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 24 December 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
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 6 15
Rank change year-on-year -5 +9 -5
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 104 134 101
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 14.36% 17.61% 11.54%
As % of the Vendors category 29.13% 44.08% 28.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 77 62
10th Percentile £185 £190 £144
25th Percentile £352 £348 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% +6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £541 £500 £500
90th Percentile £625 £644 £675
Scotland median daily rate £448 £409 £425
% change year-on-year +9.41% -3.76% -0.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 6
10th Percentile £24.43 £17.96 £12.13
25th Percentile - £19.51 £12.95
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.63 £15.42
Median % change year-on-year +6.46% +53.21% -
75th Percentile - £31.82 £15.86
90th Percentile - £39.15 £16.86
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £23.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +9.35% +29.80% -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 357 304 356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 49.31% 39.95% 40.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 185 221
10th Percentile £274 £213 £250
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £538 £634
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £498
% change year-on-year - -9.55% +10.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 9
10th Percentile £20.13 £18.34 £12.13
25th Percentile - £19.59 £15.42
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.45 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.03% +40.31% +21.58%
75th Percentile - £26.86 -
90th Percentile £43.75 £35.45 £17.72
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £23.59 £17.72
% change year-on-year +6.61% +33.13% -

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 24 December 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 14 (13.46%) SharePoint
2 9 (8.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.96%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.96%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.96%) Confluence
3 1 (0.96%) Mule
3 1 (0.96%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 12 (11.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 12 (11.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.92%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 36 (34.62%) Azure
2 19 (18.27%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (14.42%) AWS
4 7 (6.73%) Microsoft Purview
5 6 (5.77%) Entra ID
5 6 (5.77%) Viva Engage
6 5 (4.81%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (4.81%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (3.85%) GCP
7 4 (3.85%) Serverless
8 3 (2.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.88%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.88%) IaaS
8 3 (2.88%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.92%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.92%) GitHub
9 2 (1.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.69%) WAN
2 4 (3.85%) LAN
2 4 (3.85%) MPLS
2 4 (3.85%) SDH
2 4 (3.85%) VoIP
2 4 (3.85%) VPN
3 3 (2.88%) DNS
3 3 (2.88%) Firewall
3 3 (2.88%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.92%) HTTP
5 1 (0.96%) AMQP
5 1 (0.96%) DHCP
5 1 (0.96%) DSL
5 1 (0.96%) Network Security
5 1 (0.96%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.96%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.96%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.77%) Metadata
1 6 (5.77%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.85%) Data Lake
2 4 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (3.85%) Power BI
3 2 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.92%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.96%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.96%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.96%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.96%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.96%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (3.85%) Git
1 4 (3.85%) GitLab
1 4 (3.85%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.92%) Bitbucket
2 2 (1.92%) JIRA
3 1 (0.96%) ERwin
3 1 (0.96%) Hudson
3 1 (0.96%) MLflow
3 1 (0.96%) NUnit
3 1 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.96%) Visual Studio
General
1 43 (41.35%) Social Skills
2 29 (27.88%) Public Sector
3 21 (20.19%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.58%) Finance
5 6 (5.77%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (4.81%) Banking
7 4 (3.85%) Legal
8 3 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.92%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.92%) Law
9 2 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.92%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (16.35%) Analyst
2 14 (13.46%) Architect
3 8 (7.69%) Change Analyst
4 7 (6.73%) Senior
4 7 (6.73%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (5.77%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (5.77%) Developer
6 5 (4.81%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (4.81%) Consultant
6 5 (4.81%) Deployment Engineer
6 5 (4.81%) Field Engineer
6 5 (4.81%) Security Architect
6 5 (4.81%) Windows Engineer
7 4 (3.85%) Lead
7 4 (3.85%) Security Engineer
7 4 (3.85%) Technical Specialist
8 3 (2.88%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 3 (2.88%) IT Analyst
8 3 (2.88%) Security Analyst
8 3 (2.88%) Telephony Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.77%) REST
2 5 (4.81%) SOAP
3 4 (3.85%) Spring
3 4 (3.85%) Spring Boot
4 3 (2.88%) .NET
4 3 (2.88%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.88%) Kafka
5 2 (1.92%) HTML
5 2 (1.92%) JSON
5 2 (1.92%) Middleware
5 2 (1.92%) PySpark
5 2 (1.92%) XML
6 1 (0.96%) Apache Camel
6 1 (0.96%) JWT
6 1 (0.96%) Next.js
6 1 (0.96%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.96%) React
6 1 (0.96%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.96%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.96%) Torch
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.77%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.81%) Device Driver
2 5 (4.81%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (3.85%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.88%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (2.88%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.88%) Driving Licence
4 3 (2.88%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.92%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.92%) NHS
5 2 (1.92%) PMI
5 2 (1.92%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.96%) Clustering
6 1 (0.96%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.96%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (21.15%) Windows
2 10 (9.62%) Windows 10
3 8 (7.69%) Linux
3 8 (7.69%) Unix
4 4 (3.85%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (25.96%) Agile
2 14 (13.46%) DevOps
3 13 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (11.54%) CI/CD
4 12 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (10.58%) Cybersecurity
5 11 (10.58%) Project Management
6 10 (9.62%) Collaborative Working
7 9 (8.65%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (8.65%) Waterfall
8 7 (6.73%) Data Governance
8 7 (6.73%) Scrum
8 7 (6.73%) SIEM
9 6 (5.77%) Architectural Patterns
9 6 (5.77%) Business Strategy
9 6 (5.77%) Containerisation
9 6 (5.77%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 6 (5.77%) Incident Response
9 6 (5.77%) Migration
9 6 (5.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 11 (10.58%) Python
2 7 (6.73%) Java
2 7 (6.73%) PowerShell
2 7 (6.73%) SQL
3 4 (3.85%) Bicep
4 3 (2.88%) C#
4 3 (2.88%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.92%) Search Processing Language
5 2 (1.92%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.92%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.96%) DataWeave
6 1 (0.96%) Groovy
6 1 (0.96%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (12.50%) Degree
2 10 (9.62%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.73%) CISSP
4 6 (5.77%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (4.81%) CISM
5 5 (4.81%) SC Cleared
6 4 (3.85%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.85%) CEH
6 4 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.85%) GIAC
6 4 (3.85%) MCSA
7 3 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.88%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (2.88%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.88%) SSCP
8 2 (1.92%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.92%) CISA
8 2 (1.92%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.96%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.85%) Data Quality
1 4 (3.85%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.92%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.92%) GDPR
2 2 (1.92%) SLA
3 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.96%) NIST
3 1 (0.96%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.96%) PMO
3 1 (0.96%) QA
System Software
1 8 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.88%) Docker
2 3 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (8.65%) SCCM
2 5 (4.81%) Terraform
3 4 (3.85%) Cisco CUCM
3 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.88%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.92%) Ansible
6 1 (0.96%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 9 (8.65%) Cisco
1 9 (8.65%) Splunk
2 6 (5.77%) Oracle
3 3 (2.88%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.92%) ArcSight
4 2 (1.92%) Databricks
4 2 (1.92%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.96%) Aruba
5 1 (0.96%) Foundry
5 1 (0.96%) Google
5 1 (0.96%) Greenplum
5 1 (0.96%) Informatica
5 1 (0.96%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.96%) Nokia
5 1 (0.96%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.96%) Poppulo
5 1 (0.96%) Talend
5 1 (0.96%) Teradata