Windows Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Windows Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £164, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 105 146
Rank change year-on-year -1 +41 +28
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 10 17 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.58% 0.82% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.86% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 18
10th Percentile £152 £125 £250
25th Percentile £153 £201 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £164 £575 £279
Median % change year-on-year -71.48% +106.28% -38.06%
75th Percentile £286 £613 £392
90th Percentile £380 £788 £452
UK median daily rate £325 £400 £450
% change year-on-year -18.75% -11.11% +42.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.00 - -
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.27 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.42% - -
75th Percentile £23.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £18.87 £18.27 £29.00
% change year-on-year +3.28% -37.00% +45.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 1,611 1,968 2,603
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.55% 94.80% 94.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 910 1,213 1,779
10th Percentile £237 £200 £242
25th Percentile £361 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +0.48%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £548
90th Percentile £600 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 113 61
10th Percentile £16.02 £12.32 £12.13
25th Percentile £16.84 £14.73 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.83 £18.38 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +7.92% +3.70% -52.66%
75th Percentile £26.21 £52.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £63.00 £62.50 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £37.50 £43.63
% change year-on-year -29.47% -14.05% +74.52%

Windows Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Windows Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Engineer in Scotland

Windows Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Engineer in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Windows Engineer in Scotland

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Windows Engineer in Scotland

Windows Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Engineer in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Engineer 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 6 July 2025. 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
Edinburgh +13 6 £315 +152.00% 1
Fife - 2 £153 -
Moray - 2 £153 - 1
Glasgow -28 1 - -
Aberdeen - 1 £175 -
Windows Engineer
UK

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 6 July 2025, Windows Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (40.00%) ITIL
6 3 (30.00%) A+ Certification
6 3 (30.00%) Device Driver
6 3 (30.00%) Time Management
6 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
6 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
6 3 (30.00%) QA
6 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
6 3 (30.00%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (30.00%) Windows Server
6 3 (30.00%) Task Automation
6 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (30.00%) Customer Experience
6 3 (30.00%) Customer Service
7 2 (20.00%) SCCM
7 2 (20.00%) Windows 10
7 2 (20.00%) Workflow Management
7 2 (20.00%) Workflow
7 2 (20.00%) Migration
7 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
8 1 (10.00%) Linux
8 1 (10.00%) Unix
8 1 (10.00%) C++
8 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
8 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Remote Desktop
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Military
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Device Driver
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (20.00%) Windows 10
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (10.00%) Linux
4 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) ITIL
3 3 (30.00%) Customer Experience
3 3 (30.00%) Customer Service
3 3 (30.00%) Task Automation
3 3 (30.00%) Time Management
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Workflow
4 2 (20.00%) Workflow Management
5 1 (10.00%) Problem Management
5 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
5 1 (10.00%) Service-Level Objective
5 1 (10.00%) Signal Processing
5 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (30.00%) A+ Certification
2 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) SCCM
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (10.00%) Tanium
2 1 (10.00%) VMware