Windows Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Windows
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 14 19
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 -4
Contract jobs citing Windows 170 271 287
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 7.84% 9.89% 8.36%
As % of the Operating Systems category 47.35% 52.52% 57.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 184 197
10th Percentile £148 £158 £136
25th Percentile £199 £197 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £377 £340
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +11.05% -9.47%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £476
90th Percentile £688 £613 £588
UK median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 21
10th Percentile £18.08 £15.44 £15.04
25th Percentile £18.13 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £18.27 £20.79 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% +3.95% +56.86%
75th Percentile - £51.01 £50.77
90th Percentile £21.36 £59.79 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £20.45
% change year-on-year -20.00% +10.02% +25.85%

All Operating Systems
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 359 516 497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 16.56% 18.83% 14.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 360 329
10th Percentile £180 £160 £150
25th Percentile £313 £260 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £477 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.97% +6.00% +12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £545
90th Percentile £726 £723 £600
UK median daily rate £468 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -7.43% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 14 24
10th Percentile £17.61 £15.47 £13.13
25th Percentile £18.17 £18.49 £15.59
Median hourly rate £39.25 £52.50 £18.90
Median % change year-on-year -25.24% +177.78% +34.71%
75th Percentile £60.75 £58.96 £48.13
90th Percentile £62.50 £64.76 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -42.86% +67.39% +29.50%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Windows in Scotland

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Scotland over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Scotland

