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 8 October 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
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 12 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 -5 +9
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 139 118 103
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 11.66% 15.82% 15.08%
As % of the Vendors category 28.48% 32.78% 35.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 86 73
10th Percentile £297 £200 £169
25th Percentile £400 £351 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% +5.88% -
75th Percentile £588 £525 £550
90th Percentile £675 £600 £688
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £340
% change year-on-year - +32.35% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 15 3
10th Percentile £13.13 £20.85 £13.28
25th Percentile £13.45 - £14.65
Median hourly rate £13.50 £25.15 £16.92
Median % change year-on-year -46.32% +48.64% +26.50%
75th Percentile £15.17 - £30.48
90th Percentile £16.11 - £38.62
Scotland median hourly rate £15.00 £25.15 £19.33
% change year-on-year -40.36% +30.11% +33.31%

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 488 360 293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 40.94% 48.26% 42.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 221 189
10th Percentile £265 £300 £198
25th Percentile £363 £381 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £575
90th Percentile £638 £613 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £430
% change year-on-year - +4.65% -9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 21 9
10th Percentile £13.13 - £16.01
25th Percentile £13.45 £16.84 £18.50
Median hourly rate £13.50 £25.15 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year -46.32% +28.38% +41.65%
75th Percentile £15.59 - £24.18
90th Percentile £16.98 - £36.41
Scotland median hourly rate £15.48 £19.23 £19.59
% change year-on-year -19.53% -1.84% +10.55%

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 8 October 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
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 8 (5.76%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.04%) Confluence
3 5 (3.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.72%) CMS
4 1 (0.72%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 18 (12.95%) MS Visio
2 17 (12.23%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (10.07%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (6.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.72%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.72%) Navisworks
6 1 (0.72%) ProjectWise
6 1 (0.72%) Revit
6 1 (0.72%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (5.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.72%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 43 (30.94%) Azure
2 20 (14.39%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (12.95%) Power Platform
4 17 (12.23%) AWS
4 17 (12.23%) GCP
5 12 (8.63%) Dynamics 365
6 10 (7.19%) Entra ID
7 9 (6.47%) GitHub
8 4 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.88%) Power Automate
9 3 (2.16%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.16%) Nutanix
9 3 (2.16%) PaaS
9 3 (2.16%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.44%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (1.44%) IaaS
10 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.72%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.72%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.51%) LAN
1 16 (11.51%) MPLS
2 15 (10.79%) WAN
3 11 (7.91%) Firewall
4 7 (5.04%) SDH
5 4 (2.88%) DNS
6 2 (1.44%) 4G
6 2 (1.44%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (1.44%) DHCP
6 2 (1.44%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.44%) Network Security
6 2 (1.44%) VLAN
7 1 (0.72%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.72%) IP Telephony
7 1 (0.72%) MIMO
7 1 (0.72%) VPN
7 1 (0.72%) VSAN
7 1 (0.72%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.63%) Power BI
2 7 (5.04%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.88%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.88%) Metadata
3 4 (2.88%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.16%) Data Vault
4 3 (2.16%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.44%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle Database 10g
6 1 (0.72%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.72%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (6.47%) Git
2 7 (5.04%) Claude Code
3 6 (4.32%) JIRA
4 3 (2.16%) ER Studio
4 3 (2.16%) ERwin
5 2 (1.44%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.72%) Gradle
6 1 (0.72%) Maven
General
1 64 (46.04%) Social Skills
2 28 (20.14%) Finance
3 23 (16.55%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (12.23%) Public Sector
5 15 (10.79%) Telecoms
6 13 (9.35%) Legal
7 12 (8.63%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (5.04%) Banking
9 6 (4.32%) Billing
10 5 (3.60%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.44%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.72%) Marketing
12 1 (0.72%) Military
12 1 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 15 (10.79%) Architect
2 13 (9.35%) Administrator
3 11 (7.91%) Senior
3 11 (7.91%) Solutions Architect
