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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 21 32
Rank change year-on-year -41 +11 -12
Permanent jobs citing Windows 298 425 486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.23% 11.20% 7.98%
As % of the Operating Systems category 46.86% 62.04% 52.43%
Number of salaries quoted 225 250 302
10th Percentile £24,807 £25,000 £22,775
25th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £27,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £40,150
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +5.85% +4.97%
75th Percentile £55,000 £64,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £77,542 £65,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £44,500 £44,000
% change year-on-year -4.49% +1.14% -2.22%

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 636 685 927
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.16% 18.05% 15.22%
Number of salaries quoted 361 396 588
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,000 £25,709
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,610 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.02% -9.32% +23.53%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £72,433 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +5.00%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -81 109 £50,000 +11.11% 29
Edinburgh +12 93 £47,000 +4.44% 12
Aberdeen -14 24 £28,000 -34.12% 11
Fife -5 13 £55,000 +15.79%
Dundee -1 11 £49,990 +33.31% 2
Argyll and Bute - 11 £36,000 - 1
West Lothian -13 9 £28,500 -43.00% 1
Aberdeenshire -7 5 £28,500 -56.15% 12
Banffshire - 4 £22,000 -
Stirling -5 3 £31,500 +18.87% 1
North Lanarkshire -5 3 £35,000 +40.00%
Lanarkshire -10 3 £50,000 +61.29% 15
East Ayrshire - 3 £24,000 -
Dumfries and Galloway -2 2 £25,250 -13.68%
Scottish Borders +1 1 £25,000 -18.70%
Perth and Kinross -4 1 - -
Midlothian -7 1 £26,500 -5.36% 7
West Dunbartonshire - 1 £17,000 -
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 26 (8.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (5.37%) SharePoint
3 10 (3.36%) Apache
4 3 (1.01%) IIS
5 2 (0.67%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.34%) JOnAS
Applications
1 21 (7.05%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.67%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (3.02%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.34%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 94 (31.54%) Microsoft 365
2 86 (28.86%) Azure
3 35 (11.74%) Entra ID
4 30 (10.07%) AWS
5 21 (7.05%) GCP
6 18 (6.04%) IaaS
6 18 (6.04%) PaaS
7 12 (4.03%) SaaS
8 10 (3.36%) Amazon S3
9 9 (3.02%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (1.68%) OneDrive
11 4 (1.34%) Google Docs
12 3 (1.01%) Asana
12 3 (1.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (1.01%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.01%) Slack
12 3 (1.01%) WhatsApp
13 2 (0.67%) GitHub
13 2 (0.67%) OpenShift
14 1 (0.34%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 45 (15.10%) Firewall
2 35 (11.74%) VPN
3 31 (10.40%) WAN
4 17 (5.70%) SAN
4 17 (5.70%) VoIP
5 14 (4.70%) LAN
5 14 (4.70%) TCP/IP
6 13 (4.36%) Internet
6 13 (4.36%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (4.03%) SD-WAN
7 12 (4.03%) Wireless
8 11 (3.69%) DNS
8 11 (3.69%) SNMP
9 10 (3.36%) DHCP
9 10 (3.36%) IPsec
10 9 (3.02%) Network Security
11 8 (2.68%) NAS
12 7 (2.35%) Cisco IOS
13 5 (1.68%) VLAN
14 4 (1.34%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (8.39%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.36%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (3.36%) MongoDB
3 9 (3.02%) DB2
4 5 (1.68%) Big Data
5 4 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.01%) Ingres
7 2 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.67%) MySQL
7 2 (0.67%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.67%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.34%) DTS
Development Applications
1 6 (2.01%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.68%) JIRA
3 4 (1.34%) Git
3 4 (1.34%) GitLab
3 4 (1.34%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.34%) GoCD
4 1 (0.34%) Gradle
4 1 (0.34%) Maven
4 1 (0.34%) Subversion
General
1 76 (25.50%) Social Skills
2 51 (17.11%) Finance
3 28 (9.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (6.71%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (5.70%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.03%) Law
7 13 (4.36%) Retail
8 12 (4.03%) Legal
9 11 (3.69%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.35%) Automotive
10 7 (2.35%) Telecoms
11 6 (2.01%) Banking
12 5 (1.68%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.68%) Military
13 4 (1.34%) Billing
13 4 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.34%) Electronics
14 3 (1.01%) Marketing
15 2 (0.67%) Advertising
15 2 (0.67%) Police
Job Titles
1 40 (13.42%) Senior
2 39 (13.09%) IT Support
3 34 (11.41%) Analyst
4 29 (9.73%) Support Engineer
5 23 (7.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 23 (7.72%) IT Engineer
5 23 (7.72%) IT Manager
6 17 (5.70%) Developer
7 16 (5.37%) IT Analyst
7 16 (5.37%) Senior Developer
7 16 (5.37%) Support Analyst
7 16 (5.37%) Support Technician
8 15 (5.03%) IT Support Engineer
9 14 (4.70%) Consultant
9 14 (4.70%) Software Engineer
10 13 (4.36%) IT Technician
