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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 20 10
Rank change year-on-year -3 -10 +17
Contract jobs citing Windows 60 53 94
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 7.59% 8.37% 11.03%
As % of the Operating Systems category 63.16% 62.35% 64.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 31 59
10th Percentile £161 £160 £138
25th Percentile £206 £189 £189
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £240
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +77.08% -17.10%
75th Percentile £492 £570 £481
90th Percentile £579 £675 £634
Scotland median daily rate £413 £438 £340
% change year-on-year -5.71% +28.68% -10.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 14
10th Percentile - - £16.05
25th Percentile - - £18.03
Median hourly rate £15.81 - £18.27
75th Percentile £36.66 - £22.48
90th Percentile £61.70 - £24.18
Scotland median hourly rate £16.09 £25.15 £18.27
% change year-on-year -36.02% +37.66% +3.10%

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 95 85 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 12.01% 13.43% 17.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 49 99
10th Percentile £202 £169 £165
25th Percentile £238 £225 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £340
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +32.35% -15.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £523
90th Percentile £600 £645 £642
Scotland median daily rate £425 £465 £400
% change year-on-year -8.60% +16.25% -13.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 15
10th Percentile - - £16.33
25th Percentile - - £18.07
Median hourly rate £15.81 - £18.27
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.10%
75th Percentile £36.66 - £23.59
90th Percentile £61.70 - £24.18
Scotland median hourly rate £15.81 £25.15 £20.29
% change year-on-year -37.14% +23.98% +5.76%

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 26 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 26 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in Edinburgh

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 5 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.33%) Confluence
4 1 (1.67%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (1.67%) assyst
2 1 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 30 (50.00%) Azure
2 23 (38.33%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 9 (15.00%) AWS
5 6 (10.00%) OneDrive
6 5 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (8.33%) Amazon S3
6 5 (8.33%) Power Platform
7 3 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (5.00%) GitHub
7 3 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (3.33%) AWS CodeBuild
8 2 (3.33%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (3.33%) AWS KMS
8 2 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.67%) AWS CodeCommit
9 1 (1.67%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.67%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 20 (33.33%) VPN
2 15 (25.00%) Firewall
3 13 (21.67%) Wi-Fi
4 12 (20.00%) LAN
5 11 (18.33%) SD-WAN
6 9 (15.00%) Cisco Nexus
7 8 (13.33%) IPsec
7 8 (13.33%) Network Security
7 8 (13.33%) Unified Communications
8 7 (11.67%) DNS
8 7 (11.67%) WAN
9 5 (8.33%) Internet
10 4 (6.67%) DHCP
11 2 (3.33%) SSL
12 1 (1.67%) SAN
12 1 (1.67%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.67%) MS Access
3 1 (1.67%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.67%) Oracle Database 10g
3 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.33%) Git
2 2 (3.33%) JIRA
3 1 (1.67%) GitLab
3 1 (1.67%) LabVIEW
3 1 (1.67%) Postman
3 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 18 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.33%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.33%) Banking
4 5 (8.33%) Finance
5 2 (3.33%) Italian Language
6 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (23.33%) Network Engineer
2 8 (13.33%) Desktop Support
2 8 (13.33%) IT Support
3 7 (11.67%) Analyst
3 7 (11.67%) IT Analyst
4 6 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) Support Technician
5 5 (8.33%) IT Support Analyst
5 5 (8.33%) Service Analyst
5 5 (8.33%) Service Desk Analyst
5 5 (8.33%) Service Desk Support
5 5 (8.33%) Service Desk Support Analyst
5 5 (8.33%) Support Analyst
5 5 (8.33%) Support Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 4 (6.67%) DBA
6 4 (6.67%) Desktop Support Technician
6 4 (6.67%) Desktop Technician
6 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.33%) .NET
1 2 (3.33%) REST
1 2 (3.33%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.67%) ASP.NET
2 1 (1.67%) AWS CDK
2 1 (1.67%) HTML
2 1 (1.67%) JSON
2 1 (1.67%) LDAP
2 1 (1.67%) Middleware
2 1 (1.67%) MSMQ
2 1 (1.67%) Node.js
2 1 (1.67%) RESTful
2 1 (1.67%) SOAP
2 1 (1.67%) WinForms
2 1 (1.67%) XML
2 1 (1.67%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.33%) Data Centre
2 5 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (6.67%) PKI
4 3 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.00%) Smartphone
5 2 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.67%) Clustering
6 1 (1.67%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 18 (30.00%) Linux
2 16 (26.67%) Windows Server
3 4 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.33%) Android
4 2 (3.33%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.33%) Mac OS
4 2 (3.33%) Solaris
5 1 (1.67%) Unix
5 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (23.33%) High Availability
2 13 (21.67%) Load Balancing
2 13 (21.67%) Roadmaps
3 12 (20.00%) Network Management
3 12 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (18.33%) Cybersecurity
5 10 (16.67%) DevOps
5 10 (16.67%) Migration
5 10 (16.67%) Service Delivery
6 9 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (15.00%) Customer Service
7 8 (13.33%) CI/CD
7 8 (13.33%) Digital Innovation
7 8 (13.33%) ITIL
7 8 (13.33%) Programme Delivery
8 6 (10.00%) Agile
8 6 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
9 5 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (8.33%) ITSM
9 5 (8.33%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 7 (11.67%) PowerShell
2 4 (6.67%) SQL
2 4 (6.67%) T-SQL
3 1 (1.67%) Bash
3 1 (1.67%) C#
3 1 (1.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.67%) JCL
3 1 (1.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.67%) Python
3 1 (1.67%) VB.NET
3 1 (1.67%) VBA
3 1 (1.67%) XPath
Qualifications
1 11 (18.33%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (10.00%) CCNA
3 5 (8.33%) CCNP
3 5 (8.33%) MCSE
3 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (8.33%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.33%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 2 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.33%) CTC Cleared
4 2 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.67%) Degree
5 1 (1.67%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.67%) RHCE
5 1 (1.67%) RHCSA
5 1 (1.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 8 (13.33%) QA
3 2 (3.33%) GDPR
3 2 (3.33%) SLA
4 1 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.67%) NCSC
4 1 (1.67%) NIST
4 1 (1.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.33%) Hyper-V
3 3 (5.00%) Docker
3 3 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.67%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (11.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (11.67%) Terraform
2 5 (8.33%) SCCM
3 3 (5.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.67%) Ansible
4 1 (1.67%) Data Guard
4 1 (1.67%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (1.67%) yum
Vendors
1 30 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (26.67%) Cisco
3 13 (21.67%) F5
3 13 (21.67%) Palo Alto
4 6 (10.00%) Citrix
5 5 (8.33%) Apple
5 5 (8.33%) VMware
6 4 (6.67%) Oracle
6 4 (6.67%) ServiceNow
7 3 (5.00%) Meraki
7 3 (5.00%) RedGate
7 3 (5.00%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.67%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.67%) Avaya
8 1 (1.67%) Commvault
8 1 (1.67%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.67%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (1.67%) ForgeRock
8 1 (1.67%) Qualys
8 1 (1.67%) SAP