Microsoft Developer Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Developer
England > South East

The median Microsoft Developer daily rate in the South East is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 200 205 256
Rank change year-on-year +5 +51 -60
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft Developer 3 16 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.054% 0.28% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.29% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 5
10th Percentile - £567 -
25th Percentile £463 £575 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £350
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +71.43% -27.31%
75th Percentile £556 £676 £363
90th Percentile £598 - £528
England median daily rate £475 £569 £563
% change year-on-year -16.52% +1.16% +18.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 5,140 5,495 7,438
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.56% 95.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,084 3,832 5,042
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £489
Median % change year-on-year - +2.16% +8.76%
75th Percentile £615 £604 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 479 240 336
10th Percentile £12.78 £18.04 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.16 £15.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.16 £43.80
90th Percentile £76.89 £75.00 £60.75
England median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.09% +100.00% +0.36%

Microsoft Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Developer in the South East

Microsoft Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Developer in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Developer in the South East

Microsoft Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Developer in the South East

Microsoft Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Developer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Developer in the South East

Microsoft Developer
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 29 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
Thames Valley +5 3 £475 -20.83% 3
Berkshire - 2 £475 -
Buckinghamshire +20 1 £600 - 3
Microsoft Developer
England

Microsoft Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 29 April 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 South East region featuring Microsoft Developer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Local Government
1 2 (66.67%) User Stories
1 2 (66.67%) Qualitative Research
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) Quantitative Research
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
1 2 (66.67%) Power Automate
2 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) API Management
2 1 (33.33%) Azure API Management
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) OpenAPI
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Swagger
2 1 (33.33%) SOLID
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Azure

Microsoft Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Power Automate
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure API Management
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
General
1 2 (66.67%) Local Government
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) OpenAPI
1 1 (33.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Qualitative Research
1 2 (66.67%) Quantitative Research
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) User Stories
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) API Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) SOLID
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft