Windows Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Microsoft Windows
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Windows skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 25 17
Rank change year-on-year -14 -8 +3
Contract jobs citing Windows 60 74 66
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 4.93% 9.93% 9.47%
As % of the Operating Systems category 33.15% 39.15% 44.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 46 37
10th Percentile £154 £181 £171
25th Percentile £241 £200 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £468 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.43% +10.00% -5.56%
75th Percentile £624 £547 £538
90th Percentile £675 £575 £615
Scotland median daily rate £322 £450 £340
% change year-on-year -28.44% +32.35% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 0
10th Percentile £18.92 - -
25th Percentile £24.95 - -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 -
Median % change year-on-year +39.17% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £15.81 £25.15 £18.13
% change year-on-year -37.14% +38.72% -1.06%

All Operating Systems
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 181 189 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 14.87% 25.37% 21.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 85 88
10th Percentile £205 £200 £209
25th Percentile £363 £381 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £465 £400
Median % change year-on-year -13.98% +16.25% -15.79%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £500
90th Percentile £675 £595 £565
Scotland median daily rate £383 £465 £383
% change year-on-year -17.74% +21.57% -15.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 14 0
10th Percentile £13.31 - -
25th Percentile £13.45 - -
Median hourly rate £14.65 £25.15 -
Median % change year-on-year -41.77% - -
75th Percentile £16.45 - -
90th Percentile £35.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £15.81 £25.15 £20.29
% change year-on-year -37.14% +23.98% +6.45%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Windows relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Windows job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Windows
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Windows.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Windows

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Glasgow over the 6 months to 15 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Glasgow

Windows
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Windows.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Windows

Windows
Hourly Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Windows in Glasgow over the 6 months to 15 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Windows in Glasgow

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.67%) Apache
2 1 (1.67%) JBoss
2 1 (1.67%) SAS
2 1 (1.67%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (25.00%) Azure
2 9 (15.00%) OpenShift
3 7 (11.67%) GCP
3 7 (11.67%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (10.00%) AWS
4 6 (10.00%) GitHub
5 4 (6.67%) Entra ID
6 3 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.33%) Google Workspace
7 2 (3.33%) Rubrik
8 1 (1.67%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (1.67%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (1.67%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.67%) DNS
2 5 (8.33%) DHCP
2 5 (8.33%) SAN
3 4 (6.67%) NAS
4 3 (5.00%) LAN
5 2 (3.33%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (3.33%) iSCSI
5 2 (3.33%) Kerberos
5 2 (3.33%) Network Security
5 2 (3.33%) VLAN
5 2 (3.33%) VoIP
5 2 (3.33%) WAN
5 2 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.67%) ISDN
6 1 (1.67%) MGCP
6 1 (1.67%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.67%) Db2
2 1 (1.67%) MariaDB
2 1 (1.67%) MySQL
2 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Git
2 4 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.00%) MSTest
3 3 (5.00%) NUnit
3 3 (5.00%) TeamCity
4 2 (3.33%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.33%) JIRA
5 1 (1.67%) Ant
5 1 (1.67%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.67%) Claude Code
5 1 (1.67%) Gemini Tracker
5 1 (1.67%) Maven
5 1 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 16 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.33%) Finance
3 7 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 5 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.33%) Military
7 2 (3.33%) Retail
8 1 (1.67%) Banking
8 1 (1.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (15.00%) Windows Engineer
3 7 (11.67%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) Python Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) Support Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) Analyst
6 4 (6.67%) Lead
7 3 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) IT Support
7 3 (5.00%) Site Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Deployment Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Developer
8 2 (3.33%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Python Developer
8 2 (3.33%) Service Analyst
8 2 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.33%) Storage Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Support Analyst
8 2 (3.33%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.67%) Kafka
2 6 (10.00%) Celery
2 6 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (8.33%) REST
4 4 (6.67%) .NET
5 3 (5.00%) .NET Core
5 3 (5.00%) .NET Framework
5 3 (5.00%) RESTful
5 3 (5.00%) Terraform
5 3 (5.00%) WPF
6 1 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.67%) JDBC
6 1 (1.67%) Middleware
6 1 (1.67%) ODBC
6 1 (1.67%) POSIX
6 1 (1.67%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.33%) Smartphone
2 4 (6.67%) Clustering
2 4 (6.67%) PKI
3 3 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (5.00%) NVMe
3 3 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.00%) Replication
4 2 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.33%) Driving Licence
4 2 (3.33%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.33%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.67%) CCTV
5 1 (1.67%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.67%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (21.67%) Linux
2 12 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 10 (16.67%) Unix
4 6 (10.00%) Windows 10
5 5 (8.33%) macOS
6 3 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (5.00%) Windows 7
7 2 (3.33%) Android
7 2 (3.33%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.67%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (1.67%) SUSE
8 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (23.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (20.00%) ITSM
2 12 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (18.33%) CI/CD
3 11 (18.33%) Customer Service
4 10 (16.67%) DevOps
4 10 (16.67%) Migration
4 10 (16.67%) Validation
5 9 (15.00%) Asset Management
6 7 (11.67%) ITIL
7 6 (10.00%) Data Protection
7 6 (10.00%) Machine Learning
7 6 (10.00%) Observability
8 5 (8.33%) Build Automation
8 5 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (8.33%) Inventory Management
8 5 (8.33%) Project Delivery
8 5 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (8.33%) Runbook
9 4 (6.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (21.67%) Python
2 10 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 6 (10.00%) Perl
4 4 (6.67%) C#
4 4 (6.67%) SQL
5 3 (5.00%) Bash
6 2 (3.33%) Java
6 2 (3.33%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.33%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.67%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 7 (11.67%) SC Cleared
1 7 (11.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (3.33%) Degree
3 2 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (3.33%) MCSA
3 2 (3.33%) MCSE
4 1 (1.67%) CCNP
4 1 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) PMO
1 3 (5.00%) QA
2 2 (3.33%) SLA
3 1 (1.67%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 11 (18.33%) Active Directory
2 7 (11.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (10.00%) Hyper-V
4 4 (6.67%) Firmware
4 4 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (6.67%) vSphere
5 3 (5.00%) Docker
5 3 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (3.33%) DFS Replication
6 2 (3.33%) GPFS
6 2 (3.33%) NFS
7 1 (1.67%) KVM
7 1 (1.67%) UAG
Systems Management
1 12 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (11.67%) SCCM
3 5 (8.33%) NetBackup
4 4 (6.67%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (5.00%) SCOM
6 2 (3.33%) Ansible
6 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (3.33%) Netcool
6 2 (3.33%) Perfmon
6 2 (3.33%) WSUS
7 1 (1.67%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (1.67%) Cisco UCCX
7 1 (1.67%) Podman
7 1 (1.67%) Puppet
7 1 (1.67%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.67%) Veritas Storage Foundation
7 1 (1.67%) WMI
Vendors
1 17 (28.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.33%) Google
2 8 (13.33%) VMware
3 6 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 5 (8.33%) Citrix
4 5 (8.33%) Veritas
5 4 (6.67%) EMC
5 4 (6.67%) IBM
5 4 (6.67%) NetApp
6 3 (5.00%) Cisco
6 3 (5.00%) Splunk
7 2 (3.33%) Brocade
7 2 (3.33%) Commvault
7 2 (3.33%) CyberArk
7 2 (3.33%) Dell
7 2 (3.33%) Hitachi
7 2 (3.33%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.33%) SolarWinds
7 2 (3.33%) Veeam
8 1 (1.67%) SaltStack