Windows Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Windows Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Windows Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 144 172
Rank change year-on-year +35 +28 -15
Contract jobs requiring a Windows Engineer 17 19 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.79% 0.71% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 0.74% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 17 3
10th Percentile £125 £249 £415
25th Percentile £201 £260 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £273 £450
Median % change year-on-year +111.01% -39.44% +136.84%
75th Percentile £613 £375 £500
90th Percentile £788 £453 £515
UK median daily rate £405 £415 £294
% change year-on-year -2.41% +41.28% -23.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £18.27 - £20.00
UK median hourly rate £18.27 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -1.24% -7.50% +36.61%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 2,034 2,553 3,261
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 95.23% 95.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,241 1,773 2,317
10th Percentile £200 £225 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £558 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £633 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 48 52
10th Percentile £12.30 £12.62 £16.35
25th Percentile £15.71 £14.25 £17.86
Median hourly rate £19.50 £20.22 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year -3.56% -45.98% +16.97%
75th Percentile £57.50 £58.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.22 £55.98
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Windows Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Windows Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Engineer in Scotland

Windows Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Engineer in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Windows Engineer in Scotland

Windows Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Engineer in Scotland

Windows Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Engineer in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Engineer in Scotland

Windows Engineer
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 Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 11 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
Glasgow - 11 £575 - 1
Edinburgh +15 4 £125 -54.95%
Windows Engineer
UK

Windows Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 11 June 2024, Windows Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Windows Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (58.82%) Python
2 10 (58.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (52.94%) Microsoft
3 9 (52.94%) Agile
3 9 (52.94%) PowerShell
3 9 (52.94%) DevOps
4 7 (41.18%) Unix
4 7 (41.18%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (35.29%) Disk Encryption
5 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
5 6 (35.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 6 (35.29%) Refactoring
5 6 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (35.29%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (35.29%) Splunk
5 6 (35.29%) SCCM
6 5 (29.41%) Mac OS
6 5 (29.41%) Finance
7 4 (23.53%) Decision-Making
7 4 (23.53%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (23.53%) Degree
7 4 (23.53%) AWS
7 4 (23.53%) Time Management
8 3 (17.65%) Azure
8 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (17.65%) HP
8 3 (17.65%) Mac OS X
8 3 (17.65%) Apple

Windows Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.88%) OneDrive
3 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.88%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) Remote Desktop
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (41.18%) Organisational Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 5 (29.41%) Finance
4 4 (23.53%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
1 2 (11.76%) iPhone
1 2 (11.76%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (41.18%) Unix
3 5 (29.41%) Mac OS
4 3 (17.65%) Mac OS X
5 2 (11.76%) Linux
5 2 (11.76%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (52.94%) Agile
2 9 (52.94%) DevOps
3 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (35.29%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (35.29%) Disk Encryption
4 6 (35.29%) Refactoring
4 6 (35.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (23.53%) Decision-Making
5 4 (23.53%) Time Management
6 1 (5.88%) Change Control
6 1 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (5.88%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (5.88%) Fintech
6 1 (5.88%) Observability
6 1 (5.88%) Scrum
6 1 (5.88%) Server Management
6 1 (5.88%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) Python
2 9 (52.94%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.76%) Perl
4 1 (5.88%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) SCCM
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Microsoft
2 6 (35.29%) Splunk
3 3 (17.65%) Apple
3 3 (17.65%) HP
4 2 (11.76%) Samsung
5 1 (5.88%) Dell
5 1 (5.88%) Dynatrace