Windows Engineer Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Windows Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 110 100
Rank change year-on-year -18 -10 +45
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 11 7 17
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.48% 0.44% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.49% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 14
10th Percentile £447 - £125
25th Percentile £563 - £151
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £153 £450
Median % change year-on-year +324.84% -66.00% +28.57%
75th Percentile £675 £171 £613
90th Percentile - £250 £788
UK median daily rate £400 £294 £350
% change year-on-year +36.17% -16.07% -25.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £18.27
UK median hourly rate £63.87 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +153.95% +14.32% -43.23%

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 2,139 1,439 1,736
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.65% 90.62% 93.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 805 1,058
10th Percentile £263 £223 £200
25th Percentile £375 £358 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £454 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.87% +0.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £555 £531 £550
90th Percentile £650 £588 £665
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 66 70
10th Percentile £13.45 £16.02 £12.30
25th Percentile £15.18 £17.30 £14.73
Median hourly rate £35.00 £20.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% +17.65% -4.06%
75th Percentile £60.91 £26.21 £24.18
90th Percentile £74.16 £60.63 £55.25
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 - 10 £650 - 2
Edinburgh -5 1 £488 +54.92%
Windows Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 September 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 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (72.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
3 3 (27.27%) Python
4 2 (18.18%) Bash
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Linux
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 2 (18.18%) Migration
4 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (18.18%) Unix
5 1 (9.09%) AIX
5 1 (9.09%) Analytical Thinking
5 1 (9.09%) Ansible
5 1 (9.09%) Ant
5 1 (9.09%) Apache
5 1 (9.09%) Artifactory
5 1 (9.09%) AWS
5 1 (9.09%) Azure
5 1 (9.09%) Change Management
5 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
5 1 (9.09%) Configuration Management
5 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (9.09%) Disk Encryption
5 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (9.09%) Git
5 1 (9.09%) Groovy
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Transformation

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Apache
1 1 (9.09%) JBoss
1 1 (9.09%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Ant
1 1 (9.09%) Artifactory
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
1 1 (9.09%) Maven
1 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
1 1 (9.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Unix
3 1 (9.09%) AIX
3 1 (9.09%) Mac OS
3 1 (9.09%) Solaris
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (18.18%) DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) Migration
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (9.09%) Change Management
3 1 (9.09%) Configuration Management
3 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (9.09%) Disk Encryption
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (9.09%) Load Balancing
3 1 (9.09%) Patch Management
3 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (9.09%) Release Management
3 1 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (9.09%) Security Hardening
3 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (9.09%) Storage Management
3 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
1 3 (27.27%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) Groovy
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Podman
1 1 (9.09%) Puppet
1 1 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Qualys
2 1 (9.09%) Rapid7
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
2 1 (9.09%) Splunk
2 1 (9.09%) Tenable