Windows Jobs in Edinburgh

Microsoft Windows
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Windows skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Windows over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 42 40
Rank change year-on-year +21 -2 -18
Permanent jobs citing Windows 140 142 187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.40% 7.03% 7.59%
As % of the Operating Systems category 61.67% 44.24% 43.79%
Number of salaries quoted 90 95 125
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,450 £24,550
25th Percentile £26,563 £30,500 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% +40.63%
75th Percentile £55,000 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £70,000
Scotland median annual salary £42,202 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -6.22% +12.50% -

All Operating Systems
Edinburgh

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 227 321 427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 15.25% 15.90% 17.32%
Number of salaries quoted 163 187 288
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,600 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,650 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +16.67%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Edinburgh

Windows
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Windows in Edinburgh

Windows
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows in Edinburgh

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 7 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.57%) Apache
2 5 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (7.86%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 49 (35.00%) Microsoft 365
2 42 (30.00%) Azure
3 21 (15.00%) SaaS
4 19 (13.57%) Entra ID
5 10 (7.14%) AWS
6 7 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (4.29%) GCP
8 5 (3.57%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (2.86%) Google Docs
9 4 (2.86%) Mimecast
9 4 (2.86%) OneDrive
10 3 (2.14%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (2.14%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.14%) WhatsApp
11 1 (0.71%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.71%) IaaS
11 1 (0.71%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.43%) Firewall
2 11 (7.86%) TCP/IP
3 9 (6.43%) DNS
4 8 (5.71%) Internet
5 7 (5.00%) DHCP
6 6 (4.29%) SNMP
6 6 (4.29%) VPN
7 5 (3.57%) IPsec
7 5 (3.57%) WAN
7 5 (3.57%) Wireless
8 2 (1.43%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.71%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (0.71%) LAN
9 1 (0.71%) Network Security
9 1 (0.71%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.71%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.57%) SQL Server
2 11 (7.86%) DB2
3 5 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (3.57%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.14%) Big Data
6 1 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.71%) MySQL
6 1 (0.71%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.86%) JIRA
2 3 (2.14%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (0.71%) Git
3 1 (0.71%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.71%) MSI
3 1 (0.71%) Subversion
General
1 36 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 32 (22.86%) Finance
3 14 (10.00%) Military
4 11 (7.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (7.86%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.43%) Banking
5 9 (6.43%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.86%) Billing
6 4 (2.86%) Legal
6 4 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.14%) Retail
8 2 (1.43%) Law
9 1 (0.71%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Games
9 1 (0.71%) Marketing
9 1 (0.71%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 27 (19.29%) Senior
2 24 (17.14%) Analyst
3 19 (13.57%) IT Engineer
3 19 (13.57%) Support Analyst
4 15 (10.71%) IT Manager
4 15 (10.71%) Support Engineer
5 14 (10.00%) IT Support
5 14 (10.00%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
6 9 (6.43%) Consultant
6 9 (6.43%) Windows Engineer
7 8 (5.71%) IT Analyst
7 8 (5.71%) IT Support Engineer
8 7 (5.00%) 1st Line Support
8 7 (5.00%) 2nd Line Support
8 7 (5.00%) Audit Manager
8 7 (5.00%) Help Desk Technician
8 7 (5.00%) IT Audit Manager
8 7 (5.00%) Senior Support Engineer
8 7 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
9 6 (4.29%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.57%) LDAP
1 5 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.71%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 6 (4.29%) Public Cloud
3 6 (4.29%) Virtual Team
4 5 (3.57%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.86%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.14%) Device Driver
7 2 (1.43%) EPoS
8 1 (0.71%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 62 (44.29%) Linux
2 50 (35.71%) Windows Server
3 38 (27.14%) Unix
4 16 (11.43%) Mac OS X
5 11 (7.86%) Windows 10
6 8 (5.71%) Mac OS
7 5 (3.57%) Data ONTAP
8 4 (2.86%) Apple iOS
8 4 (2.86%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (2.14%) CentOS
10 2 (1.43%) Android
11 1 (0.71%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.71%) OpenWrt
11 1 (0.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (22.86%) Customer Service
2 31 (22.14%) Cybersecurity
3 25 (17.86%) Agile
3 25 (17.86%) ITIL
4 24 (17.14%) DevOps
5 23 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (15.00%) Actionable Insight
7 20 (14.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 20 (14.29%) Service Delivery
7 20 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence
8 19 (13.57%) Information Security
9 17 (12.14%) Analytics
9 17 (12.14%) Project Management
10 15 (10.71%) Creative Thinking
10 15 (10.71%) Incident Management
10 15 (10.71%) Incident Response
11 14 (10.00%) Malware Analysis
11 14 (10.00%) Open Source
11 14 (10.00%) Security Operations
11 14 (10.00%) Situational Awareness
Programming Languages
1 22 (15.71%) SQL
2 12 (8.57%) PowerShell
3 9 (6.43%) Bash
4 7 (5.00%) Python
5 3 (2.14%) Groovy
6 1 (0.71%) Assembly Language
6 1 (0.71%) C
6 1 (0.71%) C++
6 1 (0.71%) Perl
6 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (27.14%) Degree
2 14 (10.00%) CISM
2 14 (10.00%) CISSP
2 14 (10.00%) GCIA
2 14 (10.00%) GCIH
2 14 (10.00%) GREM
3 11 (7.86%) CISA
4 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.43%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.43%) MCSE
5 2 (1.43%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.43%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.86%) ITGC
1 11 (7.86%) PMO
2 4 (2.86%) SLA
3 1 (0.71%) GDPR
3 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.71%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (24.29%) Active Directory
2 13 (9.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (7.14%) Docker
3 10 (7.14%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.43%) vSphere
5 2 (1.43%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.71%) Firmware
6 1 (0.71%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 20 (14.29%) Ansible
2 18 (12.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (9.29%) Kubernetes
4 11 (7.86%) Terraform
5 9 (6.43%) Prometheus
6 7 (5.00%) SCCM
6 7 (5.00%) vCenter Server
7 4 (2.86%) Grafana
7 4 (2.86%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.71%) WMI
8 1 (0.71%) WSUS
Vendors
1 41 (29.29%) Microsoft
2 30 (21.43%) Dell
3 26 (18.57%) VMware
4 12 (8.57%) Oracle
5 11 (7.86%) Google
5 11 (7.86%) Sage
5 11 (7.86%) SAP
6 6 (4.29%) iManage
6 6 (4.29%) NetApp
7 5 (3.57%) Citrix
7 5 (3.57%) ConnectWise
7 5 (3.57%) HP
7 5 (3.57%) Palo Alto
7 5 (3.57%) Red Hat
7 5 (3.57%) SolidFire
8 4 (2.86%) Aderant
8 4 (2.86%) Apple
8 4 (2.86%) BeyondTrust
8 4 (2.86%) CyberArk
8 4 (2.86%) ServiceNow