Windows Contracts in Glasgow

Microsoft Windows
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for Windows skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 16 23
Rank change year-on-year -8 +7 +1
Contract jobs citing Windows 63 97 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 7.53% 11.02% 7.61%
As % of the Operating Systems category 35.39% 42.73% 43.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 63 55
10th Percentile £171 £167 £157
25th Percentile £238 £300 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £440 £350
Median % change year-on-year +9.78% +25.57% -2.37%
75th Percentile £609 £545 £475
90th Percentile £707 £610 £574
Scotland median daily rate £370 £375 £350
% change year-on-year -1.33% +7.14% -11.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £17.90 £15.79
25th Percentile - £25.01 £16.91
Median hourly rate - £36.86 £20.43
Median % change year-on-year - +80.40% +68.29%
75th Percentile - £48.70 £24.80
90th Percentile - £55.81 £26.42
Scotland median hourly rate £18.27 £17.72 £20.00
% change year-on-year +3.10% -11.40% +47.98%

All Operating Systems
Glasgow

Windows is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 178 227 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 21.27% 25.80% 17.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 153 115
10th Percentile £200 £250 £179
25th Percentile £313 £413 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -25.45% +22.22% +18.42%
75th Percentile £600 £676 £550
90th Percentile £735 £750 £613
Scotland median daily rate £425 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 2
10th Percentile £30.10 £13.96 £15.79
25th Percentile £51.25 £31.12 £16.91
Median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 £20.43
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +181.45% -42.62%
75th Percentile £62.50 £63.56 £24.80
90th Percentile - £67.44 £26.42
Scotland median hourly rate £39.25 £47.73 £17.72
% change year-on-year -17.77% +169.36% +1.26%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Glasgow

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Windows in Glasgow

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Glasgow over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Glasgow

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Glasgow

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 6 (9.52%) IIS
1 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (9.52%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.35%) SAS
3 3 (4.76%) Skype for Business
4 1 (1.59%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 20 (31.75%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (19.05%) Azure
3 9 (14.29%) AWS
4 8 (12.70%) OpenShift
5 4 (6.35%) OneDrive
5 4 (6.35%) Power Platform
5 4 (6.35%) PowerApps
6 3 (4.76%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.70%) SAN
2 4 (6.35%) Fibre Channel
2 4 (6.35%) Firewall
2 4 (6.35%) iSCSI
2 4 (6.35%) NAS
3 3 (4.76%) DNS
3 3 (4.76%) Skype
3 3 (4.76%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.17%) LAN
4 2 (3.17%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (3.17%) WAN
5 1 (1.59%) VLAN
5 1 (1.59%) VPN
5 1 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.35%) DB2
2 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.59%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (7.94%) Git
1 5 (7.94%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.59%) JIRA
General
1 32 (50.79%) Social Skills
2 16 (25.40%) Finance
3 11 (17.46%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.11%) Banking
5 5 (7.94%) Investment Banking
5 5 (7.94%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.35%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (25.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (17.46%) Analyst
2 11 (17.46%) Windows Engineer
3 9 (14.29%) Support Analyst
4 8 (12.70%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
5 7 (11.11%) Python Engineer
5 7 (11.11%) Security Engineer
5 7 (11.11%) Support Engineer
6 6 (9.52%) 3rd Line Support
7 5 (7.94%) 1st Line Support
7 5 (7.94%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 5 (7.94%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 5 (7.94%) IT Support
7 5 (7.94%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (7.94%) Senior
8 4 (6.35%) 1st Line Support Analyst
8 4 (6.35%) IT Analyst
8 4 (6.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.35%) Flash
1 4 (6.35%) POSIX
1 4 (6.35%) REST
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.59%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.52%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.35%) Client/Server
2 4 (6.35%) iPhone
2 4 (6.35%) NVMe
3 3 (4.76%) CMDB
3 3 (4.76%) iPad
3 3 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.17%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.59%) Clustering
5 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (31.75%) Windows Server
2 17 (26.98%) Linux
3 15 (23.81%) Unix
4 11 (17.46%) Windows 10
5 7 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (9.52%) CentOS
6 6 (9.52%) Debian
6 6 (9.52%) Mac OS
6 6 (9.52%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (6.35%) Apple iOS
7 4 (6.35%) Data ONTAP
7 4 (6.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.59%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (23.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (20.63%) Agile
4 12 (19.05%) DevOps
4 12 (19.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 10 (15.87%) Customer Service
5 10 (15.87%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (14.29%) Problem Management
7 8 (12.70%) High Availability
8 7 (11.11%) Capacity Management
8 7 (11.11%) Disk Encryption
9 6 (9.52%) Customer Requirements
9 6 (9.52%) ITIL
9 6 (9.52%) Observability
9 6 (9.52%) Refactoring
10 5 (7.94%) Disaster Recovery
11 4 (6.35%) Computer Science
11 4 (6.35%) Data Protection
11 4 (6.35%) ITSM
11 4 (6.35%) OO
Programming Languages
1 21 (33.33%) Python
2 19 (30.16%) PowerShell
3 10 (15.87%) Perl
4 6 (9.52%) SQL
5 4 (6.35%) Java
6 1 (1.59%) C
6 1 (1.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (11.11%) MCSE
1 7 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (9.52%) MCSA
2 6 (9.52%) RHCT
3 4 (6.35%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.35%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.17%) Degree
5 1 (1.59%) CCNA
5 1 (1.59%) CCNP
5 1 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.59%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.59%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (36.51%) Active Directory
2 7 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (9.52%) Hyper-V
3 6 (9.52%) KVM
4 4 (6.35%) Docker
4 4 (6.35%) GPFS
4 4 (6.35%) NFS
5 1 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (19.05%) SCCM
2 8 (12.70%) Kubernetes
3 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (6.35%) NetBackup
4 4 (6.35%) Veritas Storage Foundation
5 3 (4.76%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (3.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (3.17%) Ansible
6 2 (3.17%) Grafana
6 2 (3.17%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (50.79%) Microsoft
2 10 (15.87%) Citrix
3 8 (12.70%) Veritas
3 8 (12.70%) VMware
4 7 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 7 (11.11%) Splunk
5 6 (9.52%) Red Hat
6 5 (7.94%) Apple
7 4 (6.35%) Brocade
7 4 (6.35%) EMC
7 4 (6.35%) Google
7 4 (6.35%) IBM
7 4 (6.35%) NetApp
7 4 (6.35%) Sybase
8 2 (3.17%) Cisco
9 1 (1.59%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.59%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.59%) Dell
9 1 (1.59%) HP
9 1 (1.59%) Meraki