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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 65 22
Rank change year-on-year -18 -43 +8
Permanent jobs citing Windows 89 372 466
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.95% 5.54% 10.07%
As % of the Operating Systems category 45.41% 46.50% 62.13%
Number of salaries quoted 73 274 274
10th Percentile £32,000 £24,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £26,700 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,507 £42,202 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.94% -6.22% +19.21%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £62,375
90th Percentile £61,250 £64,925 £71,250
UK median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - -11.11% +3.45%

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 196 800 750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.49% 11.92% 16.21%
Number of salaries quoted 158 417 422
10th Percentile £35,700 £26,150 £27,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £30,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,750 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.50% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £69,000 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £93,778 £77,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £46,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -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 11 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 11 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 -38 30 £55,000 +37.50% 24
Glasgow +84 17 £37,500 -23.86% 54
Aberdeen +20 11 £50,000 +78.57% 9
Renfrewshire -11 5 £45,000 - 22
Perth and Kinross - 5 £33,000 -
Highlands - 4 £40,000 -
Dundee +1 2 £50,890 +1.80% 16
West Lothian 0 2 £62,500 +119.30% 2
Lanarkshire -9 2 £59,500 +116.36% 12
Fife -14 2 £42,550 -22.64% 4
Moray - 2 £40,101 -
Dumfries and Galloway +9 1 £31,000 +34.78% 1
Aberdeenshire +3 1 £50,000 +75.44%
Argyll and Bute -2 1 - - 3
North Lanarkshire -4 1 £28,500 -7.32%
East Ayrshire -32 1 £40,101 +63.68%
South Ayrshire -32 1 £40,101 -
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 13 (14.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (12.36%) SharePoint
3 5 (5.62%) Apache
4 2 (2.25%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (1.12%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (6.74%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 35 (39.33%) Azure
2 25 (28.09%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (7.87%) AWS
4 6 (6.74%) OneDrive
5 5 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (5.62%) Entra ID
6 4 (4.49%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (4.49%) SaaS
6 4 (4.49%) Serverless
7 2 (2.25%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.12%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.12%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.12%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.12%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.12%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.12%) GitHub
8 1 (1.12%) OCI
8 1 (1.12%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (17.98%) Firewall
2 14 (15.73%) DHCP
2 14 (15.73%) DNS
2 14 (15.73%) VPN
3 11 (12.36%) TCP/IP
4 6 (6.74%) LAN
4 6 (6.74%) WAN
4 6 (6.74%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (5.62%) DKIM
5 5 (5.62%) DMARC
5 5 (5.62%) VLAN
6 4 (4.49%) IPsec
6 4 (4.49%) SSL
6 4 (4.49%) Wireless
7 2 (2.25%) FTP
8 1 (1.12%) BGP
8 1 (1.12%) Intranet
8 1 (1.12%) OSPF
8 1 (1.12%) SAN
8 1 (1.12%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.25%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.12%) MySQL
3 1 (1.12%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.12%) Power BI
3 1 (1.12%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 11 (12.36%) Visual Studio
2 5 (5.62%) Eclipse
2 5 (5.62%) Eclipse RCP
3 2 (2.25%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.12%) GitLab
4 1 (1.12%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.12%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.12%) PyCharm
General
1 33 (37.08%) Social Skills
2 16 (17.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 12 (13.48%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (13.48%) Finance
4 8 (8.99%) Banking
5 3 (3.37%) Law
6 2 (2.25%) Electronics
6 2 (2.25%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.12%) Automotive
7 1 (1.12%) Back Office
7 1 (1.12%) Legal
7 1 (1.12%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (25.84%) Analyst
2 22 (24.72%) Senior
3 13 (14.61%) Developer
4 10 (11.24%) Java Developer
4 10 (11.24%) Senior Developer
4 10 (11.24%) Senior Java Developer
5 9 (10.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (10.11%) Software Engineer
6 8 (8.99%) IT Support
6 8 (8.99%) Junior
7 7 (7.87%) Administrator
