Windows Jobs in Scotland

Microsoft Windows
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 23 31
Rank change year-on-year -43 +8 -10
Permanent jobs citing Windows 370 467 465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.51% 10.22% 7.88%
As % of the Operating Systems category 46.78% 61.69% 47.69%
Number of salaries quoted 274 275 318
10th Percentile £24,250 £26,250 £22,350
25th Percentile £26,700 £30,159 £27,031
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,202 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.22% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £62,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £64,925 £71,250 £65,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% -2.22%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 791 757 975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.78% 16.56% 16.53%
Number of salaries quoted 413 423 561
10th Percentile £26,050 £28,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £32,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,950 £72,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

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
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Windows in Scotland

Windows
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in Scotland over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Windows in Scotland

Windows
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +24 141 £40,000 -15.79% 40
Glasgow -104 133 £48,500 -3.00% 25
Aberdeen -19 24 £28,000 -34.12% 6
Argyll and Bute - 17 £27,400 -
Dundee -2 14 £49,990 +33.31% 1
Fife -1 9 £55,000 -8.33% 4
West Lothian -12 8 £28,500 -12.31% 2
East Ayrshire - 5 £24,500 -
North Lanarkshire -6 4 £30,750 +23.00% 2
Banffshire - 4 £22,000 -
Aberdeenshire +4 3 £28,500 -56.15% 4
Stirling - 2 £34,750 - 1
West Dunbartonshire - 2 £17,000 -
South Ayrshire +1 1 - -
Dumfries and Galloway -10 1 £23,000 -21.37%
Lanarkshire -10 1 £27,500 -11.29% 11
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 26 (7.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (4.05%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.70%) Apache
4 4 (1.08%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.81%) IIS
6 1 (0.27%) JOnAS
Applications
1 22 (5.95%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (2.97%) Unit4 Business World
2 2 (0.54%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 119 (32.16%) Microsoft 365
2 111 (30.00%) Azure
3 39 (10.54%) Entra ID
4 35 (9.46%) AWS
5 30 (8.11%) SaaS
6 25 (6.76%) GCP
7 22 (5.95%) IaaS
8 21 (5.68%) PaaS
9 11 (2.97%) Amazon S3
10 8 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (1.35%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (1.35%) OneDrive
12 5 (1.35%) OpenShift
13 4 (1.08%) Google Docs
13 4 (1.08%) Mimecast
13 4 (1.08%) Power Platform
14 3 (0.81%) Asana
14 3 (0.81%) Slack
14 3 (0.81%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 46 (12.43%) Firewall
2 34 (9.19%) VPN
3 32 (8.65%) TCP/IP
3 32 (8.65%) WAN
4 17 (4.59%) Internet
4 17 (4.59%) VoIP
5 15 (4.05%) SAN
5 15 (4.05%) Wi-Fi
6 14 (3.78%) DNS
6 14 (3.78%) SD-WAN
7 13 (3.51%) Modbus
8 12 (3.24%) DHCP
8 12 (3.24%) LAN
9 11 (2.97%) SNMP
9 11 (2.97%) Wireless
10 10 (2.70%) IPsec
10 10 (2.70%) VLAN
11 9 (2.43%) Cisco IOS
12 8 (2.16%) NAS
13 7 (1.89%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (9.19%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.97%) DB2
3 10 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (2.70%) MongoDB
4 7 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (1.89%) Big Data
5 3 (0.81%) Ingres
6 2 (0.54%) DTS
6 2 (0.54%) MySQL
6 2 (0.54%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.54%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.27%) Power BI
7 1 (0.27%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 16 (4.32%) JIRA
2 15 (4.05%) GitLab
3 14 (3.78%) Visual Studio
4 6 (1.62%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.81%) Git
5 3 (0.81%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.27%) GoCD
6 1 (0.27%) Gradle
6 1 (0.27%) Maven
6 1 (0.27%) MSI
6 1 (0.27%) Subversion
General
1 94 (25.41%) Social Skills
2 55 (14.86%) Finance
3 22 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (5.68%) Organisational Skills
5 18 (4.86%) Public Sector
6 16 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (4.05%) Law
8 14 (3.78%) Legal
8 14 (3.78%) Military
9 11 (2.97%) Banking
9 11 (2.97%) Telecoms
10 9 (2.43%) Retail
11 4 (1.08%) Billing
12 3 (0.81%) Automotive
12 3 (0.81%) Marketing
12 3 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.54%) Electronics
13 2 (0.54%) Games
13 2 (0.54%) Police
Job Titles
1 66 (17.84%) Senior
2 55 (14.86%) IT Support
3 49 (13.24%) Analyst
4 39 (10.54%) Support Engineer
5 38 (10.27%) IT Engineer
6 30 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 29 (7.84%) Support Analyst
8 27 (7.30%) 2nd Line Support
9 26 (7.03%) IT Manager
10 24 (6.49%) Software Engineer
11 23 (6.22%) IT Support Engineer
12 21 (5.68%) Cloud Engineer
12 21 (5.68%) IT Analyst
13 20 (5.41%) Senior Software Engineer
14 18 (4.86%) Support Technician
15 17 (4.59%) Systems Engineer
16 16 (4.32%) 1st Line Support
