Windows Server Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Windows Server
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Windows Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 83 83
Rank change year-on-year +8 0 -15
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 55 86 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.47% 3.01% 2.84%
As % of the Operating Systems category 15.15% 16.20% 19.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 43 72
10th Percentile £313 £271 £159
25th Percentile £355 £416 £248
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £465 £425
Median % change year-on-year +13.02% +9.29% +6.25%
75th Percentile £662 £543 £475
90th Percentile £722 £647 £600
UK median daily rate £463 £500 £438
% change year-on-year -7.50% +14.29% +6.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - £24.77 £15.55
25th Percentile - £30.73 £15.63
Median hourly rate - £42.21 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +141.17% +52.17%
75th Percentile - £52.15 -
90th Percentile - £57.19 £31.00
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £29.30 £22.50
% change year-on-year +31.40% +30.22% -10.00%

All Operating Systems
Scotland

Windows Server is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 363 531 514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 16.27% 18.58% 14.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 372 346
10th Percentile £182 £160 £137
25th Percentile £325 £260 £201
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.28% +6.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £538
90th Percentile £744 £737 £600
UK median daily rate £468 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -8.24% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 24
10th Percentile £17.23 £17.72 £15.04
25th Percentile £18.27 £20.79 £17.03
Median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +162.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £60.75 £59.03 £49.85
90th Percentile £62.50 £65.36 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £22.28
% change year-on-year -42.86% +72.80% +24.57%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Windows Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in Scotland

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in Scotland

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in Scotland

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in Scotland

Windows Server
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 Server within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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 -14 26 £525 +13.02% 13
Edinburgh +36 11 £500 +25.00% 16
Renfrewshire +2 8 £538 +1.42%
South Lanarkshire - 5 £700 -
Perthshire +9 3 £475 -23.69%
West Lothian -2 2 £188 -54.55%
Windows Server
UK

