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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 9 36
Rank change year-on-year -12 +27 +8
Contract jobs citing Windows 53 92 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 8.31% 11.22% 6.45%
As % of the Operating Systems category 58.24% 61.33% 53.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 57 41
10th Percentile £188 £138 £155
25th Percentile £413 £180 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £240 £395
Median % change year-on-year +108.33% -39.24% -3.07%
75th Percentile £550 £475 £488
90th Percentile £675 £685 £569
Scotland median daily rate £450 £339 £434
% change year-on-year +32.84% -21.90% +23.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 14 4
10th Percentile - £16.05 £12.10
25th Percentile - £18.03 £12.78
Median hourly rate - £18.27 £15.43
Median % change year-on-year - +18.41% -27.39%
75th Percentile - £22.48 £17.71
90th Percentile - £24.18 £17.71
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £18.27 £19.06
% change year-on-year +37.66% -4.12% +7.53%

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 91 150 128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 14.26% 18.29% 12.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 103 80
10th Percentile £215 £163 £162
25th Percentile £400 £231 £267
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £370 £456
Median % change year-on-year +28.38% -18.90% -6.41%
75th Percentile £538 £513 £523
90th Percentile £615 £683 £588
Scotland median daily rate £469 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +17.13% -15.79% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 16 6
10th Percentile - £16.61 £12.41
25th Percentile - £18.10 £14.30
Median hourly rate - £18.27 £17.71
Median % change year-on-year - +3.16% -16.66%
75th Percentile - £24.18 £44.74
90th Percentile - £40.84 £58.13
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £19.28 £48.87
% change year-on-year +30.46% -60.55% +175.76%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Windows 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 September 2025.

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 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.66%) Confluence
2 1 (1.89%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (11.32%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (9.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (7.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 13 (24.53%) GitHub
2 12 (22.64%) AWS
3 7 (13.21%) Azure
4 5 (9.43%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (3.77%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.77%) AWS CodeBuild
5 2 (3.77%) AWS CodeCommit
5 2 (3.77%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (3.77%) AWS KMS
5 2 (3.77%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (3.77%) GCP
5 2 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.77%) OCI
5 2 (3.77%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.89%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 13 (24.53%) Firewall
2 7 (13.21%) Network Security
3 6 (11.32%) VPN
4 4 (7.55%) Unified Communications
5 3 (5.66%) LAN
5 3 (5.66%) VoIP
6 2 (3.77%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (3.77%) IPsec
6 2 (3.77%) SD-WAN
6 2 (3.77%) WAN
6 2 (3.77%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.89%) DHCP
7 1 (1.89%) DNS
7 1 (1.89%) Internet
7 1 (1.89%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (1.89%) SSL
7 1 (1.89%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.21%) Oracle Database
2 2 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.89%) GIS
3 1 (1.89%) InfluxDB
3 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.89%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (13.21%) ClearCase
2 5 (9.43%) Jenkins
2 5 (9.43%) JIRA
3 2 (3.77%) Snyk
3 2 (3.77%) Subversion
3 2 (3.77%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 28 (52.83%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.87%) Finance
3 8 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (13.21%) Public Sector
5 5 (9.43%) Banking
6 3 (5.66%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (5.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.66%) Law
7 2 (3.77%) Legal
7 2 (3.77%) Retail
7 2 (3.77%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.89%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 8 (15.09%) Architect
1 8 (15.09%) Security Engineer
1 8 (15.09%) Systems Engineer
2 6 (11.32%) Lead
3 4 (7.55%) Infrastructure Architect
3 4 (7.55%) Network Engineer
3 4 (7.55%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (5.66%) Delivery Manager
4 3 (5.66%) Enterprise Architect
4 3 (5.66%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 3 (5.66%) Technical Delivery Manager
4 3 (5.66%) Technical Manager
4 3 (5.66%) Windows Engineer
5 2 (3.77%) Implementation Specialist
5 2 (3.77%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (3.77%) Network Field Engineer
5 2 (3.77%) Network Specialist
5 2 (3.77%) SCCM Engineer
5 2 (3.77%) Technical Leader
5 2 (3.77%) Windows Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.77%) REST
1 2 (3.77%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.21%) Data Centre
2 5 (9.43%) Product Ownership
2 5 (9.43%) Replication
3 4 (7.55%) Mainframe
4 3 (5.66%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (5.66%) PKI
5 2 (3.77%) Cyber Security Posture
5 2 (3.77%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.89%) Digital Signage
6 1 (1.89%) Graphic Design
6 1 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.89%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.89%) SCADA
6 1 (1.89%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.89%) Tandem
6 1 (1.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (64.15%) Linux
2 14 (26.42%) Windows Server
3 10 (18.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (16.98%) Unix
5 5 (9.43%) Solaris
6 4 (7.55%) HPUX
7 3 (5.66%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (1.89%) Android
8 1 (1.89%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.89%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (1.89%) VME
8 1 (1.89%) Windows 10
8 1 (1.89%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (32.08%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (22.64%) Agile
3 9 (16.98%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (15.09%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (15.09%) DevOps
4 8 (15.09%) High Availability
4 8 (15.09%) Service Delivery
5 7 (13.21%) ITIL
5 7 (13.21%) ITSM
5 7 (13.21%) Project Delivery
5 7 (13.21%) Service Management
6 6 (11.32%) CI/CD
6 6 (11.32%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (11.32%) Migration
6 6 (11.32%) SIEM
7 5 (9.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (9.43%) Mentoring
7 5 (9.43%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (7.55%) Decision-Making
8 4 (7.55%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.98%) Java
2 8 (15.09%) SQL
3 7 (13.21%) C
3 7 (13.21%) Shell Script
4 3 (5.66%) Bash
4 3 (5.66%) C++
5 2 (3.77%) Perl
6 1 (1.89%) COBOL
6 1 (1.89%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.89%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (15.09%) Degree
2 6 (11.32%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (9.43%) CCNA
3 5 (9.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (7.55%) AWS Certification
4 4 (7.55%) CCNP
4 4 (7.55%) CISSP
4 4 (7.55%) Security Cleared
5 3 (5.66%) Azure Certification
5 3 (5.66%) CCIE
5 3 (5.66%) CCIE Collaboration
6 2 (3.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.77%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.89%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.89%) CISM
7 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.89%) MCSE
7 1 (1.89%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.43%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (5.66%) QA
3 2 (3.77%) COBIT
3 2 (3.77%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (18.87%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.77%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.89%) KVM
3 1 (1.89%) ProxySG
3 1 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.89%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (11.32%) SCCM
1 6 (11.32%) Terraform
2 5 (9.43%) Ansible
3 2 (3.77%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (3.77%) Nagios
4 1 (1.89%) Grafana
4 1 (1.89%) HAProxy
4 1 (1.89%) Host Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (1.89%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 13 (24.53%) Oracle
2 12 (22.64%) Microsoft
3 8 (15.09%) NetApp
4 6 (11.32%) Cisco
5 4 (7.55%) F5
5 4 (7.55%) HP
5 4 (7.55%) IBM
5 4 (7.55%) Red Hat
5 4 (7.55%) Unisys
5 4 (7.55%) VMware
6 3 (5.66%) Fortinet
6 3 (5.66%) Palo Alto
7 2 (3.77%) Atlassian
7 2 (3.77%) CheckPoint
7 2 (3.77%) Dell
7 2 (3.77%) Dynatrace
7 2 (3.77%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.89%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.89%) McAfee
8 1 (1.89%) Symantec