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 15 March 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
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 14 13
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 87 116 110
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 12.22% 13.96% 12.01%
As % of the Vendors category 28.71% 33.92% 29.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 69 76
10th Percentile £200 £214 £163
25th Percentile £310 £348 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +7.06% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £500
90th Percentile £675 £576 £669
Scotland median daily rate £453 £375 £438
% change year-on-year +20.67% -14.38% +9.50%
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 £19.41 £22.88 £16.86
% change year-on-year -15.15% +35.72% -20.72%

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 303 342 378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 42.56% 41.16% 41.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 230 239
10th Percentile £275 £310 £200
25th Percentile £400 £365 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £465
Median % change year-on-year - -3.23% +0.05%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £603
90th Percentile £649 £614 £675
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 15
10th Percentile £15.82 £19.64 £11.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £19.71 £13.46
Median hourly rate £16.25 £20.29 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.91% +26.81% -73.58%
75th Percentile £25.95 £22.78 £16.35
90th Percentile £50.50 £25.76 £56.00
Scotland median hourly rate £25.05 £22.94 £17.50
% change year-on-year +9.19% +31.07% -24.80%

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 15 March 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 15 March 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 9 (10.34%) SharePoint
2 8 (9.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (4.60%) Confluence
4 2 (2.30%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.15%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (1.15%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 7 (8.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 44 (50.57%) Azure
2 17 (19.54%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (17.24%) AWS
4 9 (10.34%) Power Platform
5 7 (8.05%) Entra ID
6 6 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (6.90%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (6.90%) GCP
7 4 (4.60%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (4.60%) Serverless
7 4 (4.60%) Snowflake
8 3 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (3.45%) Power Automate
8 3 (3.45%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.30%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.30%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (2.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (16.09%) WAN
2 8 (9.20%) SD-WAN
3 4 (4.60%) LAN
3 4 (4.60%) MPLS
3 4 (4.60%) SDH
4 3 (3.45%) Firewall
4 3 (3.45%) VPN
5 1 (1.15%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.15%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (1.15%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.05%) Power BI
1 7 (8.05%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.75%) Data Lake
2 5 (5.75%) Metadata
3 4 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.45%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.30%) MySQL
5 2 (2.30%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.15%) Big Data
6 1 (1.15%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.15%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.15%) Power Query
6 1 (1.15%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 4 (4.60%) Git
2 2 (2.30%) GitLab
2 2 (2.30%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.30%) JIRA
3 1 (1.15%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.15%) Hudson
3 1 (1.15%) MLflow
3 1 (1.15%) NUnit
3 1 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (35.63%) Social Skills
2 26 (29.89%) Public Sector
3 18 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (20.69%) Finance
4 9 (10.34%) Legal
5 7 (8.05%) Banking
6 3 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.30%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.15%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.15%) Law
8 1 (1.15%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 19 (21.84%) Architect
2 12 (13.79%) Analyst
3 11 (12.64%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (8.05%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (6.90%) Developer
5 6 (6.90%) Security Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) Field Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) Senior
6 5 (5.75%) Windows Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) Network Architect
7 4 (4.60%) Security Architect
7 4 (4.60%) Technical Specialist
8 3 (3.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) DBA
8 3 (3.45%) Deployment Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Service Analyst
8 3 (3.45%) Service Desk Analyst
8 3 (3.45%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.75%) REST
2 4 (4.60%) HTML
2 4 (4.60%) JSON
2 4 (4.60%) PySpark
3 3 (3.45%) .NET
3 3 (3.45%) CSS
3 3 (3.45%) React
3 3 (3.45%) Spring
3 3 (3.45%) Spring Boot
3 3 (3.45%) Streamlit
3 3 (3.45%) XML
4 2 (2.30%) CSS3
4 2 (2.30%) HTML5
4 2 (2.30%) Jest
4 2 (2.30%) Redux
4 2 (2.30%) SOAP
4 2 (2.30%) Spring MVC
5 1 (1.15%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.15%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.15%) Torch
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.05%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.60%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (3.45%) Driving Licence
3 3 (3.45%) Replication
4 2 (2.30%) Device Driver
4 2 (2.30%) NHS
4 2 (2.30%) PMI
5 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.15%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.15%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.15%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.15%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.15%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.15%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (20.69%) Windows
2 6 (6.90%) Linux
3 5 (5.75%) Mac OS
3 5 (5.75%) Unix
4 2 (2.30%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.30%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (21.84%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (20.69%) Agile
3 15 (17.24%) DevOps
4 13 (14.94%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (12.64%) CI/CD
6 10 (11.49%) Data Modelling
7 9 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (10.34%) Data Governance
7 9 (10.34%) Decision-Making
8 8 (9.20%) ETL
8 8 (9.20%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (9.20%) Migration
9 7 (8.05%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (8.05%) Data Protection
10 6 (6.90%) Analytics
10 6 (6.90%) Business Strategy
10 6 (6.90%) Collaborative Working
10 6 (6.90%) Containerisation
10 6 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (6.90%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 17 (19.54%) Python
2 13 (14.94%) SQL
3 9 (10.34%) PowerShell
4 5 (5.75%) Java
4 5 (5.75%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.45%) C#
6 2 (2.30%) Bicep
6 2 (2.30%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 11 (12.64%) Degree
1 11 (12.64%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.75%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.60%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (4.60%) CISSP
4 3 (3.45%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.45%) CISM
4 3 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.30%) CEH
5 2 (2.30%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (2.30%) GIAC
5 2 (2.30%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.30%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.30%) SSCP
6 1 (1.15%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.15%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (1.15%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.20%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.45%) GDPR
3 2 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.30%) NIST
3 2 (2.30%) SLA
4 1 (1.15%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.15%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 12 (13.79%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.30%) Docker
2 2 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (9.20%) SCCM
2 7 (8.05%) FortiGate
3 5 (5.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (5.75%) Terraform
4 3 (3.45%) Ansible
5 2 (2.30%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.15%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 13 (14.94%) Cisco
2 7 (8.05%) Palo Alto
3 5 (5.75%) Oracle
3 5 (5.75%) Splunk
4 4 (4.60%) Databricks
5 3 (3.45%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (3.45%) Google
5 3 (3.45%) Greenplum
5 3 (3.45%) Informatica
5 3 (3.45%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.45%) Talend
6 2 (2.30%) Aruba
6 2 (2.30%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.15%) Citrix
7 1 (1.15%) Foundry
7 1 (1.15%) Nokia
7 1 (1.15%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.15%) Teradata