Microsoft Contracts in Glasgow

Microsoft
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 10 12
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 -6
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 88 117 123
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 11.03% 13.34% 13.46%
As % of the Vendors category 26.04% 31.88% 32.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 87 107
10th Percentile £313 £163 £146
25th Percentile £363 £200 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £375 £425
Median % change year-on-year +15.93% -11.76% -
75th Percentile £525 £500 £538
90th Percentile £589 £613 £600
Scotland median daily rate £423 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +5.63% - -3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 0
10th Percentile £19.87 - -
25th Percentile £20.06 - -
Median hourly rate £20.75 £11.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +80.43% - -
75th Percentile £24.44 £15.42 -
90th Percentile £26.43 £15.65 -
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £17.00 £42.93
% change year-on-year +29.41% -60.40% +166.23%

All Vendors
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 338 367 380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 42.36% 41.85% 41.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 243 279
10th Percentile £313 £194 £250
25th Percentile £390 £350 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £453 £473
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -4.23% +8.42%
75th Percentile £553 £587 £588
90th Percentile £613 £675 £739
Scotland median daily rate £465 £465 £473
% change year-on-year -0.11% -1.69% +5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 16 5
10th Percentile £19.87 £11.50 -
25th Percentile £20.06 £14.44 £56.25
Median hourly rate £20.75 £16.00 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year +29.69% -73.58% +51.38%
75th Percentile £24.44 £25.96 £66.56
90th Percentile £26.43 £57.50 £67.88
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £17.50 £59.03
% change year-on-year +25.71% -70.35% +47.56%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Glasgow

