Windows Contracts in Glasgow

Microsoft Windows
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 24 19
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 +3
Contract jobs citing Windows 90 53 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 11.48% 6.95% 9.11%
As % of the Operating Systems category 39.82% 36.55% 41.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 38 50
10th Percentile £196 £168 £140
25th Percentile £381 £203 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +5.56% +28.57%
75th Percentile £525 £613 £550
90th Percentile £576 £788 £601
Scotland median daily rate £435 £340 £376
% change year-on-year +27.87% -9.57% +7.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 5
10th Percentile - - £14.98
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £17.72
75th Percentile - - £18.93
90th Percentile - - £43.90
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £18.13 £17.72
% change year-on-year +38.72% +2.31% -6.04%

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 226 145 198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 28.83% 19.00% 22.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 100 118
10th Percentile £218 £199 £250
25th Percentile £410 £313 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £400 £528
Median % change year-on-year +16.25% -24.28% +17.39%
75th Percentile £538 £537 £638
90th Percentile £575 £739 £740
Scotland median daily rate £455 £400 £465
% change year-on-year +13.75% -13.89% +3.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 10
10th Percentile - £53.13 £14.37
25th Percentile - £55.94 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £60.00 £33.33
Median % change year-on-year -58.08% +80.02% +63.14%
75th Percentile - £62.50 £60.10
90th Percentile £38.09 - £66.78
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 Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Glasgow

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Glasgow

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Glasgow over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Glasgow

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Glasgow

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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 8 (8.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.44%) Exchange Server 2013
3 3 (3.33%) JBoss
3 3 (3.33%) WebLogic
4 2 (2.22%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.11%) SAS
5 1 (1.11%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.11%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 30 (33.33%) Azure
2 20 (22.22%) AWS
3 16 (17.78%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (10.00%) GitHub
5 8 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (8.89%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (8.89%) OpenShift
6 7 (7.78%) Amazon S3
6 7 (7.78%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (6.67%) Cohesity
7 6 (6.67%) SaaS
8 3 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (3.33%) OCI
9 2 (2.22%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.22%) IaaS
9 2 (2.22%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.11%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.11%) PaaS
10 1 (1.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.22%) SAN
2 7 (7.78%) NAS
3 3 (3.33%) DHCP
3 3 (3.33%) DNS
3 3 (3.33%) TCP/IP
3 3 (3.33%) VPN
4 2 (2.22%) Network Security
4 2 (2.22%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.11%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.11%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.11%) KDB
1 10 (11.11%) Kdb+
2 8 (8.89%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.33%) Oracle Exadata
4 2 (2.22%) Power BI
5 1 (1.11%) DB2
5 1 (1.11%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.11%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.11%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 16 (17.78%) Git
1 16 (17.78%) Jenkins
2 9 (10.00%) Bitbucket
2 9 (10.00%) IntelliJ
2 9 (10.00%) Visual Studio
2 9 (10.00%) Visual Studio Code
3 8 (8.89%) JIRA
3 8 (8.89%) PyCharm
General
1 44 (48.89%) Social Skills
2 24 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (18.89%) Finance
4 15 (16.67%) Banking
4 15 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 11 (12.22%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.33%) Legal
6 3 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 19 (21.11%) Developer
2 18 (20.00%) Python Developer
2 18 (20.00%) Senior
3 14 (15.56%) Analyst
4 10 (11.11%) C++ Developer
4 10 (11.11%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
4 10 (11.11%) Linux Developer
4 10 (11.11%) Python Engineer
4 10 (11.11%) Senior C++ Developer
4 10 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 10 (11.11%) Senior Python Developer
5 7 (7.78%) Deployment Engineer
5 7 (7.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (6.67%) Service Analyst
6 6 (6.67%) Service Desk Analyst
7 5 (5.56%) Administrator
7 5 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Database Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Senior Storage Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.44%) X-Windows
2 3 (3.33%) FastAPI
2 3 (3.33%) IBM Integration Bus
2 3 (3.33%) LDAP
2 3 (3.33%) Middleware
2 3 (3.33%) pytest
3 2 (2.22%) .NET
4 1 (1.11%) Flash
4 1 (1.11%) J2EE
4 1 (1.11%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
1 10 (11.11%) Public Cloud
2 7 (7.78%) Virtual Team
3 6 (6.67%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.44%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (3.33%) Clustering
5 3 (3.33%) Replication
6 2 (2.22%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.22%) Device Driver
6 2 (2.22%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.22%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.11%) Insider Threat
7 1 (1.11%) NVMe
7 1 (1.11%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 54 (60.00%) Linux
2 25 (27.78%) Windows Server
3 17 (18.89%) Unix
4 16 (17.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (17.78%) Windows 10
5 8 (8.89%) Mac OS
6 4 (4.44%) AIX
6 4 (4.44%) Solaris
6 4 (4.44%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.11%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (27.78%) SDLC
3 21 (23.33%) CI/CD
4 14 (15.56%) Agile
4 14 (15.56%) DevOps
4 14 (15.56%) ITIL
5 11 (12.22%) Containerisation
6 10 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
6 10 (11.11%) Data Science
6 10 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
6 10 (11.11%) Storage Management
6 10 (11.11%) Test Automation
7 9 (10.00%) Customer Service
7 9 (10.00%) Task Automation
8 8 (8.89%) Data Protection
8 8 (8.89%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (7.78%) Build Automation
9 7 (7.78%) Capacity Management
9 7 (7.78%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (7.78%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (43.33%) Python
2 11 (12.22%) C#
2 11 (12.22%) C++
3 9 (10.00%) Java
3 9 (10.00%) TypeScript
4 7 (7.78%) SQL
5 5 (5.56%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.33%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.11%) Bicep
7 1 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (4.44%) CISSP
3 4 (4.44%) Degree
4 2 (2.22%) CISM
4 2 (2.22%) CompTIA CySA+
4 2 (2.22%) GCIA
4 2 (2.22%) GCIH
4 2 (2.22%) MCSA
5 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.11%) CASP
5 1 (1.11%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.11%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.44%) SLA
2 3 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 3 (3.33%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 20 (22.22%) Docker
2 15 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.44%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (3.33%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.33%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.11%) GPFS
6 1 (1.11%) NFS
6 1 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (36.67%) Kubernetes
2 12 (13.33%) Terraform
3 11 (12.22%) Ansible
4 7 (7.78%) NetBackup
4 7 (7.78%) Oracle RMAN
5 5 (5.56%) SCCM
6 4 (4.44%) Data Guard
6 4 (4.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 3 (3.33%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (3.33%) Oracle Flashback
8 2 (2.22%) Podman
8 2 (2.22%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.22%) Puppet
8 2 (2.22%) RSA Archer
9 1 (1.11%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.11%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 33 (36.67%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.00%) Oracle
3 8 (8.89%) Veritas
4 6 (6.67%) Dynatrace
4 6 (6.67%) Red Hat
4 6 (6.67%) VMware
5 4 (4.44%) IBM
6 3 (3.33%) Dell
6 3 (3.33%) Netskope
6 3 (3.33%) Proofpoint
6 3 (3.33%) Splunk
6 3 (3.33%) Symantec
7 2 (2.22%) Apple
7 2 (2.22%) ArcSight
7 2 (2.22%) BeyondTrust
7 2 (2.22%) CyberArk
7 2 (2.22%) Qualys
8 1 (1.11%) Adobe
8 1 (1.11%) EMC
8 1 (1.11%) NetApp