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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 15 22
Rank change year-on-year -7 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Windows 58 101 79
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 8.43% 13.25% 8.64%
As % of the Operating Systems category 46.40% 46.76% 35.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 52 60
10th Percentile £181 £181 £291
25th Percentile £250 £289 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £453 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% -15.81% +34.38%
75th Percentile £612 £550 £650
90th Percentile £675 £573 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £425 £478
% change year-on-year +5.88% -10.99% +19.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.17 - -
Median hourly rate £20.70 - -
75th Percentile £25.15 - -
90th Percentile £40.08 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.70 £22.00 £59.03
% change year-on-year -5.91% -62.73% +233.13%

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 125 216 221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 18.17% 28.35% 24.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 107 135
10th Percentile £201 £204 £313
25th Percentile £333 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £650
90th Percentile £650 £580 £733
Scotland median daily rate £425 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.17 - -
Median hourly rate £20.70 - £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.58%
75th Percentile £25.15 - -
90th Percentile £40.08 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.70 £22.44 £60.50
% change year-on-year -7.74% -62.91% +241.42%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 23 (39.66%) Azure
2 13 (22.41%) AWS
3 8 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (6.90%) OpenShift
5 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.45%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.45%) GitHub
6 1 (1.72%) GCP
6 1 (1.72%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.72%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.72%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (18.97%) WAN
2 9 (15.52%) DNS
3 7 (12.07%) SD-WAN
4 6 (10.34%) TCP/IP
5 5 (8.62%) SAN
6 4 (6.90%) NAS
7 3 (5.17%) DHCP
7 3 (5.17%) Firewall
7 3 (5.17%) LAN
8 2 (3.45%) VPN
9 1 (1.72%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (1.72%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.45%) MSDE
1 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.72%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.72%) MySQL
2 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.72%) Power BI
2 1 (1.72%) Power Query
2 1 (1.72%) QlikView
2 1 (1.72%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (12.07%) Jenkins
2 5 (8.62%) Git
3 4 (6.90%) JIRA
4 2 (3.45%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.45%) IntelliJ
4 2 (3.45%) PyCharm
4 2 (3.45%) Visual Studio
4 2 (3.45%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.72%) Hudson
5 1 (1.72%) JUnit
General
1 25 (43.10%) Social Skills
2 19 (32.76%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (22.41%) Finance
3 13 (22.41%) Legal
4 5 (8.62%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.45%) Banking
6 2 (3.45%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.72%) Law
7 1 (1.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (22.41%) Windows Engineer
2 12 (20.69%) Automation Engineer
2 12 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (15.52%) Security Engineer
3 9 (15.52%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (12.07%) Analyst
5 6 (10.34%) Field Engineer
5 6 (10.34%) Lead
5 6 (10.34%) SOC Analyst
6 5 (8.62%) Architect
6 5 (8.62%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 5 (8.62%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (6.90%) Hardware Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) IT Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) PowerShell Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Computer Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Deployment Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Field Hardware Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Field Support Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.62%) REST
2 4 (6.90%) Loki
3 1 (1.72%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.72%) Hibernate
3 1 (1.72%) JPA
3 1 (1.72%) React
3 1 (1.72%) Spring
3 1 (1.72%) Spring Batch
3 1 (1.72%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.07%) Data Centre
2 6 (10.34%) Cyberattack
2 6 (10.34%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (8.62%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (6.90%) Driving Licence
5 3 (5.17%) Device Driver
5 3 (5.17%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (3.45%) CMDB
6 2 (3.45%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.72%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.72%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.72%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.72%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.72%) NVMe
7 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (22.41%) Windows Server
2 10 (17.24%) Linux
2 10 (17.24%) Unix
3 6 (10.34%) Windows 10
4 5 (8.62%) Mac OS
5 3 (5.17%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (43.10%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (27.59%) Agile
3 14 (24.14%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (22.41%) DevOps
5 11 (18.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (17.24%) Refactoring
7 7 (12.07%) CI/CD
7 7 (12.07%) Data Protection
8 6 (10.34%) Computer Science
8 6 (10.34%) Incident Response
8 6 (10.34%) Security Operations
8 6 (10.34%) SIEM
8 6 (10.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 5 (8.62%) Cyber Resilience
9 5 (8.62%) Disk Encryption
9 5 (8.62%) Observability
10 4 (6.90%) Analytical Thinking
10 4 (6.90%) Customer Service
10 4 (6.90%) Data Deduplication
11 3 (5.17%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 23 (39.66%) PowerShell
2 22 (37.93%) Python
3 6 (10.34%) Perl
4 3 (5.17%) Java
4 3 (5.17%) SQL
5 2 (3.45%) C#
5 2 (3.45%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.72%) Bash
6 1 (1.72%) Bicep
6 1 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 7 (12.07%) Degree
1 7 (12.07%) SC Cleared
1 7 (12.07%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.34%) CompTIA CySA+
2 6 (10.34%) CompTIA Security+
2 6 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.90%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.45%) MCSA
6 1 (1.72%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.72%) NCDA
6 1 (1.72%) VCAP
6 1 (1.72%) VCP6
6 1 (1.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.45%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (3.45%) SLA
2 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.72%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (20.69%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.17%) vSphere
4 1 (1.72%) Docker
4 1 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.72%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (20.69%) SCCM
2 8 (13.79%) Ansible
3 7 (12.07%) Kubernetes
4 6 (10.34%) Grafana
5 5 (8.62%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (8.62%) NetBackup
5 5 (8.62%) Prometheus
6 4 (6.90%) FortiGate
7 2 (3.45%) Terraform
8 1 (1.72%) HP UCMDB
8 1 (1.72%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.72%) vMotion
8 1 (1.72%) vRealize
Vendors
1 19 (32.76%) Microsoft
2 11 (18.97%) Splunk
3 8 (13.79%) Cisco
4 6 (10.34%) Dell
5 5 (8.62%) HP
5 5 (8.62%) Veritas
6 4 (6.90%) Palo Alto
6 4 (6.90%) VMware
7 3 (5.17%) Canon
7 3 (5.17%) ServiceNow
8 2 (3.45%) Apple
8 2 (3.45%) Aruba
8 2 (3.45%) Citrix
9 1 (1.72%) Brocade
9 1 (1.72%) Commvault
9 1 (1.72%) Equitrac
9 1 (1.72%) NetApp
9 1 (1.72%) Oracle
9 1 (1.72%) Progress
9 1 (1.72%) SolarWinds