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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 23 19
Rank change year-on-year -18 -4 -1
Contract jobs citing Windows 61 75 52
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 5.28% 10.25% 7.69%
As % of the Operating Systems category 34.66% 37.13% 41.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 45 38
10th Percentile £154 £191 £161
25th Percentile £201 £200 £181
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £485 £425
Median % change year-on-year -12.37% +14.12% -5.56%
75th Percentile £634 £538 £547
90th Percentile £675 £575 £683
Scotland median daily rate £250 £450 £339
% change year-on-year -44.44% +32.84% -21.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 -
Median % change year-on-year +39.17% - -
Scotland median hourly rate £17.57 £25.15 £18.27
% change year-on-year -30.14% +37.66% -4.12%

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 176 202 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 15.22% 27.60% 18.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 90 84
10th Percentile £175 £200 £178
25th Percentile £325 £402 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £471 £400
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +17.75% -15.79%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £500
90th Percentile £675 £581 £634
Scotland median daily rate £375 £469 £400
% change year-on-year -19.96% +17.13% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 2
10th Percentile £13.24 - -
25th Percentile £13.45 - £57.50
Median hourly rate £14.65 £25.15 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.77% -58.08% +216.96%
75th Percentile £21.09 - £62.50
90th Percentile £35.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £15.81 £25.15 £19.28
% change year-on-year -37.14% +30.46% -60.55%

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 September 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
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 (3.28%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.64%) Apache
2 1 (1.64%) JBoss
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.64%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 12 (19.67%) Azure
2 11 (18.03%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (13.11%) OpenShift
4 6 (9.84%) GCP
5 5 (8.20%) AWS
6 3 (4.92%) Entra ID
6 3 (4.92%) GitHub
7 2 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.28%) Google Workspace
7 2 (3.28%) Rubrik
8 1 (1.64%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (1.64%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (1.64%) Google Gemini
8 1 (1.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.20%) DHCP
1 5 (8.20%) DNS
2 4 (6.56%) NAS
2 4 (6.56%) SAN
3 3 (4.92%) LAN
3 3 (4.92%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (3.28%) Network Security
4 2 (3.28%) VLAN
4 2 (3.28%) VoIP
4 2 (3.28%) WAN
5 1 (1.64%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.64%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.64%) ISDN
5 1 (1.64%) MGCP
5 1 (1.64%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.64%) MariaDB
1 1 (1.64%) MySQL
1 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Bitbucket
1 2 (3.28%) Git
1 2 (3.28%) JIRA
2 1 (1.64%) Ant
2 1 (1.64%) Artifactory
2 1 (1.64%) Claude Code
2 1 (1.64%) Gemini Tracker
2 1 (1.64%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.64%) Maven
2 1 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.64%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 19 (31.15%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.03%) Finance
3 8 (13.11%) Public Sector
4 7 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.92%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.92%) Legal
6 2 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Military
7 1 (1.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (21.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (16.39%) Windows Engineer
3 8 (13.11%) Analyst
3 8 (13.11%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (9.84%) Support Engineer
5 5 (8.20%) Lead
5 5 (8.20%) Python Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Support Analyst
7 3 (4.92%) 1st Line Support
7 3 (4.92%) 1st Line Support Analyst
7 3 (4.92%) Architect
7 3 (4.92%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Service Analyst
7 3 (4.92%) Service Desk Analyst
7 3 (4.92%) Site Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.28%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.48%) Kafka
2 6 (9.84%) Celery
2 6 (9.84%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (8.20%) REST
4 3 (4.92%) RESTful
4 3 (4.92%) Terraform
5 1 (1.64%) .NET
5 1 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.64%) JDBC
5 1 (1.64%) Middleware
5 1 (1.64%) ODBC
5 1 (1.64%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.20%) Smartphone
2 4 (6.56%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.92%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (4.92%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.28%) Clustering
4 2 (3.28%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.28%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.28%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.28%) NVMe
4 2 (3.28%) PKI
4 2 (3.28%) Replication
5 1 (1.64%) CCTV
5 1 (1.64%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.64%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.64%) Thin Client
5 1 (1.64%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (21.31%) Windows Server
2 12 (19.67%) Linux
3 9 (14.75%) Unix
3 9 (14.75%) Windows 10
4 5 (8.20%) Mac OS
5 3 (4.92%) Windows 7
6 2 (3.28%) Android
6 2 (3.28%) Apple iOS
6 2 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (3.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.64%) SUSE
7 1 (1.64%) VMS
7 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (26.23%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (24.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (21.31%) Migration
4 12 (19.67%) Customer Service
5 10 (16.39%) Asset Management
5 10 (16.39%) ITSM
6 9 (14.75%) Validation
7 8 (13.11%) CI/CD
8 7 (11.48%) DevOps
9 6 (9.84%) Data Protection
9 6 (9.84%) ITIL
9 6 (9.84%) Machine Learning
10 5 (8.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (8.20%) Decision-Making
10 5 (8.20%) Observability
10 5 (8.20%) Project Delivery
11 4 (6.56%) Cost Optimisation
11 4 (6.56%) Infrastructure as Code
11 4 (6.56%) Runbook
11 4 (6.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (19.67%) Python
2 9 (14.75%) PowerShell
3 5 (8.20%) Perl
4 3 (4.92%) Bash
4 3 (4.92%) SQL
5 2 (3.28%) Java
5 2 (3.28%) PL/SQL
5 2 (3.28%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.64%) C#
6 1 (1.64%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 6 (9.84%) SC Cleared
1 6 (9.84%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.92%) Degree
3 2 (3.28%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.64%) CCNP
4 1 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.64%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.92%) PMO
2 1 (1.64%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.64%) NCSC
2 1 (1.64%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (26.23%) Active Directory
2 8 (13.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (9.84%) Hyper-V
4 4 (6.56%) Firmware
4 4 (6.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (6.56%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (4.92%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (4.92%) vSphere
6 2 (3.28%) Docker
7 1 (1.64%) GPFS
7 1 (1.64%) KVM
7 1 (1.64%) NFS
7 1 (1.64%) UAG
Systems Management
1 11 (18.03%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.20%) NetBackup
2 5 (8.20%) SCCM
3 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (4.92%) SCOM
4 2 (3.28%) Ansible
4 2 (3.28%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (3.28%) Netcool
5 1 (1.64%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (1.64%) Cisco UCCX
5 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (1.64%) Podman
5 1 (1.64%) Puppet
5 1 (1.64%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.64%) WMI
Vendors
1 19 (31.15%) Microsoft
2 9 (14.75%) VMware
3 7 (11.48%) Google
4 5 (8.20%) ServiceNow
5 4 (6.56%) Veritas
6 3 (4.92%) Citrix
6 3 (4.92%) Splunk
7 2 (3.28%) Acronis
7 2 (3.28%) Cisco
7 2 (3.28%) CyberArk
7 2 (3.28%) Dell
7 2 (3.28%) EMC
7 2 (3.28%) IBM
7 2 (3.28%) NetApp
7 2 (3.28%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.64%) Avaya
8 1 (1.64%) Hitachi
8 1 (1.64%) Intel
8 1 (1.64%) Oracle
8 1 (1.64%) Red Hat