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 12 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
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 15 11
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 0
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 83 103 125
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 11.51% 12.61% 13.41%
As % of the Vendors category 26.69% 30.03% 31.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 66 91
10th Percentile £185 £206 £170
25th Percentile £306 £336 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £625 £500 £509
90th Percentile £675 £577 £663
Scotland median daily rate £450 £409 £445
% change year-on-year +10.02% -8.09% +11.25%
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 311 343 392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 43.13% 41.98% 42.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 237 261
10th Percentile £282 £313 £200
25th Percentile £400 £368 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £460
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -2.17% -2.75%
75th Percentile £584 £550 £586
90th Percentile £678 £613 £675
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +0.53%
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% -72.89%
75th Percentile £25.95 £24.44 £25.96
90th Percentile £50.50 £26.43 £57.50
Scotland median hourly rate £19.68 £23.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year -14.43% +29.80% -69.18%

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 12 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 12 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 (13.25%) SharePoint
2 6 (7.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (4.82%) Confluence
4 1 (1.20%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.20%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 7 (8.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (7.23%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (6.02%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 39 (46.99%) Azure
2 22 (26.51%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (16.87%) Power Platform
4 11 (13.25%) AWS
5 9 (10.84%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (8.43%) Entra ID
7 6 (7.23%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (7.23%) Snowflake
8 4 (4.82%) Power Automate
8 4 (4.82%) PowerApps
9 3 (3.61%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (3.61%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (3.61%) GCP
9 3 (3.61%) Serverless
10 2 (2.41%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.41%) GitHub
10 2 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 11 (13.25%) WAN
2 8 (9.64%) SD-WAN
3 4 (4.82%) Remote Desktop
4 3 (3.61%) LAN
4 3 (3.61%) MPLS
4 3 (3.61%) SDH
5 2 (2.41%) Firewall
6 1 (1.20%) Internet
6 1 (1.20%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.64%) Power BI
2 5 (6.02%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.82%) Data Lake
3 4 (4.82%) Metadata
4 3 (3.61%) MySQL
4 3 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.61%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.41%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.41%) Tableau
6 1 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.20%) Big Data
6 1 (1.20%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.20%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.20%) Power Query
6 1 (1.20%) QlikView
6 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Git
2 2 (2.41%) GitLab
2 2 (2.41%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.41%) JIRA
3 1 (1.20%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.20%) NUnit
3 1 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (30.12%) Finance
1 25 (30.12%) Social Skills
2 19 (22.89%) Public Sector
3 12 (14.46%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.84%) Legal
5 8 (9.64%) Banking
6 3 (3.61%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.20%) Law
8 1 (1.20%) Publishing
8 1 (1.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (18.07%) Analyst
2 13 (15.66%) Architect
3 12 (14.46%) Developer
4 8 (9.64%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (9.64%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (7.23%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 6 (7.23%) Power Platform Developer
5 6 (7.23%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (6.02%) Senior
7 4 (4.82%) Business Analyst
7 4 (4.82%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) Network Architect
7 4 (4.82%) Project Manager
7 4 (4.82%) Service Analyst
7 4 (4.82%) Service Desk Analyst
7 4 (4.82%) Support Analyst
7 4 (4.82%) Technical Specialist
8 3 (3.61%) Field Engineer
8 3 (3.61%) Java Developer
8 3 (3.61%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.02%) HTML
1 5 (6.02%) REST
2 4 (4.82%) CSS
2 4 (4.82%) JSON
2 4 (4.82%) PySpark
2 4 (4.82%) React
2 4 (4.82%) Spring
2 4 (4.82%) Spring Boot
3 3 (3.61%) .NET
3 3 (3.61%) CSS3
3 3 (3.61%) HTML5
3 3 (3.61%) Jest
3 3 (3.61%) Redux
3 3 (3.61%) Spring MVC
3 3 (3.61%) Streamlit
3 3 (3.61%) XML
4 1 (1.20%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (1.20%) Kafka
4 1 (1.20%) SPFx
4 1 (1.20%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.82%) Data Centre
1 4 (4.82%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.61%) Replication
3 2 (2.41%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.41%) Driving Licence
3 2 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.41%) NHS
3 2 (2.41%) PMI
3 2 (2.41%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.20%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.20%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.20%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.20%) MISP
4 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.20%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.20%) STIX
4 1 (1.20%) TAXII
4 1 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (19.28%) Windows
2 5 (6.02%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.61%) Linux
3 3 (3.61%) Mac OS
3 3 (3.61%) Unix
4 2 (2.41%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.20%) VMS
5 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (24.10%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (18.07%) DevOps
3 14 (16.87%) Agile
4 13 (15.66%) CI/CD
5 10 (12.05%) Data Governance
6 9 (10.84%) Customer Service
6 9 (10.84%) Data Modelling
7 8 (9.64%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (9.64%) Migration
8 7 (8.43%) Decision-Making
8 7 (8.43%) ETL
8 7 (8.43%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (7.23%) Analytics
9 6 (7.23%) Data Protection
9 6 (7.23%) Data Science
9 6 (7.23%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 5 (6.02%) Collaborative Working
10 5 (6.02%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (6.02%) Data Engineering
10 5 (6.02%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 15 (18.07%) Python
2 12 (14.46%) SQL
3 11 (13.25%) Java
4 6 (7.23%) JavaScript
4 6 (7.23%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.61%) C#
6 2 (2.41%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 9 (10.84%) Degree
2 6 (7.23%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.61%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.41%) CISM
4 2 (2.41%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.41%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.41%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.20%) CCAB
5 1 (1.20%) CEH
5 1 (1.20%) CISA
5 1 (1.20%) CISSP
5 1 (1.20%) CREST Certified
5 1 (1.20%) GCIH
5 1 (1.20%) GIAC
5 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.43%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.41%) GDPR
2 2 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.41%) NIST
3 1 (1.20%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.20%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (18.07%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.20%) Docker
2 1 (1.20%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (8.43%) FortiGate
1 7 (8.43%) Terraform
2 5 (6.02%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (4.82%) SCCM
4 3 (3.61%) Ansible
5 1 (1.20%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (13.25%) Cisco
2 7 (8.43%) Palo Alto
3 6 (7.23%) Databricks
4 4 (4.82%) Google
4 4 (4.82%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.61%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (3.61%) Greenplum
5 3 (3.61%) Informatica
5 3 (3.61%) Talend
6 2 (2.41%) Aruba
6 2 (2.41%) Oracle
6 2 (2.41%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.41%) Splunk
7 1 (1.20%) Citrix
7 1 (1.20%) Foundry
7 1 (1.20%) Nokia
7 1 (1.20%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.20%) Teradata
7 1 (1.20%) VMware