Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Aberdeen

Microsoft
Scotland > Aberdeen

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Aberdeen requiring knowledge or experience of Microsoft products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft over the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Microsoft Corporation.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 4 6
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 +4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 4 9 3
As % of all contract jobs in Aberdeen 11.11% 28.13% 9.68%
As % of the Vendors category 18.18% 69.23% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 1
10th Percentile £420 - -
25th Percentile £431 £313 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year +18.67% -6.25% -20.00%
75th Percentile £453 £388 £425
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £450 £409 £425
% change year-on-year +10.02% -3.76% -0.29%

All Vendors
Aberdeen

Microsoft falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Aberdeen.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 22 13 14
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Aberdeen 61.11% 40.63% 45.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 9 5
10th Percentile £270 - £300
25th Percentile £381 £313 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £375 £413
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -9.09% +2.48%
75th Percentile £453 £450 £500
90th Percentile £548 £578 £579
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £498
% change year-on-year - -9.55% +10.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £17.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.06%
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £23.59 £17.72
% change year-on-year +6.61% +33.13% -

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Aberdeen

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Aberdeen.

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Aberdeen

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in Aberdeen

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Aberdeen citing Microsoft.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Aberdeen citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Aberdeen

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Aberdeen citing Microsoft.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Aberdeen citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Aberdeen by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Telephony Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Developer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Product Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco