Microsoft Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 10 8
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 294 383 412
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 13.56% 13.86% 12.05%
As % of the Vendors category 32.85% 33.10% 36.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 288 296
10th Percentile £157 £149 £145
25th Percentile £200 £196 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £417 £413
Median % change year-on-year -15.97% +0.97% +1.54%
75th Percentile £500 £526 £514
90th Percentile £613 £600 £600
UK median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 5 9
10th Percentile £11.50 £17.02 £12.26
25th Percentile £12.21 £20.79 £15.04
Median hourly rate £16.86 £23.86 £16.25
Median % change year-on-year -29.36% +46.83% +6.56%
75th Percentile £18.07 £63.00 £17.50
90th Percentile £55.50 - £37.79
UK median hourly rate £15.00 £22.46 £18.55
% change year-on-year -33.20% +21.05% +6.00%

All Vendors
Scotland

Microsoft is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 895 1,157 1,122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 41.28% 41.87% 32.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 816 754
10th Percentile £181 £175 £185
25th Percentile £324 £370 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £472 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.56% +4.78% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £539 £538
90th Percentile £675 £627 £600
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 18 33
10th Percentile £12.04 £18.90 £12.86
25th Percentile £16.00 £21.36 £16.49
Median hourly rate £17.50 £57.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.57% +43.75% +28.00%
75th Percentile £54.06 £64.50 £48.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £69.13 £53.75
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -4.10%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Scotland

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Scotland

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Scotland

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Scotland

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +4 120 £420 +1.20% 84
Glasgow +3 115 £375 -11.76% 69
Renfrewshire +1 17 £175 -51.72% 3
South Lanarkshire +11 16 £575 +70.37% 2
Dundee -2 2 £166 -58.50%
Aberdeen -4 2 £325 +150.00% 17
Argyll and Bute - 2 £193 -
Inverclyde - 2 £172 -
Midlothian +1 1 - - 22
Fife -4 1 - - 5
Lanarkshire -5 1 £185 -22.11% 34
Microsoft
UK

