Microsoft Contracts in England

Microsoft
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 7 9
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 4,817 6,879 8,952
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 13.03% 13.61% 12.59%
As % of the Vendors category 30.85% 32.47% 32.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,197 5,050 6,296
10th Percentile £189 £205 £181
25th Percentile £325 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £600
90th Percentile £700 £719 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 419 191 401
10th Percentile £11.06 £13.29 £10.77
25th Percentile £12.93 £16.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £15.00 £22.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +18.92% -
75th Percentile £24.88 £43.86 £35.00
90th Percentile £51.25 £65.00 £49.25
UK median hourly rate £15.30 £23.52 £18.55
% change year-on-year -34.96% +26.78% +6.00%

All Vendors
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,613 21,186 27,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.24% 41.91% 39.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,913 14,600 19,083
10th Percentile £256 £265 £270
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,002 609 793
10th Percentile £12.01 £15.19 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.27 £18.75 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.40 £39.55 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.36% +88.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £55.00 £64.50 £43.80
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.15 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
% change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in England

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in England

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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 within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +4 2,178 £500 -6.98% 1,250
South East -1 816 £470 -1.05% 840
North of England +5 677 £425 -10.53% 844
South West +2 498 £500 -4.76% 432
North West +3 406 £450 -5.26% 475
Midlands -4 328 £425 -4.49% 660
Yorkshire +2 228 £378 -20.53% 268
West Midlands -5 223 £425 -8.11% 410
East of England -3 211 £426 +0.29% 387
East Midlands -6 98 £396 +5.47% 248
North East +18 44 £213 -10.53% 109
Microsoft
UK

