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 24 January 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
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 8 19
Rank change year-on-year -1 +11 -8
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 99 124 91
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 14.89% 16.67% 10.29%
As % of the Vendors category 30.18% 41.89% 25.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 73 59
10th Percentile £188 £186 £150
25th Percentile £360 £331 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £425 £375
Median % change year-on-year +7.06% +13.33% -14.68%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £494
90th Percentile £675 £636 £675
Scotland median daily rate £460 £375 £450
% change year-on-year +22.67% -16.67% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 6
10th Percentile £15.69 £21.35 -
25th Percentile £19.77 £22.81 £11.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £26.50 £13.46
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% +96.88% -
75th Percentile - £35.90 £15.42
90th Percentile £40.08 £40.78 £15.71
Scotland median hourly rate £20.62 £23.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year -10.37% +29.80% -5.49%

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 328 296 359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 49.32% 39.78% 40.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 182 218
10th Percentile £273 £221 £217
25th Percentile £400 £361 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £570 £538 £623
90th Percentile £642 £637 £678
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +3.33% -6.25% +2.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 11
10th Percentile £16.17 £19.37 £11.50
25th Percentile £17.08 £19.59 £13.46
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.15 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.14% +50.94% +21.58%
75th Percentile £39.58 £27.75 -
90th Percentile £55.00 £36.41 -
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £23.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year -6.74% +20.97% +10.05%

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 24 January 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 24 January 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 (10.10%) SharePoint
2 9 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.01%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.01%) Confluence
3 1 (1.01%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 9 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (8.08%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (2.02%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 39 (39.39%) Azure
2 17 (17.17%) AWS
3 16 (16.16%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (7.07%) Microsoft Purview
5 6 (6.06%) Entra ID
5 6 (6.06%) GCP
6 5 (5.05%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (5.05%) Snowflake
7 4 (4.04%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (4.04%) Power Platform
7 4 (4.04%) Serverless
8 3 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.03%) Viva Engage
9 2 (2.02%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.02%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (2.02%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (2.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (15.15%) WAN
2 8 (8.08%) SD-WAN
3 4 (4.04%) LAN
3 4 (4.04%) MPLS
3 4 (4.04%) SDH
3 4 (4.04%) VoIP
3 4 (4.04%) VPN
4 3 (3.03%) Firewall
5 2 (2.02%) DNS
5 2 (2.02%) HTTP
5 2 (2.02%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.01%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (1.01%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.06%) Data Lake
1 6 (6.06%) Metadata
1 6 (6.06%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.03%) Power BI
3 3 (3.03%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.01%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.01%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.01%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Git
1 3 (3.03%) GitLab
1 3 (3.03%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.02%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.02%) JIRA
3 1 (1.01%) ERwin
3 1 (1.01%) Hudson
3 1 (1.01%) MLflow
3 1 (1.01%) NUnit
3 1 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.01%) Visual Studio
General
1 38 (38.38%) Social Skills
2 29 (29.29%) Public Sector
3 20 (20.20%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (18.18%) Finance
5 12 (12.12%) Legal
6 5 (5.05%) Banking
7 4 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.03%) Law
9 2 (2.02%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (20.20%) Architect
2 15 (15.15%) Analyst
3 11 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (7.07%) Senior
5 6 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (5.05%) Change Analyst
6 5 (5.05%) Consultant
6 5 (5.05%) Field Engineer
6 5 (5.05%) Security Architect
6 5 (5.05%) Security Engineer
6 5 (5.05%) Windows Engineer
7 4 (4.04%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (4.04%) Developer
7 4 (4.04%) Lead
7 4 (4.04%) Network Architect
7 4 (4.04%) Technical Specialist
8 3 (3.03%) Deployment Engineer
8 3 (3.03%) Security Analyst
8 3 (3.03%) Service Desk Analyst
8 3 (3.03%) Telephony Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.05%) REST
2 4 (4.04%) JSON
2 4 (4.04%) SOAP
3 3 (3.03%) .NET
3 3 (3.03%) XML
4 2 (2.02%) HTML
4 2 (2.02%) PySpark
4 2 (2.02%) Spring
4 2 (2.02%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.01%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.01%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.01%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (1.01%) jQuery
5 1 (1.01%) Next.js
5 1 (1.01%) Node.js
5 1 (1.01%) React
5 1 (1.01%) RESTful
5 1 (1.01%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.01%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.01%) Torch
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.07%) Data Centre
2 5 (5.05%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (5.05%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (4.04%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.04%) Security Posture
4 3 (3.03%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (3.03%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.03%) Device Driver
4 3 (3.03%) Driving Licence
4 3 (3.03%) Replication
5 2 (2.02%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.02%) NHS
5 2 (2.02%) PMI
6 1 (1.01%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.01%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.01%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.01%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (19.19%) Windows
2 8 (8.08%) Linux
2 8 (8.08%) Unix
3 5 (5.05%) Mac OS
4 4 (4.04%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (22.22%) Agile
2 14 (14.14%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (13.13%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (11.11%) DevOps
6 8 (8.08%) CI/CD
6 8 (8.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (8.08%) Project Management
6 8 (8.08%) SIEM
7 7 (7.07%) Collaborative Working
7 7 (7.07%) Data Governance
7 7 (7.07%) Data Modelling
7 7 (7.07%) Incident Response
8 6 (6.06%) Business Strategy
8 6 (6.06%) Containerisation
8 6 (6.06%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 6 (6.06%) ETL
8 6 (6.06%) Scrum
8 6 (6.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (6.06%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 16 (16.16%) Python
2 9 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 9 (9.09%) SQL
3 4 (4.04%) Java
4 3 (3.03%) Bicep
4 3 (3.03%) C#
4 3 (3.03%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.02%) Search Processing Language
5 2 (2.02%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.02%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.01%) Groovy
6 1 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.01%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (12.12%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.11%) Degree
3 6 (6.06%) CISSP
4 5 (5.05%) SC Cleared
5 4 (4.04%) Azure Certification
5 4 (4.04%) CISM
5 4 (4.04%) GIAC
5 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.03%) CEH
6 3 (3.03%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (3.03%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.03%) SSCP
7 2 (2.02%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.02%) MCSA
7 2 (2.02%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.01%) CREST Certified
8 1 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.04%) Data Quality
1 4 (4.04%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (2.02%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.02%) GDPR
2 2 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.02%) NIST
2 2 (2.02%) SLA
3 1 (1.01%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.02%) Docker
4 1 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (8.08%) SCCM
2 7 (7.07%) FortiGate
3 4 (4.04%) Cisco CUCM
3 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (3.03%) Ansible
4 3 (3.03%) Terraform
5 2 (2.02%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (16.16%) Cisco
2 10 (10.10%) Splunk
3 7 (7.07%) Palo Alto
4 6 (6.06%) Oracle
5 3 (3.03%) Google
5 3 (3.03%) Greenplum
5 3 (3.03%) Informatica
5 3 (3.03%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.03%) Talend
6 2 (2.02%) ArcSight
6 2 (2.02%) Aruba
6 2 (2.02%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (2.02%) Databricks
6 2 (2.02%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.01%) Citrix
7 1 (1.01%) Foundry
7 1 (1.01%) Nokia
7 1 (1.01%) Poppulo
7 1 (1.01%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.01%) Teradata