11 12 (4.03%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (4.03%) Service Analyst
11 12 (4.03%) Service Desk Analyst
11 12 (4.03%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.70%) .NET
2 10 (3.36%) RabbitMQ
2 10 (3.36%) YAML
3 7 (2.35%) LDAP
4 5 (1.68%) OpenCV
4 5 (1.68%) OpenVINO
5 3 (1.01%) .NET Framework
5 3 (1.01%) CSS
5 3 (1.01%) HTML
5 3 (1.01%) ONNX
5 3 (1.01%) WinForms
5 3 (1.01%) WPF
6 2 (0.67%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.67%) RESTful
6 2 (0.67%) SAML
7 1 (0.34%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.34%) Blazor
7 1 (0.34%) REST
7 1 (0.34%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 36 (12.08%) Data Centre
2 19 (6.38%) Public Cloud
3 15 (5.03%) Driving Licence
3 15 (5.03%) Video\Live Streaming
4 14 (4.70%) Replication
5 6 (2.01%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.01%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.68%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.34%) Learning Management System
8 3 (1.01%) Cyberattack
8 3 (1.01%) Device Driver
8 3 (1.01%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.67%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.67%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.67%) PKI
9 2 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.34%) CCTV
10 1 (0.34%) iPhone
10 1 (0.34%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 115 (38.59%) Windows Server
2 104 (34.90%) Linux
3 37 (12.42%) Windows 10
4 32 (10.74%) Unix
5 14 (4.70%) Windows Server 2012
6 13 (4.36%) Android
6 13 (4.36%) Windows Server 2016
7 12 (4.03%) Mac OS
8 10 (3.36%) Data ONTAP
9 8 (2.68%) Windows 7
10 7 (2.35%) Apple iOS
10 7 (2.35%) Mac OS X
11 6 (2.01%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (1.34%) Ubuntu
13 3 (1.01%) CentOS
13 3 (1.01%) Debian
13 3 (1.01%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.67%) Mesosphere
15 1 (0.34%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (12.42%) Cybersecurity
3 33 (11.07%) Customer Service
3 33 (11.07%) Disaster Recovery
3 33 (11.07%) ITIL
4 27 (9.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 25 (8.39%) Business Intelligence
5 25 (8.39%) Service Delivery
6 24 (8.05%) Project Management
7 23 (7.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 23 (7.72%) DevOps
8 21 (7.05%) Mentoring
9 19 (6.38%) Agile
9 19 (6.38%) Infrastructure Management
10 18 (6.04%) Coaching
10 18 (6.04%) Computer Science
11 17 (5.70%) Actionable Insight
11 17 (5.70%) Project Delivery
12 15 (5.03%) Roadmaps
13 14 (4.70%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 31 (10.40%) C++
2 29 (9.73%) Python
3 25 (8.39%) SQL
4 21 (7.05%) PowerShell
5 20 (6.71%) C#
6 18 (6.04%) Bash
7 6 (2.01%) C
8 4 (1.34%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.01%) Embedded C
9 3 (1.01%) Embedded C++
9 3 (1.01%) Java
9 3 (1.01%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.67%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.34%) Assembly Language
11 1 (0.34%) Groovy
11 1 (0.34%) Perl
11 1 (0.34%) Ruby
11 1 (0.34%) Swift
11 1 (0.34%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 47 (15.77%) Degree
2 18 (6.04%) Cisco Certification
2 18 (6.04%) Security Cleared
3 14 (4.70%) CCNA
4 13 (4.36%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.02%) CISA
7 8 (2.68%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.68%) MCSE
8 6 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.01%) CISM
8 6 (2.01%) CISSP
9 5 (1.68%) CCNP
9 5 (1.68%) GCIA
9 5 (1.68%) GCIH
9 5 (1.68%) GREM
9 5 (1.68%) MCSA
10 4 (1.34%) CCDP
10 4 (1.34%) CCSP
10 4 (1.34%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.03%) SLA
2 9 (3.02%) ITGC
2 9 (3.02%) PMO
3 8 (2.68%) GDPR
4 6 (2.01%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.34%) NIST
7 3 (1.01%) QA
8 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.67%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.34%) IEC 62304
9 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 90 (30.20%) Active Directory
2 66 (22.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (7.38%) Docker
4 21 (7.05%) Hyper-V
5 12 (4.03%) VMware NSX
6 9 (3.02%) KVM
6 9 (3.02%) vSphere
7 5 (1.68%) Firmware
8 4 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (1.34%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.67%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.34%) pfSense
10 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 34 (11.41%) Ansible
2 21 (7.05%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 19 (6.38%) Terraform
4 12 (4.03%) FortiGate
4 12 (4.03%) vCenter Server
5 10 (3.36%) Prometheus
5 10 (3.36%) ZABBIX
6 6 (2.01%) SCCM
7 3 (1.01%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.67%) McAfee ePO
8 2 (0.67%) Puppet
8 2 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.34%) Grafana
9 1 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 85 (28.52%) Microsoft
1 85 (28.52%) VMware
2 32 (10.74%) Cisco
3 23 (7.72%) NetApp
4 19 (6.38%) Dell
5 13 (4.36%) Red Hat
6 12 (4.03%) Citrix
7 11 (3.69%) Google
7 11 (3.69%) Oracle
7 11 (3.69%) Palo Alto
7 11 (3.69%) Sage
8 10 (3.36%) SAP
8 10 (3.36%) SolidFire
9 9 (3.02%) Mitel
10 8 (2.68%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.68%) ConnectWise
11 5 (1.68%) iManage
12 4 (1.34%) Apple
12 4 (1.34%) BeyondTrust
12 4 (1.34%) CyberArk