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 15 June 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 99 102
Rank change year-on-year -10 +3 +32
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 18 11 17
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.87% 0.69% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% 0.74% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 14
10th Percentile £190 £150 £125
25th Percentile £563 £151 £201
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £164 £575
Median % change year-on-year +296.34% -71.48% +106.28%
75th Percentile £675 £286 £613
90th Percentile - £380 £788
UK median daily rate £375 £325 £405
% change year-on-year +15.38% -19.75% -4.71%
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 £25.75 £22.00 £18.27
% change year-on-year +17.05% +20.42% -1.24%

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 1,915 1,495 2,011
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.65% 94.20% 94.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 985 857 1,232
10th Percentile £303 £245 £200
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.22% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £561
90th Percentile £675 £600 £638
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 64 132
10th Percentile £12.77 £16.02 £12.31
25th Percentile £13.50 £16.84 £15.73
Median hourly rate £33.50 £19.48 £19.34
Median % change year-on-year +71.99% +0.74% +2.14%
75th Percentile £61.50 £25.15 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £57.50 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £43.61 £27.52 £37.50
% change year-on-year +58.48% -26.63% -16.67%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 +12 17 £650 -
Edinburgh -10 1 - - 1
Windows Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 June 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 18 (100.00%) Windows
2 15 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (55.56%) PowerShell
4 9 (50.00%) Azure
5 8 (44.44%) Python
6 7 (38.89%) AWS
6 7 (38.89%) DevOps
6 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (33.33%) Agile
7 6 (33.33%) Refactoring
8 5 (27.78%) SCCM
9 4 (22.22%) Cyber Resilience
10 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
10 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
10 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (11.11%) Disk Encryption
11 2 (11.11%) Mac OS
11 2 (11.11%) Migration
11 2 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 2 (11.11%) Splunk
11 2 (11.11%) Unix
11 2 (11.11%) Windows 10
12 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
12 1 (5.56%) Analytical Thinking
12 1 (5.56%) Ansible
12 1 (5.56%) Ant
12 1 (5.56%) Apache
12 1 (5.56%) Artifactory
12 1 (5.56%) Bash
12 1 (5.56%) CI/CD

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 (5.56%) Apache
1 1 (5.56%) JBoss
1 1 (5.56%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) Azure
2 7 (38.89%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) LAN
1 1 (5.56%) SAN
1 1 (5.56%) VPN
1 1 (5.56%) VXLAN
1 1 (5.56%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Ant
1 1 (5.56%) Artifactory
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
1 1 (5.56%) Maven
1 1 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (5.56%) Kafka
1 1 (5.56%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (11.11%) Mac OS
2 2 (11.11%) Unix
2 2 (11.11%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.56%) Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (38.89%) DevOps
2 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (33.33%) Agile
3 6 (33.33%) Refactoring
4 4 (22.22%) Cyber Resilience
5 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (11.11%) Disk Encryption
6 2 (11.11%) Migration
6 2 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 1 (5.56%) Analytical Thinking
7 1 (5.56%) CI/CD
7 1 (5.56%) Data Protection
7 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Automation
7 1 (5.56%) Knowledge Transfer
7 1 (5.56%) Load Balancing
7 1 (5.56%) Project Planning
7 1 (5.56%) Release Management
7 1 (5.56%) Storage Management
7 1 (5.56%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) PowerShell
2 8 (44.44%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) Bash
3 1 (5.56%) Groovy
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) SCCM
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.56%) Ansible
3 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.56%) Podman
3 1 (5.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Splunk
3 1 (5.56%) Citrix
3 1 (5.56%) Veeam
3 1 (5.56%) VMware