Windows Contracts in Glasgow

Microsoft Windows
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for Windows skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 16 22
Rank change year-on-year -8 +6 -2
Contract jobs citing Windows 72 98 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 8.21% 10.71% 8.10%
As % of the Operating Systems category 37.70% 42.79% 44.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 63 68
10th Percentile £181 £167 £149
25th Percentile £313 £250 £187
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £326
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% +30.27% -1.14%
75th Percentile £619 £539 £475
90th Percentile £704 £600 £550
Scotland median daily rate £450 £375 £330
% change year-on-year +20.00% +13.64% -7.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £15.79
25th Percentile - - £16.91
Median hourly rate - £60.55 £20.43
Median % change year-on-year - +196.38% +68.29%
75th Percentile - - £24.80
90th Percentile - - £26.42
Scotland median hourly rate £18.27 £20.79 £20.00
% change year-on-year -12.12% +3.95% +63.27%

All Operating Systems
Glasgow

Windows is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 191 229 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 21.78% 25.03% 18.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 158 129
10th Percentile £200 £250 £160
25th Percentile £331 £400 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% +20.81%
75th Percentile £628 £676 £540
90th Percentile £750 £750 £600
Scotland median daily rate £500 £480 £450
% change year-on-year +4.28% +6.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 3
10th Percentile £30.10 £51.14 £16.53
25th Percentile £51.25 £56.25 £18.77
Median hourly rate £60.00 £60.55 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +142.20% +100.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £66.56 £38.52
90th Percentile - £67.88 £45.13
Scotland median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +162.50% +33.33%

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

Windows
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

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Glasgow over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Glasgow

Windows
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

Windows
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 7 (9.72%) IIS
1 7 (9.72%) SharePoint
2 6 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (8.33%) SAS
3 3 (4.17%) Skype for Business
4 2 (2.78%) Confluence
5 1 (1.39%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 7 (9.72%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 18 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (20.83%) AWS
2 15 (20.83%) Azure
3 8 (11.11%) OpenShift
4 4 (5.56%) OneDrive
4 4 (5.56%) Power Platform
4 4 (5.56%) PowerApps
5 3 (4.17%) Amazon Cognito
6 2 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (2.78%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.78%) Serverless
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.39%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.50%) SAN
2 7 (9.72%) Fibre Channel
2 7 (9.72%) Firewall
2 7 (9.72%) iSCSI
3 6 (8.33%) DNS
4 4 (5.56%) NAS
5 3 (4.17%) Skype
5 3 (4.17%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.78%) LAN
6 2 (2.78%) WAN
7 1 (1.39%) DHCP
7 1 (1.39%) VLAN
7 1 (1.39%) VPN
7 1 (1.39%) VSAN
7 1 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.56%) DB2
1 4 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.39%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (8.33%) Git
1 6 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.78%) JIRA
3 1 (1.39%) GitLab
3 1 (1.39%) Selenium
3 1 (1.39%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 33 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 16 (22.22%) Finance
3 11 (15.28%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (13.89%) Banking
4 10 (13.89%) Public Sector
5 6 (8.33%) Investment Banking
6 4 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (16.67%) Windows Engineer
3 10 (13.89%) Analyst
4 8 (11.11%) Support Analyst
4 8 (11.11%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) Linux Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) Python Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) Security Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) Senior
5 7 (9.72%) Support Engineer
6 6 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support
7 5 (6.94%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 5 (6.94%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 5 (6.94%) IT Support
7 5 (6.94%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (6.94%) Storage Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Infrastructure Architect
8 4 (5.56%) IT Analyst
8 4 (5.56%) IT Support Analyst
8 4 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.33%) Flash
1 6 (8.33%) POSIX
2 5 (6.94%) REST
3 1 (1.39%) .NET
3 1 (1.39%) .NET Remoting
3 1 (1.39%) JSON
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.39%) Redfish
3 1 (1.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 5 (6.94%) Client/Server
3 4 (5.56%) CMDB
3 4 (5.56%) iPhone
3 4 (5.56%) NVMe
4 3 (4.17%) iPad
4 3 (4.17%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.78%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.39%) Clustering
6 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (36.11%) Windows Server
2 23 (31.94%) Linux
3 21 (29.17%) Unix
4 9 (12.50%) Windows 10
4 9 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
4 9 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (9.72%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (8.33%) CentOS
6 6 (8.33%) Debian
6 6 (8.33%) Mac OS
6 6 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (5.56%) Apple iOS
7 4 (5.56%) Data ONTAP
8 2 (2.78%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (1.39%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (25.00%) DevOps
2 17 (23.61%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (22.22%) Agile
3 16 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 12 (16.67%) High Availability
4 12 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 10 (13.89%) Customer Service
5 10 (13.89%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (12.50%) Problem Management
7 8 (11.11%) Capacity Management
7 8 (11.11%) CI/CD
8 7 (9.72%) Disk Encryption
8 7 (9.72%) ITIL
9 6 (8.33%) Customer Requirements
9 6 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (8.33%) Observability
9 6 (8.33%) Refactoring
9 6 (8.33%) SDLC
9 6 (8.33%) Storage Management
10 5 (6.94%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 26 (36.11%) Python
2 23 (31.94%) PowerShell
3 10 (13.89%) Perl
4 9 (12.50%) SQL
5 6 (8.33%) Java
6 2 (2.78%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.39%) C
Qualifications
1 8 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.72%) MCSE
2 7 (9.72%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (9.72%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.33%) MCSA
3 6 (8.33%) RHCT
4 2 (2.78%) Degree
4 2 (2.78%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.39%) CCNA
5 1 (1.39%) CCNP
5 1 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.39%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.39%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 8 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (8.33%) Hyper-V
3 6 (8.33%) KVM
3 6 (8.33%) NFS
4 4 (5.56%) Docker
4 4 (5.56%) GPFS
5 2 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.39%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (18.06%) SCCM
2 9 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 6 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (5.56%) NetBackup
4 4 (5.56%) Veritas Storage Foundation
5 3 (4.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (4.17%) Ansible
5 3 (4.17%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (4.17%) Terraform
6 2 (2.78%) Grafana
6 2 (2.78%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.78%) WSUS
Vendors
1 33 (45.83%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.89%) Citrix
2 10 (13.89%) VMware
3 8 (11.11%) Veritas
4 7 (9.72%) ServiceNow
4 7 (9.72%) Splunk
5 6 (8.33%) Red Hat
6 5 (6.94%) Apple
6 5 (6.94%) EMC
6 5 (6.94%) Google
6 5 (6.94%) NetApp
7 4 (5.56%) Brocade
7 4 (5.56%) IBM
7 4 (5.56%) Sybase
8 3 (4.17%) F5
9 2 (2.78%) Cisco
9 2 (2.78%) HP
10 1 (1.39%) Atlassian
10 1 (1.39%) Dell
10 1 (1.39%) SolarWinds