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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 19 20
Rank change year-on-year -13 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Windows 60 85 56
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.73% 11.26% 8.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 39.74% 40.09% 43.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 53 39
10th Percentile £156 £200 £169
25th Percentile £248 £400 £241
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £496 £468
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% +6.10% +9.36%
75th Percentile £625 £550 £613
90th Percentile £675 £579 £788
Scotland median daily rate £375 £465 £345
% change year-on-year -19.35% +34.78% -13.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.17 - -
Median hourly rate £16.25 £25.15 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.39% - -
75th Percentile £25.67 - -
90th Percentile £31.27 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £16.09 £25.15 £18.27
% change year-on-year -36.02% +37.66% -0.30%

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 151 212 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 14.41% 28.08% 18.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 100 90
10th Percentile £202 £211 £200
25th Percentile £325 £410 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £491 £418
Median % change year-on-year -18.45% +17.49% -16.50%
75th Percentile £580 £550 £500
90th Percentile £675 £588 £613
Scotland median daily rate £400 £475 £410
% change year-on-year -15.79% +15.85% -11.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 14 3
10th Percentile £13.31 - -
25th Percentile £13.45 - £57.50
Median hourly rate £14.65 £25.15 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.77% -58.08% +80.02%
75th Percentile £16.33 - £62.50
90th Percentile £20.16 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £15.81 £25.15 £20.29
% change year-on-year -37.14% +23.98% -39.37%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.67%) Apache
2 1 (1.67%) JBoss
2 1 (1.67%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 14 (23.33%) Azure
2 9 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (15.00%) OpenShift
3 4 (6.67%) AWS
3 4 (6.67%) GCP
4 3 (5.00%) GitHub
5 2 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.33%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.33%) Rubrik
5 2 (3.33%) SaaS
6 1 (1.67%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (1.67%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (1.67%) Google Gemini
6 1 (1.67%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.33%) NAS
1 5 (8.33%) SAN
2 4 (6.67%) DHCP
2 4 (6.67%) DNS
3 3 (5.00%) LAN
3 3 (5.00%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (3.33%) Network Security
4 2 (3.33%) WAN
5 1 (1.67%) Firewall
5 1 (1.67%) ISDN
5 1 (1.67%) MGCP
5 1 (1.67%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.67%) VLAN
5 1 (1.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.67%) MariaDB
1 1 (1.67%) MySQL
1 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (6.67%) JIRA
2 3 (5.00%) Git
3 2 (3.33%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.67%) Ant
4 1 (1.67%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.67%) Claude Code
4 1 (1.67%) Gemini Tracker
4 1 (1.67%) Maven
4 1 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 20 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.00%) Finance
3 8 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (13.33%) Legal
4 6 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (21.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (16.67%) Windows Engineer
3 8 (13.33%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) Analyst
5 5 (8.33%) Lead
6 4 (6.67%) Architect
6 4 (6.67%) Python Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Site Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Support Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) 1st Line Support
7 3 (5.00%) 1st Line Support Analyst
7 3 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Field Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.00%) Support Analyst
8 2 (3.33%) Computer Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Printer Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Python Developer
8 2 (3.33%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.33%) Kafka
2 6 (10.00%) Celery
2 6 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
2 6 (10.00%) REST
3 3 (5.00%) RESTful
4 1 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.67%) Fluent Bit
4 1 (1.67%) JDBC
4 1 (1.67%) Loki
4 1 (1.67%) Middleware
4 1 (1.67%) ODBC
4 1 (1.67%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.67%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.67%) Smartphone
3 3 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.33%) Driving Licence
4 2 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.33%) Replication
4 2 (3.33%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.67%) Clustering
5 1 (1.67%) CMDB
5 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.67%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.67%) Thin Client
5 1 (1.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (23.33%) Windows Server
2 12 (20.00%) Linux
3 10 (16.67%) Unix
4 9 (15.00%) Windows 10
5 3 (5.00%) Mac OS
5 3 (5.00%) Windows 7
6 2 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.67%) Android
7 1 (1.67%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.67%) SUSE
7 1 (1.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (28.33%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (23.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 12 (20.00%) Migration
4 10 (16.67%) Customer Service
5 9 (15.00%) Asset Management
6 8 (13.33%) CI/CD
7 7 (11.67%) Data Protection
7 7 (11.67%) Decision-Making
7 7 (11.67%) ITSM
7 7 (11.67%) Observability
7 7 (11.67%) Validation
8 6 (10.00%) Cost Optimisation
8 6 (10.00%) Machine Learning
8 6 (10.00%) Runbook
8 6 (10.00%) Service Delivery
9 5 (8.33%) Change Management
9 5 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (8.33%) ITIL
9 5 (8.33%) Service Management
9 5 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (20.00%) Python
2 8 (13.33%) PowerShell
3 5 (8.33%) Perl
4 3 (5.00%) Bash
5 2 (3.33%) Java
5 2 (3.33%) PL/SQL
5 2 (3.33%) Shell Script
5 2 (3.33%) SQL
6 1 (1.67%) Groovy
6 1 (1.67%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 7 (11.67%) SC Cleared
1 7 (11.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.33%) Degree
3 1 (1.67%) CCNP
3 1 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) PMO
1 3 (5.00%) SLA
2 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.67%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.67%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (1.67%) NCSC
2 1 (1.67%) RMADS
System Software
1 15 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (8.33%) Hyper-V
4 4 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (5.00%) Firmware
5 3 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (5.00%) vSphere
6 2 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.67%) Docker
7 1 (1.67%) etcd
Systems Management
1 12 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.00%) NetBackup
3 5 (8.33%) SCCM
4 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (5.00%) Terraform
5 2 (3.33%) Ansible
5 2 (3.33%) Netcool
5 2 (3.33%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.33%) SCOM
6 1 (1.67%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.67%) Cisco UCCX
6 1 (1.67%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.67%) Fluentd
6 1 (1.67%) Grafana
6 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.67%) Podman
6 1 (1.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.33%) VMware
3 6 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 5 (8.33%) Google
5 4 (6.67%) Citrix
5 4 (6.67%) Dell
5 4 (6.67%) Splunk
5 4 (6.67%) Veritas
6 2 (3.33%) Acronis
6 2 (3.33%) Canon
6 2 (3.33%) CyberArk
6 2 (3.33%) HP
6 2 (3.33%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.67%) Avaya
7 1 (1.67%) Cisco
7 1 (1.67%) Oracle
7 1 (1.67%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.67%) SaltStack