Windows 10 Job Trends in Scotland

Microsoft Windows 10
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Windows 10 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 121 160
Rank change year-on-year -7 +39 -29
Permanent jobs citing Windows 10 11 28 30
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.40% 1.04% 1.01%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.96% 8.48% 6.77%
Number of salaries quoted 4 15 16
10th Percentile £33,950 £24,900 £22,625
25th Percentile £34,625 £26,375 £23,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £28,400
Median % change year-on-year - +23.24% -16.47%
75th Percentile £35,375 £42,217 £34,813
90th Percentile £36,050 £49,500 £39,380
UK median annual salary £32,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% -

All Operating Systems
Scotland

Windows 10 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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 158 330 443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.81% 12.24% 14.97%
Number of salaries quoted 79 191 295
10th Percentile £25,000 £30,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,750 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £54,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -35.19% +2.86% -
75th Percentile £51,625 £66,250 £69,900
90th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £82,548
UK median annual salary £44,000 £50,242 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% +0.48% -4.76%

Windows 10
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Windows 10 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Windows 10 job vacancy trend in Scotland

Windows 10
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Windows 10.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Windows 10

Windows 10
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows 10 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Highlands -2 4 - -
Lanarkshire +4 3 - - 1
Aberdeen 0 3 £35,000 -
Edinburgh -15 1 £35,000 -11.90%
Windows 10
UK

Windows 10
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Entra ID
3 3 (27.27%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) LAN
1 3 (27.27%) WAN
1 3 (27.27%) Wireless
1 3 (27.27%) WLAN
2 1 (9.09%) DHCP
2 1 (9.09%) DNS
General
1 11 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Back Office
3 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Desktop Engineer
1 7 (63.64%) Desktop Support
1 7 (63.64%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 7 (63.64%) Support Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) IT Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 1 (9.09%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) IT Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Customer Service
2 7 (63.64%) ITIL
3 5 (45.45%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (36.36%) Analytics
4 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (36.36%) Customer Acquisition
4 4 (36.36%) Customer Experience
4 4 (36.36%) Patch Management
4 4 (36.36%) Software Deployment
4 4 (36.36%) Ticket Management
5 3 (27.27%) Change Management
5 3 (27.27%) Inventory Management
5 3 (27.27%) Service Delivery
5 3 (27.27%) Time Management
6 1 (9.09%) Incident Management
6 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
6 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) CTC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) SLA
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (27.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Cisco
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft