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 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 16 40
Rank change year-on-year -14 +24 -14
Contract jobs citing Windows 36 62 35
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 5.43% 9.87% 4.30%
As % of the Operating Systems category 62.07% 69.66% 48.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 33 22
10th Percentile £152 £164 £155
25th Percentile £205 £188 £257
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £240 £561
Median % change year-on-year +40.63% -57.24% +62.68%
75th Percentile £457 £519 £721
90th Percentile £585 £668 £795
Scotland median daily rate £425 £438 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -12.50% +32.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 5
10th Percentile - £20.51 £18.11
25th Percentile - £21.00 -
Median hourly rate - £22.94 £18.27
Median % change year-on-year - +25.55% +3.10%
75th Percentile - £24.02 -
90th Percentile - £25.62 £22.91
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £22.00 £18.27
% change year-on-year -26.14% +20.42% -12.12%

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 58 89 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 8.75% 14.17% 8.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 48 43
10th Percentile £157 £174 £225
25th Percentile £206 £194 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £439 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% -15.67% +10.64%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £634
90th Percentile £575 £675 £750
Scotland median daily rate £407 £459 £530
% change year-on-year -11.23% -13.44% +6.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 10
10th Percentile - £20.51 £18.24
25th Percentile - £21.00 £18.27
Median hourly rate - £22.94 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year - -46.97% +144.07%
75th Percentile - £24.02 £60.75
90th Percentile - £25.62 £60.83
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £22.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -26.14% -58.10% -

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 11 April 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 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 12 (33.33%) Azure
2 8 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (16.67%) AWS
4 4 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 4 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 4 (11.11%) OneDrive
5 2 (5.56%) Nutanix
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.78%) GCP
6 1 (2.78%) GitHub
6 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.78%) Google Workspace
6 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.78%) SaaS
6 1 (2.78%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 9 (25.00%) DNS
2 8 (22.22%) LAN
2 8 (22.22%) VPN
3 7 (19.44%) DHCP
3 7 (19.44%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (16.67%) SD-WAN
4 6 (16.67%) WAN
5 5 (13.89%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (13.89%) Firewall
6 4 (11.11%) SAN
7 3 (8.33%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (5.56%) Internet
8 2 (5.56%) IPsec
8 2 (5.56%) Network Security
8 2 (5.56%) Unified Communications
9 1 (2.78%) Intranet
9 1 (2.78%) VXLAN
9 1 (2.78%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Git
1 1 (2.78%) GitLab
1 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.78%) Postman
General
1 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.56%) Finance
4 1 (2.78%) Banking
4 1 (2.78%) Italian Language
4 1 (2.78%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (19.44%) Network Engineer
2 5 (13.89%) Desktop Support
2 5 (13.89%) Support Technician
3 3 (8.33%) Analyst
3 3 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) Desktop Support Technician
3 3 (8.33%) Desktop Technician
3 3 (8.33%) Field Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) Network Field Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) Senior
3 3 (8.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) ICT Support
4 2 (5.56%) ICT Support Technician
4 2 (5.56%) IT Support
4 2 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) AWS CDK
1 1 (2.78%) Node.js
1 1 (2.78%) REST
1 1 (2.78%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Data Centre
2 6 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (8.33%) NVMe
3 3 (8.33%) Smartphone
4 1 (2.78%) Clustering
4 1 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.78%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (30.56%) Linux
2 8 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 4 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.56%) Mac OS
4 2 (5.56%) Solaris
4 2 (5.56%) Unix
4 2 (5.56%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.78%) Android
5 1 (2.78%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.78%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (30.56%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 8 (22.22%) Migration
4 7 (19.44%) Load Balancing
5 6 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (16.67%) High Availability
5 6 (16.67%) ITIL
5 6 (16.67%) Network Management
6 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (11.11%) DevOps
7 4 (11.11%) Incident Management
7 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (11.11%) Mentoring
8 3 (8.33%) Agile
8 3 (8.33%) Break/Fix
8 3 (8.33%) ITSM
8 3 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (8.33%) Project Delivery
8 3 (8.33%) Service Delivery
8 3 (8.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (8.33%) Bash
2 3 (8.33%) Python
3 1 (2.78%) COBOL
3 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.78%) JCL
3 1 (2.78%) Perl
3 1 (2.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (8.33%) CCNP
3 2 (5.56%) CCNA
3 2 (5.56%) CTC Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) CEH
4 1 (2.78%) CISSP
4 1 (2.78%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (2.78%) Degree
4 1 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.78%) MCSE
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.78%) NCDA
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (2.78%) VCP6
4 1 (2.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (5.56%) QA
3 1 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.78%) GDPR
3 1 (2.78%) NCSC
3 1 (2.78%) NIST
3 1 (2.78%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (13.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (8.33%) VMware NSX
4 2 (5.56%) Hyper-V
4 2 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (2.78%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) Grafana
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (8.33%) SCCM
1 3 (8.33%) vMotion
2 2 (5.56%) Ansible
2 2 (5.56%) vRealize
3 1 (2.78%) Data Guard
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (2.78%) PowerCLI
3 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 10 (27.78%) Cisco
3 6 (16.67%) F5
3 6 (16.67%) Palo Alto
4 5 (13.89%) VMware
5 3 (8.33%) Commvault
6 2 (5.56%) Apple
6 2 (5.56%) Brocade
6 2 (5.56%) NetApp
6 2 (5.56%) Oracle
7 1 (2.78%) Aruba
7 1 (2.78%) Avaya
7 1 (2.78%) Citrix
7 1 (2.78%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (2.78%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.78%) Fujitsu
7 1 (2.78%) Google
7 1 (2.78%) ICL
7 1 (2.78%) Qualys
7 1 (2.78%) Veeam