Windows Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Windows
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Windows skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Windows over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 16 21
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 -6
Contract jobs citing Windows 180 257 284
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 8.40% 9.62% 8.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 51.14% 53.77% 56.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 172 196
10th Percentile £144 £158 £136
25th Percentile £193 £200 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £378 £400
Median % change year-on-year -10.05% -5.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £500 £525 £489
90th Percentile £634 £600 £575
UK median daily rate £420 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.88% +3.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 22
10th Percentile £17.72 £16.34 £15.09
25th Percentile £18.03 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £18.20 £18.45 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -7.75% +33.82%
75th Percentile £18.27 £34.96 £53.43
90th Percentile £24.36 £59.49 £57.33
UK median hourly rate £18.13 £24.62 £20.00
% change year-on-year -26.36% +23.10% +23.08%

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 contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 352 478 503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 16.43% 17.89% 14.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 325 342
10th Percentile £175 £160 £150
25th Percentile £278 £260 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.98% +3.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £558 £573 £550
90th Percentile £699 £688 £600
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 26
10th Percentile £18.00 £15.46 £12.18
25th Percentile £18.20 £17.72 £15.53
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.80 £18.86
Median % change year-on-year -27.36% +89.79% +7.77%
75th Percentile £60.75 £58.96 £49.89
90th Percentile £62.50 £64.76 £56.63
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £46.75 £22.25
% change year-on-year -50.80% +110.11% +27.14%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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
Edinburgh +13 78 £275 -5.01% 37
Glasgow -3 62 £475 +5.56% 30
South Lanarkshire +11 7 £460 +55.83%
South Ayrshire +1 7 £144 +5.79%
Perthshire +7 5 £475 -16.67% 1
Stirling +2 4 £420 +110.00% 2
Renfrewshire -2 3 - - 1
West Lothian +3 2 £188 -54.55% 2
Fife 0 2 £365 +128.13% 5
Dundee +2 1 - - 2
Lanarkshire -3 1 £185 +12.12% 14
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 19 (10.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.33%) IIS
4 4 (2.22%) Confluence
5 3 (1.67%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.56%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 35 (19.44%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.67%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.56%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 41 (22.78%) Microsoft 365
2 31 (17.22%) Azure
3 14 (7.78%) Entra ID
4 13 (7.22%) AWS
5 8 (4.44%) OneDrive
5 8 (4.44%) OpenShift
5 8 (4.44%) Power Platform
6 7 (3.89%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.22%) PowerApps
8 3 (1.67%) OCI
8 3 (1.67%) Oracle Service Cloud
9 2 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 29 (16.11%) Firewall
2 25 (13.89%) DNS
2 25 (13.89%) VPN
3 22 (12.22%) DHCP
4 11 (6.11%) Remote Desktop
5 7 (3.89%) LAN
6 6 (3.33%) Internet
7 5 (2.78%) NAS
7 5 (2.78%) SAN
7 5 (2.78%) WAN
8 3 (1.67%) Skype
8 3 (1.67%) SMTP
8 3 (1.67%) SSL
8 3 (1.67%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (1.67%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.11%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (1.11%) SNMP
9 2 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (1.11%) WLAN
10 1 (0.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.89%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (2.22%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.67%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.67%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.11%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (7.78%) Git
2 10 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.33%) Gradle
3 6 (3.33%) Maven
4 5 (2.78%) JIRA
4 5 (2.78%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.56%) Appium
5 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.56%) Selenium
General
1 63 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 38 (21.11%) Public Sector
3 28 (15.56%) Finance
4 17 (9.44%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.89%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (3.33%) Banking
6 6 (3.33%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.78%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.11%) Electronics
9 2 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.11%) Marketing
10 1 (0.56%) Automotive
10 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (12.78%) Desktop Engineer
