Windows Engineer Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Windows Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £205, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 113 120
Rank change year-on-year +14 +7 +37
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 14 8 14
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.83% 0.48% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 0.52% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 12
10th Percentile £99 - £158
25th Percentile £138 £150 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £205 £163 £575
Median % change year-on-year +26.15% -71.74% +112.96%
75th Percentile £389 £243 £656
90th Percentile £498 £360 £788
UK median daily rate £400 £325 £400
% change year-on-year +23.08% -18.75% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £22.00 £18.27
Median % change year-on-year - +20.42% -
UK median hourly rate £21.46 £22.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -2.45% +22.22% +5.88%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 1,543 1,539 2,177
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.41% 92.88% 94.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 828 948 1,326
10th Percentile £250 £253 £200
25th Percentile £375 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £542 £588
90th Percentile £675 £613 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 44 115
10th Percentile £12.60 £16.30 £12.80
25th Percentile £13.50 £18.51 £16.50
Median hourly rate £21.20 £22.94 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.57% -34.46% +61.51%
75th Percentile £54.06 £24.66 £60.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £39.84 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £32.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year +25.00% -5.26% -24.15%

Windows Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Windows Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Windows Engineer job vacancy trend in Scotland

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Windows Engineer job vacancies in Scotland.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Windows Engineer job vacancies in Scotland

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 5 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Engineer in Scotland

Windows Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Windows Engineer job vacancies in Scotland.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Windows Engineer job vacancies in Scotland

Windows Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 5 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +27 11 £205 - 1
Edinburgh -1 3 - -
Windows Engineer
UK

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 5 April 2026, Windows Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Windows
2 12 (85.71%) PowerShell
3 11 (78.57%) Azure
4 10 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (50.00%) Agile
6 7 (50.00%) AWS
6 7 (50.00%) Python
6 7 (50.00%) Refactoring
7 6 (42.86%) SCCM
8 5 (35.71%) DevOps
9 4 (28.57%) Cyber Resilience
9 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
10 3 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
10 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
10 3 (21.43%) Migration
10 3 (21.43%) Task Automation
10 3 (21.43%) Windows 10
10 3 (21.43%) Windows Server
11 2 (14.29%) Citrix
11 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
11 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
11 2 (14.29%) ITIL
11 2 (14.29%) Risk Management
11 2 (14.29%) Security Management
12 1 (7.14%) Change Management
12 1 (7.14%) Compatibility Testing
12 1 (7.14%) Data Protection
12 1 (7.14%) DHCP

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) Azure
2 7 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.14%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DHCP
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
1 1 (7.14%) LAN
1 1 (7.14%) SAN
1 1 (7.14%) VPN
1 1 (7.14%) VXLAN
1 1 (7.14%) WAN
General
1 6 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Clustering
1 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (21.43%) Windows 10
2 3 (21.43%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.14%) Mac OS
3 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (50.00%) Agile
3 7 (50.00%) Refactoring
4 5 (35.71%) DevOps
5 4 (28.57%) Cyber Resilience
6 3 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (21.43%) Migration
6 3 (21.43%) Task Automation
7 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
7 2 (14.29%) ITIL
7 2 (14.29%) Risk Management
7 2 (14.29%) Security Management
8 1 (7.14%) Change Management
8 1 (7.14%) Compatibility Testing
8 1 (7.14%) Data Protection
8 1 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (7.14%) Disk Encryption
8 1 (7.14%) Identity Management
8 1 (7.14%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) PowerShell
2 7 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) SCCM
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Citrix
3 1 (7.14%) Splunk
3 1 (7.14%) Veeam
3 1 (7.14%) VMware