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Scotland

Windows
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -8 64 £490 +11.49% 16
Edinburgh +7 58 £320 +14.29% 42
South Lanarkshire +9 9 £460 +55.83%
South Ayrshire 0 7 £144 +5.79%
Renfrewshire -2 7 £538 +1.90%
Perthshire +7 5 £475 -16.67% 1
Stirling +1 4 £420 +110.00% 1
Dundee +3 2 £166 -51.18%
Fife -1 2 £365 +128.13% 5
West Lothian -5 2 £188 -54.55% 2
Aberdeen -3 1 - - 6
Lanarkshire -4 1 £185 +12.12% 6
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 21 (12.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.71%) IIS
2 8 (4.71%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.35%) Confluence
3 4 (2.35%) SAS
4 3 (1.76%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.59%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.59%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 29 (17.06%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.76%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.59%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 39 (22.94%) Microsoft 365
2 35 (20.59%) Azure
3 18 (10.59%) AWS
4 15 (8.82%) Entra ID
5 14 (8.24%) OpenShift
6 7 (4.12%) OneDrive
6 7 (4.12%) Power Platform
7 6 (3.53%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.35%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.76%) OCI
9 3 (1.76%) Oracle Service Cloud
10 1 (0.59%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.59%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 27 (15.88%) Firewall
2 21 (12.35%) DNS
3 17 (10.00%) DHCP
3 17 (10.00%) VPN
4 13 (7.65%) SAN
5 10 (5.88%) Remote Desktop
6 8 (4.71%) LAN
7 7 (4.12%) NAS
8 6 (3.53%) Internet
8 6 (3.53%) WAN
9 5 (2.94%) SMTP
10 4 (2.35%) Fibre Channel
10 4 (2.35%) iSCSI
10 4 (2.35%) TCP/IP
11 3 (1.76%) Skype
11 3 (1.76%) SSL
11 3 (1.76%) Structured Cabling
12 2 (1.18%) Cisco ASA
12 2 (1.18%) SNMP
12 2 (1.18%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.12%) Oracle Reports
2 6 (3.53%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (3.53%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.35%) DB2
3 4 (2.35%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.76%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.18%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (0.59%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (9.41%) Git
2 12 (7.06%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.53%) Gradle
3 6 (3.53%) JIRA
3 6 (3.53%) Maven
4 5 (2.94%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.59%) Appium
5 1 (0.59%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.59%) Selenium
General
1 64 (37.65%) Social Skills
2 37 (21.76%) Public Sector
3 27 (15.88%) Finance
4 17 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.71%) Banking
6 7 (4.12%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.53%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.94%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.35%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.59%) Automotive
12 1 (0.59%) Electronics
12 1 (0.59%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.59%) Marketing
12 1 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.59%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 19 (11.18%) IT Support
3 18 (10.59%) Analyst
3 18 (10.59%) Support Engineer
4 16 (9.41%) Windows Engineer
5 15 (8.82%) Desktop Engineer
5 15 (8.82%) Desktop Support
5 15 (8.82%) Support Analyst
6 11 (6.47%) Senior
7 10 (5.88%) Security Engineer
8 9 (5.29%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (4.71%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 8 (4.71%) IT Analyst
9 8 (4.71%) IT Support Analyst
9 8 (4.71%) Support Officer
10 7 (4.12%) 1st Line Support
10 7 (4.12%) 2nd Line Support
10 7 (4.12%) 3rd Line Support
10 7 (4.12%) Infrastructure Support
10 7 (4.12%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.71%) REST
2 6 (3.53%) .NET
3 5 (2.94%) LDAP
4 4 (2.35%) Flash
4 4 (2.35%) Playwright
4 4 (2.35%) POSIX
4 4 (2.35%) SOAP
4 4 (2.35%) WinForms
4 4 (2.35%) WPF
5 2 (1.18%) Middleware
6 1 (0.59%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.59%) Kafka
6 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.59%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.82%) Data Centre
2 10 (5.88%) PKI
3 9 (5.29%) iPhone
4 7 (4.12%) Clustering
4 7 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.53%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.53%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.94%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.94%) Tandem
7 4 (2.35%) Client/Server
7 4 (2.35%) NVMe
7 4 (2.35%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.35%) Smartphone
7 4 (2.35%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (1.76%) CMDB
8 3 (1.76%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.76%) iPad
8 3 (1.76%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.18%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.59%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (27.06%) Windows Server
2 42 (24.71%) Windows 10
3 35 (20.59%) Linux
4 24 (14.12%) Unix
5 14 (8.24%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (5.88%) Windows 7
7 9 (5.29%) Apple iOS
8 8 (4.71%) Windows Server 2012
9 7 (4.12%) Mac OS
10 6 (3.53%) CentOS
10 6 (3.53%) Debian
10 6 (3.53%) Mac OS X
10 6 (3.53%) Windows Server 2008
11 4 (2.35%) Data ONTAP
11 4 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (2.35%) Windows Server 2003
12 3 (1.76%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (1.18%) Android
14 1 (0.59%) Solaris
14 1 (0.59%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (20.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 32 (18.82%) ITIL
4 29 (17.06%) Customer Service
5 27 (15.88%) Agile
6 18 (10.59%) DevOps
6 18 (10.59%) High Availability
7 17 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 15 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
9 13 (7.65%) Problem Management
9 13 (7.65%) Service Delivery
10 12 (7.06%) Capacity Management
10 12 (7.06%) Customer Requirements
11 11 (6.47%) Continuous Integration
12 10 (5.88%) Break/Fix
12 10 (5.88%) SDLC
12 10 (5.88%) Test Automation
13 9 (5.29%) Asset Management
13 9 (5.29%) CI/CD
14 8 (4.71%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 33 (19.41%) PowerShell
2 29 (17.06%) Python
3 15 (8.82%) SQL
4 10 (5.88%) Perl
5 8 (4.71%) Bash
6 6 (3.53%) Groovy
6 6 (3.53%) Ruby
6 6 (3.53%) Shell Script
7 5 (2.94%) C#
8 4 (2.35%) Java
8 4 (2.35%) VB
8 4 (2.35%) VB6
9 2 (1.18%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.59%) C
Qualifications
1 43 (25.29%) Security Cleared
2 36 (21.18%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.76%) Degree
4 14 (8.24%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (7.65%) MCSE
6 11 (6.47%) DV Cleared
7 9 (5.29%) A+ Certification
8 6 (3.53%) MCSA
8 6 (3.53%) RHCT
9 4 (2.35%) MCP
10 3 (1.76%) CCNA
10 3 (1.76%) CCNP
10 3 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.76%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.59%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.88%) Disclosure Scotland
2 9 (5.29%) SLA
3 6 (3.53%) QA
4 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.59%) NIST
System Software
1 72 (42.35%) Active Directory
2 18 (10.59%) Hyper-V
3 12 (7.06%) BitLocker
4 10 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (5.29%) Docker
5 9 (5.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (3.53%) KVM
7 5 (2.94%) Microsoft App-V
7 5 (2.94%) Terminal Services
8 4 (2.35%) GPFS
8 4 (2.35%) NFS
9 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.59%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 40 (23.53%) SCCM
2 14 (8.24%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (5.29%) Ansible
5 8 (4.71%) Terraform
6 6 (3.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (3.53%) vCenter Server
6 6 (3.53%) WSUS
7 5 (2.94%) vMotion
8 4 (2.35%) NetBackup
8 4 (2.35%) Veritas Storage Foundation
9 3 (1.76%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (1.18%) Grafana
10 2 (1.18%) Nagios
10 2 (1.18%) OpenView
10 2 (1.18%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.59%) McAfee ePO
11 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.59%) vRealize
Vendors
1 72 (42.35%) Microsoft
2 22 (12.94%) Citrix
3 19 (11.18%) Cisco
3 19 (11.18%) VMware
4 16 (9.41%) Apple
5 11 (6.47%) Oracle
6 10 (5.88%) HP
7 9 (5.29%) Veritas
8 8 (4.71%) ServiceNow
8 8 (4.71%) Splunk
9 7 (4.12%) McAfee
10 6 (3.53%) Red Hat
11 5 (2.94%) Infoblox
11 5 (2.94%) Samsung
12 4 (2.35%) Atlassian
12 4 (2.35%) Brocade
12 4 (2.35%) EMC
12 4 (2.35%) Fortinet
12 4 (2.35%) Google
12 4 (2.35%) IBM