1 23 (12.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 22 (12.22%) Desktop Support
2 22 (12.22%) Support Engineer
3 19 (10.56%) IT Support
4 17 (9.44%) Analyst
4 17 (9.44%) Windows Engineer
5 15 (8.33%) Support Analyst
6 12 (6.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 10 (5.56%) Security Engineer
8 9 (5.00%) Infrastructure Support
8 9 (5.00%) Network Engineer
8 9 (5.00%) Senior
8 9 (5.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (4.44%) 1st Line Support
9 8 (4.44%) IT Analyst
9 8 (4.44%) IT Engineer
9 8 (4.44%) IT Support Analyst
9 8 (4.44%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
9 8 (4.44%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.33%) .NET
1 6 (3.33%) REST
2 4 (2.22%) Playwright
2 4 (2.22%) SOAP
2 4 (2.22%) WinForms
2 4 (2.22%) WPF
3 3 (1.67%) LDAP
4 2 (1.11%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.11%) Kafka
4 2 (1.11%) Middleware
4 2 (1.11%) Pandas
5 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.56%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 14 (7.78%) iPhone
3 8 (4.44%) PKI
3 8 (4.44%) Video Conferencing
4 7 (3.89%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (3.89%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.33%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.78%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.78%) Tandem
7 4 (2.22%) Clustering
7 4 (2.22%) iPad
7 4 (2.22%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.67%) CMDB
8 3 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.67%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.67%) Smartphone
9 2 (1.11%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 2 (1.11%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 53 (29.44%) Windows 10
2 38 (21.11%) Windows Server
3 35 (19.44%) Linux
4 18 (10.00%) Unix
5 16 (8.89%) Windows 7
6 14 (7.78%) Windows Server 2016
7 10 (5.56%) Apple iOS
8 9 (5.00%) Mac OS
9 6 (3.33%) CentOS
9 6 (3.33%) Debian
9 6 (3.33%) Mac OS X
9 6 (3.33%) Windows Server 2008
9 6 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (2.22%) Android
11 2 (1.11%) zOS
12 1 (0.56%) Solaris
12 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (22.78%) ITIL
2 39 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (21.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 33 (18.33%) Customer Service
5 26 (14.44%) Agile
6 20 (11.11%) Service Delivery
7 18 (10.00%) DevOps
8 17 (9.44%) Break/Fix
8 17 (9.44%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 11 (6.11%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (6.11%) Decision-Making
10 11 (6.11%) High Availability
11 10 (5.56%) Network Management
11 10 (5.56%) Test Automation
12 9 (5.00%) Problem Management
13 8 (4.44%) Asset Management
13 8 (4.44%) CI/CD
14 7 (3.89%) Disk Encryption
15 6 (3.33%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 24 (13.33%) PowerShell
1 24 (13.33%) Python
2 9 (5.00%) SQL
3 7 (3.89%) Shell Script
4 6 (3.33%) Bash
4 6 (3.33%) Groovy
4 6 (3.33%) Ruby
5 5 (2.78%) C#
6 4 (2.22%) Perl
6 4 (2.22%) VB
6 4 (2.22%) VB6
7 1 (0.56%) C
Qualifications
1 56 (31.11%) Security Cleared
2 48 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 19 (10.56%) Degree
4 16 (8.89%) MCSE
4 16 (8.89%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (8.33%) A+ Certification
6 6 (3.33%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.33%) MCP
6 6 (3.33%) MCSA
6 6 (3.33%) RHCT
7 3 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.11%) CCNA
8 2 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.56%) CCNP
9 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.56%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
2 7 (3.89%) QA
2 7 (3.89%) SLA
3 2 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (1.11%) NIST
4 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 76 (42.22%) Active Directory
2 16 (8.89%) Hyper-V
3 10 (5.56%) BitLocker
4 7 (3.89%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (3.33%) KVM
6 5 (2.78%) Docker
7 3 (1.67%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (1.67%) Terminal Services
7 3 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 49 (27.22%) SCCM
2 11 (6.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 9 (5.00%) WSUS
4 8 (4.44%) Ansible
5 7 (3.89%) Terraform
6 5 (2.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.67%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (1.67%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.67%) vMotion
8 2 (1.11%) Nagios
8 2 (1.11%) NetBackup
8 2 (1.11%) OpenView
9 1 (0.56%) Grafana
9 1 (0.56%) Kibana
9 1 (0.56%) logstash
9 1 (0.56%) Nessus
9 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.56%) SCOM
9 1 (0.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 74 (41.11%) Microsoft
2 28 (15.56%) Cisco
3 23 (12.78%) Citrix
4 17 (9.44%) HP
5 15 (8.33%) Apple
6 12 (6.67%) Splunk
7 11 (6.11%) Oracle
7 11 (6.11%) VMware
8 9 (5.00%) Samsung
9 8 (4.44%) ServiceNow
10 6 (3.33%) McAfee
10 6 (3.33%) Red Hat
11 4 (2.22%) Atlassian
11 4 (2.22%) Fortinet
11 4 (2.22%) Infragistics
12 3 (1.67%) F5
12 3 (1.67%) Infoblox
12 3 (1.67%) Meraki
12 3 (1.67%) SolarWinds
13 2 (1.11%) Databricks