7 7 (7.87%) C++ Developer
7 7 (7.87%) C++/Java Developer
7 7 (7.87%) IT Technician
7 7 (7.87%) Senior C++ Developer
7 7 (7.87%) Systems Administrator
8 6 (6.74%) IT Engineer
8 6 (6.74%) Lead
8 6 (6.74%) Senior IT Technician
8 6 (6.74%) Senior Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.87%) MFC
2 6 (6.74%) CSS
3 5 (5.62%) HTML
3 5 (5.62%) JSP
3 5 (5.62%) Middleware
4 1 (1.12%) .NET
4 1 (1.12%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.12%) EDI
4 1 (1.12%) Entity Framework
4 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (1.12%) OpenCV
4 1 (1.12%) OpenVINO
4 1 (1.12%) React
4 1 (1.12%) RESTful
4 1 (1.12%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (1.12%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.74%) Driving Licence
2 5 (5.62%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (5.62%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (4.49%) Replication
3 4 (4.49%) Virtual Team
4 3 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.25%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.25%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.12%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.12%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.12%) Digital Signage
6 1 (1.12%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.12%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.12%) FMCG
6 1 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.12%) iSeries
6 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.12%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.12%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 34 (38.20%) Linux
2 28 (31.46%) Windows Server
3 11 (12.36%) Windows Server 2016
4 9 (10.11%) Unix
5 8 (8.99%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (7.87%) Windows 10
7 5 (5.62%) VMS
8 4 (4.49%) AIX
8 4 (4.49%) Solaris
9 1 (1.12%) Android
9 1 (1.12%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.12%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (1.12%) Mac OS X
9 1 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.12%) VxWorks
9 1 (1.12%) Windows 7
9 1 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (24.72%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (19.10%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (12.36%) CI/CD
3 11 (12.36%) Incident Response
4 10 (11.24%) Customer Service
4 10 (11.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 10 (11.24%) Software Engineering
5 9 (10.11%) Mentoring
5 9 (10.11%) SIEM
6 8 (8.99%) DevOps
6 8 (8.99%) Unit Testing
7 7 (7.87%) Agile
7 7 (7.87%) OO
8 6 (6.74%) Analytics
8 6 (6.74%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (6.74%) Computer Science
8 6 (6.74%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (6.74%) Kalman Filter
8 6 (6.74%) OOD
8 6 (6.74%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 20 (22.47%) Java
2 16 (17.98%) C++
3 14 (15.73%) PowerShell
4 12 (13.48%) Python
5 9 (10.11%) SQL
6 8 (8.99%) C#
7 7 (7.87%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (5.62%) Ada
8 5 (5.62%) Rust
9 3 (3.37%) JavaScript
10 2 (2.25%) Bash
10 2 (2.25%) C
11 1 (1.12%) Perl
11 1 (1.12%) R
11 1 (1.12%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.12%) VB
11 1 (1.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (21.35%) Degree
2 11 (12.36%) Security Cleared
3 9 (10.11%) SC Cleared
4 8 (8.99%) DV Cleared
5 6 (6.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (5.62%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.25%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.12%) CCDP
9 1 (1.12%) CCNP
9 1 (1.12%) CCSP
9 1 (1.12%) CISM
9 1 (1.12%) CISSP
9 1 (1.12%) DBS Check
9 1 (1.12%) GIAC
9 1 (1.12%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.12%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (1.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.62%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (4.49%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.12%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (23.60%) Active Directory
2 18 (20.22%) Hyper-V
3 13 (14.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.25%) BitLocker
4 2 (2.25%) Docker
5 1 (1.12%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (1.12%) Firmware
5 1 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (14.61%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (4.49%) Dell DRAC
3 3 (3.37%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.25%) Ansible
4 2 (2.25%) Terraform
5 1 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.12%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 34 (38.20%) Microsoft
2 22 (24.72%) VMware
3 6 (6.74%) Apple
4 5 (5.62%) Cisco
5 4 (4.49%) ArcSight
6 1 (1.12%) Avaya
6 1 (1.12%) Dell
6 1 (1.12%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.12%) Oracle
6 1 (1.12%) Red Hat