Windows Contracts in Edinburgh

Microsoft Windows
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Windows skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 12 30
Rank change year-on-year -7 +18 +4
Contract jobs citing Windows 59 86 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.04% 9.85% 7.89%
As % of the Operating Systems category 64.84% 64.18% 52.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 55 67
10th Percentile £150 £138 £166
25th Percentile £178 £200 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £275 £294
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -6.46% +12.00%
75th Percentile £550 £481 £483
90th Percentile £675 £634 £558
Scotland median daily rate £438 £340 £376
% change year-on-year +28.68% -9.57% +7.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 11 2
10th Percentile £18.55 £15.22 £17.70
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.00 £17.71
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.13 £17.71
Median % change year-on-year +21.35% +2.37% +1.20%
75th Percentile £24.25 £18.27 £17.72
90th Percentile £29.48 £24.18 £17.72
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £18.13 £17.72
% change year-on-year +38.72% +2.31% -6.04%

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 91 134 176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 13.94% 15.35% 14.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 90 131
10th Percentile £157 £180 £160
25th Percentile £194 £240 £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £355 £440
Median % change year-on-year +26.76% -19.32% -7.37%
75th Percentile £534 £518 £525
90th Percentile £638 £634 £613
Scotland median daily rate £463 £400 £465
% change year-on-year +15.63% -13.89% +3.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 16 4
10th Percentile £18.55 £16.61 £17.71
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.10 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.27 £35.11
Median % change year-on-year +20.42% -47.96% +87.25%
75th Percentile £24.25 £58.31 £55.94
90th Percentile £29.48 £60.75 £59.88
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £25.09 £21.52
% change year-on-year +0.24% +16.59% +22.20%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Windows in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Edinburgh

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in Edinburgh

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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 1 (1.69%) IIS
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (11.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 13 (22.03%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (15.25%) AWS
2 9 (15.25%) Azure
3 4 (6.78%) GitHub
3 4 (6.78%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (3.39%) Amazon S3
4 2 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (3.39%) AWS CodeBuild
4 2 (3.39%) AWS CodeCommit
4 2 (3.39%) AWS CodePipeline
4 2 (3.39%) AWS KMS
4 2 (3.39%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (3.39%) IaaS
4 2 (3.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.69%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.86%) Firewall
1 7 (11.86%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (3.39%) LAN
2 2 (3.39%) Network Security
2 2 (3.39%) VPN
3 1 (1.69%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.69%) DHCP
3 1 (1.69%) DNS
3 1 (1.69%) Internet
3 1 (1.69%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.69%) IPsec
3 1 (1.69%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.69%) SSL
3 1 (1.69%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.69%) WAN
3 1 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.69%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.17%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.69%) GIS
3 1 (1.69%) InfluxDB
3 1 (1.69%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.69%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (1.69%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (8.47%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.39%) JIRA
2 2 (3.39%) Snyk
General
1 25 (42.37%) Social Skills
2 16 (27.12%) Public Sector
3 10 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (16.95%) Finance
4 4 (6.78%) Banking
4 4 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (6.78%) Law
5 2 (3.39%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (15.25%) IT Engineer
2 8 (13.56%) Architect
2 8 (13.56%) Support Engineer
2 8 (13.56%) Windows Engineer
3 7 (11.86%) Deployment Engineer
4 6 (10.17%) Infrastructure Architect
4 6 (10.17%) Service Desk Engineer
5 5 (8.47%) Analyst
5 5 (8.47%) Service Desk Support
5 5 (8.47%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (8.47%) Windows Support Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) IT Support
6 4 (6.78%) Server Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Desktop Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.08%) IT Support Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Service Desk Analyst
8 2 (3.39%) Windows Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.39%) REST
1 2 (3.39%) SOAP
2 1 (1.69%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.56%) Device Driver
2 7 (11.86%) Data Centre
3 6 (10.17%) Product Ownership
3 6 (10.17%) Replication
4 4 (6.78%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (6.78%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (6.78%) Mainframe
4 4 (6.78%) PKI
5 1 (1.69%) Clustering
5 1 (1.69%) CMDB
5 1 (1.69%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.69%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.69%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 27 (45.76%) Linux
2 17 (28.81%) Windows Server
3 11 (18.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (10.17%) Solaris
4 6 (10.17%) Unix
4 6 (10.17%) Windows 10
5 5 (8.47%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (6.78%) HPUX
6 4 (6.78%) Ubuntu
7 3 (5.08%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (5.08%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (3.39%) AIX
8 2 (3.39%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.69%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (1.69%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (37.29%) ITIL
2 19 (32.20%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (25.42%) Agile
4 12 (20.34%) Customer Service
5 11 (18.64%) Service Management
6 10 (16.95%) ITSM
7 9 (15.25%) Asset Management
8 8 (13.56%) Customer Experience
8 8 (13.56%) Task Automation
9 7 (11.86%) Problem Management
9 7 (11.86%) Project Delivery
10 6 (10.17%) DevOps
10 6 (10.17%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (10.17%) High Availability
10 6 (10.17%) Inventory Management
10 6 (10.17%) Logistics
10 6 (10.17%) Mentoring
10 6 (10.17%) Security Operations
10 6 (10.17%) Service Delivery
11 5 (8.47%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.95%) PowerShell
2 3 (5.08%) Bash
3 2 (3.39%) Perl
3 2 (3.39%) SQL
4 1 (1.69%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.69%) Python
4 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (15.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (11.86%) A+ Certification
3 5 (8.47%) Degree
4 3 (5.08%) Security Cleared
5 2 (3.39%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.69%) CCNA
6 1 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.69%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.17%) Disclosure Scotland
2 5 (8.47%) QA
3 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.69%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (23.73%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.47%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.69%) KVM
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.69%) ProxySG
4 1 (1.69%) Terminal Services
4 1 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (25.42%) SCCM
2 9 (15.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (8.47%) Ansible
3 5 (8.47%) Terraform
4 1 (1.69%) Data Guard
4 1 (1.69%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (1.69%) Grafana
4 1 (1.69%) HAProxy
4 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (1.69%) Nagios
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle Flashback
4 1 (1.69%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 28 (47.46%) Microsoft
2 9 (15.25%) HP
3 7 (11.86%) Red Hat
4 6 (10.17%) VMware
5 5 (8.47%) Cisco
5 5 (8.47%) Dell
5 5 (8.47%) IBM
5 5 (8.47%) Oracle
6 4 (6.78%) ServiceNow
6 4 (6.78%) Sun
6 4 (6.78%) Unisys
7 2 (3.39%) Commvault
7 2 (3.39%) Fortinet
7 2 (3.39%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.69%) Avaya
8 1 (1.69%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.69%) Blue Coat
8 1 (1.69%) Citrix
8 1 (1.69%) NetApp
8 1 (1.69%) Salesforce