Windows Jobs in Scotland

Microsoft Windows
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 67 22
Rank change year-on-year -12 -45 +10
Permanent jobs citing Windows 95 369 469
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.18% 5.50% 10.28%
As % of the Operating Systems category 48.72% 46.89% 61.96%
Number of salaries quoted 68 275 270
10th Percentile £32,000 £24,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £26,700 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £60,964
90th Percentile £61,250 £65,750 £71,250
UK median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - -11.11% +2.27%

All Operating Systems
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 195 787 757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.53% 11.74% 16.60%
Number of salaries quoted 148 412 418
10th Percentile £36,175 £26,025 £27,750
25th Percentile £46,985 £30,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,750 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £69,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,751 £77,500 £74,300
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

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
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Windows in Scotland

Windows
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Scotland over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows in Scotland

Windows
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 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 23 May 2025. 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
Edinburgh -35 28 £55,000 +37.50% 76
Glasgow +80 18 £37,500 -22.68% 87
Aberdeen +16 8 £50,000 +78.57% 41
Renfrewshire - 5 £45,000 - 28
Perth and Kinross - 5 £33,000 -
West Lothian +3 4 - - 13
Highlands - 4 £40,000 - 2
Lanarkshire -4 3 £56,500 +105.45% 11
Fife -16 3 £42,550 -22.64% 16
Dundee +1 2 £50,890 +1.80% 15
Midlothian - 2 - - 3
Dunbartonshire - 2 £52,500 - 5
Moray - 2 £40,101 -
Dumfries and Galloway +9 1 £31,000 +34.78% 3
Aberdeenshire +5 1 £50,000 +75.44%
Argyll and Bute -1 1 - - 4
North Lanarkshire -5 1 £28,500 -7.32%
East Ayrshire -29 1 £40,101 +63.68%
South Ayrshire -31 1 £40,101 -
East Lothian - 1 - -
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 15 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
1 15 (15.79%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.26%) Apache
3 2 (2.11%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (1.05%) IIS
4 1 (1.05%) JOnAS
4 1 (1.05%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 35 (36.84%) Azure
2 22 (23.16%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (7.37%) AWS
4 6 (6.32%) OneDrive
5 5 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (5.26%) Entra ID
6 4 (4.21%) Serverless
7 3 (3.16%) SaaS
8 2 (2.11%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.05%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.05%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.05%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.05%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.05%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.05%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.05%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.05%) GitHub
9 1 (1.05%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 14 (14.74%) Firewall
2 13 (13.68%) DHCP
2 13 (13.68%) DNS
3 12 (12.63%) VPN
4 11 (11.58%) Broadband
4 11 (11.58%) TCP/IP
5 7 (7.37%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (6.32%) VLAN
7 5 (5.26%) DKIM
7 5 (5.26%) DMARC
7 5 (5.26%) LAN
7 5 (5.26%) WAN
8 4 (4.21%) IPsec
8 4 (4.21%) SSL
8 4 (4.21%) Wireless
9 2 (2.11%) FTP
9 2 (2.11%) NAS
10 1 (1.05%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (1.05%) Unified Communications
10 1 (1.05%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.05%) MySQL
2 1 (1.05%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.05%) Power BI
2 1 (1.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (11.58%) Visual Studio
2 5 (5.26%) Eclipse
2 5 (5.26%) Eclipse RCP
3 2 (2.11%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.11%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.05%) Git
4 1 (1.05%) GitLab
4 1 (1.05%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.05%) PyCharm
General
1 35 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 11 (11.58%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.53%) Finance
5 6 (6.32%) Banking
6 2 (2.11%) Electronics
6 2 (2.11%) Law
6 2 (2.11%) Military
7 1 (1.05%) Back Office
7 1 (1.05%) Legal
7 1 (1.05%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.05%) Marketing
7 1 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 34 (35.79%) Analyst
2 31 (32.63%) Senior
3 13 (13.68%) Developer
4 12 (12.63%) Senior Analyst
5 10 (10.53%) Java Developer
5 10 (10.53%) Senior Developer
5 10 (10.53%) Senior Java Developer
6 8 (8.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (8.42%) IT Support
6 8 (8.42%) Software Engineer
7 7 (7.37%) C++ Developer
7 7 (7.37%) C++/Java Developer
