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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 17 34
Rank change year-on-year -10 +17 -3
Contract jobs citing Windows 39 61 39
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 5.79% 9.65% 4.83%
As % of the Operating Systems category 61.90% 70.11% 51.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 30 25
10th Percentile £153 £162 £181
25th Percentile £206 £189 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £250 £488
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -48.72% +62.77%
75th Percentile £451 £542 £634
90th Percentile £575 £675 £788
Scotland median daily rate £419 £439 £488
% change year-on-year -4.50% -10.05% +29.83%
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 63 87 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.35% 13.77% 9.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 44 46
10th Percentile £161 £173 £196
25th Percentile £206 £196 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £457 £505
Median % change year-on-year -9.79% -9.46% +8.60%
75th Percentile £556 £552 £632
90th Percentile £575 £675 £750
Scotland median daily rate £425 £459 £525
% change year-on-year -7.36% -12.62% +8.53%
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 £56.25
% change year-on-year -26.14% -60.89% +4.65%

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 18 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 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.77%) Azure
2 8 (20.51%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (15.38%) AWS
4 4 (10.26%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (10.26%) Amazon S3
5 3 (7.69%) Entra ID
5 3 (7.69%) OneDrive
6 2 (5.13%) Nutanix
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.56%) GCP
7 1 (2.56%) GitHub
7 1 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.56%) Google Workspace
7 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.56%) SaaS
7 1 (2.56%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 11 (28.21%) VPN
2 10 (25.64%) LAN
3 9 (23.08%) DNS
3 9 (23.08%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (20.51%) SD-WAN
4 8 (20.51%) WAN
5 7 (17.95%) Cisco Nexus
5 7 (17.95%) DHCP
6 6 (15.38%) Firewall
7 4 (10.26%) SAN
8 3 (7.69%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (7.69%) IPsec
8 3 (7.69%) Network Security
8 3 (7.69%) Unified Communications
9 2 (5.13%) Internet
10 1 (2.56%) Intranet
10 1 (2.56%) VXLAN
10 1 (2.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Git
1 1 (2.56%) GitLab
1 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.56%) Postman
General
1 7 (17.95%) Public Sector
1 7 (17.95%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.13%) Finance
4 1 (2.56%) Banking
4 1 (2.56%) Italian Language
4 1 (2.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (25.64%) Network Engineer
2 5 (12.82%) Desktop Support
2 5 (12.82%) Support Technician
3 4 (10.26%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) Field Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) Network Field Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Analyst
4 3 (7.69%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Desktop Support Technician
4 3 (7.69%) Desktop Technician
4 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Senior
4 3 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Deskside Support
5 2 (5.13%) ICT Support Technician
5 2 (5.13%) ICT Technician
5 2 (5.13%) IT Support
5 2 (5.13%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.56%) .NET
1 1 (2.56%) AWS CDK
1 1 (2.56%) Node.js
1 1 (2.56%) REST
1 1 (2.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Data Centre
2 6 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (7.69%) NVMe
3 3 (7.69%) Smartphone
4 2 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.56%) Clustering
5 1 (2.56%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (35.90%) Linux
2 9 (23.08%) Windows Server
3 4 (10.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.13%) Mac OS
4 2 (5.13%) Solaris
4 2 (5.13%) Unix
5 1 (2.56%) Android
5 1 (2.56%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.56%) VME
5 1 (2.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.21%) Roadmaps
2 10 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (23.08%) Load Balancing
4 8 (20.51%) High Availability
4 8 (20.51%) Migration
4 8 (20.51%) Network Management
5 6 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (12.82%) ITIL
7 4 (10.26%) DevOps
7 4 (10.26%) Incident Management
7 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (10.26%) Mentoring
8 3 (7.69%) Agile
8 3 (7.69%) Break/Fix
8 3 (7.69%) Data Protection
8 3 (7.69%) ITSM
8 3 (7.69%) Network Monitoring
8 3 (7.69%) Project Delivery
8 3 (7.69%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (20.51%) PowerShell
2 3 (7.69%) Bash
2 3 (7.69%) Python
3 1 (2.56%) COBOL
3 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.56%) JCL
3 1 (2.56%) Perl
3 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (17.95%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (10.26%) CCNA
3 3 (7.69%) CCNP
4 2 (5.13%) CTC Cleared
4 2 (5.13%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.56%) CEH
5 1 (2.56%) CISSP
5 1 (2.56%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.56%) Degree
5 1 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.56%) MCSE
5 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.56%) NCDA
5 1 (2.56%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (2.56%) VCP6
5 1 (2.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (7.69%) QA
3 1 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.56%) GDPR
3 1 (2.56%) NCSC
3 1 (2.56%) NIST
3 1 (2.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (28.21%) Active Directory
2 5 (12.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (7.69%) VMware NSX
4 2 (5.13%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.56%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (7.69%) Grafana
1 3 (7.69%) vMotion
2 2 (5.13%) Ansible
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.13%) SCCM
2 2 (5.13%) vRealize
3 1 (2.56%) Data Guard
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (2.56%) PowerCLI
3 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (33.33%) Cisco
1 13 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 9 (23.08%) F5
2 9 (23.08%) Palo Alto
3 5 (12.82%) VMware
4 3 (7.69%) Commvault
5 2 (5.13%) Apple
5 2 (5.13%) Brocade
5 2 (5.13%) NetApp
5 2 (5.13%) Oracle
6 1 (2.56%) Aruba
6 1 (2.56%) Avaya
6 1 (2.56%) Citrix
6 1 (2.56%) ForgeRock
6 1 (2.56%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.56%) Fujitsu
6 1 (2.56%) Google
6 1 (2.56%) ICL
6 1 (2.56%) Qualys
6 1 (2.56%) Veeam