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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 23 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 -8 +5
Contract jobs citing Windows 88 71 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 11.03% 8.10% 11.05%
As % of the Operating Systems category 38.10% 37.57% 43.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 55 66
10th Percentile £253 £181 £167
25th Percentile £411 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.95% +23.53% +28.79%
75th Percentile £550 £619 £539
90th Percentile £580 £704 £607
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £377
% change year-on-year - +19.36% +14.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £60.55
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £18.27 £20.79
% change year-on-year +20.42% -12.12% +3.95%

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 231 189 233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 28.95% 21.55% 25.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 121 162
10th Percentile £393 £200 £250
25th Percentile £413 £325 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £550 £629 £676
90th Percentile £576 £750 £750
Scotland median daily rate £465 £500 £479
% change year-on-year -7.10% +4.38% +6.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 5
10th Percentile - £30.10 £51.14
25th Percentile - £51.25 £56.25
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year - -0.91% +142.20%
75th Percentile - £62.50 £66.56
90th Percentile - - £67.88
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £52.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -58.10% - +162.50%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Glasgow

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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 6 (6.82%) Jupyter
2 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.41%) JBoss
3 3 (3.41%) WebLogic
4 2 (2.27%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.14%) IIS
5 1 (1.14%) SAS
5 1 (1.14%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.14%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 30 (34.09%) Azure
2 17 (19.32%) AWS
3 12 (13.64%) Cloud Computing
3 12 (13.64%) OpenShift
4 11 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 9 (10.23%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (6.82%) Cohesity
7 5 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (5.68%) GitHub
8 4 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.41%) OCI
10 2 (2.27%) Entra ID
10 2 (2.27%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.14%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (1.14%) IaaS
11 1 (1.14%) OneDrive
11 1 (1.14%) PaaS
11 1 (1.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (17.05%) SAN
2 11 (12.50%) NAS
3 5 (5.68%) VPN
4 4 (4.55%) Network Security
5 2 (2.27%) DHCP
5 2 (2.27%) DNS
5 2 (2.27%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.27%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.14%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.14%) HTTP
6 1 (1.14%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.14%) iSCSI
6 1 (1.14%) SSL
6 1 (1.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (17.05%) KDB
1 15 (17.05%) Kdb+
2 8 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.41%) Oracle Exadata
4 2 (2.27%) Power BI
5 1 (1.14%) DB2
5 1 (1.14%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.14%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.14%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 16 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 14 (15.91%) Git
3 5 (5.68%) Bitbucket
4 3 (3.41%) JIRA
5 2 (2.27%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.14%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.14%) PyCharm
6 1 (1.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 54 (61.36%) Social Skills
2 29 (32.95%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (26.14%) Banking
4 18 (20.45%) Investment Banking
5 14 (15.91%) Finance
6 6 (6.82%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (6.82%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Legal
8 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Military
Job Titles
1 30 (34.09%) Developer
2 26 (29.55%) Python Developer
3 20 (22.73%) Senior
4 14 (15.91%) C++ Developer
5 13 (14.77%) Python Engineer
6 11 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (12.50%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
6 11 (12.50%) Linux Developer
6 11 (12.50%) Senior C++ Developer
6 11 (12.50%) Senior Developer
6 11 (12.50%) Senior Python Developer
7 6 (6.82%) Analyst
8 4 (4.55%) Administrator
8 4 (4.55%) Database Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Senior Storage Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Storage Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) Middleware Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) NetBackup Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) Oracle Database Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.41%) FastAPI
1 3 (3.41%) IBM Integration Bus
1 3 (3.41%) LDAP
1 3 (3.41%) Middleware
1 3 (3.41%) pytest
1 3 (3.41%) X-Windows
2 2 (2.27%) .NET
3 1 (1.14%) Flash
3 1 (1.14%) J2EE
3 1 (1.14%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.59%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (7.95%) Management Information System
3 5 (5.68%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (5.68%) Mainframe
4 4 (4.55%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.55%) Enterprise Storage
4 4 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (3.41%) Clustering
5 3 (3.41%) Replication
5 3 (3.41%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.27%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.14%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.14%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.14%) Insider Threat
7 1 (1.14%) NVMe
7 1 (1.14%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 63 (71.59%) Linux
2 26 (29.55%) Unix
2 26 (29.55%) Windows Server
3 16 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (7.95%) Mac OS
5 6 (6.82%) AIX
5 6 (6.82%) Windows 10
6 4 (4.55%) Solaris
7 1 (1.14%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (1.14%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (35.23%) SDLC
2 24 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (26.14%) Containerisation
4 21 (23.86%) CI/CD
5 18 (20.45%) Data Science
6 15 (17.05%) Data Protection
7 14 (15.91%) DevOps
8 13 (14.77%) ITIL
9 11 (12.50%) Data Deduplication
9 11 (12.50%) Decision-Making
9 11 (12.50%) Observability
9 11 (12.50%) Storage Management
10 10 (11.36%) Agile
11 9 (10.23%) Task Automation
12 8 (9.09%) Capacity Management
12 8 (9.09%) Customer Service
12 8 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
12 8 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 8 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
12 8 (9.09%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 53 (60.23%) Python
2 16 (18.18%) C++
3 9 (10.23%) SQL
4 7 (7.95%) C#
4 7 (7.95%) PowerShell
5 6 (6.82%) R
6 5 (5.68%) Java
6 5 (5.68%) Perl
6 5 (5.68%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.41%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.14%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (3.41%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (2.27%) CISM
2 2 (2.27%) CISSP
2 2 (2.27%) Degree
2 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (2.27%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.14%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.14%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.14%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.41%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (3.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 3 (3.41%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (2.27%) SLA
3 1 (1.14%) NIST
3 1 (1.14%) QA
System Software
1 35 (39.77%) Docker
2 12 (13.64%) Active Directory
3 5 (5.68%) Hyper-V
4 4 (4.55%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (3.41%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.14%) Firmware
7 1 (1.14%) GPFS
7 1 (1.14%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (1.14%) NFS
7 1 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (53.41%) Kubernetes
2 11 (12.50%) NetBackup
2 11 (12.50%) Oracle RMAN
3 9 (10.23%) Ansible
4 8 (9.09%) Terraform
5 4 (4.55%) Data Guard
5 4 (4.55%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 4 (4.55%) Progress Chef
5 4 (4.55%) Puppet
5 4 (4.55%) SCCM
6 3 (3.41%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (3.41%) Oracle Flashback
7 2 (2.27%) Podman
7 2 (2.27%) RSA Archer
8 1 (1.14%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (1.14%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 1 (1.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 20 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 12 (13.64%) Veritas
3 10 (11.36%) Oracle
3 10 (11.36%) VMware
4 6 (6.82%) Dynatrace
4 6 (6.82%) Red Hat
5 4 (4.55%) IBM
6 3 (3.41%) Dell
6 3 (3.41%) Netskope
6 3 (3.41%) Proofpoint
6 3 (3.41%) Splunk
6 3 (3.41%) Symantec
7 2 (2.27%) BeyondTrust
7 2 (2.27%) CyberArk
7 2 (2.27%) Qualys
8 1 (1.14%) Brocade
8 1 (1.14%) Citrix
8 1 (1.14%) EMC
8 1 (1.14%) Google
8 1 (1.14%) NetApp