Microsoft Developer Contracts in England

Microsoft Developer
UK > England

The median Microsoft Developer daily rate in England is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 504 573 725
Rank change year-on-year +69 +152 -123
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft Developer 40 73 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.15% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.16% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 59 34
10th Percentile £400 £413 £338
25th Percentile £410 £464 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £560 £516
Median % change year-on-year -15.18% +8.47% +6.99%
75th Percentile £591 £675 £638
90th Percentile £648 £700 £696
UK median daily rate £475 £583 £540
% change year-on-year -18.52% +7.96% +12.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.75
Median hourly rate - - £61.50
75th Percentile - - £62.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £61.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 33,963 45,391 67,777
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.59% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,511 32,266 48,393
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.81% +7.03%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,510 1,321 1,823
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.73
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +8.05%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.02 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +7.05%

Microsoft Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Microsoft Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Developer in England

Microsoft Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Developer in England

Microsoft Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Developer in England over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Developer in England

Microsoft Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Developer in England

Microsoft Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 27 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
London +78 26 £410 -26.79% 8
Midlands +29 4 £500 +17.65% 5
West Midlands +21 4 £500 +17.65% 4
South West +8 4 £575 +21.05%
South East +4 4 £513 -14.58% 9
Microsoft Developer
UK

Microsoft Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 27 May 2024, Microsoft Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Microsoft Developer in the job title.

1 23 (57.50%) Microsoft
2 21 (52.50%) CRM
2 21 (52.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (40.00%) Agile
3 16 (40.00%) Azure
3 16 (40.00%) Power Platform
4 13 (32.50%) Artificial Intelligence
5 12 (30.00%) Business Transformation
5 12 (30.00%) Roadmaps
6 11 (27.50%) Case Management
6 11 (27.50%) Data Ingestion
6 11 (27.50%) IT Strategy
6 11 (27.50%) Strategic Roadmap
7 10 (25.00%) C#
8 8 (20.00%) Power Automate
8 8 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (17.50%) PowerApps
9 7 (17.50%) Social Skills
9 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (17.50%) SQL Server
10 6 (15.00%) .NET
10 6 (15.00%) TDD
10 6 (15.00%) Azure Functions
10 6 (15.00%) Serverless
10 6 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (15.00%) DevOps
11 5 (12.50%) Power BI
11 5 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (12.50%) Data Migration
11 5 (12.50%) Git

Microsoft Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.50%) MQSeries
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 21 (52.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.50%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 16 (40.00%) Azure
1 16 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 8 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
2 8 (20.00%) Power Automate
3 7 (17.50%) PowerApps
4 6 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (15.00%) Azure Functions
4 6 (15.00%) Serverless
5 4 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (7.50%) Azure API Management
6 3 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (7.50%) PaaS
7 2 (5.00%) Azure Batch
7 2 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (5.00%) Azure Storage
7 2 (5.00%) OneDrive
7 2 (5.00%) SonarCloud
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.50%) SQL Server
2 5 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (12.50%) Power BI
3 2 (5.00%) Big Data
3 2 (5.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.00%) OLTP
3 2 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Git
2 3 (7.50%) Moq
2 3 (7.50%) NUnit
3 2 (5.00%) Visual Studio Team System
4 1 (2.50%) Postman
4 1 (2.50%) Serilog
General
1 7 (17.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (5.00%) Finance
2 2 (5.00%) Local Government
2 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.50%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.00%) .NET
2 2 (5.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (5.00%) ARM Templates
2 2 (5.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (5.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (5.00%) HTML
2 2 (5.00%) JSON
2 2 (5.00%) Web Services
2 2 (5.00%) XML
3 1 (2.50%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.50%) CSS
3 1 (2.50%) HTML5
3 1 (2.50%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (2.50%) OpenAPI
3 1 (2.50%) React
3 1 (2.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (52.50%) CRM
2 16 (40.00%) Agile
3 13 (32.50%) Artificial Intelligence
4 12 (30.00%) Business Transformation
4 12 (30.00%) Roadmaps
5 11 (27.50%) Case Management
5 11 (27.50%) Data Ingestion
5 11 (27.50%) IT Strategy
5 11 (27.50%) Strategic Roadmap
6 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (15.00%) DevOps
7 6 (15.00%) TDD
8 5 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (12.50%) Data Migration
8 5 (12.50%) Migration
9 4 (10.00%) CI/CD
9 4 (10.00%) Test Automation
10 3 (7.50%) API Management
10 3 (7.50%) Business Analysis
10 3 (7.50%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.00%) C#
2 5 (12.50%) Java
3 4 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (7.50%) Python
5 2 (5.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.00%) SQL
6 1 (2.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (10.00%) Degree
1 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (57.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.50%) Adobe
2 1 (2.50%) Virgin Media