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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
1 500 (10.38%) SharePoint
2 356 (7.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 104 (2.16%) Confluence
4 58 (1.20%) CMS
5 43 (0.89%) IIS
6 37 (0.77%) SharePoint Server
7 30 (0.62%) Skype for Business
8 27 (0.56%) Apache
9 20 (0.42%) Apache Spark
9 20 (0.42%) Tomcat
10 11 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
11 10 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
12 8 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2007
12 8 (0.17%) IBM Notes
13 7 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 7 (0.15%) Drupal
13 7 (0.15%) WordPress
14 6 (0.12%) Anypoint
14 6 (0.12%) ArcGIS
15 5 (0.10%) SAS
Applications
1 893 (18.54%) Microsoft Office
2 579 (12.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 272 (5.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 127 (2.64%) Microsoft Project
5 108 (2.24%) MS Visio
6 98 (2.03%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 11 (0.23%) Photoshop
9 10 (0.21%) CATIA
10 9 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
11 8 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
12 7 (0.15%) InDesign
13 5 (0.10%) Acrobat
14 4 (0.083%) Chatbot
15 3 (0.062%) Camtasia
16 2 (0.042%) FileZilla
16 2 (0.042%) Siemens NX
16 2 (0.042%) Trello
17 1 (0.021%) Final Cut Pro
17 1 (0.021%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 123 (2.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 38 (0.79%) Dynamics AX
3 27 (0.56%) Dynamics GP
4 16 (0.33%) Teamcenter
5 15 (0.31%) Shopify
6 13 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 12 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
7 12 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
7 12 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
8 11 (0.23%) Primavera
9 9 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
10 8 (0.17%) DELMIA
10 8 (0.17%) Endur
10 8 (0.17%) Loan IQ
11 7 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
11 7 (0.15%) Magento
12 6 (0.12%) NetSuite
12 6 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
12 6 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
13 5 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,660 (34.46%) Azure
2 1,088 (22.59%) Microsoft 365
3 537 (11.15%) Power Platform
4 367 (7.62%) Azure DevOps
5 353 (7.33%) Entra ID
6 310 (6.44%) Dynamics 365
7 267 (5.54%) AWS
8 191 (3.97%) PowerApps
9 182 (3.78%) Power Automate
10 145 (3.01%) PaaS
11 141 (2.93%) SaaS
12 113 (2.35%) OneDrive
13 108 (2.24%) IaaS
14 85 (1.76%) Azure Data Factory
15 84 (1.74%) Azure Monitor
15 84 (1.74%) Serverless
16 74 (1.54%) GCP
17 70 (1.45%) Azure Service Bus
18 69 (1.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 69 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 314 (6.52%) Firewall
2 272 (5.65%) DNS
3 178 (3.70%) DHCP
4 169 (3.51%) VPN
5 139 (2.89%) LAN
6 114 (2.37%) TCP/IP
7 112 (2.33%) SAN
8 110 (2.28%) WAN
9 90 (1.87%) Wireless
10 79 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
11 61 (1.27%) Network Security
12 48 (1.00%) VoIP
13 43 (0.89%) VLAN
14 42 (0.87%) BGP
15 39 (0.81%) Skype
16 38 (0.79%) HTTP
16 38 (0.79%) NAS
17 36 (0.75%) Internet
18 30 (0.62%) Remote Desktop
19 29 (0.60%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 469 (9.74%) SQL Server
2 354 (7.35%) Power BI
3 136 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
4 111 (2.30%) Data Lake
5 86 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 74 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
7 68 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 64 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
9 62 (1.29%) NoSQL
10 52 (1.08%) Relational Database
11 46 (0.95%) MySQL
12 37 (0.77%) Big Data
12 37 (0.77%) Tableau
13 31 (0.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 29 (0.60%) Metadata
15 23 (0.48%) MongoDB
16 22 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
17 20 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
18 19 (0.39%) Oracle Database
19 14 (0.29%) DB2
Development Applications
1 231 (4.80%) JIRA
2 132 (2.74%) Git
3 60 (1.25%) Visual Studio
4 58 (1.20%) Jenkins
5 44 (0.91%) GitLab
6 35 (0.73%) SpecFlow
7 34 (0.71%) Selenium
8 25 (0.52%) Postman
9 24 (0.50%) TeamCity
10 19 (0.39%) MSI
11 18 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 15 (0.31%) Maven
12 15 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
13 14 (0.29%) Visual Studio Team System
14 13 (0.27%) Bitbucket
14 13 (0.27%) SonarQube
14 13 (0.27%) WebDriver
15 10 (0.21%) Subversion
16 9 (0.19%) NUnit
16 9 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1,729 (35.89%) Social Skills
2 891 (18.50%) Finance
3 569 (11.81%) Analytical Skills
4 407 (8.45%) Public Sector
5 228 (4.73%) Banking
6 186 (3.86%) Organisational Skills
7 184 (3.82%) Marketing
8 182 (3.78%) Telecoms
9 174 (3.61%) Legal
9 174 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
10 150 (3.11%) Manufacturing
11 132 (2.74%) Retail
12 67 (1.39%) Electronics
13 64 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
14 62 (1.29%) Law
15 55 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
16 53 (1.10%) Back Office
17 52 (1.08%) Local Government
18 48 (1.00%) Financial Institution
19 42 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 629 (13.06%) Analyst
2 507 (10.53%) Developer
3 487 (10.11%) Architect
4 383 (7.95%) Senior
5 301 (6.25%) Consultant
6 255 (5.29%) Support Engineer
7 245 (5.09%) Lead
8 185 (3.84%) IT Support
9 179 (3.72%) Project Manager
10 176 (3.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 164 (3.40%) Administrator
12 149 (3.09%) Service Analyst
13 143 (2.97%) Solutions Architect
14 140 (2.91%) Azure Engineer
15 127 (2.64%) IT Engineer
16 121 (2.51%) Service Desk Analyst
17 118 (2.45%) 2nd Line Support
18 114 (2.37%) Senior Developer
19 111 (2.30%) Desktop Support
20 99 (2.06%) Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 306 (6.35%) .NET
2 152 (3.16%) XML
3 104 (2.16%) .NET Framework
4 103 (2.14%) .NET Core