Windows Server
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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (25.45%) IIS
2 6 (10.91%) SAS
3 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (7.27%) Confluence
4 4 (7.27%) SharePoint
5 3 (5.45%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (1.82%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 14 (25.45%) Azure
2 10 (18.18%) AWS
3 8 (14.55%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (14.55%) OpenShift
4 6 (10.91%) Entra ID
5 3 (5.45%) OCI
5 3 (5.45%) Oracle Service Cloud
5 3 (5.45%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.64%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.82%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 16 (29.09%) DNS
2 15 (27.27%) Firewall
3 12 (21.82%) SAN
4 8 (14.55%) DHCP
5 7 (12.73%) Fibre Channel
5 7 (12.73%) iSCSI
5 7 (12.73%) LAN
6 5 (9.09%) SMTP
6 5 (9.09%) VPN
6 5 (9.09%) WAN
7 4 (7.27%) NAS
8 3 (5.45%) SSL
8 3 (5.45%) TCP/IP
8 3 (5.45%) VLAN
9 2 (3.64%) Internet
9 2 (3.64%) VSAN
9 2 (3.64%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.91%) SQL Server
2 5 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (7.27%) DB2
4 3 (5.45%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 8 (14.55%) Git
2 5 (9.09%) JIRA
3 4 (7.27%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 20 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 14 (25.45%) Public Sector
3 8 (14.55%) Banking
4 6 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.91%) Investment Banking
5 4 (7.27%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (7.27%) Finance
6 1 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (16.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (12.73%) 3rd Line Support
3 6 (10.91%) Developer
3 6 (10.91%) Linux Engineer
3 6 (10.91%) Python Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Storage Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Architect
5 4 (7.27%) Infrastructure Architect
5 4 (7.27%) Lead
5 4 (7.27%) Lead Architect
5 4 (7.27%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
5 4 (7.27%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) PowerShell Developer
5 4 (7.27%) Senior
5 4 (7.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 3 (5.45%) Infrastructure Support
6 3 (5.45%) IT Support
6 3 (5.45%) Support Consultant
6 3 (5.45%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.73%) REST
2 6 (10.91%) Flash
2 6 (10.91%) POSIX
3 5 (9.09%) LDAP
4 3 (5.45%) .NET
4 3 (5.45%) .NET Remoting
4 3 (5.45%) JSON
4 3 (5.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.00%) PKI
2 8 (14.55%) Clustering
2 8 (14.55%) Data Centre
3 5 (9.09%) Client/Server
4 4 (7.27%) NVMe
4 4 (7.27%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (5.45%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (5.45%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (5.45%) Onboarding
5 3 (5.45%) Tandem
6 1 (1.82%) CMDB
6 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.82%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 55 (100.00%) Windows
2 19 (34.55%) Linux
3 13 (23.64%) Unix
4 11 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 8 (14.55%) Windows Server 2016
6 7 (12.73%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (10.91%) CentOS
7 6 (10.91%) Debian
7 6 (10.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (9.09%) Windows Server 2003
8 5 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (7.27%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (1.82%) Solaris
10 1 (1.82%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (21.82%) Customer Requirements
2 10 (18.18%) High Availability
3 9 (16.36%) Agile
3 9 (16.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 8 (14.55%) ITIL
5 7 (12.73%) Project Delivery
6 6 (10.91%) Observability
6 6 (10.91%) SDLC
7 5 (9.09%) Computer Science
7 5 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (9.09%) DevOps
7 5 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (9.09%) Problem Management
7 5 (9.09%) Roadmaps
7 5 (9.09%) Storage Management
8 4 (7.27%) CI/CD
8 4 (7.27%) Customer Service
8 4 (7.27%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (7.27%) Preventative Maintenance
8 4 (7.27%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 20 (36.36%) PowerShell
2 15 (27.27%) Python
3 10 (18.18%) SQL
4 8 (14.55%) Perl
5 6 (10.91%) Java
6 3 (5.45%) Bash
Qualifications
1 18 (32.73%) Security Cleared
2 14 (25.45%) SC Cleared
3 11 (20.00%) MCSE
3 11 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (18.18%) DV Cleared
5 7 (12.73%) Degree
6 6 (10.91%) MCSA
6 6 (10.91%) RHCT
7 5 (9.09%) CCNA
7 5 (9.09%) CCNP
7 5 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (5.45%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.82%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.91%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.82%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (1.82%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (65.45%) Active Directory
2 17 (30.91%) Hyper-V
3 15 (27.27%) VMware ESXi
4 10 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (10.91%) KVM
5 6 (10.91%) NFS
6 5 (9.09%) BitLocker
6 5 (9.09%) Microsoft App-V
6 5 (9.09%) Terminal Services
7 4 (7.27%) Docker
7 4 (7.27%) GPFS
8 3 (5.45%) vSphere
9 2 (3.64%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (21.82%) SCCM
2 9 (16.36%) Kubernetes
3 7 (12.73%) vCenter Server
4 5 (9.09%) vMotion
4 5 (9.09%) WSUS
5 4 (7.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (7.27%) NetBackup
5 4 (7.27%) Veritas Storage Foundation
6 2 (3.64%) Ansible
6 2 (3.64%) Grafana
6 2 (3.64%) McAfee ePO
6 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (3.64%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.64%) Terraform
7 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.82%) vRealize
Vendors
1 25 (45.45%) VMware
2 21 (38.18%) Microsoft
3 14 (25.45%) Citrix
4 10 (18.18%) Veritas
5 6 (10.91%) Red Hat
6 5 (9.09%) EMC
6 5 (9.09%) Google
6 5 (9.09%) Infoblox
6 5 (9.09%) NetApp
6 5 (9.09%) Oracle
7 4 (7.27%) Brocade
7 4 (7.27%) F5
7 4 (7.27%) IBM
7 4 (7.27%) Sybase
8 3 (5.45%) HP
9 2 (3.64%) Avaya
9 2 (3.64%) Cisco
9 2 (3.64%) Fortinet
9 2 (3.64%) McAfee
9 2 (3.64%) Symantec