Microsoft Contract Job Trends 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 8 November 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
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 6 14
Rank change year-on-year -6 +8 -4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 120 126 100
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 15.89% 17.28% 11.48%
As % of the Vendors category 32.70% 40.91% 28.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 74 58
10th Percentile £185 £187 £134
25th Percentile £350 £317 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £425 £428
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% -0.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £530 £536 £579
90th Percentile £615 £677 £666
Scotland median daily rate £450 £383 £425
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.00% -0.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 8
10th Percentile £20.85 £17.61 -
25th Percentile - £18.65 £12.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £20.75 £13.84
Median % change year-on-year +21.20% +49.98% -20.94%
75th Percentile - £32.58 £17.72
90th Percentile - £39.46 £18.08
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £20.29 £17.72
% change year-on-year +23.98% +14.48% -2.82%

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 367 308 348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 48.61% 42.25% 39.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 192 221
10th Percentile £264 £207 £250
25th Percentile £377 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £449 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.22% -10.20% +5.26%
75th Percentile £537 £550 £615
90th Percentile £625 £688 £688
Scotland median daily rate £450 £440 £500
% change year-on-year +2.39% -12.10% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 9 11
10th Percentile - £18.18 -
25th Percentile £16.84 £19.59 £12.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £20.75 £13.16
Median % change year-on-year +21.20% +57.67% -54.62%
75th Percentile - £24.18 £17.72
90th Percentile - £36.41 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.80 £22.44 £17.72
% change year-on-year -7.32% +26.62% -

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Glasgow over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Glasgow

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Microsoft

Microsoft
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:

Application Platforms
1 15 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 12 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.50%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (1.67%) Confluence
5 1 (0.83%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.83%) Mule
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 15 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (9.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 35 (29.17%) Azure
2 23 (19.17%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (10.83%) AWS
4 8 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (5.00%) Entra ID
5 6 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 6 (5.00%) Viva Engage
6 4 (3.33%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.50%) GCP
7 3 (2.50%) IaaS
8 2 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.67%) GitHub
8 2 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.67%) PaaS
8 2 (1.67%) SaaS
8 2 (1.67%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.83%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.83%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.83%) WAN
2 4 (3.33%) Firewall
2 4 (3.33%) LAN
2 4 (3.33%) MPLS
2 4 (3.33%) SDH
2 4 (3.33%) VoIP
2 4 (3.33%) VPN
3 3 (2.50%) DNS
3 3 (2.50%) HTTP
3 3 (2.50%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.83%) AMQP
4 1 (0.83%) DHCP
4 1 (0.83%) DSL
4 1 (0.83%) Network Security
4 1 (0.83%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.83%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.17%) Metadata
1 5 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.50%) Power BI
4 2 (1.67%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.67%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.83%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.83%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.50%) GitLab
2 3 (2.50%) JIRA
3 2 (1.67%) Git
4 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.83%) ERwin
4 1 (0.83%) Hudson
4 1 (0.83%) JUnit
4 1 (0.83%) Maven
4 1 (0.83%) MLflow
General
1 49 (40.83%) Social Skills
2 33 (27.50%) Public Sector
3 22 (18.33%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (17.50%) Finance
5 9 (7.50%) Banking
6 6 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.50%) Legal
9 2 (1.67%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.67%) Law
9 2 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.67%) Retail
9 2 (1.67%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.83%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (20.83%) Analyst
2 11 (9.17%) Architect
3 8 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (6.67%) Change Analyst
3 8 (6.67%) Developer
4 7 (5.83%) Senior
5 6 (5.00%) Deployment Engineer
5 6 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (4.17%) Field Engineer
6 5 (4.17%) Project Manager
6 5 (4.17%) Service Analyst
6 5 (4.17%) Service Desk Analyst
7 4 (3.33%) Business Analyst
7 4 (3.33%) Consultant
7 4 (3.33%) Lead
7 4 (3.33%) Security Architect
7 4 (3.33%) Technical Specialist
7 4 (3.33%) Windows Engineer
8 3 (2.50%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.17%) REST
1 5 (4.17%) Spring
1 5 (4.17%) Spring Boot
2 4 (3.33%) Kafka
2 4 (3.33%) SOAP
3 3 (2.50%) .NET
3 3 (2.50%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.67%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.67%) CSS
4 2 (1.67%) HTML
4 2 (1.67%) Middleware
4 2 (1.67%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.83%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (0.83%) jQuery
5 1 (0.83%) JSON
5 1 (0.83%) Node.js
5 1 (0.83%) OAuth
5 1 (0.83%) RESTful
5 1 (0.83%) XML
5 1 (0.83%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.00%) Device Driver
2 5 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.17%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (3.33%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.50%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (2.50%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.50%) Driving Licence
4 3 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.50%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.50%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.67%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.67%) FMCG
5 2 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.67%) NHS
6 1 (0.83%) Clustering
6 1 (0.83%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.83%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 30 (25.00%) Windows
2 18 (15.00%) Windows 10
3 8 (6.67%) Linux
4 7 (5.83%) Unix
5 5 (4.17%) Windows Server
6 4 (3.33%) Mac OS
7 3 (2.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (30.00%) Agile
2 17 (14.17%) DevOps
2 17 (14.17%) Stakeholder Management
3 16 (13.33%) Project Management
4 15 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (11.67%) Cybersecurity
6 13 (10.83%) Waterfall
7 12 (10.00%) CI/CD
8 11 (9.17%) Collaborative Working
9 9 (7.50%) Scrum
10 8 (6.67%) Business Strategy
10 8 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 7 (5.83%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 7 (5.83%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (5.83%) Project Delivery
12 6 (5.00%) Architectural Patterns
12 6 (5.00%) Decision-Making
12 6 (5.00%) Incident Response
12 6 (5.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.33%) SQL
2 8 (6.67%) Python
3 7 (5.83%) Java
4 6 (5.00%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.33%) Bicep
6 3 (2.50%) C#
7 2 (1.67%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.67%) Search Processing Language
7 2 (1.67%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.83%) DataWeave
8 1 (0.83%) Groovy
8 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.83%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (10.00%) Degree
1 12 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.83%) CISSP
4 6 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (4.17%) CISM
5 5 (4.17%) MCSA
6 4 (3.33%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.33%) CEH
6 4 (3.33%) GIAC
7 3 (2.50%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (2.50%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.50%) SSCP
8 2 (1.67%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.67%) CISA
8 2 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.83%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.17%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (2.50%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.50%) GDPR
3 2 (1.67%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.67%) QA
3 2 (1.67%) SLA
4 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.83%) NIST
4 1 (0.83%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.83%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.50%) Docker
2 3 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (7.50%) SCCM
2 5 (4.17%) Terraform
3 4 (3.33%) Cisco CUCM
4 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.67%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.83%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (6.67%) Cisco
1 8 (6.67%) Splunk
2 6 (5.00%) Oracle
3 2 (1.67%) AppDynamics
3 2 (1.67%) ArcSight
3 2 (1.67%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.83%) Apple
4 1 (0.83%) Databricks
4 1 (0.83%) Foundry
4 1 (0.83%) IBM
4 1 (0.83%) MuleSoft
4 1 (0.83%) Nokia
4 1 (0.83%) Poppulo
4 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.83%) Teradata