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 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 17 34
Rank change year-on-year -16 +17 +7
Contract jobs citing Windows 32 57 49
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 5.32% 9.53% 5.39%
As % of the Operating Systems category 69.57% 67.86% 59.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 29 33
10th Percentile £204 £180 £150
25th Percentile £313 £191 £199
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £240 £438
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% -45.14% -2.78%
75th Percentile £500 £497 £634
90th Percentile £615 £685 £760
Scotland median daily rate £425 £425 £500
% change year-on-year - -15.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 2
10th Percentile - £20.51 £13.09
25th Percentile - £21.00 £15.24
Median hourly rate - £22.94 £18.83
Median % change year-on-year - +21.85% +6.24%
75th Percentile - £24.02 £22.41
90th Percentile - £25.62 £24.57
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £22.00 £59.03
% change year-on-year -26.14% -62.73% +233.13%

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 46 84 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.65% 14.05% 9.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 44 52
10th Percentile £181 £186 £164
25th Percentile £316 £194 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £431 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -15.85% +7.89%
75th Percentile £500 £523 £600
90th Percentile £598 £685 £682
Scotland median daily rate £420 £450 £542
% change year-on-year -6.67% -16.90% +8.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 7
10th Percentile - - £20.26
25th Percentile - £21.00 £43.13
Median hourly rate - £23.00 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year - -61.98% +200.85%
75th Percentile - £24.42 £60.75
90th Percentile - £34.29 £61.05
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £22.44 £60.50
% change year-on-year -27.58% -62.91% +241.42%

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 3 February 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 4 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 12 (37.50%) Azure
2 6 (18.75%) AWS
3 5 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (12.50%) GCP
4 4 (12.50%) OCI
5 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
5 2 (6.25%) GitHub
5 2 (6.25%) Nutanix
5 2 (6.25%) OneDrive
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.13%) Google Workspace
6 1 (3.13%) SaaS
6 1 (3.13%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 11 (34.38%) Firewall
2 4 (12.50%) DHCP
2 4 (12.50%) DNS
2 4 (12.50%) LAN
2 4 (12.50%) WAN
3 3 (9.38%) Fibre Channel
3 3 (9.38%) Network Security
3 3 (9.38%) SAN
3 3 (9.38%) SD-WAN
3 3 (9.38%) Unified Communications
3 3 (9.38%) VoIP
3 3 (9.38%) VPN
3 3 (9.38%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (6.25%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (3.13%) Intranet
5 1 (3.13%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (3.13%) IPsec
5 1 (3.13%) SSL
5 1 (3.13%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) JIRA
2 2 (6.25%) ClearCase
General
1 6 (18.75%) Finance
1 6 (18.75%) Public Sector
1 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Banking
2 5 (15.63%) Legal
3 4 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (12.50%) Retail
4 3 (9.38%) Retail Banking
5 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (12.50%) Implementation Specialist
1 4 (12.50%) Network Engineer
1 4 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
2 3 (9.38%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (9.38%) Implementation Manager
2 3 (9.38%) Implementation Project Manager
2 3 (9.38%) Project Implementation Manager
2 3 (9.38%) Project Manager
3 2 (6.25%) Analyst
3 2 (6.25%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (6.25%) Field Engineer
3 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (6.25%) IT Support
3 2 (6.25%) Network Field Engineer
3 2 (6.25%) Network Specialist
3 2 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (6.25%) Senior
3 2 (6.25%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 2 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Data Centre
2 5 (15.63%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (9.38%) NVMe
4 2 (6.25%) Cyber Security Posture
4 2 (6.25%) PKI
5 1 (3.13%) Clustering
5 1 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.13%) Digital Signage
5 1 (3.13%) Graphic Design
5 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.13%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 12 (37.50%) Linux
2 6 (18.75%) Windows Server
3 4 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (12.50%) Unix
4 2 (6.25%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.13%) Mac OS
5 1 (3.13%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) Migration
2 9 (28.13%) ITIL
3 8 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (21.88%) Agile
4 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (21.88%) Platform Engineering
5 6 (18.75%) Incident Management
5 6 (18.75%) Roadmaps
6 5 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (15.63%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (12.50%) Decision-Making
7 4 (12.50%) Dependency Management
7 4 (12.50%) Incident Response
7 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (12.50%) Project Delivery
7 4 (12.50%) Risk Assessment
7 4 (12.50%) Runbook
7 4 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.75%) PowerShell
2 3 (9.38%) SQL
3 2 (6.25%) Bash
3 2 (6.25%) C
3 2 (6.25%) C++
3 2 (6.25%) Java
3 2 (6.25%) Python
3 2 (6.25%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.13%) COBOL
4 1 (3.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (15.63%) CCNP
3 4 (12.50%) CCNA
4 3 (9.38%) CCIE
4 3 (9.38%) CCIE Collaboration
4 3 (9.38%) Degree
5 2 (6.25%) CISSP
5 2 (6.25%) MCSE
5 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.13%) CEH
6 1 (3.13%) CISM
6 1 (3.13%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (3.13%) NCDA
6 1 (3.13%) RHCE
6 1 (3.13%) VCP6
6 1 (3.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) COBIT
2 2 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (6.25%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 10 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 5 (15.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (9.38%) VMware NSX
4 2 (6.25%) Hyper-V
4 2 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (3.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) Ansible
2 4 (12.50%) SCCM
2 4 (12.50%) Terraform
3 3 (9.38%) Grafana
3 3 (9.38%) vMotion
4 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (6.25%) vRealize
5 1 (3.13%) Host Intrusion Detection System
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (3.13%) Nagios
5 1 (3.13%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 9 (28.13%) Cisco
1 9 (28.13%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.75%) F5
2 6 (18.75%) Oracle
3 5 (15.63%) VMware
4 4 (12.50%) CheckPoint
4 4 (12.50%) Dell
4 4 (12.50%) Dynatrace
4 4 (12.50%) HP
4 4 (12.50%) NetApp
5 2 (6.25%) Brocade
5 2 (6.25%) Commvault
5 2 (6.25%) Palo Alto
5 2 (6.25%) Veeam
6 1 (3.13%) Aruba
6 1 (3.13%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.13%) Fujitsu
6 1 (3.13%) Google
6 1 (3.13%) ICL
6 1 (3.13%) McAfee