MCSE Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) formerly Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for MCSE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MCSE 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.41% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 2.04% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £126 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £127 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £425 £328 £340
% change year-on-year +29.77% -3.68% -22.29%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Glasgow

MCSE falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 245 177 188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 20.13% 23.76% 26.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 120 122
10th Percentile £268 £181 £302
25th Percentile £335 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £453 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% -4.74% -5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £538 £600
90th Percentile £800 £635 £700
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 4
10th Percentile £19.33 £16.14 £22.40
25th Percentile - £16.84 £28.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £17.45 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +151.99% -52.21% -
75th Percentile £60.91 £18.05 £45.00
90th Percentile - £20.89 £49.50
Scotland median hourly rate £43.96 £20.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year +119.80% +11.11% -68.09%

MCSE
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

MCSE job vacancy trend in Glasgow

MCSE
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing MCSE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing MCSE

MCSE
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MCSE in Glasgow over the 6 months to 15 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for MCSE in Glasgow

MCSE
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing MCSE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing MCSE

MCSE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) SAN
2 2 (40.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Field Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Field Service Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) IT Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 3 (60.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (40.00%) Clustering
2 2 (40.00%) PKI
2 2 (40.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Break/Fix
1 3 (60.00%) Customer Service
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Build Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (40.00%) Runbook
2 2 (40.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (60.00%) A+ Certification
2 3 (60.00%) CCNA
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (60.00%) Network+ Certification
3 2 (40.00%) MCSA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) DFS Replication
1 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (40.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Failover Clustering
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 2 (40.00%) Perfmon
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
1 2 (40.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Dell
2 2 (40.00%) Citrix
2 2 (40.00%) Commvault
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Veeam
2 2 (40.00%) VMware