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Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 9 Jun 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Microsoft	16	No change0	£588	+33.52%	3 3.41%	7
Microsoft Azure	18	Down -2 places-2	£450	-24.36%	1 1.14%	3
Microsoft Copilot	18	New entry-	-	-	1 1.14%	2
Microsoft Excel	13	Up 3 places+3	£313	+5.93%	6 6.82%	2
Microsoft Windows	12	Up 7 places+7	£140	-	7 7.95%	5
Microsoft Office	16	Up 2 places+2	£315	-21.25%	3 3.41%	2
Microsoft Power BI	18	Down -1 place-1	-	-	1 1.14%
Microsoft Power Platform	18	Down -2 places-2	-	-	1 1.14%
Microsoft SharePoint	15	Up 2 places+2	£575	-	4 4.55%
Microsoft PowerPoint	18	Down -1 place-1	-	-	1 1.14%	1
Microsoft Windows Server	18	New entry-	£500	-	1 1.14%	2
Microsoft Active Directory	17	Up 2 places+2	£500	-	2 2.27%	2
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)	17	New entry-	£375	-	2 2.27%
Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory, Azure AD)	18	New entry-	-	-	1 1.14%	1
CRM	16	Up 2 places+2	£650	+425.25%	3 3.41%	3
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)	18	Up 2 places+2	£500	-	1 1.14%
Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)	18	New entry-	-	-	1 1.14%
Salesforce CRM	18	New entry-	£650	-	1 1.14%
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)	18	New entry-	£500	-	1 1.14%
Microsoft System Center Service Manager (SCSM)	18	New entry-	£500	-	1 1.14%