% change year-on-year -10.89% -15.89% +7.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 6
10th Percentile - £20.51 £43.13
25th Percentile - £21.00 £60.25
Median hourly rate - £22.94 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year - -62.09% +241.42%
75th Percentile - £24.02 £60.75
90th Percentile - £25.62 £61.13
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £22.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -26.14% -63.33% +151.47%

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 20 March 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 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (38.71%) Azure
2 7 (22.58%) AWS
2 7 (22.58%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (12.90%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (12.90%) Amazon S3
4 3 (9.68%) Entra ID
4 3 (9.68%) OneDrive
5 2 (6.45%) GCP
5 2 (6.45%) GitHub
5 2 (6.45%) Nutanix
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.23%) Google Workspace
6 1 (3.23%) OCI
6 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.23%) SaaS
6 1 (3.23%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (25.81%) DNS
2 7 (22.58%) DHCP
3 5 (16.13%) Firewall
3 5 (16.13%) LAN
3 5 (16.13%) VPN
3 5 (16.13%) WAN
4 4 (12.90%) SD-WAN
4 4 (12.90%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (9.68%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (9.68%) Fibre Channel
5 3 (9.68%) SAN
6 1 (3.23%) Intranet
6 1 (3.23%) IPsec
6 1 (3.23%) Network Security
6 1 (3.23%) Unified Communications
6 1 (3.23%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Database 10g
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) ClearCase
1 1 (3.23%) Git
1 1 (3.23%) GitLab
1 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.23%) JIRA
1 1 (3.23%) Postman
General
1 6 (19.35%) Public Sector
1 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Finance
4 2 (6.45%) Banking
4 2 (6.45%) Legal
5 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Retail
5 1 (3.23%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (16.13%) Network Engineer
2 4 (12.90%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (12.90%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Senior
3 3 (9.68%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Analyst
4 2 (6.45%) Deskside Support
4 2 (6.45%) Desktop Support
4 2 (6.45%) Field Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) IT Support
4 2 (6.45%) Network Field Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) ICT Support
5 1 (3.23%) IT Analyst
5 1 (3.23%) IT Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) AWS CDK
1 1 (3.23%) Node.js
1 1 (3.23%) REST
1 1 (3.23%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Data Centre
2 5 (16.13%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (9.68%) NVMe
4 2 (6.45%) PKI
4 2 (6.45%) Smartphone
5 1 (3.23%) Clustering
5 1 (3.23%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (29.03%) Linux
2 8 (25.81%) Windows Server
3 4 (12.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (6.45%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.23%) Mac OS
5 1 (3.23%) Solaris
5 1 (3.23%) Unix
5 1 (3.23%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (35.48%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (22.58%) ITIL
2 7 (22.58%) Migration
2 7 (22.58%) Roadmaps
3 5 (16.13%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (16.13%) Load Balancing
4 4 (12.90%) Agile
4 4 (12.90%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (12.90%) DevOps
4 4 (12.90%) High Availability
4 4 (12.90%) Mentoring
4 4 (12.90%) Network Management
4 4 (12.90%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (9.68%) Incident Management
5 3 (9.68%) Task Automation
6 2 (6.45%) Break/Fix
6 2 (6.45%) Generative AI
6 2 (6.45%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (29.03%) PowerShell
2 3 (9.68%) Bash
2 3 (9.68%) Python
3 2 (6.45%) SQL
4 1 (3.23%) C
4 1 (3.23%) C++
4 1 (3.23%) COBOL
4 1 (3.23%) Java
4 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.23%) JCL
4 1 (3.23%) Perl
4 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (6.45%) CCNA
2 2 (6.45%) CCNP
2 2 (6.45%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (6.45%) MCSE
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.23%) CEH
3 1 (3.23%) CISSP
3 1 (3.23%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (3.23%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) NCDA
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) VCP6
3 1 (3.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (6.45%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.23%) COBIT
2 1 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (3.23%) GDPR
2 1 (3.23%) NCSC
2 1 (3.23%) NIST
2 1 (3.23%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (38.71%) Active Directory
2 6 (19.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (9.68%) Hyper-V
3 3 (9.68%) VMware NSX
4 2 (6.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (3.23%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (12.90%) SCCM
2 3 (9.68%) Ansible
2 3 (9.68%) Grafana
2 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (9.68%) vMotion
3 2 (6.45%) Terraform
3 2 (6.45%) vRealize
4 1 (3.23%) Data Guard
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (3.23%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 10 (32.26%) Microsoft
2 8 (25.81%) Cisco
3 6 (19.35%) VMware
4 5 (16.13%) F5
5 4 (12.90%) Palo Alto
6 3 (9.68%) Commvault
6 3 (9.68%) NetApp
6 3 (9.68%) Oracle
7 2 (6.45%) Apple
7 2 (6.45%) Brocade
8 1 (3.23%) Aruba
8 1 (3.23%) CheckPoint
8 1 (3.23%) Dell
8 1 (3.23%) Dynatrace
8 1 (3.23%) Fujitsu
8 1 (3.23%) Google
8 1 (3.23%) HP
8 1 (3.23%) ICL
8 1 (3.23%) Qualys
8 1 (3.23%) Veeam