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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 21 20
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Windows 93 56 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 11.37% 7.39% 9.45%
As % of the Operating Systems category 40.26% 39.44% 43.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 39 56
10th Percentile £196 £169 £136
25th Percentile £402 £206 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £448 £440
Median % change year-on-year +4.58% +1.93% +5.90%
75th Percentile £525 £613 £548
90th Percentile £577 £788 £600
Scotland median daily rate £444 £350 £375
% change year-on-year +26.79% -6.67% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 6
10th Percentile - - £15.44
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £17.72
75th Percentile - - £18.63
90th Percentile - - £39.74
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £18.13 £17.72
% change year-on-year +38.72% +2.31% -11.40%

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 231 142 201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 28.24% 18.73% 21.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 96 123
10th Percentile £213 £200 £250
25th Percentile £410 £315 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.75% -20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £544 £506 £613
90th Percentile £582 £709 £727
Scotland median daily rate £465 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +16.13% -11.11% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 11
10th Percentile - £53.13 £14.50
25th Percentile - £55.94 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £60.00 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year -58.08% +216.96% +19.36%
75th Percentile - £62.50 £59.65
90th Percentile £28.39 - £66.56
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £19.18
% change year-on-year +4.01% +26.07% +8.24%

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

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Glasgow over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

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

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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 8 (8.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.30%) Exchange Server 2013
3 3 (3.23%) JBoss
3 3 (3.23%) WebLogic
4 2 (2.15%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.08%) SAS
5 1 (1.08%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.08%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.08%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 33 (35.48%) Azure
2 23 (24.73%) AWS
3 15 (16.13%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (12.90%) GitHub
5 11 (11.83%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (7.53%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (7.53%) OpenShift
7 7 (7.53%) SaaS
8 6 (6.45%) Amazon S3
8 6 (6.45%) Cohesity
9 4 (4.30%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (3.23%) OCI
11 2 (2.15%) Entra ID
11 2 (2.15%) IaaS
11 2 (2.15%) Power Platform
12 1 (1.08%) OneDrive
12 1 (1.08%) PaaS
12 1 (1.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.75%) SAN
2 6 (6.45%) NAS
3 3 (3.23%) DHCP
3 3 (3.23%) DNS
3 3 (3.23%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.15%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.08%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.08%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.08%) VPN
5 1 (1.08%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.75%) KDB
1 10 (10.75%) Kdb+
2 8 (8.60%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.23%) Oracle Exadata
4 2 (2.15%) Power BI
5 1 (1.08%) DB2
5 1 (1.08%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.08%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.08%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 17 (18.28%) Git
1 17 (18.28%) Jenkins
2 12 (12.90%) Bitbucket
2 12 (12.90%) IntelliJ
2 12 (12.90%) Visual Studio
2 12 (12.90%) Visual Studio Code
3 11 (11.83%) JIRA
3 11 (11.83%) PyCharm
General
1 40 (43.01%) Social Skills
2 21 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (20.43%) Finance
4 16 (17.20%) Public Sector
5 15 (16.13%) Banking
6 11 (11.83%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.23%) Legal
8 2 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.08%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.08%) Military
Job Titles
1 20 (21.51%) Developer
2 19 (20.43%) Python Developer
3 18 (19.35%) Senior
4 15 (16.13%) Analyst
5 10 (10.75%) C++ Developer
5 10 (10.75%) Investment Banking C++ Developer
