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Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 8 Jun 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Microsoft	14	Down -4 places-4	£315	-47.28%	7 7.00%	11
Microsoft Azure	6	Up 4 places+4	£598	-10.82%	16 16.00%	6
Microsoft 365	19	New entry-	£500	-	2 2.00%	1
Microsoft Excel	19	Down -8 places-8	£400	-	2 2.00%	5
Microsoft Windows	16	New entry-	£375	-	5 5.00%	1
Microsoft Office	18	Down -7 places-7	£400	-	3 3.00%
Microsoft Intune	20	New entry-	£210	-	1 1.00%	1
Microsoft Hyper-V	19	New entry-	£210	-	2 2.00%
Microsoft Power BI	20	New entry-	-	-	1 1.00%	3
Microsoft ASP.NET	20	New entry-	£500	-	1 1.00%	2
Microsoft Project	19	New entry-	£400	-	2 2.00%
Microsoft Power Platform	20	New entry-	-	-	1 1.00%	3
Microsoft .NET (dotNet)	16	New entry-	£550	-	5 5.00%	2
Microsoft Exchange	20	New entry-	£210	-	1 1.00%
Microsoft Windows 10	20	New entry-	£210	-	1 1.00%
Microsoft PowerPoint	19	Down -8 places-8	£400	-	2 2.00%
Microsoft Azure DevOps	17	New entry-	£636	-	4 4.00%
Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)	10	New entry-	£450	-	12 12.00%	1
Microsoft Windows Server	20	New entry-	£625	-	1 1.00%
Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365)	15	Down -6 places-6	£595	-	6 6.00%
Microsoft Active Directory	19	New entry-	£418	-	2 2.00%	1
Microsoft Azure Developer	20	New entry-	£700	-	1 1.00%
Microsoft Azure Data Factory	20	New entry-	£600	-	1 1.00%
Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)	20	New entry-	£375	-	1 1.00%	2
Microsoft Windows Server 2019	20	New entry-	£625	-	1 1.00%	1
Microsoft Windows Server 2012	20	New entry-	£625	-	1 1.00%
Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Framework	20	New entry-	£500	-	1 1.00%
Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory, Azure AD)	20	Down -9 places-9	£210	-	1 1.00%	2
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)	20	New entry-	£625	-	1 1.00%
Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)	17	New entry-	£500	-	4 4.00%
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)	18	New entry-	£315	-	3 3.00%
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)	20	New entry-	£625	-	1 1.00%
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Project Manager (D365 Project Manager)	19	New entry-	£500	-	2 2.00%