Microsoft Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £461 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 349 412 489
Rank change year-on-year +63 +77 -69
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft Engineer 54 45 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.19% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.20% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 40 30
10th Percentile £225 £291 £210
25th Percentile £350 £400 £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £500 £418
Median % change year-on-year -7.75% +19.73% +15.20%
75th Percentile £499 £565 £484
90th Percentile £525 £614 £543
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -6.00% +11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £18.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £18.00 - £59.38

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,132 22,540 29,612
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.57% 94.26% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,680 15,813 20,744
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £398 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,253 1,158 1,481
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.21
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.01 £14.25
Median hourly rate £39.55 £42.37 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -6.64% +117.03% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%

Microsoft Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Microsoft Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Engineer in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Engineer in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Engineer in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Engineer in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
South West +39 24 £495 -19.90% 5
South East +21 10 £388 +3.33% 1
North of England +20 9 £363 -34.09% 3
North West +9 9 £363 -34.09% 2
Midlands +33 7 £350 -33.33%
West Midlands +30 7 £350 -33.33%
Scotland +37 4 £500 +14.29%
Microsoft Engineer
UK

Microsoft Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Microsoft Engineer 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 UK excluding London region featuring Microsoft Engineer in the job title.

1 54 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 38 (70.37%) Windows
3 35 (64.81%) Social Skills
4 27 (50.00%) Azure
5 26 (48.15%) SharePoint
6 24 (44.44%) ITIL
6 24 (44.44%) Firewall
6 24 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
7 23 (42.59%) Security Cleared
8 18 (33.33%) DV Cleared
8 18 (33.33%) Service Management
9 17 (31.48%) ITSM
9 17 (31.48%) SharePoint Server
9 17 (31.48%) BGP
9 17 (31.48%) Capacity Management
9 17 (31.48%) Network Management
9 17 (31.48%) Confluence
9 17 (31.48%) SCOM
9 17 (31.48%) JIRA
9 17 (31.48%) Atlassian
9 17 (31.48%) Private Cloud
9 17 (31.48%) Government Security Classifications
9 17 (31.48%) Security Monitoring
9 17 (31.48%) Azure Stack
10 15 (27.78%) Microsoft Intune
10 15 (27.78%) Microsoft Exchange
11 13 (24.07%) Customer Service
12 12 (22.22%) PowerShell
13 10 (18.52%) Active Directory
14 8 (14.81%) Microsoft Office

Microsoft Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 26 (48.15%) SharePoint
2 17 (31.48%) Confluence
2 17 (31.48%) SharePoint Server
3 15 (27.78%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (14.81%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 27 (50.00%) Azure
2 24 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (31.48%) Azure Stack
4 8 (14.81%) OneDrive
4 8 (14.81%) Power Platform
4 8 (14.81%) PowerApps
5 7 (12.96%) Entra ID
6 6 (11.11%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 24 (44.44%) Firewall
2 17 (31.48%) BGP
3 6 (11.11%) Unified Communications
4 2 (3.70%) VPN
4 2 (3.70%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (31.48%) JIRA
2 1 (1.85%) Appium
2 1 (1.85%) Selenium
General
1 35 (64.81%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.96%) Finance
3 5 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.85%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (1.85%) Police
Miscellaneous
1 17 (31.48%) Private Cloud
2 6 (11.11%) Digital Signage
2 6 (11.11%) PKI
3 2 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.70%) Life Science
4 1 (1.85%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 38 (70.37%) Windows
2 6 (11.11%) Windows Server
2 6 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
2 6 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (3.70%) Linux
3 2 (3.70%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.70%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.85%) Android
4 1 (1.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (44.44%) ITIL
2 18 (33.33%) Service Management
3 17 (31.48%) Capacity Management
3 17 (31.48%) ITSM
3 17 (31.48%) Network Management
3 17 (31.48%) Security Monitoring
4 13 (24.07%) Customer Service
5 6 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (11.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 6 (11.11%) Service Delivery
6 3 (5.56%) Mentoring
6 3 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (3.70%) Agile
7 2 (3.70%) Business Strategy
7 2 (3.70%) Customer Requirements
7 2 (3.70%) Data Protection
7 2 (3.70%) Information Security
7 2 (3.70%) Migration
7 2 (3.70%) Technical Leadership
8 1 (1.85%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.85%) C#
2 1 (1.85%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 23 (42.59%) Security Cleared
2 18 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 6 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.85%) Degree
5 1 (1.85%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (31.48%) Government Security Classifications
2 7 (12.96%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (18.52%) Active Directory
2 5 (9.26%) Hyper-V
2 5 (9.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (31.48%) SCOM
2 15 (27.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (7.41%) SCCM
5 2 (3.70%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 54 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (31.48%) Atlassian
3 6 (11.11%) Oracle
4 5 (9.26%) VMware
5 3 (5.56%) Veeam
6 1 (1.85%) Google