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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 42 40
Rank change year-on-year +20 -2 -20
Permanent jobs citing Windows 129 131 187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 8.46% 7.05% 7.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 59.45% 44.56% 42.21%
Number of salaries quoted 85 85 128
10th Percentile - £26,250 £24,775
25th Percentile £26,250 £30,500 £31,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% +50.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £70,000
Scotland median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year - +6.25% -

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 217 294 443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 14.23% 15.83% 17.41%
Number of salaries quoted 156 173 293
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +27.91%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,774 £80,000 £77,500
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £48,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -8.57% +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 1 June 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 6 (4.65%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (4.65%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.88%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (5.43%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (8.53%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 47 (36.43%) Microsoft 365
2 39 (30.23%) Azure
3 17 (13.18%) Entra ID
4 15 (11.63%) SaaS
5 10 (7.75%) AWS
6 6 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (3.88%) Amazon S3
7 5 (3.88%) GCP
8 4 (3.10%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (3.10%) Google Docs
8 4 (3.10%) OneDrive
9 3 (2.33%) Mimecast
9 3 (2.33%) WhatsApp
10 2 (1.55%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.55%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.78%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.78%) IaaS
11 1 (0.78%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (12.40%) Firewall
2 11 (8.53%) TCP/IP
3 9 (6.98%) DNS
4 7 (5.43%) DHCP
4 7 (5.43%) Internet
5 6 (4.65%) SNMP
5 6 (4.65%) VPN
6 5 (3.88%) IPsec
6 5 (3.88%) WAN
6 5 (3.88%) Wireless
7 2 (1.55%) NetScaler
7 2 (1.55%) Network Security
8 1 (0.78%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (0.78%) LAN
8 1 (0.78%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.53%) DB2
2 10 (7.75%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.88%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (3.88%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.33%) Big Data
6 1 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.78%) MySQL
6 1 (0.78%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (3.10%) JIRA
2 2 (1.55%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (0.78%) Git
3 1 (0.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.78%) Subversion
General
1 34 (26.36%) Social Skills
2 30 (23.26%) Finance
3 14 (10.85%) Military
4 11 (8.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (8.53%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.98%) Telecoms
6 8 (6.20%) Banking
7 4 (3.10%) Billing
7 4 (3.10%) Legal
7 4 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.55%) Law
8 2 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.55%) Retail
9 1 (0.78%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Games
9 1 (0.78%) Marketing
9 1 (0.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 23 (17.83%) Analyst
2 20 (15.50%) Senior
3 19 (14.73%) Support Analyst
4 18 (13.95%) IT Engineer
5 14 (10.85%) IT Support
5 14 (10.85%) Support Engineer
5 14 (10.85%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
6 13 (10.08%) IT Manager
7 9 (6.98%) Consultant
8 8 (6.20%) IT Support Engineer
9 7 (5.43%) 1st Line Support
9 7 (5.43%) Audit Manager
9 7 (5.43%) Help Desk Technician
9 7 (5.43%) IT Analyst
9 7 (5.43%) IT Audit Manager
10 6 (4.65%) 2nd Line Support
10 6 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (4.65%) Support Technician
10 6 (4.65%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.88%) LDAP
1 5 (3.88%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (3.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.43%) Data Centre
2 5 (3.88%) Driving Licence
2 5 (3.88%) Public Cloud
3 4 (3.10%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.10%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.33%) Device Driver
5 2 (1.55%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.55%) EPoS
6 1 (0.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.78%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 55 (42.64%) Linux
2 48 (37.21%) Windows Server
3 38 (29.46%) Unix
4 16 (12.40%) Mac OS X
5 10 (7.75%) Windows 10
6 5 (3.88%) Data ONTAP
7 4 (3.10%) Apple iOS
7 4 (3.10%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (2.33%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.55%) Android
9 2 (1.55%) CentOS
9 2 (1.55%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.78%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.78%) OpenWrt
10 1 (0.78%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (24.03%) Customer Service
2 26 (20.16%) Cybersecurity
3 22 (17.05%) DevOps
3 22 (17.05%) ITIL
3 22 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (16.28%) Actionable Insight
5 20 (15.50%) Service Delivery
6 18 (13.95%) Agile
6 18 (13.95%) Information Security
7 17 (13.18%) Project Management
8 15 (11.63%) Creative Thinking
8 15 (11.63%) Incident Management
8 15 (11.63%) Incident Response
9 14 (10.85%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 14 (10.85%) Malware Analysis
9 14 (10.85%) Open Source
9 14 (10.85%) Resource Management
9 14 (10.85%) Security Operations
9 14 (10.85%) Situational Awareness
9 14 (10.85%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 20 (15.50%) SQL
2 10 (7.75%) PowerShell
3 8 (6.20%) Bash
4 7 (5.43%) Python
5 2 (1.55%) Groovy
6 1 (0.78%) Assembly Language
6 1 (0.78%) C
6 1 (0.78%) C#
6 1 (0.78%) C++
6 1 (0.78%) Perl
6 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (28.68%) Degree
2 14 (10.85%) CISM
2 14 (10.85%) CISSP
2 14 (10.85%) GCIA
2 14 (10.85%) GCIH
2 14 (10.85%) GREM
3 11 (8.53%) CISA
4 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.55%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.55%) MCSE
5 2 (1.55%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.55%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.53%) ITGC
1 11 (8.53%) PMO
2 4 (3.10%) SLA
3 1 (0.78%) GDPR
3 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.78%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (22.48%) Active Directory
2 13 (10.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (7.75%) Docker
4 9 (6.98%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.55%) vSphere
5 2 (1.55%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.78%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (13.95%) Ansible
2 17 (13.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (10.08%) Kubernetes
4 9 (6.98%) Prometheus
4 9 (6.98%) Terraform
5 7 (5.43%) vCenter Server
6 4 (3.10%) Grafana
6 4 (3.10%) SCCM
7 3 (2.33%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.78%) WSUS
Vendors
1 37 (28.68%) Microsoft
2 25 (19.38%) VMware
3 23 (17.83%) Dell
4 12 (9.30%) Oracle
5 11 (8.53%) Sage
5 11 (8.53%) SAP
6 10 (7.75%) Google
7 6 (4.65%) NetApp
8 5 (3.88%) Citrix
8 5 (3.88%) ConnectWise
8 5 (3.88%) iManage
8 5 (3.88%) Palo Alto
8 5 (3.88%) Red Hat
8 5 (3.88%) SolidFire
9 4 (3.10%) Apple
9 4 (3.10%) BeyondTrust
9 4 (3.10%) CyberArk
9 4 (3.10%) HP
9 4 (3.10%) ServiceNow
10 3 (2.33%) Cisco