4 10 (7.19%) Network Engineer
4 10 (7.19%) Project Engineer
5 9 (6.47%) DBA
6 8 (5.76%) Analyst
7 7 (5.04%) Developer
8 6 (4.32%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (4.32%) Designer
8 6 (4.32%) GCP Engineer
9 5 (3.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (3.60%) Lead
9 5 (3.60%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (3.60%) SQL DBA
9 5 (3.60%) SQL Server DBA
9 5 (3.60%) Telecoms Engineer
10 4 (2.88%) Infrastructure Architect
10 4 (2.88%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.79%) Terraform
2 6 (4.32%) .NET
2 6 (4.32%) JSON
3 5 (3.60%) PySpark
4 4 (2.88%) Streamlit
5 3 (2.16%) Web Services
5 3 (2.16%) XML
6 1 (0.72%) Java RMI
6 1 (0.72%) LDAP
6 1 (0.72%) Middleware
6 1 (0.72%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.91%) Product Ownership
2 9 (6.47%) CCTV
2 9 (6.47%) Enterprise Cloud
2 9 (6.47%) Replication
3 7 (5.04%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (5.04%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.32%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.32%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.60%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.60%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.16%) Clustering
7 3 (2.16%) PKI
8 2 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.72%) NVMe
9 1 (0.72%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.72%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.51%) Windows
2 9 (6.47%) Linux
3 6 (4.32%) Android
3 6 (4.32%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.44%) VMS
4 2 (1.44%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.72%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.72%) Unix
5 1 (0.72%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (26.62%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (21.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 29 (20.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 24 (17.27%) DevOps
5 19 (13.67%) CI/CD
6 18 (12.95%) Agile
6 18 (12.95%) Migration
6 18 (12.95%) Project Delivery
7 16 (11.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (10.79%) Customer Service
8 15 (10.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (10.79%) Process Improvement
9 14 (10.07%) AI
10 13 (9.35%) Containerisation
10 13 (9.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 13 (9.35%) Roadmaps
10 13 (9.35%) User Experience
11 12 (8.63%) Business Intelligence
11 12 (8.63%) Data Modelling
12 10 (7.19%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 21 (15.11%) Python
2 18 (12.95%) SQL
3 9 (6.47%) Bash
4 7 (5.04%) PowerShell
4 7 (5.04%) Shell Script
5 5 (3.60%) C#
6 4 (2.88%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.16%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.16%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.44%) Java
9 1 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.72%) Go
Qualifications
1 22 (15.83%) Security Cleared
2 15 (10.79%) CCNA
2 15 (10.79%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (7.91%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.04%) Degree
5 5 (3.60%) CCNP
5 5 (3.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.88%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.88%) HND
7 3 (2.16%) PMI Certification
7 3 (2.16%) PMP
8 2 (1.44%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.44%) CCDA
8 2 (1.44%) CCDP
8 2 (1.44%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.44%) MCSA
8 2 (1.44%) MCSE
8 2 (1.44%) Postgraduate
8 2 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.91%) SLA
2 7 (5.04%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.16%) NCSC
3 3 (2.16%) PMO
4 2 (1.44%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.44%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.44%) NIST
4 2 (1.44%) QA
5 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.72%) GDPR
5 1 (0.72%) GxP
5 1 (0.72%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 12 (8.63%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.60%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.88%) vSphere
4 4 (2.88%) zsh
5 3 (2.16%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.44%) DFS Replication
6 2 (1.44%) Docker
6 2 (1.44%) Firmware
6 2 (1.44%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.72%) KVM
7 1 (0.72%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (9.35%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.32%) Ansible
3 5 (3.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (2.88%) SCCM
4 4 (2.88%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 3 (2.16%) Cisco Prime
5 3 (2.16%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (2.16%) SolarWinds Orion
6 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (1.44%) Perfmon
6 2 (1.44%) WSUS
7 1 (0.72%) Argo
7 1 (0.72%) SCOM
7 1 (0.72%) WMI
Vendors
1 17 (12.23%) Google
2 15 (10.79%) Nokia
3 11 (7.91%) Cisco
4 9 (6.47%) Oracle
5 8 (5.76%) VMware
6 6 (4.32%) Computacenter
7 5 (3.60%) Databricks
8 3 (2.16%) Citrix
8 3 (2.16%) Greenplum
8 3 (2.16%) Informatica
8 3 (2.16%) MuleSoft
8 3 (2.16%) Talend
9 2 (1.44%) Autodesk
9 2 (1.44%) Commvault
9 2 (1.44%) Dell
9 2 (1.44%) RedGate
9 2 (1.44%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.44%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.44%) Veeam
10 1 (0.72%) Acronis