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 18 April 2026, 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
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 18 11
Rank change year-on-year +5 -7 0
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 79 92 123
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 10.94% 11.34% 13.28%
As % of the Vendors category 25.57% 27.22% 32.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 66 91
10th Percentile £194 £291 £163
25th Percentile £310 £353 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £631 £499 £500
90th Percentile £675 £577 £613
Scotland median daily rate £450 £418 £425
% change year-on-year +7.78% -1.76% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 7
10th Percentile £17.55 £19.87 -
25th Percentile £23.79 £20.06 -
Median hourly rate £34.20 £20.75 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.80% +80.43% -
75th Percentile £44.60 £24.44 £15.42
90th Percentile £50.84 £26.43 £15.65
Scotland median hourly rate £16.97 £22.88 £17.00
% change year-on-year -25.81% +34.56% -20.04%

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 309 338 384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 42.80% 41.68% 41.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 243 257
10th Percentile £289 £313 £200
25th Percentile £402 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £453
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -0.66% -3.92%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £575
90th Percentile £688 £611 £675
Scotland median daily rate £475 £455 £467
% change year-on-year +4.40% -2.57% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 16
10th Percentile £15.82 £19.87 £11.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £20.06 £14.44
Median hourly rate £16.25 £20.75 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.69% +29.69% -73.58%
75th Percentile £25.95 £24.44 £25.96
90th Percentile £50.50 £26.43 £57.50
Scotland median hourly rate £19.68 £23.00 £17.61
% change year-on-year -14.43% +30.61% -69.37%

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 18 April 2026.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in Glasgow over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in Glasgow

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 11 (13.92%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.06%) Confluence
2 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.27%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.27%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 7 (8.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (6.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 36 (45.57%) Azure
2 21 (26.58%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (17.72%) Power Platform
4 11 (13.92%) AWS
5 9 (11.39%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (7.59%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (7.59%) Entra ID
6 6 (7.59%) Snowflake
7 4 (5.06%) Power Automate
7 4 (5.06%) PowerApps
8 3 (3.80%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (3.80%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (3.80%) GCP
8 3 (3.80%) Serverless
9 2 (2.53%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.53%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (1.27%) Azure AI
10 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.39%) WAN
2 8 (10.13%) SD-WAN
3 4 (5.06%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (2.53%) Firewall
5 1 (1.27%) Internet
5 1 (1.27%) Intranet
5 1 (1.27%) LAN
5 1 (1.27%) MPLS
5 1 (1.27%) SDH
5 1 (1.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.13%) Power BI
2 4 (5.06%) Data Lake
2 4 (5.06%) Metadata
2 4 (5.06%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.80%) MySQL
3 3 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.80%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.53%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.53%) Tableau
5 1 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.27%) Big Data
5 1 (1.27%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.27%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.27%) Power Query
5 1 (1.27%) QlikView
5 1 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Git
2 2 (2.53%) JIRA
3 1 (1.27%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.27%) GitLab
3 1 (1.27%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.27%) NUnit
3 1 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (30.38%) Finance
2 23 (29.11%) Social Skills
3 17 (21.52%) Public Sector
4 12 (15.19%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (11.39%) Legal
6 7 (8.86%) Banking
7 3 (3.80%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.27%) Law
9 1 (1.27%) Publishing
9 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (18.99%) Analyst
2 13 (16.46%) Architect
3 12 (15.19%) Developer
4 8 (10.13%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (8.86%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (7.59%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 6 (7.59%) Power Platform Developer
6 6 (7.59%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.06%) Business Analyst
7 4 (5.06%) Data Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Network Architect
7 4 (5.06%) Project Manager
7 4 (5.06%) Senior
7 4 (5.06%) Service Analyst
7 4 (5.06%) Service Desk Analyst
7 4 (5.06%) Support Analyst
8 3 (3.80%) 1st Line Support
8 3 (3.80%) DBA
8 3 (3.80%) Java Developer
8 3 (3.80%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.33%) HTML
1 5 (6.33%) REST
2 4 (5.06%) CSS
2 4 (5.06%) JSON
2 4 (5.06%) PySpark
2 4 (5.06%) React
3 3 (3.80%) .NET
3 3 (3.80%) CSS3
3 3 (3.80%) HTML5
3 3 (3.80%) Jest
3 3 (3.80%) Redux
3 3 (3.80%) Spring
3 3 (3.80%) Spring Boot
3 3 (3.80%) Spring MVC
3 3 (3.80%) Streamlit
3 3 (3.80%) XML
4 1 (1.27%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.27%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (1.27%) Kafka
4 1 (1.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.06%) Data Centre
1 4 (5.06%) Data Structures
1 4 (5.06%) Replication
2 2 (2.53%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (2.53%) PMI
2 2 (2.53%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.27%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.27%) CMDB
3 1 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.27%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.27%) Educational Technology
3 1 (1.27%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.27%) MISP
3 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.27%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.27%) STIX
3 1 (1.27%) TAXII
3 1 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (21.52%) Windows
2 5 (6.33%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.80%) Mac OS
3 3 (3.80%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.53%) Linux
4 2 (2.53%) Unix
4 2 (2.53%) VMS
5 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (25.32%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (18.99%) DevOps
3 14 (17.72%) Agile
4 12 (15.19%) CI/CD
5 10 (12.66%) Data Governance
6 9 (11.39%) Customer Service
6 9 (11.39%) Data Modelling
6 9 (11.39%) Migration
7 8 (10.13%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (8.86%) Decision-Making
8 7 (8.86%) ETL
8 7 (8.86%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (7.59%) Analytics
9 6 (7.59%) Data Protection
9 6 (7.59%) Data Science
10 5 (6.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (6.33%) Data Engineering
10 5 (6.33%) Data Pipeline
10 5 (6.33%) SDLC
11 4 (5.06%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 15 (18.99%) Python
2 12 (15.19%) SQL
3 10 (12.66%) Java
4 6 (7.59%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.33%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.80%) C#
7 2 (2.53%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 9 (11.39%) Degree
2 6 (7.59%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.53%) CISM
4 2 (2.53%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.53%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.53%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.27%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.27%) CCAB
5 1 (1.27%) CEH
5 1 (1.27%) CISA
5 1 (1.27%) CISSP
5 1 (1.27%) CREST Certified
5 1 (1.27%) GCIH
5 1 (1.27%) GIAC
5 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.86%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.53%) GDPR
2 2 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.53%) NIST
3 1 (1.27%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.27%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (17.72%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.53%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.27%) Docker
3 1 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (8.86%) FortiGate
1 7 (8.86%) Terraform
2 5 (6.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (5.06%) SCCM
4 3 (3.80%) Ansible
5 1 (1.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (11.39%) Cisco
2 7 (8.86%) Palo Alto
3 6 (7.59%) Databricks
4 4 (5.06%) Google
4 4 (5.06%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.80%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (3.80%) Greenplum
5 3 (3.80%) Informatica
5 3 (3.80%) Talend
6 2 (2.53%) Aruba
6 2 (2.53%) Oracle
6 2 (2.53%) Splunk
6 2 (2.53%) VMware
7 1 (1.27%) Acronis
7 1 (1.27%) Citrix
7 1 (1.27%) Foundry
7 1 (1.27%) Nokia
7 1 (1.27%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.27%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.27%) Teradata