Microsoft Contracts 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 16 July 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
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 7 12
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 -6
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 106 112 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 12.99% 14.58% 12.51%
As % of the Vendors category 27.32% 36.13% 29.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 84 89
10th Percentile £200 £172 £140
25th Percentile £350 £200 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £363 £425
Median % change year-on-year +24.14% -14.71% -
75th Percentile £525 £505 £550
90th Percentile £585 £613 £600
Scotland median daily rate £450 £340 £400
% change year-on-year +32.35% -15.00% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 8
10th Percentile £19.75 - -
25th Percentile - - £12.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £11.50 £13.38
Median % change year-on-year +118.70% -14.02% -55.00%
75th Percentile - £12.72 £17.72
90th Percentile - £15.02 £18.08
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £16.96 £14.50
% change year-on-year +48.29% +16.97% -17.14%

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 388 310 399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 47.55% 40.36% 42.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 223 271
10th Percentile £300 £200 £269
25th Percentile £372 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £450 £473
Median % change year-on-year +3.78% -4.86% +5.11%
75th Percentile £553 £575 £566
90th Percentile £625 £652 £675
Scotland median daily rate £460 £450 £473
% change year-on-year +2.22% -4.86% +5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 11 16
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.84 £11.50 £12.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £16.70 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +50.60% -5.76% -56.25%
75th Percentile - £55.63 £58.75
90th Percentile - £57.50 £63.56
Scotland median hourly rate £18.87 £17.25 £17.72
% change year-on-year +9.39% -2.65% -42.84%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Glasgow

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Glasgow over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Glasgow