5 10 (10.75%) Linux Developer
5 10 (10.75%) Senior C++ Developer
5 10 (10.75%) Senior Developer
5 10 (10.75%) Senior Python Developer
6 9 (9.68%) Python Engineer
7 7 (7.53%) Deployment Engineer
8 6 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (6.45%) Service Analyst
8 6 (6.45%) Service Desk Analyst
9 5 (5.38%) Administrator
10 4 (4.30%) Database Engineer
10 4 (4.30%) Senior Storage Engineer
10 4 (4.30%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.30%) X-Windows
2 3 (3.23%) FastAPI
2 3 (3.23%) IBM Integration Bus
2 3 (3.23%) LDAP
2 3 (3.23%) Middleware
2 3 (3.23%) pytest
3 2 (2.15%) .NET
4 1 (1.08%) Flash
4 1 (1.08%) J2EE
4 1 (1.08%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.98%) Public Cloud
2 10 (10.75%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (8.60%) Virtual Team
4 5 (5.38%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.30%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (3.23%) Clustering
6 3 (3.23%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.23%) Device Driver
6 3 (3.23%) Driving Licence
6 3 (3.23%) Replication
7 1 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.08%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.08%) Insider Threat
7 1 (1.08%) NVMe
7 1 (1.08%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.08%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 55 (59.14%) Linux
2 23 (24.73%) Windows Server
3 18 (19.35%) Windows 10
4 16 (17.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (16.13%) Unix
6 8 (8.60%) Mac OS
7 4 (4.30%) AIX
7 4 (4.30%) Solaris
7 4 (4.30%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.08%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (30.11%) SDLC
2 25 (26.88%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (21.51%) CI/CD
4 17 (18.28%) Agile
5 15 (16.13%) DevOps
5 15 (16.13%) ITIL
6 13 (13.98%) Deployment Automation
7 12 (12.90%) Test Automation
8 11 (11.83%) Containerisation
9 10 (10.75%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (10.75%) Data Science
10 9 (9.68%) Build Automation
10 9 (9.68%) Customer Service
10 9 (9.68%) Storage Management
10 9 (9.68%) Task Automation
11 8 (8.60%) Data Protection
11 8 (8.60%) Performance Tuning
12 7 (7.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (7.53%) Disaster Recovery
12 7 (7.53%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (40.86%) Python
2 14 (15.05%) C#
3 12 (12.90%) Java
3 12 (12.90%) TypeScript
4 11 (11.83%) C++
5 5 (5.38%) PowerShell
5 5 (5.38%) SQL
6 3 (3.23%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.15%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.08%) Bicep
8 1 (1.08%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (10.75%) SC Cleared
1 10 (10.75%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.45%) Degree
2 6 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (5.38%) CISSP
4 3 (3.23%) CompTIA CySA+
4 3 (3.23%) GCIA
4 3 (3.23%) GCIH
4 3 (3.23%) MCSA
5 2 (2.15%) CASP
5 2 (2.15%) CISM
5 2 (2.15%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.08%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.08%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.30%) SLA
2 3 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 3 (3.23%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.15%) QA
System Software
1 18 (19.35%) Docker
2 15 (16.13%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.30%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (3.23%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.23%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (2.15%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.08%) GPFS
6 1 (1.08%) NFS
6 1 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (35.48%) Kubernetes
2 15 (16.13%) Terraform
3 14 (15.05%) Ansible
4 6 (6.45%) NetBackup
4 6 (6.45%) Oracle RMAN
4 6 (6.45%) SCCM
5 4 (4.30%) Data Guard
5 4 (4.30%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 3 (3.23%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (3.23%) Oracle Flashback
7 2 (2.15%) Podman
7 2 (2.15%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.15%) Puppet
7 2 (2.15%) RSA Archer
8 1 (1.08%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.08%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 37 (39.78%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.68%) Oracle
3 7 (7.53%) Veritas
4 6 (6.45%) Dynatrace
4 6 (6.45%) Red Hat
4 6 (6.45%) VMware
5 4 (4.30%) IBM
6 3 (3.23%) ArcSight
6 3 (3.23%) Dell
6 3 (3.23%) Netskope
6 3 (3.23%) Proofpoint
6 3 (3.23%) Splunk
6 3 (3.23%) Symantec
7 2 (2.15%) Apple
7 2 (2.15%) BeyondTrust
7 2 (2.15%) CyberArk
7 2 (2.15%) Qualys
8 1 (1.08%) Adobe
8 1 (1.08%) EMC
8 1 (1.08%) NetApp