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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 20 23
Rank change year-on-year -18 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing Windows 62 79 51
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.15% 10.60% 7.53%
As % of the Operating Systems category 35.23% 39.30% 41.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 49 37
10th Percentile £150 £184 £166
25th Percentile £223 £200 £181
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £472 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.96% +11.06% -5.56%
75th Percentile £619 £538 £513
90th Percentile £675 £575 £615
Scotland median daily rate £263 £450 £340
% change year-on-year -41.67% +32.35% -18.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 -
Median % change year-on-year +39.17% - -
Scotland median hourly rate £17.57 £25.15 £18.13
% change year-on-year -30.14% +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 176 201 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 14.62% 26.98% 18.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 87 84
10th Percentile £196 £200 £181
25th Percentile £325 £396 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £475 £395
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +20.41% -16.95%
75th Percentile £504 £550 £500
90th Percentile £675 £593 £600
Scotland median daily rate £375 £471 £385
% change year-on-year -20.38% +22.34% -18.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 0
10th Percentile £13.24 - -
25th Percentile £13.45 - -
Median hourly rate £14.65 £25.15 -
Median % change year-on-year -41.77% - -
75th Percentile £21.09 - -
90th Percentile £35.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £15.81 £25.15 £20.29
% change year-on-year -37.14% +23.98% +5.76%

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 1 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
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 (3.23%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.61%) Apache
2 1 (1.61%) JBoss
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.61%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 15 (24.19%) Azure
2 9 (14.52%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (12.90%) OpenShift
4 6 (9.68%) GCP
5 5 (8.06%) AWS
5 5 (8.06%) Entra ID
5 5 (8.06%) GitHub
6 2 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.23%) Google Workspace
6 2 (3.23%) Rubrik
7 1 (1.61%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (1.61%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (1.61%) Google Gemini
7 1 (1.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.68%) DNS
2 4 (6.45%) DHCP
2 4 (6.45%) NAS
2 4 (6.45%) SAN
3 2 (3.23%) Kerberos
3 2 (3.23%) LAN
3 2 (3.23%) Network Security
3 2 (3.23%) VLAN
3 2 (3.23%) VoIP
4 1 (1.61%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (1.61%) iSCSI
4 1 (1.61%) ISDN
4 1 (1.61%) MGCP
4 1 (1.61%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (1.61%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.61%) WAN
4 1 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.61%) MariaDB
2 1 (1.61%) MySQL
2 1 (1.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Git
2 3 (4.84%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.23%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.23%) JIRA
3 2 (3.23%) MSTest
3 2 (3.23%) NUnit
3 2 (3.23%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.61%) Ant
4 1 (1.61%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.61%) Claude Code
4 1 (1.61%) Gemini Tracker
4 1 (1.61%) Maven
4 1 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.61%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 17 (27.42%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.13%) Finance
3 8 (12.90%) Public Sector
4 7 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.84%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.23%) Legal
6 2 (3.23%) Military
6 2 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (17.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (14.52%) Windows Engineer
3 7 (11.29%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (9.68%) Analyst
4 6 (9.68%) Support Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) Lead
5 5 (8.06%) Python Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Architect
6 3 (4.84%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Service Analyst
6 3 (4.84%) Service Desk Analyst
6 3 (4.84%) Site Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.23%) Administrator
7 2 (3.23%) Deployment Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Developer
7 2 (3.23%) Python Developer
7 2 (3.23%) Support Analyst
7 2 (3.23%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.29%) Kafka
2 6 (9.68%) Celery
2 6 (9.68%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (8.06%) REST
4 3 (4.84%) .NET
4 3 (4.84%) RESTful
4 3 (4.84%) Terraform
5 2 (3.23%) .NET Core
5 2 (3.23%) .NET Framework
5 2 (3.23%) WPF
6 1 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.61%) JDBC
6 1 (1.61%) Middleware
6 1 (1.61%) ODBC
6 1 (1.61%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.06%) Smartphone
2 4 (6.45%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.45%) Clustering
2 4 (6.45%) PKI
2 4 (6.45%) Replication
3 3 (4.84%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (4.84%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.23%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.23%) Driving Licence
4 2 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.23%) NVMe
4 2 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.61%) CCTV
5 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.61%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.61%) Thin Client
5 1 (1.61%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (22.58%) Windows Server
2 12 (19.35%) Linux
3 9 (14.52%) Unix
4 7 (11.29%) Windows 10
5 5 (8.06%) Mac OS
6 3 (4.84%) Windows 7
7 2 (3.23%) Android
7 2 (3.23%) Apple iOS
7 2 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.61%) SUSE
8 1 (1.61%) VMS
8 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (24.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (20.97%) Migration
4 11 (17.74%) Customer Service
4 11 (17.74%) Validation
5 10 (16.13%) Asset Management
5 10 (16.13%) CI/CD
5 10 (16.13%) ITSM
6 9 (14.52%) DevOps
7 8 (12.90%) ITIL
8 6 (9.68%) Data Protection
8 6 (9.68%) Machine Learning
8 6 (9.68%) Runbook
9 5 (8.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (8.06%) Decision-Making
9 5 (8.06%) Observability
9 5 (8.06%) Project Delivery
10 4 (6.45%) Build Automation
10 4 (6.45%) Capacity Planning
10 4 (6.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 12 (19.35%) Python
2 10 (16.13%) PowerShell
3 5 (8.06%) Perl
4 3 (4.84%) Bash
4 3 (4.84%) C#
4 3 (4.84%) SQL
5 2 (3.23%) Java
5 2 (3.23%) PL/SQL
5 2 (3.23%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.61%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 6 (9.68%) SC Cleared
1 6 (9.68%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.84%) Degree
2 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (3.23%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (3.23%) MCSA
3 2 (3.23%) MCSE
4 1 (1.61%) CCNP
4 1 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.61%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.84%) PMO
2 2 (3.23%) QA
3 1 (1.61%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.61%) NCSC
3 1 (1.61%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (24.19%) Active Directory
2 9 (14.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (12.90%) Hyper-V
4 5 (8.06%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (6.45%) Firmware
5 4 (6.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (6.45%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (6.45%) vSphere
6 2 (3.23%) DFS Replication
6 2 (3.23%) Docker
7 1 (1.61%) GPFS
7 1 (1.61%) KVM
7 1 (1.61%) NFS
7 1 (1.61%) UAG
Systems Management
1 11 (17.74%) Kubernetes
2 7 (11.29%) SCCM
3 5 (8.06%) NetBackup
4 4 (6.45%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (4.84%) SCOM
6 2 (3.23%) Ansible
6 2 (3.23%) Netcool
6 2 (3.23%) Perfmon
6 2 (3.23%) WSUS
7 1 (1.61%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (1.61%) Cisco UCCX
7 1 (1.61%) Podman
7 1 (1.61%) Puppet
7 1 (1.61%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.61%) WMI
Vendors
1 19 (30.65%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.13%) VMware
3 7 (11.29%) Google
4 5 (8.06%) Citrix
4 5 (8.06%) ServiceNow
5 4 (6.45%) Veritas
6 3 (4.84%) Cisco
6 3 (4.84%) EMC
6 3 (4.84%) IBM
6 3 (4.84%) NetApp
6 3 (4.84%) Splunk
7 2 (3.23%) Acronis
7 2 (3.23%) Commvault
7 2 (3.23%) CyberArk
7 2 (3.23%) Dell
7 2 (3.23%) Hitachi
7 2 (3.23%) SolarWinds
7 2 (3.23%) Veeam
8 1 (1.61%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.61%) SaltStack