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 5 July 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
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 9 12
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 104 103 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 13.00% 13.45% 12.33%
As % of the Vendors category 27.51% 32.91% 29.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 80 87
10th Percentile £200 £169 £146
25th Percentile £341 £200 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £350 £425
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -17.65% -
75th Percentile £525 £505 £539
90th Percentile £585 £613 £600
Scotland median daily rate £440 £338 £400
% change year-on-year +30.22% -15.63% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 8
10th Percentile £18.81 - -
25th Percentile - - £12.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £11.50 £13.38
Median % change year-on-year +118.70% -14.02% -55.00%
75th Percentile - £12.72 £17.72
90th Percentile - £15.02 £18.08
Scotland median hourly rate £24.66 £16.96 £14.50
% change year-on-year +45.40% +16.97% -17.14%

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 378 313 382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 47.25% 40.86% 42.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 219 259
10th Percentile £300 £200 £268
25th Percentile £374 £350 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £450 £473
Median % change year-on-year +3.78% -4.86% +5.11%
75th Percentile £552 £575 £564
90th Percentile £613 £650 £657
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 15
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.84 £11.50 £12.13
Median hourly rate £22.49 £16.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +40.56% -9.71% -57.02%
75th Percentile £25.15 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile - £57.50 £64.16
Scotland median hourly rate £19.17 £17.50 £18.33
% change year-on-year +9.54% -4.50% -40.89%

