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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 14 33
Rank change year-on-year -18 +19 +6
Contract jobs citing Windows 33 69 49
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 5.16% 10.68% 5.62%
As % of the Operating Systems category 67.35% 72.63% 61.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 37 34
10th Percentile £163 £167 £151
25th Percentile £244 £190 £193
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £250 £431
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -42.03% +9.52%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £634
90th Percentile £605 £685 £768
Scotland median daily rate £425 £440 £475
% change year-on-year -3.35% -7.42% +26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 1
Median hourly rate - £22.94 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - -11.78% +46.73%
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £22.00 £49.25
% change year-on-year -26.14% -55.33% +177.93%

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 49 95 80
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.67% 14.71% 9.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 52 51
10th Percentile £174 £176 £163
25th Percentile £294 £192 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £439 £510
Median % change year-on-year +2.62% -14.02% +7.37%
75th Percentile £538 £546 £625
90th Percentile £595 £685 £699
Scotland median daily rate £400 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -11.11% -14.29% +5.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 6
10th Percentile - £20.51 £43.13
25th Percentile - £21.00 £60.25
Median hourly rate - £22.94 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year - -62.09% +200.85%
75th Percentile - £24.02 £60.75
90th Percentile - £25.62 £61.13
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £22.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year -26.14% -63.64% +168.89%

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 6 March 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 3 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (39.39%) Azure
2 7 (21.21%) AWS
3 6 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (12.12%) GCP
5 3 (9.09%) GitHub
5 3 (9.09%) OCI
5 3 (9.09%) OneDrive
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon S3
6 2 (6.06%) Entra ID
6 2 (6.06%) Nutanix
7 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.03%) Google Workspace
7 1 (3.03%) SaaS
7 1 (3.03%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.21%) Firewall
2 6 (18.18%) LAN
2 6 (18.18%) VPN
2 6 (18.18%) WAN
3 5 (15.15%) DHCP
3 5 (15.15%) DNS
3 5 (15.15%) SD-WAN
3 5 (15.15%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (12.12%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (9.09%) Fibre Channel
5 3 (9.09%) SAN
6 2 (6.06%) IPsec
7 1 (3.03%) Intranet
7 1 (3.03%) Network Security
7 1 (3.03%) Unified Communications
7 1 (3.03%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle Database 10g
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) JIRA
2 2 (6.06%) ClearCase
3 1 (3.03%) Git
3 1 (3.03%) GitLab
3 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.03%) Postman
General
1 6 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Finance
2 5 (15.15%) Public Sector
3 4 (12.12%) Banking
3 4 (12.12%) Legal
4 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Retail
4 3 (9.09%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (18.18%) Network Engineer
2 4 (12.12%) Windows Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Field Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Implementation Manager
3 3 (9.09%) Implementation Project Manager
3 3 (9.09%) Implementation Specialist
3 3 (9.09%) Network Field Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Project Implementation Manager
3 3 (9.09%) Project Manager
4 2 (6.06%) Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Deskside Support
4 2 (6.06%) Desktop Support
4 2 (6.06%) IT Support
4 2 (6.06%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Senior
4 2 (6.06%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.03%) AWS CDK
1 1 (3.03%) Node.js
1 1 (3.03%) REST
1 1 (3.03%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Data Centre
2 3 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (9.09%) NVMe
2 3 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (6.06%) Smartphone
4 1 (3.03%) Clustering
4 1 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.03%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (30.30%) Linux
2 6 (18.18%) Windows Server
3 3 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (6.06%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.03%) Mac OS
5 1 (3.03%) Solaris
5 1 (3.03%) Unix
5 1 (3.03%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (30.30%) Migration
1 10 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (24.24%) ITIL
2 8 (24.24%) Roadmaps
3 6 (18.18%) Agile
3 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (15.15%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (15.15%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (15.15%) High Availability
4 5 (15.15%) Incident Management
4 5 (15.15%) Load Balancing
5 4 (12.12%) DevOps
5 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (12.12%) Network Management
6 3 (9.09%) Decision-Making
6 3 (9.09%) Incident Response
6 3 (9.09%) Project Delivery
6 3 (9.09%) Runbook
6 3 (9.09%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.21%) PowerShell
2 3 (9.09%) Bash
2 3 (9.09%) Python
2 3 (9.09%) SQL
3 2 (6.06%) C
3 2 (6.06%) C++
3 2 (6.06%) Java
3 2 (6.06%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.03%) COBOL
4 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.03%) JCL
4 1 (3.03%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (9.09%) CCNA
3 2 (6.06%) CCNP
3 2 (6.06%) Degree
4 1 (3.03%) CEH
4 1 (3.03%) CISSP
4 1 (3.03%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (3.03%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.03%) MCSE
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.03%) NCDA
4 1 (3.03%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) VCP6
4 1 (3.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) COBIT
1 3 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (3.03%) GDPR
2 1 (3.03%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (30.30%) Active Directory
2 5 (15.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (9.09%) VMware NSX
4 2 (6.06%) Hyper-V
4 2 (6.06%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (3.03%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (15.15%) Ansible
1 5 (15.15%) SCCM
2 4 (12.12%) Terraform
3 3 (9.09%) Grafana
3 3 (9.09%) vMotion
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (6.06%) vRealize
5 1 (3.03%) Data Guard
5 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (3.03%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (3.03%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 9 (27.27%) Cisco
1 9 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 8 (24.24%) F5
3 6 (18.18%) Oracle
4 5 (15.15%) Palo Alto
4 5 (15.15%) VMware
5 4 (12.12%) NetApp
6 3 (9.09%) CheckPoint
6 3 (9.09%) Commvault
6 3 (9.09%) Dell
6 3 (9.09%) Dynatrace
6 3 (9.09%) HP
7 2 (6.06%) Apple
7 2 (6.06%) Brocade
8 1 (3.03%) Aruba
8 1 (3.03%) ForgeRock
8 1 (3.03%) Fujitsu
8 1 (3.03%) Google
8 1 (3.03%) ICL
8 1 (3.03%) Veeam