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 21 December 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
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 6 14
Rank change year-on-year -5 +8 -5
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 104 134 102
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 14.48% 17.72% 11.60%
As % of the Vendors category 29.46% 44.37% 27.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 77 62
10th Percentile £185 £190 £139
25th Percentile £353 £348 £186
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.29% +6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £500
90th Percentile £621 £644 £675
Scotland median daily rate £450 £409 £425
% change year-on-year +10.02% -3.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 7
10th Percentile £24.43 £17.96 -
25th Percentile - £19.51 £12.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.63 £15.42
Median % change year-on-year +6.46% +53.21% -
75th Percentile - £31.82 £15.71
90th Percentile - £39.15 £16.69
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £23.00 £17.22
% change year-on-year +9.35% +33.60% -5.59%

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 353 302 366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 49.16% 39.95% 41.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 185 228
10th Percentile £275 £213 £236
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £538 £631
90th Percentile £626 £675 £688
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £488
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 10
10th Percentile £20.13 £18.34 £12.13
25th Percentile - £19.59 £12.95
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.45 £15.71
Median % change year-on-year +12.03% +42.90% +19.38%
75th Percentile - £26.86 £16.00
90th Percentile £43.75 £35.45 £17.72
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £23.59 £17.72
% change year-on-year +6.61% +33.13% -

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 21 December 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 & 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 14 (13.46%) SharePoint
2 9 (8.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.96%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.96%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.96%) Confluence
3 1 (0.96%) Mule
3 1 (0.96%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 12 (11.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 12 (11.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.92%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 35 (33.65%) Azure
2 19 (18.27%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (13.46%) AWS
4 7 (6.73%) Microsoft Purview
5 6 (5.77%) Entra ID
5 6 (5.77%) Power Platform
5 6 (5.77%) Viva Engage
6 5 (4.81%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (3.85%) GCP
7 4 (3.85%) Serverless
8 3 (2.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.88%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.88%) IaaS
8 3 (2.88%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.92%) GitHub
9 2 (1.92%) PaaS
9 2 (1.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.73%) WAN
2 4 (3.85%) LAN
2 4 (3.85%) MPLS
2 4 (3.85%) SDH
2 4 (3.85%) VoIP
2 4 (3.85%) VPN
3 3 (2.88%) DNS
3 3 (2.88%) Firewall
3 3 (2.88%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.92%) HTTP
5 1 (0.96%) AMQP
5 1 (0.96%) DHCP
5 1 (0.96%) DSL
5 1 (0.96%) Network Security
5 1 (0.96%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.96%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.77%) Metadata
1 6 (5.77%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.81%) Power BI
3 4 (3.85%) Data Lake
3 4 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.92%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.96%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.96%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.96%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.96%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.96%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (3.85%) Git
1 4 (3.85%) GitLab
1 4 (3.85%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.92%) Bitbucket
2 2 (1.92%) JIRA
3 1 (0.96%) ERwin
3 1 (0.96%) Hudson
3 1 (0.96%) MLflow
3 1 (0.96%) NUnit
3 1 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.96%) Visual Studio
General
1 43 (41.35%) Social Skills
2 29 (27.88%) Public Sector
3 20 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.58%) Finance
5 6 (5.77%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (4.81%) Banking
7 3 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.88%) Legal
8 2 (1.92%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.92%) Law
8 2 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.92%) Retail
8 2 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (16.35%) Analyst
2 13 (12.50%) Architect
3 8 (7.69%) Change Analyst
4 7 (6.73%) Senior
4 7 (6.73%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (5.77%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (5.77%) Developer
6 5 (4.81%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (4.81%) Consultant
6 5 (4.81%) Deployment Engineer
6 5 (4.81%) Field Engineer
6 5 (4.81%) Security Architect
7 4 (3.85%) Lead
7 4 (3.85%) Technical Specialist
7 4 (3.85%) Windows Engineer
8 3 (2.88%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 3 (2.88%) Project Manager
8 3 (2.88%) Security Analyst
8 3 (2.88%) Security Engineer
8 3 (2.88%) Telephony Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.77%) REST
2 5 (4.81%) SOAP
3 4 (3.85%) Spring
3 4 (3.85%) Spring Boot
4 3 (2.88%) .NET
4 3 (2.88%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.88%) Kafka
5 2 (1.92%) HTML
5 2 (1.92%) JSON
5 2 (1.92%) Middleware
5 2 (1.92%) PySpark
5 2 (1.92%) XML
6 1 (0.96%) Apache Camel
6 1 (0.96%) JWT
6 1 (0.96%) Next.js
6 1 (0.96%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.96%) React
6 1 (0.96%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.96%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.96%) Torch
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.77%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.81%) Device Driver
2 5 (4.81%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (3.85%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.88%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (2.88%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.88%) Driving Licence
4 3 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.88%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.92%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.92%) FMCG
5 2 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.92%) NHS
5 2 (1.92%) PMI
5 2 (1.92%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.96%) Digital Media
6 1 (0.96%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 21 (20.19%) Windows
2 10 (9.62%) Windows 10
3 8 (7.69%) Linux
4 7 (6.73%) Unix
5 3 (2.88%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (25.96%) Agile
2 14 (13.46%) DevOps
3 13 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (11.54%) CI/CD
4 12 (11.54%) Project Management
5 11 (10.58%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (9.62%) Collaborative Working
6 10 (9.62%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (8.65%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (8.65%) Waterfall
8 8 (7.69%) Scrum
9 7 (6.73%) Data Governance
9 7 (6.73%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 7 (6.73%) Migration
9 7 (6.73%) SIEM
10 6 (5.77%) Architectural Patterns
10 6 (5.77%) Business Strategy
10 6 (5.77%) Containerisation
10 6 (5.77%) Incident Response
10 6 (5.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 10 (9.62%) Python
2 8 (7.69%) SQL
3 7 (6.73%) Java
4 6 (5.77%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.85%) Bicep
6 3 (2.88%) C#
6 3 (2.88%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.92%) Search Processing Language
7 2 (1.92%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.92%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.96%) DataWeave
8 1 (0.96%) Groovy
8 1 (0.96%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (12.50%) Degree
2 10 (9.62%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.73%) CISSP
4 6 (5.77%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (4.81%) CISM
5 5 (4.81%) SC Cleared
6 4 (3.85%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.85%) CEH
6 4 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.85%) GIAC
6 4 (3.85%) MCSA
7 3 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.88%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (2.88%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.88%) SSCP
8 2 (1.92%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.92%) CISA
8 2 (1.92%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.96%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.85%) Data Quality
1 4 (3.85%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.92%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.92%) GDPR
2 2 (1.92%) SLA
3 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.96%) NIST
3 1 (0.96%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.96%) PMO
3 1 (0.96%) QA
System Software
1 8 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.88%) Docker
2 3 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (7.69%) SCCM
2 5 (4.81%) Terraform
3 4 (3.85%) Cisco CUCM
4 3 (2.88%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.92%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (7.69%) Cisco
1 8 (7.69%) Splunk
2 6 (5.77%) Oracle
3 3 (2.88%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.92%) ArcSight
4 2 (1.92%) Databricks
4 2 (1.92%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.96%) Foundry
5 1 (0.96%) Google
5 1 (0.96%) Greenplum
5 1 (0.96%) Informatica
5 1 (0.96%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.96%) Nokia
5 1 (0.96%) Poppulo
5 1 (0.96%) Talend
5 1 (0.96%) Teradata