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 February 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 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 9 18
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 -6
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 97 129 95
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 13.51% 15.91% 10.34%
As % of the Vendors category 28.36% 38.51% 25.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 76 64
10th Percentile £200 £188 £154
25th Percentile £358 £348 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +7.06% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £508 £500
90th Percentile £675 £613 £671
Scotland median daily rate £454 £375 £450
% change year-on-year +21.07% -16.67% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 7
10th Percentile £14.31 £20.86 -
25th Percentile £15.69 £21.59 -
Median hourly rate £18.00 £23.63 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +105.43% -
75th Percentile £36.51 £26.09 £15.42
90th Percentile £47.60 £27.09 £15.65
Scotland median hourly rate £19.23 £22.94 £16.71
% change year-on-year -16.16% +37.27% -21.40%

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 342 335 371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 47.63% 41.31% 40.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 215 229
10th Percentile £280 £282 £248
25th Percentile £400 £364 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +2.26%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £606
90th Percentile £647 £629 £677
Scotland median daily rate £461 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.50% -5.26% +2.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 14
10th Percentile £15.61 £19.90 £11.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £20.38 £12.48
Median hourly rate £18.00 £24.15 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.47% +50.94% +21.58%
75th Percentile £50.00 £24.18 -
90th Percentile £56.50 £26.32 £42.64
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £23.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year +6.61% +20.97% -8.28%

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 February 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 February 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 10 (10.31%) SharePoint
2 9 (9.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (5.15%) Confluence
4 2 (2.06%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.03%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 9 (9.28%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (9.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (8.25%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.03%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 44 (45.36%) Azure
2 19 (19.59%) AWS
3 16 (16.49%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (7.22%) Entra ID
5 6 (6.19%) GCP
6 5 (5.15%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (5.15%) Microsoft Purview
6 5 (5.15%) Power Platform
6 5 (5.15%) Snowflake
7 4 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.12%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (4.12%) Serverless
8 3 (3.09%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.09%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.06%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.06%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (2.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (2.06%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 15 (15.46%) WAN
2 8 (8.25%) SD-WAN
3 4 (4.12%) LAN
3 4 (4.12%) MPLS
3 4 (4.12%) SDH
3 4 (4.12%) VPN
4 3 (3.09%) Firewall
5 2 (2.06%) DNS
5 2 (2.06%) HTTP
5 2 (2.06%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.06%) VoIP
6 1 (1.03%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (1.03%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.22%) Metadata
1 7 (7.22%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.19%) Data Lake
3 4 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.12%) Power BI
4 3 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.09%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.06%) MySQL
5 2 (2.06%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.03%) Big Data
6 1 (1.03%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.03%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.03%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.03%) Power Query
6 1 (1.03%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 4 (4.12%) Git
2 3 (3.09%) GitLab
2 3 (3.09%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.09%) JIRA
3 2 (2.06%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.03%) ERwin
4 1 (1.03%) Hudson
4 1 (1.03%) MLflow
4 1 (1.03%) NUnit
4 1 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 38 (39.18%) Social Skills
2 31 (31.96%) Public Sector
3 19 (19.59%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (17.53%) Finance
5 10 (10.31%) Legal
6 7 (7.22%) Banking
7 3 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.06%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.03%) Law
9 1 (1.03%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 20 (20.62%) Architect
2 13 (13.40%) Analyst
3 11 (11.34%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (7.22%) Developer
4 7 (7.22%) Senior
5 6 (6.19%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (6.19%) Windows Engineer
6 5 (5.15%) Data Engineer
6 5 (5.15%) Field Engineer
6 5 (5.15%) Security Architect
6 5 (5.15%) Security Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Change Analyst
7 4 (4.12%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Deployment Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Lead
7 4 (4.12%) Network Architect
7 4 (4.12%) Technical Specialist
8 3 (3.09%) DBA
8 3 (3.09%) Service Analyst
8 3 (3.09%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.15%) PySpark
1 5 (5.15%) REST
2 4 (4.12%) HTML
2 4 (4.12%) JSON
2 4 (4.12%) SOAP
2 4 (4.12%) Spring
2 4 (4.12%) Spring Boot
3 3 (3.09%) .NET
3 3 (3.09%) CSS
3 3 (3.09%) React
3 3 (3.09%) Streamlit
3 3 (3.09%) XML
4 2 (2.06%) CSS3
4 2 (2.06%) HTML5
4 2 (2.06%) Jest
4 2 (2.06%) Redux
4 2 (2.06%) Spring MVC
5 1 (1.03%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.03%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.03%) Torch
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.22%) Data Centre
2 5 (5.15%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.12%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (4.12%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.12%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (4.12%) Security Posture
4 3 (3.09%) Device Driver
4 3 (3.09%) Driving Licence
4 3 (3.09%) Replication
5 2 (2.06%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (2.06%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.06%) NHS
5 2 (2.06%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.06%) PMI
6 1 (1.03%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.03%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 18 (18.56%) Windows
2 8 (8.25%) Linux
2 8 (8.25%) Unix
3 5 (5.15%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.06%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.06%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (25.77%) Agile
2 19 (19.59%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (15.46%) DevOps
4 14 (14.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 12 (12.37%) Cybersecurity
6 11 (11.34%) Data Governance
6 11 (11.34%) Data Modelling
7 9 (9.28%) CI/CD
8 8 (8.25%) Analytics
8 8 (8.25%) ETL
8 8 (8.25%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (8.25%) Migration
8 8 (8.25%) Scrum
9 7 (7.22%) Collaborative Working
9 7 (7.22%) Decision-Making
9 7 (7.22%) SIEM
10 6 (6.19%) Containerisation
10 6 (6.19%) Data Engineering
10 6 (6.19%) Incident Response
10 6 (6.19%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 19 (19.59%) Python
2 14 (14.43%) SQL
3 9 (9.28%) PowerShell
4 6 (6.19%) Java
5 5 (5.15%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.09%) Bicep
6 3 (3.09%) C#
7 2 (2.06%) Search Processing Language
7 2 (2.06%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.06%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 12 (12.37%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.34%) Degree
3 5 (5.15%) CISSP
3 5 (5.15%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.12%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.12%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.09%) CISM
5 3 (3.09%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (3.09%) GIAC
5 3 (3.09%) SSCP
6 2 (2.06%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.06%) CEH
6 2 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.06%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.06%) MCSA
6 2 (2.06%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.03%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (1.03%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.22%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.09%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (3.09%) GDPR
3 2 (2.06%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.06%) NIST
3 2 (2.06%) SLA
4 1 (1.03%) PMO
System Software
1 10 (10.31%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.06%) Docker
4 1 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (9.28%) SCCM
2 7 (7.22%) FortiGate
3 5 (5.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (3.09%) Ansible
4 3 (3.09%) Terraform
5 2 (2.06%) Cisco CUCM
5 2 (2.06%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (14.43%) Cisco
2 9 (9.28%) Splunk
3 7 (7.22%) Palo Alto
4 5 (5.15%) Databricks
4 5 (5.15%) Oracle
5 3 (3.09%) Google
5 3 (3.09%) Greenplum
5 3 (3.09%) Informatica
5 3 (3.09%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.09%) Talend
6 2 (2.06%) ArcSight
6 2 (2.06%) Aruba
6 2 (2.06%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (2.06%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.03%) Citrix
7 1 (1.03%) Foundry
7 1 (1.03%) Nokia
7 1 (1.03%) Poppulo
7 1 (1.03%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.03%) Teradata