Windows Jobs in Edinburgh

Microsoft Windows
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Windows skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Windows over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 22 43
Rank change year-on-year -33 +21 -2
Permanent jobs citing Windows 27 129 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.08% 8.54% 6.87%
As % of the Operating Systems category 32.53% 59.72% 44.07%
Number of salaries quoted 20 85 84
10th Percentile £47,132 - £26,250
25th Percentile £49,688 £26,250 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £40,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £68,975
90th Percentile £61,250 £80,000 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% - +6.25%

All Operating Systems
Edinburgh

Windows falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 83 216 295
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.46% 14.30% 15.59%
Number of salaries quoted 63 156 173
10th Percentile £48,750 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £36,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £82,625 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £146,300 £83,774 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,750 £50,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year +11.50% +1.01% -5.71%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Edinburgh

Windows
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Windows in Edinburgh

Windows
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows in Edinburgh

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (7.41%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) Azure
2 5 (18.52%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (11.11%) AWS
3 3 (11.11%) Serverless
4 2 (7.41%) Entra ID
4 2 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (7.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) DHCP
1 2 (7.41%) DNS
1 2 (7.41%) Firewall
1 2 (7.41%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.70%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (3.70%) FTP
2 1 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (37.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 9 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (25.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (22.22%) Banking
4 6 (22.22%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (48.15%) Senior
2 11 (40.74%) Analyst
3 10 (37.04%) Developer
3 10 (37.04%) Java Developer
3 10 (37.04%) Senior Developer
3 10 (37.04%) Senior Java Developer
4 7 (25.93%) C++ Developer
4 7 (25.93%) C++/Java Developer
4 7 (25.93%) Senior C++ Developer
5 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Information Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Information Security Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) IT Support Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Security Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.93%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (11.11%) Virtual Team
2 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.70%) iSeries
2 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.93%) Linux
2 3 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (3.70%) Unix
4 1 (3.70%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.70%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (40.74%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (25.93%) CI/CD
3 6 (22.22%) DevOps
4 5 (18.52%) Commercial Awareness
4 5 (18.52%) Computer Science
4 5 (18.52%) Scrum
5 4 (14.81%) Agile
5 4 (14.81%) Line Management
6 3 (11.11%) Containerisation
6 3 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (11.11%) Fintech
6 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (11.11%) Unit Testing
7 2 (7.41%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 2 (7.41%) Incident Response
7 2 (7.41%) Project Planning
7 2 (7.41%) Software Engineering
7 2 (7.41%) Sprint Planning
7 2 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (7.41%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (44.44%) C++
1 12 (44.44%) Java
2 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.70%) Perl
3 1 (3.70%) Python
3 1 (3.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (18.52%) Degree
2 2 (7.41%) AWS Certification
2 2 (7.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (7.41%) CISSP
3 1 (3.70%) CEH
3 1 (3.70%) CISM
3 1 (3.70%) GCIA
3 1 (3.70%) GIAC
3 1 (3.70%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.70%) NIST
1 1 (3.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.41%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.70%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.70%) Apple
2 1 (3.70%) Cisco
2 1 (3.70%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (3.70%) Dell
2 1 (3.70%) Qualys
2 1 (3.70%) Splunk
2 1 (3.70%) VMware