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

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 21 35
Rank change year-on-year -45 +14 -15
Permanent jobs citing Windows 368 461 452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.33% 10.65% 7.31%
As % of the Operating Systems category 46.70% 62.72% 45.70%
Number of salaries quoted 275 262 303
10th Percentile £24,250 £25,075 £22,500
25th Percentile £26,700 £28,813 £26,465
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £40,150
Median % change year-on-year - +5.85% +0.38%
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,078 £60,000
90th Percentile £64,900 £71,250 £65,000
UK median annual salary £40,000 £44,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -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 788 735 989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.40% 16.97% 15.99%
Number of salaries quoted 420 408 554
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,750 £33,750 £33,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,805 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.59% -8.94% +16.67%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,375 £75,000 £73,750
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 6 June 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 6 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -107 135 £48,500 +4.30% 24
Edinburgh +22 130 £40,000 -13.51% 33
Aberdeen -20 23 £28,000 -34.12% 13
Argyll and Bute - 17 £27,400 -
Dundee -3 14 £49,990 +33.31% 2
Fife -3 11 £55,000 - 4
West Lothian -11 9 £28,500 -12.31%
North Lanarkshire -5 5 £30,750 +23.00% 1
East Ayrshire - 5 £24,500 - 1
Aberdeenshire +1 4 £28,500 -56.15% 6
Banffshire - 4 £22,000 -
Lanarkshire -12 3 £50,000 +61.29% 13
Stirling -4 2 £34,750 +34.95% 2
West Dunbartonshire - 2 £17,000 -
South Ayrshire +1 1 - -
Perth and Kinross -5 1 - - 3
Dumfries and Galloway -7 1 £23,000 -21.37% 1
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 28 (7.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (4.08%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.72%) Apache
4 4 (1.09%) IIS
4 4 (1.09%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.27%) JOnAS
Applications
1 23 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.27%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (2.99%) Unit4 Business World
2 2 (0.54%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 118 (32.07%) Microsoft 365
2 106 (28.80%) Azure
3 37 (10.05%) AWS
4 36 (9.78%) Entra ID
5 25 (6.79%) GCP
6 21 (5.71%) SaaS
7 20 (5.43%) IaaS
8 19 (5.16%) PaaS
9 11 (2.99%) Amazon S3
10 9 (2.45%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.36%) OneDrive
13 4 (1.09%) Google Docs
13 4 (1.09%) OpenShift
14 3 (0.82%) Asana
14 3 (0.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 3 (0.82%) Azure Sentinel
14 3 (0.82%) Mimecast
14 3 (0.82%) Slack
14 3 (0.82%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 48 (13.04%) Firewall
2 36 (9.78%) VPN
3 34 (9.24%) WAN
4 32 (8.70%) TCP/IP
5 18 (4.89%) VoIP
6 17 (4.62%) SAN
7 15 (4.08%) Internet
7 15 (4.08%) Wi-Fi
8 14 (3.80%) DNS
8 14 (3.80%) LAN
9 13 (3.53%) Modbus
9 13 (3.53%) SD-WAN
10 12 (3.26%) DHCP
10 12 (3.26%) Wireless
11 11 (2.99%) SNMP
12 10 (2.72%) IPsec
12 10 (2.72%) Network Security
12 10 (2.72%) VLAN
13 9 (2.45%) Cisco IOS
14 8 (2.17%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.42%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.99%) DB2
3 10 (2.72%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (2.72%) MongoDB
4 7 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (1.90%) Big Data
5 3 (0.82%) 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
Development Applications
1 16 (4.35%) JIRA
2 15 (4.08%) GitLab
3 14 (3.80%) Visual Studio
4 6 (1.63%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.82%) Git
6 2 (0.54%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.27%) GoCD
7 1 (0.27%) Gradle
7 1 (0.27%) Maven
7 1 (0.27%) Subversion
General
1 95 (25.82%) Social Skills
2 56 (15.22%) Finance
3 26 (7.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
5 18 (4.89%) Public Sector
6 17 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (3.80%) Law
7 14 (3.80%) Legal
7 14 (3.80%) Military
8 11 (2.99%) Telecoms
9 10 (2.72%) Banking
9 10 (2.72%) Retail
10 5 (1.36%) Automotive
11 4 (1.09%) Billing
11 4 (1.09%) Electronics
12 3 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.82%) Marketing
13 2 (0.54%) Games
13 2 (0.54%) Police
13 2 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (16.58%) Senior
2 58 (15.76%) IT Support
3 51 (13.86%) Analyst
4 41 (11.14%) Support Engineer
5 39 (10.60%) IT Engineer
6 31 (8.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 31 (8.42%) Support Analyst
7 25 (6.79%) 2nd Line Support
8 24 (6.52%) IT Manager
8 24 (6.52%) IT Support Engineer
9 22 (5.98%) IT Analyst
10 20 (5.43%) Software Engineer
11 19 (5.16%) Cloud Engineer
12 18 (4.89%) Support Technician
12 18 (4.89%) Systems Engineer
13 16 (4.35%) 1st Line Support
14 15 (4.08%) Infrastructure Support
14 15 (4.08%) Senior Software Engineer
15 14 (3.80%) IT Support Analyst
15 14 (3.80%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.25%) .NET
2 13 (3.53%) .NET Framework
2 13 (3.53%) CSS
2 13 (3.53%) HTML
2 13 (3.53%) WinForms
2 13 (3.53%) WPF
3 10 (2.72%) RabbitMQ
3 10 (2.72%) YAML
4 7 (1.90%) LDAP
5 5 (1.36%) OpenCV
5 5 (1.36%) OpenVINO
6 3 (0.82%) ONNX
7 2 (0.54%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.54%) RESTful
7 2 (0.54%) SAML
8 1 (0.27%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.27%) Blazor
8 1 (0.27%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.42%) Data Centre
2 23 (6.25%) Public Cloud
3 22 (5.98%) Driving Licence
4 14 (3.80%) Replication
4 14 (3.80%) Video\Live Streaming
5 10 (2.72%) Cloud Native
6 8 (2.17%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.63%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.63%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.09%) Learning Management System
10 3 (0.82%) Cyberattack
10 3 (0.82%) Device Driver
10 3 (0.82%) iPhone
10 3 (0.82%) Video Conferencing
11 2 (0.54%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.54%) EPoS
11 2 (0.54%) Life Science
11 2 (0.54%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.54%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 149 (40.49%) Windows Server
2 131 (35.60%) Linux
3 47 (12.77%) Unix
4 39 (10.60%) Windows 10
5 18 (4.89%) Android
6 17 (4.62%) Mac OS X
7 14 (3.80%) Windows Server 2016
8 13 (3.53%) Windows Server 2012
9 11 (2.99%) Mac OS
10 10 (2.72%) Data ONTAP
11 7 (1.90%) Apple iOS
11 7 (1.90%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (1.63%) CentOS
12 6 (1.63%) Windows 7
13 4 (1.09%) Debian
13 4 (1.09%) Mesosphere
13 4 (1.09%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.82%) VMS
14 3 (0.82%) Windows 8
15 1 (0.27%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (14.95%) Customer Service
3 49 (13.32%) ITIL
4 47 (12.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 45 (12.23%) Cybersecurity
6 38 (10.33%) DevOps
7 37 (10.05%) Service Delivery
8 33 (8.97%) Disaster Recovery
9 32 (8.70%) Agile
10 28 (7.61%) Actionable Insight
10 28 (7.61%) Mentoring
11 24 (6.52%) Project Management
12 22 (5.98%) Software Engineering
13 21 (5.71%) Incident Response
13 21 (5.71%) Information Security
13 21 (5.71%) Infrastructure Management
14 19 (5.16%) Business Intelligence
15 18 (4.89%) Coaching
15 18 (4.89%) Continuous Improvement
15 18 (4.89%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (11.68%) SQL
2 36 (9.78%) C++
3 27 (7.34%) C#
3 27 (7.34%) Python
4 21 (5.71%) PowerShell
5 18 (4.89%) Bash
6 15 (4.08%) Java
7 5 (1.36%) C
8 4 (1.09%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.82%) Embedded C
9 3 (0.82%) Embedded C++
9 3 (0.82%) Groovy
9 3 (0.82%) Ruby
10 2 (0.54%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.54%) PHP
10 2 (0.54%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.27%) Assembly Language
11 1 (0.27%) Perl
11 1 (0.27%) Swift
11 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 62 (16.85%) Degree
2 33 (8.97%) Security Cleared
3 18 (4.89%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (3.80%) CCNA
4 14 (3.80%) CISM
4 14 (3.80%) CISSP
4 14 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (3.80%) DV Cleared
4 14 (3.80%) GCIA
4 14 (3.80%) GCIH
4 14 (3.80%) GREM
5 13 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (2.99%) CISA
7 9 (2.45%) MCSE
8 8 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.63%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.63%) SC Cleared
10 5 (1.36%) CCNP
10 5 (1.36%) MCSA
11 4 (1.09%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.26%) SLA
2 11 (2.99%) ITGC
2 11 (2.99%) PMO
2 11 (2.99%) QA
3 8 (2.17%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.63%) GDPR
5 4 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.82%) NIST
7 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.27%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 116 (31.52%) Active Directory
2 76 (20.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (8.42%) Hyper-V
4 27 (7.34%) Docker
5 13 (3.53%) VMware NSX
6 12 (3.26%) KVM
7 10 (2.72%) vSphere
8 6 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (1.36%) Firmware
10 4 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.82%) pfSense
12 2 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.54%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 43 (11.68%) Ansible
2 28 (7.61%) Kubernetes
3 26 (7.07%) Microsoft Intune
3 26 (7.07%) Terraform
4 15 (4.08%) Prometheus
5 14 (3.80%) SCCM
6 13 (3.53%) FortiGate
7 12 (3.26%) vCenter Server
8 10 (2.72%) ZABBIX
9 9 (2.45%) Progress Chef
10 6 (1.63%) Grafana
10 6 (1.63%) Puppet
11 5 (1.36%) McAfee ePO
12 4 (1.09%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.82%) WSUS
14 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
15 1 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
15 1 (0.27%) SCOM
Vendors
1 105 (28.53%) Microsoft
1 105 (28.53%) VMware
2 38 (10.33%) Cisco
3 34 (9.24%) Dell
4 25 (6.79%) NetApp
5 14 (3.80%) Apple
5 14 (3.80%) Red Hat
5 14 (3.80%) Sage
6 13 (3.53%) Oracle
7 12 (3.26%) Citrix
7 12 (3.26%) Google
7 12 (3.26%) SAP
8 11 (2.99%) ServiceNow
9 10 (2.72%) Palo Alto
9 10 (2.72%) SolidFire
10 8 (2.17%) Mitel
11 7 (1.90%) EMC
11 7 (1.90%) iManage
12 6 (1.63%) Sophos
13 5 (1.36%) HP