Windows Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Windows
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Windows skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 16 18
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Windows 170 275 301
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 7.70% 9.64% 8.55%
As % of the Operating Systems category 47.22% 51.79% 58.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 188 213
10th Percentile £156 £158 £128
25th Percentile £203 £188 £158
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £375 £330
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +13.64% -7.55%
75th Percentile £613 £526 £475
90th Percentile £700 £604 £586
UK median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 21
10th Percentile £18.11 - £15.04
25th Percentile - £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £18.27 £20.79 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% +3.95% +63.27%
75th Percentile - £51.01 £50.77
90th Percentile £22.91 £59.79 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +12.50% +21.21%

All Operating Systems
Scotland

Windows 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 360 531 511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 16.31% 18.61% 14.51%
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 £730 £600
UK median daily rate £470 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -6.93% +1.00% +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 £38.75 £22.28
% change year-on-year -43.23% +73.92% +23.78%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Scotland

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Scotland

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Scotland

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Scotland

Windows
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 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 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 -8 72 £525 +23.53% 24
Edinburgh -1 47 £438 +53.51% 44
South Lanarkshire +9 12 £575 +94.78%
South Ayrshire 0 8 £144 +5.79%
Renfrewshire 0 8 £538 +1.90%
Stirling 0 4 £420 +110.00%
Dundee +9 3 £166 -51.18%
Perthshire +6 3 £475 -13.24% 1
West Lothian 0 2 £188 -54.55% 1
Fife -1 2 £365 +128.13% 4
Aberdeen -1 2 - - 8
Lanarkshire -5 1 £185 +12.12% 7
Windows
UK