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 44 (14.97%) SharePoint
2 26 (8.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.04%) Confluence
4 4 (1.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (1.36%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.02%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.68%) CMS
6 2 (0.68%) IIS
7 1 (0.34%) Apache
7 1 (0.34%) Drupal
7 1 (0.34%) Moodle
7 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.34%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 73 (24.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (18.37%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (10.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (3.40%) Microsoft Project
4 10 (3.40%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.34%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 8 (2.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.36%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.02%) iTrent
4 2 (0.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.68%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.34%) assyst
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 91 (30.95%) Microsoft 365
2 53 (18.03%) Power Platform
3 51 (17.35%) Azure
4 26 (8.84%) PowerApps
5 25 (8.50%) Power Automate
6 22 (7.48%) Entra ID
7 20 (6.80%) Dynamics 365
8 18 (6.12%) AWS
9 15 (5.10%) Yammer
10 10 (3.40%) OCI
10 10 (3.40%) OneDrive
11 8 (2.72%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 8 (2.72%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (1.02%) AWS Direct Connect
12 3 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (1.02%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 3 (1.02%) GCP
12 3 (1.02%) iPaaS
12 3 (1.02%) PaaS
12 3 (1.02%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.82%) DNS
2 19 (6.46%) DHCP
3 16 (5.44%) VPN
4 11 (3.74%) Firewall
4 11 (3.74%) Remote Desktop
5 6 (2.04%) LAN
5 6 (2.04%) WAN
6 5 (1.70%) Intranet
6 5 (1.70%) SMTP
7 4 (1.36%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.02%) Skype
9 2 (0.68%) SAN
9 2 (0.68%) VLAN
10 1 (0.34%) Network Security
10 1 (0.34%) VoIP
10 1 (0.34%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (11.90%) Power BI
2 11 (3.74%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (3.40%) Oracle Reports
3 10 (3.40%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.70%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 5 (1.70%) Tableau
5 4 (1.36%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.68%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (0.68%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.68%) DTS
6 2 (0.68%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.68%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.34%) Big Data
7 1 (0.34%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.34%) Power Query
7 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (7.14%) JIRA
2 2 (0.68%) ER Studio
2 2 (0.68%) ERwin
3 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 107 (36.39%) Social Skills
2 91 (30.95%) Public Sector
3 56 (19.05%) Finance
4 36 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (8.84%) Organisational Skills
6 18 (6.12%) Banking
7 12 (4.08%) Publishing
8 11 (3.74%) Legal
9 8 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.38%) Billing
11 6 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.68%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.68%) Local Government
13 2 (0.68%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.34%) Law
14 1 (0.34%) Military
14 1 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 92 (31.29%) Analyst
2 25 (8.50%) IT Support
3 24 (8.16%) Senior
4 22 (7.48%) Support Analyst
5 16 (5.44%) Architect
5 16 (5.44%) IT Analyst
6 15 (5.10%) Change Analyst
6 15 (5.10%) Consultant
6 15 (5.10%) Data Analyst
6 15 (5.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (4.76%) Support Engineer
8 12 (4.08%) Desktop Support
8 12 (4.08%) Project Manager
9 11 (3.74%) Desktop Engineer
10 10 (3.40%) IT Engineer
10 10 (3.40%) IT Support Analyst
11 9 (3.06%) 1st Line Support
11 9 (3.06%) Administrator
11 9 (3.06%) Windows Engineer
12 8 (2.72%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.04%) .NET
2 5 (1.70%) LDAP
2 5 (1.70%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (1.36%) SailPoint
4 3 (1.02%) J2EE
4 3 (1.02%) Kafka
4 3 (1.02%) RESTful
4 3 (1.02%) Web Services
5 2 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.68%) OpenTracing
5 2 (0.68%) Spring
5 2 (0.68%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.34%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 9 (3.06%) Data Centre
3 8 (2.72%) Driving Licence
4 7 (2.38%) Clustering
5 6 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.04%) PKI
5 6 (2.04%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.70%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.70%) DTCC
6 5 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.70%) Market Risk
6 5 (1.70%) Security Posture
6 5 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.36%) iPhone
8 3 (1.02%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.02%) CMDB
8 3 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.02%) Freedom of Information
8 3 (1.02%) iPad
8 3 (1.02%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 72 (24.49%) Windows
2 31 (10.54%) Windows 10
3 21 (7.14%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.40%) Windows 7
5 8 (2.72%) Apple iOS
6 7 (2.38%) Linux
7 6 (2.04%) Android
7 6 (2.04%) Unix
8 5 (1.70%) Mac OS
8 5 (1.70%) Mac OS X
8 5 (1.70%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (1.36%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (13.27%) ITIL
2 37 (12.59%) Agile
3 36 (12.24%) Business Intelligence
4 35 (11.90%) Customer Service
5 34 (11.56%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (8.84%) Cybersecurity
7 23 (7.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 22 (7.48%) Project Delivery
9 21 (7.14%) Migration
10 19 (6.46%) Project Management
11 17 (5.78%) Change Management
11 17 (5.78%) Data Analysis
12 15 (5.10%) Analytics
12 15 (5.10%) Stakeholder Management
13 14 (4.76%) ERP
13 14 (4.76%) Infographics
13 14 (4.76%) Roadmaps
13 14 (4.76%) Service Management
14 13 (4.42%) Collaborative Working
14 13 (4.42%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 29 (9.86%) PowerShell
2 19 (6.46%) SQL
3 10 (3.40%) Python
4 4 (1.36%) Java
4 4 (1.36%) T-SQL
5 3 (1.02%) Kotlin
5 3 (1.02%) Scala
6 2 (0.68%) Bash
6 2 (0.68%) C#
7 1 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.34%) R
Qualifications
1 63 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 52 (17.69%) SC Cleared
3 29 (9.86%) Degree
4 16 (5.44%) DV Cleared
5 14 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (3.74%) MCP
7 9 (3.06%) A+ Certification
8 6 (2.04%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.04%) HNC
8 6 (2.04%) MCSE
9 5 (1.70%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (1.02%) APMP
10 3 (1.02%) CCNA
10 3 (1.02%) CCNP
10 3 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.02%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.34%) APMG
12 1 (0.34%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
1 21 (7.14%) PMO
2 15 (5.10%) SLA
3 7 (2.38%) QA
4 5 (1.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.36%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (1.02%) NCSC
7 2 (0.68%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.68%) NIST
8 1 (0.34%) GDPR
8 1 (0.34%) NEBOSH
8 1 (0.34%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 68 (23.13%) Active Directory
2 13 (4.42%) Hyper-V
3 10 (3.40%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (2.72%) BitLocker
6 6 (2.04%) VMware NSX
6 6 (2.04%) vSphere
7 5 (1.70%) Microsoft App-V
7 5 (1.70%) Terminal Services
8 3 (1.02%) Docker
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 34 (11.56%) SCCM
2 11 (3.74%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (2.04%) vCenter Server
3 6 (2.04%) WSUS
4 5 (1.70%) vMotion
5 3 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (1.02%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (1.02%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.68%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.68%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.34%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.34%) vRealize
Vendors
1 20 (6.80%) Oracle
2 19 (6.46%) VMware
3 18 (6.12%) Cisco
4 15 (5.10%) Atlassian
5 14 (4.76%) Citrix
6 9 (3.06%) Apple
7 8 (2.72%) Dell
8 7 (2.38%) Splunk
9 6 (2.04%) McAfee
9 6 (2.04%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.70%) Infoblox
11 4 (1.36%) Adobe
11 4 (1.36%) CyberArk
11 4 (1.36%) HP
11 4 (1.36%) Informatica
11 4 (1.36%) MuleSoft
11 4 (1.36%) Nintex
12 3 (1.02%) Databricks
13 2 (0.68%) F5
13 2 (0.68%) IDERA