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 17 September 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
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 6 15
Rank change year-on-year -8 +9 -9
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 110 98 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 15.03% 14.50% 10.74%
As % of the Vendors category 31.43% 34.27% 26.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 75 59
10th Percentile £200 £172 £133
25th Percentile £349 £206 £236
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £551
90th Percentile £590 £688 £638
Scotland median daily rate £450 £340 £425
% change year-on-year +32.35% -20.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 8
10th Percentile £20.85 £13.28 -
25th Percentile - £14.65 £12.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £16.92 £13.38
Median % change year-on-year +48.64% +26.50% -55.00%
75th Percentile - £30.48 £17.72
90th Percentile - £38.62 £18.08
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £18.27 £13.50
% change year-on-year +37.66% +35.33% -28.00%

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 350 286 343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 47.81% 42.31% 40.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 193 220
10th Percentile £300 £200 £261
25th Percentile £370 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £580
90th Percentile £600 £700 £688
Scotland median daily rate £455 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +1.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 9 15
10th Percentile - £16.01 -
25th Percentile £16.84 £18.50 £12.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.15 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.14% +36.29% -43.30%
75th Percentile - £34.50 £38.84
90th Percentile - £48.23 £63.44
Scotland median hourly rate £19.23 £19.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +1.21% +7.22% -

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
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 17 September 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 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 15 (13.64%) SharePoint
2 9 (8.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.64%) Exchange Server 2013
4 3 (2.73%) Confluence
5 1 (0.91%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.91%) Mule
Applications
1 17 (15.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (11.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (10.91%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (3.64%) MS Visio
5 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 23 (20.91%) Azure
2 22 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (9.09%) AWS
4 9 (8.18%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (4.55%) Yammer
6 4 (3.64%) Entra ID
6 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (3.64%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (2.73%) PaaS
8 2 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.82%) IaaS
8 2 (1.82%) SaaS
9 1 (0.91%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.91%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.91%) OCI
9 1 (0.91%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.91%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.64%) Firewall
1 4 (3.64%) VoIP
2 3 (2.73%) DNS
2 3 (2.73%) HTTP
2 3 (2.73%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.73%) VPN
2 3 (2.73%) WAN
3 2 (1.82%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.91%) AMQP
4 1 (0.91%) DHCP
4 1 (0.91%) DSL
4 1 (0.91%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (3.64%) Power BI
2 3 (2.73%) Metadata
2 3 (2.73%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.82%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.82%) RDBMS
3 2 (1.82%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.91%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.91%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.91%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.91%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 5 (4.55%) Git
2 4 (3.64%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.64%) JIRA
3 2 (1.82%) GitLab
3 2 (1.82%) Maven
4 1 (0.91%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.91%) ERwin
4 1 (0.91%) Gradle
4 1 (0.91%) JUnit
General
1 46 (41.82%) Social Skills
2 30 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 22 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (19.09%) Finance
5 7 (6.36%) Banking
6 5 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (4.55%) Legal
7 4 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.82%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.82%) Law
9 2 (1.82%) Retail
10 1 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.91%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (22.73%) Analyst
2 12 (10.91%) Developer
3 6 (5.45%) Administrator
3 6 (5.45%) Change Analyst
3 6 (5.45%) Deployment Engineer
4 5 (4.55%) Project Manager
4 5 (4.55%) Senior
5 4 (3.64%) Architect
5 4 (3.64%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (3.64%) Business Analyst
5 4 (3.64%) Consultant
5 4 (3.64%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (3.64%) Service Analyst
5 4 (3.64%) Service Desk Analyst
6 3 (2.73%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (2.73%) Help Desk Analyst
6 3 (2.73%) IT Analyst
6 3 (2.73%) Java Developer
6 3 (2.73%) Systems Administrator
6 3 (2.73%) Telephony Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.55%) REST
2 4 (3.64%) .NET
2 4 (3.64%) .NET Framework
2 4 (3.64%) AngularJS
2 4 (3.64%) Kafka
2 4 (3.64%) Spring
2 4 (3.64%) Spring Boot
2 4 (3.64%) X-Windows
3 3 (2.73%) LDAP
3 3 (2.73%) React
3 3 (2.73%) SOAP
4 2 (1.82%) CSS
4 2 (1.82%) FastAPI
4 2 (1.82%) HTML
4 2 (1.82%) Middleware
4 2 (1.82%) pytest
4 2 (1.82%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.91%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.91%) Blazor
5 1 (0.91%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.64%) Cloud Native
1 4 (3.64%) Device Driver
1 4 (3.64%) Security Operations Centre
2 3 (2.73%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (2.73%) Product Ownership
2 3 (2.73%) Public Cloud
2 3 (2.73%) Security Posture
3 2 (1.82%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (1.82%) Distributed Applications
3 2 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (1.82%) FMCG
3 2 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (0.91%) Clustering
4 1 (0.91%) Digital Media
4 1 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.91%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.91%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 36 (32.73%) Windows
2 21 (19.09%) Windows 10
3 9 (8.18%) Linux
3 9 (8.18%) Windows Server
4 8 (7.27%) Mac OS
5 6 (5.45%) Unix
6 4 (3.64%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (30.91%) Agile
2 21 (19.09%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (17.27%) DevOps
4 16 (14.55%) Project Management
5 13 (11.82%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (10.91%) CI/CD
7 11 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
7 11 (10.00%) Test Automation
8 10 (9.09%) Waterfall
9 9 (8.18%) Scrum
10 8 (7.27%) Microservices
11 7 (6.36%) TDD
12 6 (5.45%) Collaborative Working
12 6 (5.45%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (5.45%) Customer Service
12 6 (5.45%) ITIL
12 6 (5.45%) Migration
12 6 (5.45%) Process Improvement
12 6 (5.45%) Project Delivery
12 6 (5.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 10 (9.09%) SQL
2 7 (6.36%) Java
3 6 (5.45%) Python
4 5 (4.55%) Shell Script
5 4 (3.64%) Bicep
5 4 (3.64%) C#
5 4 (3.64%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.64%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.82%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (0.91%) DataWeave
7 1 (0.91%) Go
7 1 (0.91%) Groovy
7 1 (0.91%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.91%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (11.82%) Degree
2 8 (7.27%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (5.45%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.64%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.64%) CISSP
4 4 (3.64%) MCSA
4 4 (3.64%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.73%) CEH
5 3 (2.73%) CISM
5 3 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.73%) GIAC
6 2 (1.82%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.82%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.91%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.91%) CRISC
7 1 (0.91%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.91%) NVQ Level 3
7 1 (0.91%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.55%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (2.73%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (2.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 3 (2.73%) GDPR
3 2 (1.82%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.82%) QA
4 1 (0.91%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.91%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.91%) PMO
4 1 (0.91%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (7.27%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.36%) Docker
3 3 (2.73%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.73%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (6.36%) SCCM
2 6 (5.45%) Terraform
3 4 (3.64%) Cisco CUCM
3 4 (3.64%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.82%) Podman
4 2 (1.82%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.91%) Ansible
5 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (6.36%) Splunk
2 4 (3.64%) Cisco
2 4 (3.64%) Oracle
3 3 (2.73%) AppDynamics
4 2 (1.82%) Apple
4 2 (1.82%) ArcSight
4 2 (1.82%) Netskope
4 2 (1.82%) Proofpoint
4 2 (1.82%) Symantec
5 1 (0.91%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.91%) Databricks
5 1 (0.91%) IBM
5 1 (0.91%) MuleSoft