Windows
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 22 (12.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (7.65%) IIS
3 10 (5.88%) SharePoint
4 7 (4.12%) Confluence
5 6 (3.53%) SAS
6 3 (1.76%) Skype for Business
7 2 (1.18%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.59%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.59%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 24 (14.12%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.76%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.59%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 38 (22.35%) Microsoft 365
2 34 (20.00%) Azure
3 25 (14.71%) AWS
4 14 (8.24%) Entra ID
4 14 (8.24%) OpenShift
5 7 (4.12%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (4.12%) OneDrive
5 7 (4.12%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.35%) PowerApps
7 3 (1.76%) Amazon Cognito
7 3 (1.76%) OCI
7 3 (1.76%) Oracle Service Cloud
8 2 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.18%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.18%) Serverless
9 1 (0.59%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.59%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.59%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 31 (18.24%) Firewall
2 21 (12.35%) DNS
3 15 (8.82%) SAN
4 12 (7.06%) DHCP
5 11 (6.47%) LAN
6 10 (5.88%) VPN
7 9 (5.29%) WAN
8 7 (4.12%) Fibre Channel
8 7 (4.12%) iSCSI
8 7 (4.12%) NAS
9 6 (3.53%) Internet
9 6 (3.53%) Remote Desktop
10 5 (2.94%) SMTP
10 5 (2.94%) TCP/IP
11 3 (1.76%) Skype
11 3 (1.76%) SSL
11 3 (1.76%) Structured Cabling
11 3 (1.76%) VLAN
12 2 (1.18%) Cisco ASA
12 2 (1.18%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.71%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.12%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.35%) DB2
5 3 (1.76%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (1.76%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.18%) NonStop SQL
7 1 (0.59%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (8.82%) Git
2 13 (7.65%) Jenkins
3 9 (5.29%) JIRA
4 6 (3.53%) Gradle
4 6 (3.53%) Maven
5 3 (1.76%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.59%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.59%) GitLab
6 1 (0.59%) Selenium
6 1 (0.59%) Visual Studio
General
1 65 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 46 (27.06%) Public Sector
3 26 (15.29%) Finance
4 17 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.88%) Banking
6 7 (4.12%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.53%) Investment Banking
7 6 (3.53%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.76%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.18%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.59%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 25 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 21 (12.35%) IT Support
3 18 (10.59%) Analyst
4 16 (9.41%) Windows Engineer
5 14 (8.24%) Support Analyst
5 14 (8.24%) Support Engineer
6 13 (7.65%) Senior
7 11 (6.47%) Architect
8 9 (5.29%) Desktop Support
8 9 (5.29%) Security Engineer
8 9 (5.29%) Support Officer
8 9 (5.29%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (4.71%) 2nd Line Support
9 8 (4.71%) Desktop Engineer
9 8 (4.71%) Infrastructure Architect
9 8 (4.71%) IT Analyst
9 8 (4.71%) IT Support Analyst
10 7 (4.12%) 3rd Line Support
10 7 (4.12%) IT Engineer
10 7 (4.12%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.53%) Flash
1 6 (3.53%) POSIX
1 6 (3.53%) REST
2 5 (2.94%) LDAP
3 4 (2.35%) .NET
4 3 (1.76%) Middleware
5 2 (1.18%) .NET Remoting
5 2 (1.18%) JSON
5 2 (1.18%) XML
6 1 (0.59%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.59%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.18%) Data Centre
2 11 (6.47%) PKI
3 8 (4.71%) Clustering
4 6 (3.53%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.53%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.53%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.94%) Client/Server
5 5 (2.94%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.94%) Tandem
6 4 (2.35%) CMDB
6 4 (2.35%) iPhone
6 4 (2.35%) NVMe
6 4 (2.35%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.35%) Smartphone
7 3 (1.76%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.76%) iPad
7 3 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.18%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.18%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 54 (31.76%) Windows Server
2 41 (24.12%) Linux
3 32 (18.82%) Windows 10
4 30 (17.65%) Unix
5 16 (9.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 11 (6.47%) Windows Server 2012
7 9 (5.29%) Apple iOS
8 8 (4.71%) Mac OS
9 7 (4.12%) Windows Server 2008
10 6 (3.53%) CentOS
10 6 (3.53%) Debian
10 6 (3.53%) Mac OS X
10 6 (3.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (2.94%) Windows Server 2003
11 5 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (2.35%) Data ONTAP
12 4 (2.35%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.59%) Android
13 1 (0.59%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 27 (15.88%) Agile
4 25 (14.71%) Customer Service
4 25 (14.71%) ITIL
5 21 (12.35%) DevOps
5 21 (12.35%) High Availability
6 17 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 15 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
8 13 (7.65%) CI/CD
8 13 (7.65%) Problem Management
9 12 (7.06%) Capacity Management
9 12 (7.06%) Customer Requirements
10 10 (5.88%) Asset Management
11 9 (5.29%) Application Security
11 9 (5.29%) OWASP
11 9 (5.29%) Project Delivery
12 8 (4.71%) Roadmaps
12 8 (4.71%) SDLC
12 8 (4.71%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 42 (24.71%) PowerShell
2 35 (20.59%) Python
3 13 (7.65%) SQL
4 10 (5.88%) Perl
5 9 (5.29%) Bash
6 6 (3.53%) Groovy
6 6 (3.53%) Java
6 6 (3.53%) Ruby
6 6 (3.53%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.18%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.59%) C
8 1 (0.59%) C#
Qualifications
1 36 (21.18%) Security Cleared
2 27 (15.88%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.76%) Degree
4 14 (8.24%) DV Cleared
5 13 (7.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (6.47%) MCSE
7 6 (3.53%) MCSA
7 6 (3.53%) RHCT
8 5 (2.94%) CCNA
8 5 (2.94%) CCNP
8 5 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.76%) A+ Certification
9 3 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.76%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (1.76%) MCP
10 2 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.59%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.59%) HNC
11 1 (0.59%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.88%) Disclosure Scotland
1 10 (5.88%) SLA
2 3 (1.76%) QA
3 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 73 (42.94%) Active Directory
2 18 (10.59%) Hyper-V
3 15 (8.82%) VMware ESXi
4 13 (7.65%) BitLocker
5 10 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (5.29%) Docker
7 6 (3.53%) KVM
7 6 (3.53%) NFS
8 5 (2.94%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (2.94%) Terminal Services
9 4 (2.35%) GPFS
10 3 (1.76%) vSphere
11 2 (1.18%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 35 (20.59%) SCCM
2 15 (8.82%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.88%) Ansible
3 10 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (5.29%) Terraform
5 8 (4.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (4.12%) vCenter Server
7 5 (2.94%) vMotion
7 5 (2.94%) WSUS
8 4 (2.35%) NetBackup
8 4 (2.35%) Veritas Storage Foundation
9 3 (1.76%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (1.18%) Grafana
10 2 (1.18%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (1.18%) Nagios
10 2 (1.18%) OpenView
10 2 (1.18%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.59%) vRealize
Vendors
1 71 (41.76%) Microsoft
2 25 (14.71%) VMware
3 21 (12.35%) Citrix
4 15 (8.82%) Apple
5 11 (6.47%) Cisco
6 10 (5.88%) Veritas
7 9 (5.29%) ServiceNow
8 8 (4.71%) McAfee
9 7 (4.12%) F5
9 7 (4.12%) HP
9 7 (4.12%) Oracle
9 7 (4.12%) Splunk
10 6 (3.53%) Red Hat
11 5 (2.94%) EMC
11 5 (2.94%) Google
11 5 (2.94%) Infoblox
11 5 (2.94%) NetApp
12 4 (2.35%) Atlassian
12 4 (2.35%) Brocade
12 4 (2.35%) Fortinet