17 15 (4.05%) Infrastructure Support
18 14 (3.78%) Consultant
18 14 (3.78%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.95%) .NET
2 14 (3.78%) WPF
3 13 (3.51%) .NET Framework
3 13 (3.51%) CSS
3 13 (3.51%) HTML
3 13 (3.51%) WinForms
4 10 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
4 10 (2.70%) YAML
5 7 (1.89%) LDAP
6 5 (1.35%) OpenCV
6 5 (1.35%) OpenVINO
7 3 (0.81%) ONNX
8 2 (0.54%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.54%) RESTful
8 2 (0.54%) SAML
9 1 (0.27%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.27%) Blazor
9 1 (0.27%) Entity Framework
9 1 (0.27%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.84%) Data Centre
2 23 (6.22%) Public Cloud
3 22 (5.95%) Driving Licence
4 17 (4.59%) Cloud Native
5 14 (3.78%) Replication
6 13 (3.51%) Video\Live Streaming
7 8 (2.16%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.16%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.62%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.35%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.08%) Learning Management System
11 3 (0.81%) Cyberattack
11 3 (0.81%) Device Driver
11 3 (0.81%) iPhone
11 3 (0.81%) Video Conferencing
12 2 (0.54%) EPoS
12 2 (0.54%) Life Science
12 2 (0.54%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.54%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 146 (39.46%) Windows Server
2 133 (35.95%) Linux
3 47 (12.70%) Unix
4 39 (10.54%) Windows 10
5 18 (4.86%) Android
6 17 (4.59%) Mac OS
6 17 (4.59%) Mac OS X
7 12 (3.24%) Windows Server 2016
8 10 (2.70%) Data ONTAP
8 10 (2.70%) Windows Server 2012
9 7 (1.89%) Apple iOS
9 7 (1.89%) CentOS
9 7 (1.89%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (1.08%) Mesosphere
10 4 (1.08%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.81%) Debian
11 3 (0.81%) VMS
11 3 (0.81%) Windows 8
11 3 (0.81%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (15.14%) Customer Service
3 52 (14.05%) Cybersecurity
3 52 (14.05%) ITIL
4 48 (12.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 41 (11.08%) Agile
6 40 (10.81%) DevOps
7 36 (9.73%) Service Delivery
8 33 (8.92%) Mentoring
9 31 (8.38%) Disaster Recovery
10 28 (7.57%) Actionable Insight
11 26 (7.03%) Software Engineering
12 24 (6.49%) Project Management
13 23 (6.22%) Information Security
14 21 (5.68%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 21 (5.68%) Incident Response
14 21 (5.68%) Infrastructure Management
14 21 (5.68%) Threat Intelligence
15 20 (5.41%) Business Intelligence
16 19 (5.14%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 47 (12.70%) SQL
2 31 (8.38%) C++
3 26 (7.03%) C#
3 26 (7.03%) Python
4 22 (5.95%) PowerShell
5 19 (5.14%) Bash
6 15 (4.05%) Java
7 4 (1.08%) Groovy
7 4 (1.08%) T-SQL
8 3 (0.81%) C
8 3 (0.81%) Ruby
9 2 (0.54%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.54%) PHP
9 2 (0.54%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.27%) Assembly Language
10 1 (0.27%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.27%) Embedded C++
10 1 (0.27%) Perl
10 1 (0.27%) Swift
10 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 63 (17.03%) Degree
2 33 (8.92%) Security Cleared
3 18 (4.86%) Cisco Certification
4 16 (4.32%) CISM
4 16 (4.32%) CISSP
5 15 (4.05%) DV Cleared
6 14 (3.78%) CCNA
6 14 (3.78%) GCIA
6 14 (3.78%) GCIH
6 14 (3.78%) GREM
7 12 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (2.97%) CISA
8 11 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (2.16%) MCSE
10 6 (1.62%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.62%) SC Cleared
11 5 (1.35%) CCNP
12 4 (1.08%) CCDP
12 4 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.24%) SLA
2 11 (2.97%) ITGC
2 11 (2.97%) PMO
2 11 (2.97%) QA
3 8 (2.16%) GDPR
3 8 (2.16%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.35%) NIST
6 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.27%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 119 (32.16%) Active Directory
2 73 (19.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (8.38%) Hyper-V
4 27 (7.30%) Docker
5 13 (3.51%) VMware NSX
6 11 (2.97%) KVM
7 10 (2.70%) vSphere
8 8 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.81%) Firmware
10 3 (0.81%) pfSense
10 3 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.54%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 45 (12.16%) Ansible
2 28 (7.57%) Terraform
3 27 (7.30%) Kubernetes
3 27 (7.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (4.59%) SCCM
5 15 (4.05%) Prometheus
6 13 (3.51%) FortiGate
7 12 (3.24%) vCenter Server
8 10 (2.70%) Progress Chef
8 10 (2.70%) ZABBIX
9 6 (1.62%) Grafana
9 6 (1.62%) Puppet
10 5 (1.35%) McAfee ePO
11 4 (1.08%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.81%) WSUS
13 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
14 1 (0.27%) SCOM
14 1 (0.27%) WMI
Vendors
1 110 (29.73%) Microsoft
2 102 (27.57%) VMware
3 41 (11.08%) Dell
4 36 (9.73%) Cisco
5 25 (6.76%) NetApp
6 14 (3.78%) Apple
6 14 (3.78%) Sage
7 13 (3.51%) Oracle
7 13 (3.51%) Red Hat
8 12 (3.24%) Google
8 12 (3.24%) SAP
9 11 (2.97%) Citrix
9 11 (2.97%) ServiceNow
10 10 (2.70%) Palo Alto
10 10 (2.70%) SolidFire
11 8 (2.16%) iManage
12 7 (1.89%) EMC
12 7 (1.89%) Mitel
13 6 (1.62%) Sophos
14 5 (1.35%) ConnectWise