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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 22 17
Rank change year-on-year 0 -5 -3
Contract jobs citing Windows 72 51 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 9.89% 7.50% 8.91%
As % of the Operating Systems category 36.92% 40.48% 39.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 37 48
10th Percentile £188 £161 £133
25th Percentile £200 £181 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +14.12% -5.56% +36.36%
75th Percentile £544 £538 £576
90th Percentile £575 £638 £641
Scotland median daily rate £450 £339 £434
% change year-on-year +32.84% -21.90% +23.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 5
10th Percentile - - £14.98
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £17.72
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £18.45
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £18.27 £19.06
% change year-on-year +37.66% -4.12% +7.53%

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 195 126 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 26.79% 18.53% 22.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 84 107
10th Percentile £200 £178 £257
25th Percentile £400 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +18.38% -15.79% +15.85%
75th Percentile £541 £500 £593
90th Percentile £585 £621 £674
Scotland median daily rate £472 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +18.00% -15.79% +6.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 11
10th Percentile - - £14.50
25th Percentile - £57.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £60.00 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year -58.08% +216.96% +43.84%
75th Percentile - £62.50 £54.38
90th Percentile - - £66.56
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £19.28 £48.87
% change year-on-year +30.46% -60.55% +175.76%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Windows 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 19 September 2025.

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
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 4 (5.56%) Exchange Server 2013
1 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.17%) JBoss
2 3 (4.17%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.39%) SAS
3 1 (1.39%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.39%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 25 (34.72%) Azure
2 21 (29.17%) AWS
3 14 (19.44%) GitHub
4 13 (18.06%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (18.06%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (9.72%) SaaS
7 4 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.78%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.39%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.39%) Cohesity
9 1 (1.39%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.39%) GCP
9 1 (1.39%) IaaS
9 1 (1.39%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.39%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.78%) SAN
2 1 (1.39%) DHCP
2 1 (1.39%) DNS
2 1 (1.39%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (1.39%) iSCSI
2 1 (1.39%) NAS
2 1 (1.39%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.39%) VPN
2 1 (1.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.94%) KDB
1 5 (6.94%) Kdb+
2 3 (4.17%) MSDE
2 3 (4.17%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.78%) RDBMS
3 2 (2.78%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.39%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.39%) DB2
4 1 (1.39%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.39%) MySQL
4 1 (1.39%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.39%) Power BI
4 1 (1.39%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 14 (19.44%) Bitbucket
1 14 (19.44%) IntelliJ
1 14 (19.44%) Jenkins
1 14 (19.44%) JIRA
1 14 (19.44%) Visual Studio Code
2 13 (18.06%) PyCharm
2 13 (18.06%) Visual Studio
3 12 (16.67%) Git
4 1 (1.39%) JUnit
General
1 25 (34.72%) Social Skills
2 17 (23.61%) Finance
3 16 (22.22%) Public Sector
4 13 (18.06%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (15.28%) Banking
6 9 (12.50%) Investment Banking
7 3 (4.17%) Legal
8 2 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.39%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (25.00%) Developer
2 17 (23.61%) Python Developer
3 12 (16.67%) Analyst
4 9 (12.50%) Deployment Engineer
4 9 (12.50%) Senior
5 6 (8.33%) Python Engineer
5 6 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 6 (8.33%) Senior Python Developer
5 6 (8.33%) Service Analyst
5 6 (8.33%) Service Desk Analyst
6 5 (6.94%) Administrator
6 5 (6.94%) C++ Developer
6 5 (6.94%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
6 5 (6.94%) Linux Developer
6 5 (6.94%) Senior C++ Developer
7 3 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 3 (4.17%) Java Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) Middleware Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.56%) X-Windows
2 3 (4.17%) FastAPI
2 3 (4.17%) IBM Integration Bus
2 3 (4.17%) LDAP
2 3 (4.17%) Middleware
2 3 (4.17%) pytest
3 1 (1.39%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.39%) Flash
3 1 (1.39%) Hibernate
3 1 (1.39%) J2EE
3 1 (1.39%) JPA
3 1 (1.39%) POSIX
3 1 (1.39%) React
3 1 (1.39%) Spring
3 1 (1.39%) Spring Batch
3 1 (1.39%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (18.06%) Public Cloud
2 6 (8.33%) Virtual Team
3 5 (6.94%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.56%) Device Driver
5 3 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.17%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.39%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.39%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.39%) NVMe
7 1 (1.39%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.39%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 36 (50.00%) Linux
2 21 (29.17%) Windows 10
3 11 (15.28%) Windows Server
4 9 (12.50%) Mac OS
5 7 (9.72%) Unix
6 5 (6.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (5.56%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.39%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (31.94%) SDLC
2 19 (26.39%) Agile
3 18 (25.00%) DevOps
3 18 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (20.83%) CI/CD
5 12 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
5 12 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 9 (12.50%) Containerisation
6 9 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (12.50%) ITIL
7 8 (11.11%) Build Automation
8 7 (9.72%) Issue Tracking
9 5 (6.94%) Code Quality
9 5 (6.94%) Customer Service
9 5 (6.94%) Data Science
9 5 (6.94%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (6.94%) Line Management
10 4 (5.56%) Data Loss Prevention
10 4 (5.56%) Storage Management
10 4 (5.56%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (37.50%) Python
2 15 (20.83%) Java
3 14 (19.44%) C#
3 14 (19.44%) TypeScript
4 5 (6.94%) C++
5 4 (5.56%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.17%) Shell Script
6 3 (4.17%) SQL
7 2 (2.78%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.39%) Bicep
8 1 (1.39%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 9 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.72%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (6.94%) Degree
4 4 (5.56%) CISSP
4 4 (5.56%) MCSA
5 3 (4.17%) CompTIA CySA+
5 3 (4.17%) GCIA
5 3 (4.17%) GCIH
6 2 (2.78%) CASP
6 2 (2.78%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.39%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.39%) CISM
7 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 3 (4.17%) SLA
2 2 (2.78%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.39%) QA
System Software
1 13 (18.06%) Docker
2 9 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.17%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.17%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.39%) GPFS
4 1 (1.39%) NFS
4 1 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (34.72%) Kubernetes
2 17 (23.61%) Terraform
3 14 (19.44%) Ansible
4 9 (12.50%) SCCM
5 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.78%) Podman
5 2 (2.78%) RSA Archer
6 1 (1.39%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.39%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.39%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 34 (47.22%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.56%) IBM
2 4 (5.56%) Oracle
2 4 (5.56%) Splunk
3 3 (4.17%) Apple
3 3 (4.17%) ArcSight
3 3 (4.17%) Dynatrace
3 3 (4.17%) Netskope
3 3 (4.17%) Proofpoint
3 3 (4.17%) Symantec
4 2 (2.78%) Veritas
5 1 (1.39%) Brocade
5 1 (1.39%) EMC
5 1 (1.39%) Google
5 1 (1.39%) NetApp
5 1 (1.39%) Qualys
5 1 (1.39%) Sybase