Windows Job Trends in Glasgow

Microsoft Windows
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Windows skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 19 18
Rank change year-on-year -28 -1 +11
Permanent jobs citing Windows 18 70 95
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 2.39% 7.97% 12.60%
As % of the Operating Systems category 64.29% 77.78% 82.61%
Number of salaries quoted 11 46 72
10th Percentile - £31,250 £25,200
25th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +2.63% -5.00%
75th Percentile £34,125 £55,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £38,750 £67,500 £67,250
Scotland median annual salary £31,250 £47,500 £44,480
% change year-on-year -34.21% +6.79% -1.16%

All Operating Systems
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 28 90 115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 3.71% 10.25% 15.25%
Number of salaries quoted 11 53 79
10th Percentile - £29,050 £25,200
25th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £27,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.84% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £34,125 £55,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £38,750 £67,500 £68,250
Scotland median annual salary £33,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -34.00% - -4.76%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Windows relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Windows job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Windows
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Windows.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Windows

Windows
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Glasgow over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows in Glasgow

Windows
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (5.56%) Apache
3 1 (5.56%) IIS
3 1 (5.56%) JBoss
3 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.56%) WebSphere
3 1 (5.56%) WinCC
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Azure
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (38.89%) DHCP
1 7 (38.89%) DNS
2 5 (27.78%) TCP/IP
3 4 (22.22%) Firewall
4 3 (16.67%) VPN
4 3 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (11.11%) ATM
5 2 (11.11%) Network Security
5 2 (11.11%) Softphone
6 1 (5.56%) Modbus
6 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
6 1 (5.56%) VLAN
6 1 (5.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Git
1 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Ant
2 1 (5.56%) Artifactory
2 1 (5.56%) Maven
2 1 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 2 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Law
4 1 (5.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) IT Engineer
1 5 (27.78%) IT Support
1 5 (27.78%) IT Support Engineer
1 5 (27.78%) Support Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Field Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Desktop Support
4 2 (11.11%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Field Service Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Field Support Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Support Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead
5 1 (5.56%) Linux Scripter
5 1 (5.56%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) .NET
1 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (5.56%) Kafka
1 1 (5.56%) Middleware
1 1 (5.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Driving Licence
2 2 (11.11%) CCTV
2 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 2 (11.11%) Operational Technology
2 2 (11.11%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.56%) SCADA
3 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Windows Server
2 2 (11.11%) Android
2 2 (11.11%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Windows 10
2 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (5.56%) Ubuntu
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (16.67%) Customer Service
2 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (16.67%) ITIL
2 3 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
3 2 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
3 2 (11.11%) Virtual Environments
4 1 (5.56%) Black-Box Testing
4 1 (5.56%) Client Onboarding
4 1 (5.56%) Customer Experience
4 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (5.56%) DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) Observability
4 1 (5.56%) Server Management
4 1 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (5.56%) Storage Management
4 1 (5.56%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 3 (16.67%) Bash
2 3 (16.67%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (5.56%) Groovy
3 1 (5.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) Degree
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (11.11%) HND
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.56%) CCNA
4 1 (5.56%) CCNP
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (5.56%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (5.56%) IEC 61131
1 1 (5.56%) IEC 61508
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.56%) NIST
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 11 (61.11%) Active Directory
2 6 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 6 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.56%) Ansible
3 1 (5.56%) Grafana
3 1 (5.56%) Podman
3 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.56%) Proxmox
3 1 (5.56%) Puppet
3 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 6 (33.33%) VMware
2 2 (11.11%) Dell
2 2 (11.11%) HP
2 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco
3 1 (5.56%) Datto
3 1 (5.56%) Intel
3 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.56%) Rockwell
3 1 (5.56%) Siemens
3 1 (5.56%) Splunk
3 1 (5.56%) Veeam