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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 15 22
Rank change year-on-year -8 +7 -5
Contract jobs citing Windows 50 95 80
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 7.53% 12.98% 9.41%
As % of the Operating Systems category 39.37% 47.98% 35.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 49 59
10th Percentile £181 £181 £280
25th Percentile £206 £220 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -18.18% +37.50%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £650
90th Percentile £666 £580 £700
Scotland median daily rate £425 £425 £500
% change year-on-year - -15.00% +42.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £16.17 - -
25th Percentile £20.66 - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £37.09 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £22.44 £65.77
% change year-on-year +12.09% -65.88% +285.94%

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 127 198 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 19.13% 27.05% 26.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 97 134
10th Percentile £200 £190 £363
25th Percentile £323 £363 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £465 £558
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% -16.68% +1.36%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £650
90th Percentile £612 £589 £726
Scotland median daily rate £425 £450 £550
% change year-on-year -5.56% -18.18% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £16.17 - £19.40
25th Percentile £20.66 - £24.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £33.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +150.76%
75th Percentile - - £41.50
90th Percentile £37.09 - £46.60
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £22.88 £54.52
% change year-on-year +9.95% -58.04% +207.65%

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 16 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 16 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 (6.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 19 (38.00%) Azure
2 10 (20.00%) AWS
3 6 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.00%) GitHub
4 3 (6.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.00%) GCP
5 1 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.00%) WAN
2 6 (12.00%) SD-WAN
3 5 (10.00%) DNS
4 3 (6.00%) NAS
4 3 (6.00%) SAN
4 3 (6.00%) TCP/IP
5 2 (4.00%) DHCP
5 2 (4.00%) Firewall
5 2 (4.00%) LAN
5 2 (4.00%) VPN
6 1 (2.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.00%) MSDE
2 1 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.00%) MySQL
2 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (14.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (10.00%) JIRA
3 4 (8.00%) Git
4 3 (6.00%) Bitbucket
4 3 (6.00%) IntelliJ
4 3 (6.00%) PyCharm
4 3 (6.00%) Visual Studio
4 3 (6.00%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (2.00%) Hudson
5 1 (2.00%) JUnit
General
1 21 (42.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (34.00%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (24.00%) Finance
4 11 (22.00%) Legal
5 3 (6.00%) Banking
5 3 (6.00%) Investment Banking
5 3 (6.00%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 10 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
2 9 (18.00%) Automation Engineer
3 8 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (14.00%) Security Engineer
5 6 (12.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Field Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Analyst
7 4 (8.00%) Architect
7 4 (8.00%) Deployment Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) IT Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (6.00%) Developer
8 3 (6.00%) Hardware Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) IT Support
8 3 (6.00%) IT Support Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Lead
8 3 (6.00%) Senior
8 3 (6.00%) SOC Analyst
8 3 (6.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.00%) REST
2 3 (6.00%) Loki
3 1 (2.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (2.00%) JPA
3 1 (2.00%) React
3 1 (2.00%) Spring
3 1 (2.00%) Spring Batch
3 1 (2.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.00%) Data Centre
1 4 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (6.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (6.00%) Cyberattack
2 3 (6.00%) Device Driver
2 3 (6.00%) Driving Licence
2 3 (6.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (4.00%) CMDB
3 2 (4.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.00%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.00%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.00%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 9 (18.00%) Unix
2 9 (18.00%) Windows 10
3 7 (14.00%) Linux
4 5 (10.00%) Mac OS
5 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (26.00%) Agile
3 11 (22.00%) DevOps
4 10 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (14.00%) Refactoring
6 6 (12.00%) CI/CD
7 5 (10.00%) Data Protection
7 5 (10.00%) Disk Encryption
7 5 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (8.00%) Observability
8 4 (8.00%) SDLC
9 3 (6.00%) Analytical Thinking
9 3 (6.00%) Containerisation
9 3 (6.00%) Customer Service
9 3 (6.00%) Cyber Resilience
9 3 (6.00%) Data Deduplication
9 3 (6.00%) Incident Response
9 3 (6.00%) Issue Tracking
9 3 (6.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 19 (38.00%) Python
2 18 (36.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (8.00%) Java
3 4 (8.00%) Perl
4 3 (6.00%) C#
4 3 (6.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.00%) SQL
6 1 (2.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (8.00%) Degree
2 3 (6.00%) CompTIA CySA+
2 3 (6.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 3 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (6.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (6.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.00%) MCSA
4 1 (2.00%) A+ Certification
4 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) SLA
2 1 (2.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.00%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.00%) vSphere
3 1 (2.00%) Docker
3 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (26.00%) SCCM
2 7 (14.00%) Ansible
2 7 (14.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (8.00%) FortiGate
4 4 (8.00%) Grafana
4 4 (8.00%) NetBackup
4 4 (8.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (6.00%) Terraform
6 1 (2.00%) HP UCMDB
Vendors
1 19 (38.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (16.00%) Splunk
3 6 (12.00%) Cisco
4 4 (8.00%) Dell
4 4 (8.00%) HP
4 4 (8.00%) Palo Alto
4 4 (8.00%) Veritas
5 3 (6.00%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.00%) Apple
6 2 (4.00%) Canon
6 2 (4.00%) Citrix
6 2 (4.00%) VMware
7 1 (2.00%) Aruba
7 1 (2.00%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (2.00%) Oracle
7 1 (2.00%) Progress