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Glasgow

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (16.04%) SharePoint
2 13 (12.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.77%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (1.89%) Confluence
4 2 (1.89%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.94%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.94%) Mule
Applications
1 14 (13.21%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (12.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (9.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.89%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.94%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (28.30%) Azure
2 24 (22.64%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (8.49%) Power Platform
4 8 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (6.60%) Entra ID
6 6 (5.66%) AWS
6 6 (5.66%) PaaS
7 5 (4.72%) IaaS
8 4 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (3.77%) OneDrive
8 4 (3.77%) Power Automate
8 4 (3.77%) SaaS
8 4 (3.77%) Yammer
9 3 (2.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.83%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.89%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.89%) OCI
11 1 (0.94%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.94%) Copilot Studio
11 1 (0.94%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.77%) Firewall
2 3 (2.83%) DHCP
2 3 (2.83%) DNS
2 3 (2.83%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.89%) Network Security
3 2 (1.89%) Unified Communications
3 2 (1.89%) VPN
3 2 (1.89%) WAN
4 1 (0.94%) AMQP
4 1 (0.94%) DSL
4 1 (0.94%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.60%) Power BI
1 7 (6.60%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.83%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.83%) RDBMS
2 3 (2.83%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.89%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (0.94%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.94%) DB2
4 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.94%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.94%) SQLite
4 1 (0.94%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 6 (5.66%) JIRA
2 5 (4.72%) Git
3 3 (2.83%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.89%) Maven
5 1 (0.94%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.94%) GitLab
5 1 (0.94%) Gradle
5 1 (0.94%) JUnit
5 1 (0.94%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.94%) Selenium
5 1 (0.94%) Subversion
General
1 48 (45.28%) Social Skills
2 30 (28.30%) Finance
2 30 (28.30%) Public Sector
3 21 (19.81%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.60%) Banking
4 7 (6.60%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (5.66%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.89%) Legal
7 2 (1.89%) Retail
8 1 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.94%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (25.47%) Analyst
2 11 (10.38%) Developer
2 11 (10.38%) Project Manager
3 8 (7.55%) Administrator
3 8 (7.55%) Business Analyst
4 6 (5.66%) Senior
4 6 (5.66%) Service Analyst
5 5 (4.72%) Deployment Engineer
5 5 (4.72%) IT Analyst
5 5 (4.72%) Service Desk Analyst
6 4 (3.77%) Change Analyst
7 3 (2.83%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (2.83%) Architect
7 3 (2.83%) Designer
7 3 (2.83%) Help Desk Analyst
7 3 (2.83%) Java Developer
7 3 (2.83%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
7 3 (2.83%) Security Manager
7 3 (2.83%) Security Project Manager
7 3 (2.83%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.66%) .NET
2 4 (3.77%) .NET Framework
2 4 (3.77%) REST
2 4 (3.77%) X-Windows
3 3 (2.83%) Kafka
3 3 (2.83%) LDAP
3 3 (2.83%) Spring
4 2 (1.89%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.89%) FastAPI
4 2 (1.89%) JSON
4 2 (1.89%) pytest
4 2 (1.89%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.89%) React
4 2 (1.89%) SPFx
4 2 (1.89%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.94%) Apache Camel
5 1 (0.94%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.94%) Blazor
5 1 (0.94%) JWT
5 1 (0.94%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.77%) Clustering
2 3 (2.83%) Device Driver
2 3 (2.83%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (2.83%) Replication
3 2 (1.89%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.89%) FMCG
3 2 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.89%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.89%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.89%) Security Posture
3 2 (1.89%) Virtual Team
4 1 (0.94%) Blackberry
4 1 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.94%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.94%) Insider Threat
4 1 (0.94%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.94%) PKI
4 1 (0.94%) Robotics
4 1 (0.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 37 (34.91%) Windows
2 17 (16.04%) Windows 10
3 13 (12.26%) Linux
3 13 (12.26%) Windows Server
4 7 (6.60%) Mac OS
5 5 (4.72%) Unix
6 4 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (3.77%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.89%) AIX
7 2 (1.89%) Solaris
8 1 (0.94%) Android
8 1 (0.94%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (32.08%) Agile
2 27 (25.47%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (16.98%) Project Management
4 16 (15.09%) DevOps
5 13 (12.26%) Cybersecurity
6 12 (11.32%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (10.38%) Waterfall
8 10 (9.43%) Test Automation
9 9 (8.49%) CI/CD
9 9 (8.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (8.49%) Decision-Making
9 9 (8.49%) Migration
9 9 (8.49%) Scrum
10 8 (7.55%) ITIL
10 8 (7.55%) ITSM
10 8 (7.55%) Microservices
11 7 (6.60%) Customer Service
11 7 (6.60%) Information Security
11 7 (6.60%) Service Management
11 7 (6.60%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (12.26%) SQL
2 8 (7.55%) PowerShell
3 6 (5.66%) C#
4 5 (4.72%) Java
4 5 (4.72%) Python
5 4 (3.77%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.83%) Bicep
6 3 (2.83%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.89%) Groovy
8 1 (0.94%) DataWeave
8 1 (0.94%) Go
8 1 (0.94%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (11.32%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (10.38%) Degree
3 4 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.77%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.77%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.83%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.83%) CISM
4 3 (2.83%) CRISC
4 3 (2.83%) MCSA
5 2 (1.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.89%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (1.89%) HNC
6 1 (0.94%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.94%) CCSP
6 1 (0.94%) CISSP
6 1 (0.94%) HND
6 1 (0.94%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.83%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (2.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 3 (2.83%) Disclosure Scotland
1 3 (2.83%) GDPR
1 3 (2.83%) QA
2 2 (1.89%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.89%) SLA
3 1 (0.94%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (16.04%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.60%) Docker
3 3 (2.83%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.83%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.83%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (1.89%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (1.89%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.94%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.72%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (4.72%) SCCM
1 5 (4.72%) Terraform
2 4 (3.77%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.83%) Ansible
4 2 (1.89%) Data Guard
4 2 (1.89%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (1.89%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (1.89%) Oracle Flashback
4 2 (1.89%) Podman
4 2 (1.89%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.89%) Puppet
4 2 (1.89%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 8 (7.55%) Oracle
2 4 (3.77%) Red Hat
2 4 (3.77%) ServiceNow
3 3 (2.83%) AppDynamics
4 2 (1.89%) Apple
4 2 (1.89%) BeyondTrust
4 2 (1.89%) CyberArk
4 2 (1.89%) Databricks
4 2 (1.89%) Dell
4 2 (1.89%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.89%) Netskope
4 2 (1.89%) Proofpoint
4 2 (1.89%) Splunk
4 2 (1.89%) Symantec
4 2 (1.89%) VMware
5 1 (0.94%) Adobe
5 1 (0.94%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.94%) IBM
5 1 (0.94%) SAP
5 1 (0.94%) Sun