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Glasgow

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Glasgow

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 26 (29.55%) SharePoint
2 8 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.27%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (1.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 22 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (18.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (14.77%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (4.55%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (1.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.14%) SAP APO
Cloud Services
1 26 (29.55%) Microsoft 365
2 24 (27.27%) Azure
3 12 (13.64%) Power Platform
4 10 (11.36%) Yammer
5 9 (10.23%) Entra ID
6 8 (9.09%) Power Automate
7 7 (7.95%) AWS
8 5 (5.68%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (5.68%) PowerApps
9 4 (4.55%) OneDrive
9 4 (4.55%) PaaS
10 3 (3.41%) Copilot Studio
10 3 (3.41%) IaaS
10 3 (3.41%) SaaS
11 2 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (2.27%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (2.27%) OCI
11 2 (2.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.27%) DHCP
1 2 (2.27%) DNS
1 2 (2.27%) Network Security
1 2 (2.27%) TCP/IP
1 2 (2.27%) Unified Communications
1 2 (2.27%) VPN
1 2 (2.27%) WAN
2 1 (1.14%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.23%) Power BI
2 7 (7.95%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.41%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.27%) Big Data
4 2 (2.27%) Oracle Exadata
4 2 (2.27%) RDBMS
4 2 (2.27%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.14%) DB2
5 1 (1.14%) EDRMS
5 1 (1.14%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.14%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.14%) OLAP
5 1 (1.14%) SQLite
5 1 (1.14%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Git
1 4 (4.55%) JIRA
2 1 (1.14%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.14%) Mercurial
2 1 (1.14%) Selenium
2 1 (1.14%) Subversion
General
1 55 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 25 (28.41%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (28.41%) Public Sector
3 24 (27.27%) Finance
4 12 (13.64%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (10.23%) Banking
6 6 (6.82%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (5.68%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.27%) Retail
10 1 (1.14%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.14%) Legal
10 1 (1.14%) Marketing
10 1 (1.14%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.14%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 29 (32.95%) Analyst
2 10 (11.36%) Change Analyst
3 9 (10.23%) Developer
4 8 (9.09%) Project Manager
4 8 (9.09%) Senior
5 7 (7.95%) Administrator
6 6 (6.82%) Business Analyst
7 4 (4.55%) Business Change Analyst
7 4 (4.55%) Consultant
8 3 (3.41%) 3rd Line Support
8 3 (3.41%) Architect
8 3 (3.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 3 (3.41%) Designer
8 3 (3.41%) IT Analyst
8 3 (3.41%) Power Apps Consultant
8 3 (3.41%) SharePoint Consultant
8 3 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.41%) Systems Administrator
9 2 (2.27%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 2 (2.27%) Risk Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.41%) .NET
1 3 (3.41%) LDAP
1 3 (3.41%) X-Windows
2 2 (2.27%) FastAPI
2 2 (2.27%) pytest
2 2 (2.27%) REST
2 2 (2.27%) SPFx
2 2 (2.27%) Spring
3 1 (1.14%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.14%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.14%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (1.14%) ASP.NET MVC 5
3 1 (1.14%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (1.14%) Blazor
3 1 (1.14%) Java EE
3 1 (1.14%) JAX-RS
3 1 (1.14%) JPA
3 1 (1.14%) JSON
3 1 (1.14%) React
3 1 (1.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.55%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.41%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.41%) Clustering
2 3 (3.41%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.41%) Replication
2 3 (3.41%) Security Posture
3 2 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.27%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.14%) Blackberry
4 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.14%) Insider Threat
4 1 (1.14%) PMI
4 1 (1.14%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.14%) Smart Meter
4 1 (1.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 20 (22.73%) Windows
2 15 (17.05%) Linux
3 8 (9.09%) Windows Server
4 7 (7.95%) Unix
5 6 (6.82%) Mac OS
6 4 (4.55%) AIX
6 4 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (3.41%) Windows 10
8 2 (2.27%) Solaris
9 1 (1.14%) Android
9 1 (1.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (34.09%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (31.82%) Agile
3 23 (26.14%) Project Management
4 15 (17.05%) Cybersecurity
5 12 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (12.50%) Change Management
7 10 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (11.36%) Waterfall
8 9 (10.23%) Information Security
9 8 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (9.09%) ITIL
9 8 (9.09%) ITSM
10 7 (7.95%) Business Continuity
10 7 (7.95%) Collaborative Working
10 7 (7.95%) DevOps
10 7 (7.95%) Infographics
10 7 (7.95%) Scrum
10 7 (7.95%) Service Management
11 6 (6.82%) Decision-Making
11 6 (6.82%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 10 (11.36%) SQL
2 8 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 8 (9.09%) Python
3 3 (3.41%) C#
3 3 (3.41%) Shell Script
4 2 (2.27%) Bicep
4 2 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (2.27%) Groovy
4 2 (2.27%) Java
4 2 (2.27%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (14.77%) Degree
2 9 (10.23%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (4.55%) Azure Certification
3 4 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.41%) CISM
4 3 (3.41%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (2.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (2.27%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.27%) CRISC
6 1 (1.14%) CISSP
6 1 (1.14%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (1.14%) ISACA
6 1 (1.14%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (1.14%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.14%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.14%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.14%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.68%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (5.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 5 (5.68%) Data Quality
1 5 (5.68%) QA
2 2 (2.27%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (2.27%) GDPR
2 2 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.27%) SLA
3 1 (1.14%) NIST
3 1 (1.14%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.82%) Docker
3 5 (5.68%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.41%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (3.41%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (2.27%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.14%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 7 (7.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (4.55%) Ansible
2 4 (4.55%) Progress Chef
2 4 (4.55%) Puppet
3 3 (3.41%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.41%) SCCM
4 2 (2.27%) CASB
4 2 (2.27%) Data Guard
4 2 (2.27%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (2.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (2.27%) Oracle Flashback
4 2 (2.27%) Podman
4 2 (2.27%) RSA Archer
4 2 (2.27%) Terraform
5 1 (1.14%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 7 (7.95%) Oracle
2 5 (5.68%) ServiceNow
3 4 (4.55%) Red Hat
3 4 (4.55%) VMware
4 2 (2.27%) BeyondTrust
4 2 (2.27%) CyberArk
4 2 (2.27%) Databricks
4 2 (2.27%) Dell
4 2 (2.27%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.27%) Netskope
4 2 (2.27%) Proofpoint
4 2 (2.27%) SAP
4 2 (2.27%) Splunk
4 2 (2.27%) Sybase
4 2 (2.27%) Symantec
5 1 (1.14%) Adobe
5 1 (1.14%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.14%) Blue Prism
5 1 (1.14%) Equitrac
5 1 (1.14%) Google