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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 17 20
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing Windows 64 102 83
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 9.05% 12.41% 8.84%
As % of the Operating Systems category 59.81% 41.98% 39.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 50 63
10th Percentile £187 £190 £203
25th Percentile £372 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £465 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -15.45% +37.50%
75th Percentile £625 £550 £637
90th Percentile £668 £576 £700
Scotland median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £16.14 - -
25th Percentile £16.17 - -
Median hourly rate £16.25 - -
75th Percentile £16.33 - -
90th Percentile £31.80 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £22.44 £18.27
% change year-on-year -27.58% +22.81% -12.12%

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 107 243 212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 15.13% 29.56% 22.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 114 131
10th Percentile £209 £350 £205
25th Percentile £358 £411 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £464 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.31% -15.73% -
75th Percentile £575 £538 £650
90th Percentile £651 £575 £750
Scotland median daily rate £400 £459 £530
% change year-on-year -12.81% -13.44% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 5
10th Percentile £16.14 - £30.10
25th Percentile £16.17 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £16.25 - £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.65%
75th Percentile £16.33 - £62.50
90th Percentile £31.80 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £16.25 £22.44 £52.50
% change year-on-year -27.58% -57.26% -

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 25 (39.06%) Azure
2 9 (14.06%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (12.50%) AWS
4 7 (10.94%) OpenShift
5 2 (3.13%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.56%) GCP
6 1 (1.56%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.56%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.56%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.56%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (21.88%) WAN
2 12 (18.75%) DNS
3 8 (12.50%) SD-WAN
4 7 (10.94%) SAN
5 6 (9.38%) DHCP
5 6 (9.38%) LAN
5 6 (9.38%) NAS
5 6 (9.38%) TCP/IP
6 5 (7.81%) Firewall
7 2 (3.13%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (1.56%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (1.56%) Network Security
8 1 (1.56%) VoIP
8 1 (1.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.56%) Power BI
1 1 (1.56%) Power Query
1 1 (1.56%) QlikView
1 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (10.94%) Git
1 7 (10.94%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.81%) JIRA
3 1 (1.56%) Hudson
General
1 28 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 21 (32.81%) Legal
3 16 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (21.88%) Finance
5 6 (9.38%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.56%) Law
6 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 15 (23.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (20.31%) Automation Engineer
3 11 (17.19%) Windows Engineer
4 9 (14.06%) Analyst
4 9 (14.06%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (12.50%) Field Engineer
6 7 (10.94%) Architect
6 7 (10.94%) Hardware Engineer
6 7 (10.94%) Lead
6 7 (10.94%) Security Engineer
7 6 (9.38%) Computer Engineer
7 6 (9.38%) Field Hardware Engineer
7 6 (9.38%) Printer Engineer
7 6 (9.38%) SOC Analyst
7 6 (9.38%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (6.25%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) PowerShell Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Site Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 3 (4.69%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.94%) REST
2 6 (9.38%) Loki
3 1 (1.56%) Fluent Bit
3 1 (1.56%) Kafka
3 1 (1.56%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 7 (10.94%) Driving Licence
2 7 (10.94%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (9.38%) Cyberattack
3 6 (9.38%) Security Operations Centre
3 6 (9.38%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.56%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.56%) CMDB
4 1 (1.56%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.56%) Device Driver
4 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.56%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.56%) NVMe
4 1 (1.56%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.56%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 22 (34.38%) Windows Server
2 9 (14.06%) Linux
3 8 (12.50%) Unix
4 6 (9.38%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (7.81%) Windows 10
6 4 (6.25%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.56%) Android
7 1 (1.56%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (45.31%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 14 (21.88%) Agile
4 12 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
5 10 (15.63%) Customer Service
6 9 (14.06%) Data Protection
7 8 (12.50%) CI/CD
7 8 (12.50%) DevOps
7 8 (12.50%) Observability
7 8 (12.50%) Refactoring
8 7 (10.94%) Computer Science
9 6 (9.38%) Analytical Thinking
9 6 (9.38%) Data Deduplication
9 6 (9.38%) Incident Response
9 6 (9.38%) Security Operations
9 6 (9.38%) Service Management
9 6 (9.38%) SIEM
9 6 (9.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 5 (7.81%) Cyber Resilience
10 5 (7.81%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 25 (39.06%) PowerShell
2 19 (29.69%) Python
3 8 (12.50%) Perl
4 2 (3.13%) SQL
5 1 (1.56%) Bash
5 1 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.56%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 12 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 12 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.94%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (10.94%) Degree
3 6 (9.38%) CompTIA CySA+
3 6 (9.38%) CompTIA Security+
4 5 (7.81%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.56%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.56%) CEH
5 1 (1.56%) CISM
5 1 (1.56%) CISSP
5 1 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.56%) NCDA
5 1 (1.56%) VCAP
5 1 (1.56%) VCP6
5 1 (1.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.69%) SLA
2 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.56%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.56%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.56%) NCSC
2 1 (1.56%) NIST
2 1 (1.56%) RMADS
System Software
1 16 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (10.94%) vSphere
4 1 (1.56%) Docker
4 1 (1.56%) etcd
4 1 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (12.50%) Ansible
1 8 (12.50%) Grafana
1 8 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 8 (12.50%) Prometheus
2 7 (10.94%) NetBackup
2 7 (10.94%) SCCM
3 4 (6.25%) FortiGate
4 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.56%) Fluentd
5 1 (1.56%) PowerCLI
5 1 (1.56%) vMotion
5 1 (1.56%) vRealize
Vendors
1 15 (23.44%) Microsoft
2 12 (18.75%) Dell
3 9 (14.06%) Cisco
3 9 (14.06%) Splunk
4 8 (12.50%) VMware
5 7 (10.94%) Veritas
6 6 (9.38%) Canon
6 6 (9.38%) HP
6 6 (9.38%) ServiceNow
7 4 (6.25%) Palo Alto
8 3 (4.69%) Citrix
9 2 (3.13%) Aruba
9 2 (3.13%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (1.56%) Apple
10 1 (1.56%) Brocade
10 1 (1.56%) Commvault
10 1 (1.56%) Equitrac
10 1 (1.56%) Google
10 1 (1.56%) NetApp
10 1 (1.56%) Zerto