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

Microsoft
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 5 July 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 16 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 13 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.85%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (1.92%) Confluence
4 2 (1.92%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.96%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.96%) Mule
Applications
1 14 (13.46%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (11.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (8.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.92%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.96%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 31 (29.81%) Azure
2 23 (22.12%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (8.65%) Power Platform
4 8 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (6.73%) AWS
5 7 (6.73%) Entra ID
6 6 (5.77%) PaaS
7 5 (4.81%) IaaS
8 4 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (3.85%) OneDrive
8 4 (3.85%) Power Automate
8 4 (3.85%) SaaS
9 3 (2.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.88%) PowerApps
9 3 (2.88%) Yammer
10 2 (1.92%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.92%) OCI
11 1 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.96%) Copilot Studio
11 1 (0.96%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.85%) Firewall
2 3 (2.88%) DHCP
2 3 (2.88%) DNS
2 3 (2.88%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.92%) Network Security
3 2 (1.92%) Unified Communications
3 2 (1.92%) VPN
3 2 (1.92%) WAN
4 1 (0.96%) AMQP
4 1 (0.96%) DSL
4 1 (0.96%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.73%) Power BI
1 7 (6.73%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.88%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.88%) RDBMS
2 3 (2.88%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.92%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.92%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (0.96%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.96%) DB2
4 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.96%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.96%) SQLite
4 1 (0.96%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 6 (5.77%) JIRA
2 5 (4.81%) Git
3 3 (2.88%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.92%) Maven
5 1 (0.96%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.96%) GitLab
5 1 (0.96%) Gradle
5 1 (0.96%) JUnit
5 1 (0.96%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.96%) Selenium
5 1 (0.96%) Subversion
General
1 48 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 31 (29.81%) Finance
3 30 (28.85%) Public Sector
4 20 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.69%) Banking
6 6 (5.77%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (5.77%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.92%) Legal
8 2 (1.92%) Retail
9 1 (0.96%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.96%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (25.00%) Analyst
2 11 (10.58%) Developer
2 11 (10.58%) Project Manager
3 8 (7.69%) Administrator
3 8 (7.69%) Business Analyst
4 6 (5.77%) Senior
4 6 (5.77%) Service Analyst
5 5 (4.81%) Deployment Engineer
5 5 (4.81%) Service Desk Analyst
6 4 (3.85%) Architect
7 3 (2.88%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (2.88%) Change Analyst
7 3 (2.88%) Designer
7 3 (2.88%) Help Desk Analyst
7 3 (2.88%) Java Developer
7 3 (2.88%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
7 3 (2.88%) Security Manager
7 3 (2.88%) Security Project Manager
7 3 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.88%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.77%) .NET
2 4 (3.85%) .NET Framework
2 4 (3.85%) REST
2 4 (3.85%) Spring
2 4 (3.85%) X-Windows
3 3 (2.88%) Kafka
3 3 (2.88%) LDAP
4 2 (1.92%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.92%) FastAPI
4 2 (1.92%) JSON
4 2 (1.92%) pytest
4 2 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.92%) React
4 2 (1.92%) SPFx
4 2 (1.92%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.96%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.96%) ASP.NET MVC 5
5 1 (0.96%) Blazor
5 1 (0.96%) JWT
5 1 (0.96%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.85%) Clustering
2 3 (2.88%) Cloud Native
2 3 (2.88%) Device Driver
2 3 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (2.88%) Replication
3 2 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (1.92%) FMCG
3 2 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.92%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.92%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.92%) Security Posture
3 2 (1.92%) Virtual Team
4 1 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (0.96%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.96%) Insider Threat
4 1 (0.96%) PKI
4 1 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 35 (33.65%) Windows
2 15 (14.42%) Windows 10
3 14 (13.46%) Linux
4 13 (12.50%) Windows Server
5 7 (6.73%) Mac OS
6 5 (4.81%) Unix
7 4 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (1.92%) AIX
8 2 (1.92%) Solaris
9 1 (0.96%) Android
9 1 (0.96%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (32.69%) Agile
2 28 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (16.35%) Project Management
4 16 (15.38%) DevOps
5 13 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
6 12 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (9.62%) Scrum
7 10 (9.62%) Test Automation
7 10 (9.62%) Waterfall
8 9 (8.65%) CI/CD
8 9 (8.65%) Decision-Making
8 9 (8.65%) Migration
9 8 (7.69%) ITIL
9 8 (7.69%) ITSM
9 8 (7.69%) Microservices
10 7 (6.73%) Information Security
10 7 (6.73%) Project Delivery
10 7 (6.73%) Service Management
10 7 (6.73%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 14 (13.46%) SQL
2 8 (7.69%) PowerShell
3 6 (5.77%) C#
3 6 (5.77%) Java
3 6 (5.77%) Python
4 4 (3.85%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.88%) Bicep
5 3 (2.88%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.92%) Groovy
7 1 (0.96%) DataWeave
7 1 (0.96%) Go
7 1 (0.96%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (10.58%) Degree
3 4 (3.85%) Azure Certification
3 4 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.85%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.85%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.88%) CISM
4 3 (2.88%) CRISC
4 3 (2.88%) MCSA
5 2 (1.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (1.92%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.92%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (1.92%) HNC
6 1 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.96%) ISACA
6 1 (0.96%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.96%) OSCP
6 1 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.88%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (2.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 3 (2.88%) Disclosure Scotland
1 3 (2.88%) GDPR
1 3 (2.88%) QA
2 2 (1.92%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.92%) SLA
3 1 (0.96%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (16.35%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.73%) Docker
3 3 (2.88%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.88%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (1.92%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.96%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.81%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (4.81%) SCCM
1 5 (4.81%) Terraform
2 4 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.88%) Ansible
4 2 (1.92%) Data Guard
4 2 (1.92%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (1.92%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (1.92%) Oracle Flashback
4 2 (1.92%) Podman
4 2 (1.92%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.92%) Puppet
4 2 (1.92%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 8 (7.69%) Oracle
2 4 (3.85%) Red Hat
2 4 (3.85%) ServiceNow
3 3 (2.88%) AppDynamics
4 2 (1.92%) Apple
4 2 (1.92%) BeyondTrust
4 2 (1.92%) CyberArk
4 2 (1.92%) Databricks
4 2 (1.92%) Dell
4 2 (1.92%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.92%) Netskope
4 2 (1.92%) Proofpoint
4 2 (1.92%) Splunk
4 2 (1.92%) Sybase
4 2 (1.92%) Symantec
4 2 (1.92%) VMware
5 1 (0.96%) Adobe
5 1 (0.96%) IBM
5 1 (0.96%) SAP
5 1 (0.96%) Sun