5 87 (1.81%) JSON
6 83 (1.72%) CSS
7 81 (1.68%) REST
8 80 (1.66%) HTML
9 68 (1.41%) Web Services
10 61 (1.27%) React
11 60 (1.25%) AngularJS
12 52 (1.08%) ARM Templates
13 49 (1.02%) ASP.NET
14 37 (0.77%) Kafka
15 34 (0.71%) LDAP
16 32 (0.66%) Node.js
17 30 (0.62%) RESTful
18 28 (0.58%) SailPoint
18 28 (0.58%) Spring
19 26 (0.54%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 251 (5.21%) Management Information System
2 137 (2.84%) PKI
3 125 (2.59%) Product Ownership
4 112 (2.33%) Data Centre
5 108 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
6 80 (1.66%) Data Structures
7 78 (1.62%) Cyber Threat
8 75 (1.56%) Onboarding
9 69 (1.43%) Driving Licence
10 64 (1.33%) NHS
11 63 (1.31%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 62 (1.29%) Cyber Defence
13 59 (1.22%) Video Conferencing
14 58 (1.20%) Security Posture
15 56 (1.16%) Cloud Native
16 47 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
16 47 (0.98%) Private Cloud
17 44 (0.91%) Public Cloud
18 41 (0.85%) Clustering
19 39 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1,345 (27.92%) Windows
2 494 (10.26%) Windows 10
3 415 (8.62%) Windows Server
4 335 (6.95%) Linux
5 128 (2.66%) Windows 7
6 124 (2.57%) Windows Server 2012
7 118 (2.45%) Windows Server 2019
8 107 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
9 72 (1.49%) Apple iOS
10 64 (1.33%) Mac OS
11 63 (1.31%) Android
12 50 (1.04%) Unix
13 37 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 37 (0.77%) Ubuntu
14 26 (0.54%) Windows Server 2008
15 21 (0.44%) Windows NT
16 20 (0.42%) Debian
16 20 (0.42%) Mac OS X
17 18 (0.37%) Windows XP
18 17 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 888 (18.43%) Problem-Solving
2 842 (17.48%) Agile
3 632 (13.12%) DevOps
4 562 (11.67%) Customer Service
5 554 (11.50%) ITIL
6 469 (9.74%) Migration
7 440 (9.13%) Business Intelligence
8 421 (8.74%) Project Management
9 307 (6.37%) CI/CD
10 295 (6.12%) Cybersecurity
11 289 (6.00%) Analytics
12 279 (5.79%) Stakeholder Management
13 262 (5.44%) Change Management
14 253 (5.25%) Project Delivery
15 249 (5.17%) Service Delivery
16 240 (4.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 226 (4.69%) Data Modelling
18 221 (4.59%) Scrum
19 216 (4.48%) Decision-Making
20 211 (4.38%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 569 (11.81%) SQL
2 523 (10.86%) PowerShell
3 371 (7.70%) C#
4 263 (5.46%) Python
5 138 (2.86%) JavaScript
6 131 (2.72%) Java
7 90 (1.87%) Bicep
8 68 (1.41%) T-SQL
9 48 (1.00%) Bash
10 46 (0.95%) TypeScript
11 33 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
12 29 (0.60%) Shell Script
13 28 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 27 (0.56%) C++
14 27 (0.56%) PL/SQL
15 25 (0.52%) C
15 25 (0.52%) VB
16 23 (0.48%) VBScript
17 19 (0.39%) PHP
18 14 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 971 (20.16%) Security Cleared
2 638 (13.24%) Degree
3 544 (11.29%) SC Cleared
4 451 (9.36%) DV Cleared
5 260 (5.40%) Microsoft Certification
6 130 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 103 (2.14%) Azure Certification
8 87 (1.81%) CISSP
9 80 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
10 75 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
11 62 (1.29%) CCNA
12 58 (1.20%) MCSE
13 53 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
14 49 (1.02%) A+ Certification
14 49 (1.02%) CISM
15 45 (0.93%) MCSA
16 44 (0.91%) APMP
16 44 (0.91%) CCNP
17 43 (0.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 42 (0.87%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 235 (4.88%) SLA
2 162 (3.36%) QA
3 117 (2.43%) PMO
4 104 (2.16%) NIST
5 83 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 80 (1.66%) GDPR
7 61 (1.27%) Data Quality
8 55 (1.14%) Accessibility
9 54 (1.12%) NIST 800
10 39 (0.81%) Government Security Classifications
11 28 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
12 26 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
13 23 (0.48%) PCI DSS
13 23 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 18 (0.37%) NCSC
15 17 (0.35%) WCAG
16 16 (0.33%) JSP 440
17 13 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 11 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
19 10 (0.21%) GRC
System Software
1 1,059 (21.98%) Active Directory
2 250 (5.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 113 (2.35%) Hyper-V
4 91 (1.89%) Docker
5 79 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
6 62 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
7 55 (1.14%) Firmware
7 55 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
8 48 (1.00%) vSphere
9 24 (0.50%) VMware NSX
10 19 (0.39%) XenApp
11 15 (0.31%) XenDesktop
12 13 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
13 11 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 10 (0.21%) KVM
14 10 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
15 9 (0.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 8 (0.17%) BitLocker
16 8 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
17 6 (0.12%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 337 (7.00%) SCCM
2 303 (6.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 147 (3.05%) Kubernetes
3 147 (3.05%) Terraform
4 96 (1.99%) WSUS
5 82 (1.70%) SCOM
6 69 (1.43%) Ansible
7 63 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
8 50 (1.04%) vCenter Server
9 49 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 49 (1.02%) Jamf Pro
10 28 (0.58%) Grafana
11 25 (0.52%) Prometheus
12 23 (0.48%) OPNET
13 22 (0.46%) EMC NetWorker
14 21 (0.44%) Sysprep
15 20 (0.42%) Puppet
16 17 (0.35%) Nessus
16 17 (0.35%) NetBackup
17 16 (0.33%) WMI
Vendors
1 388 (8.05%) VMware
2 240 (4.98%) Oracle
3 216 (4.48%) SAP
4 200 (4.15%) ServiceNow
5 160 (3.32%) Cisco
6 155 (3.22%) Citrix
7 129 (2.68%) Google
8 101 (2.10%) Apple
9 99 (2.06%) HP
10 93 (1.93%) Salesforce
11 77 (1.60%) Databricks
12 72 (1.49%) Adobe
12 72 (1.49%) Dell
13 71 (1.47%) Splunk
14 65 (1.35%) Red Hat
15 63 (1.31%) Veeam
16 59 (1.22%) Atlassian
17 50 (1.04%) Palo Alto
18 46 (0.95%) Qualys
19 45 (0.93%) IBM