7 7 (7.37%) Lead
7 7 (7.37%) Senior C++ Developer
7 7 (7.37%) Team Leader
8 6 (6.32%) Administrator
8 6 (6.32%) IT Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) Junior
8 6 (6.32%) Systems Administrator
9 5 (5.26%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.37%) MFC
2 6 (6.32%) CSS
3 5 (5.26%) HTML
3 5 (5.26%) JSP
3 5 (5.26%) Middleware
4 2 (2.11%) .NET
5 1 (1.05%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.05%) EDI
5 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (1.05%) OpenCV
5 1 (1.05%) OpenVINO
5 1 (1.05%) React
5 1 (1.05%) REST
5 1 (1.05%) RESTful
5 1 (1.05%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.58%) Social Media
2 6 (6.32%) Driving Licence
3 5 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (5.26%) Replication
4 4 (4.21%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.11%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.11%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.11%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.05%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.05%) Digital Signage
7 1 (1.05%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.05%) e-Learning
7 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.05%) FMCG
7 1 (1.05%) iSeries
7 1 (1.05%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.05%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 32 (33.68%) Linux
2 24 (25.26%) Windows Server
3 9 (9.47%) Windows 10
4 8 (8.42%) Unix
4 8 (8.42%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (7.37%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (6.32%) VMS
7 2 (2.11%) Windows 7
8 1 (1.05%) AIX
8 1 (1.05%) Android
8 1 (1.05%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.05%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (1.05%) Mac OS X
8 1 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.05%) Solaris
8 1 (1.05%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.05%) VxWorks
8 1 (1.05%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.05%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (22.11%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 14 (14.74%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (13.68%) Incident Response
5 12 (12.63%) Benchmarking
5 12 (12.63%) CI/CD
5 12 (12.63%) Data Analysis
5 12 (12.63%) Project Delivery
6 11 (11.58%) Compliance Audit
6 11 (11.58%) Data Modelling
6 11 (11.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (10.53%) SIEM
7 10 (10.53%) Software Engineering
8 9 (9.47%) Customer Service
8 9 (9.47%) Mentoring
9 8 (8.42%) Kalman Filter
9 8 (8.42%) Unit Testing
10 7 (7.37%) DevOps
10 7 (7.37%) Open Source
10 7 (7.37%) OSINT
Programming Languages
1 20 (21.05%) Java
2 16 (16.84%) PowerShell
3 15 (15.79%) C++
4 13 (13.68%) Python
5 10 (10.53%) SQL
6 8 (8.42%) Kusto Query Language
7 7 (7.37%) C#
8 5 (5.26%) Ada
8 5 (5.26%) Rust
9 3 (3.16%) JavaScript
10 2 (2.11%) Bash
10 2 (2.11%) C
11 1 (1.05%) Perl
11 1 (1.05%) R
11 1 (1.05%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.05%) VB
11 1 (1.05%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (16.84%) Degree
2 12 (12.63%) Security Cleared
3 9 (9.47%) DV Cleared
4 8 (8.42%) SC Cleared
5 6 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.11%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.11%) CISSP
8 1 (1.05%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.05%) CISM
8 1 (1.05%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.05%) GCIA
8 1 (1.05%) GIAC
8 1 (1.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.05%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.05%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.37%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.21%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.11%) NIST
4 1 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.05%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (23.16%) Active Directory
2 16 (16.84%) Hyper-V
3 13 (13.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.16%) Docker
5 2 (2.11%) vSphere
6 1 (1.05%) BitLocker
6 1 (1.05%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (1.05%) Firmware
6 1 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (13.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (4.21%) Dell DRAC
2 4 (4.21%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.16%) Terraform
4 2 (2.11%) Ansible
5 1 (1.05%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.05%) Grafana
5 1 (1.05%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.05%) Proxmox
5 1 (1.05%) SCCM
Vendors
1 31 (32.63%) Microsoft
2 21 (22.11%) VMware
3 7 (7.37%) Cisco
4 6 (6.32%) Apple
5 5 (5.26%) ArcSight
6 4 (4.21%) Splunk
7 2 (2.11%) Juniper
7 2 (2.11%) McAfee
7 2 (2.11%) NetApp
8 1 (1.05%) arcserve
8 1 (1.05%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (1.05%) Dell
8 1 (1.05%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.05%) Nimsoft
8 1 (1.05%) Qualys
8 1 (1.05%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.05%) Sage
8 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow