Microsoft Certification Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Microsoft Certification
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow citing Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 31 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	96	71	71
Rank change year-on-year	-25	0	-1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification	7	7	1
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow	0.58%	0.93%	0.14%
As % of the Qualifications category	2.83%	3.70%	0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted	6	7	1
10^th Percentile	£126	-	-
25^th Percentile	£198	£181	£169
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£425	£188	£188
Median % change year-on-year	+126.67%	-	-3.60%
75^th Percentile	£438	£198	£206
90^th Percentile	£456	£340	-
Scotland median daily rate	£438	£200	£340
% change year-on-year	+118.75%	-41.18%	+7.94%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Glasgow

Microsoft Certification 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 citing academic qualifications or professional certifications in Glasgow.

	6 months to 31 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing academic qualifications or professional certifications	247	189	196
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow	20.51%	25.10%	27.76%
Number of daily rates quoted	131	130	117
10^th Percentile	£263	£181	£301
25^th Percentile	£325	£358	£363
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£425	£450	£458
Median % change year-on-year	-5.56%	-1.75%	-8.40%
75^th Percentile	£613	£538	£588
90^th Percentile	£800	£639	£700
Scotland median daily rate	£480	£450	£425
% change year-on-year	+6.67%	+5.88%	-12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted	19	7	4
10^th Percentile	£18.76	£16.14	£22.40
25^th Percentile	-	£16.84	£28.25
Median hourly rate	£43.96	£17.45	£36.50
Median % change year-on-year	+151.99%	-52.21%	-
75^th Percentile	£52.44	£18.05	£45.00
90^th Percentile	£60.91	£20.89	£49.50
Scotland median hourly rate	£43.96	£19.69	£19.64
% change year-on-year	+123.26%	+0.24%	-65.97%

Microsoft Certification Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Microsoft Certification Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Microsoft Certification.

Microsoft Certification Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in Glasgow over the 6 months to 31 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in Glasgow

Microsoft Certification Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Microsoft Certification.

Microsoft Certification Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 31 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Microsoft Certification also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Glasgow region citing Microsoft Certification.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Microsoft	71.4%	5
2	Dell	57.1%	4
2	MCSE	57.1%	4
2	VMware	57.1%	4
2	VMware Infrastructure	57.1%	4
6	Active Directory	42.9%	3
6	Azure	42.9%	3
6	Entra ID	42.9%	3
6	Infrastructure Engineering	42.9%	3
6	Windows	42.9%	3
11	A+ Certification	28.6%	2
11	Amazon RDS	28.6%	2
11	AWS	28.6%	2
11	AWS Certification	28.6%	2
11	Break/Fix	28.6%	2
11	Build Automation	28.6%	2
11	CCNA	28.6%	2
11	Cisco	28.6%	2
11	Cisco Certification	28.6%	2
11	Citrix	28.6%	2
11	Commvault	28.6%	2
11	Customer Service	28.6%	2
11	DFS Replication	28.6%	2
11	DNS	28.6%	2
11	Failover Clustering	28.6%	2
11	Hyper-V	28.6%	2
11	ITIL	28.6%	2
11	Kerberos	28.6%	2
11	MCSA	28.6%	2
11	Microsoft Clustering	28.6%	2

Microsoft Certification Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Qualifications

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	MCSE	57.1%	4
2	A+ Certification	28.6%	2
2	AWS Certification	28.6%	2
2	CCNA	28.6%	2
2	Cisco Certification	28.6%	2
2	MCSA	28.6%	2
2	Network+ Certification	28.6%	2
2	TOGAF Certification	28.6%	2