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 £451 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 350 393 495
Rank change year-on-year +43 +102 -63
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft Engineer 50 45 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.20% 0.095%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.21% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 40 25
10th Percentile £205 £212 £195
25th Percentile £350 £400 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.75% +17.65% +13.33%
75th Percentile £499 £565 £488
90th Percentile £525 £614 £530
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £18.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £18.00 - £78.75

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 19,247 21,469 29,158
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 94.25% 95.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,616 14,937 20,515
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £390 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,085 1,398
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.20
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +23 22 £495 -20.80% 3
South East +14 9 £375 -9.09% 1
North of England +14 8 £400 -27.27%
North West +13 8 £400 -27.27%
Midlands +25 7 £350 -28.21% 3
West Midlands +18 7 £350 -33.33%
Scotland +38 4 £500 -13.04%
Microsoft Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 50 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 34 (68.00%) Windows
3 32 (64.00%) Social Skills
4 24 (48.00%) Azure
4 24 (48.00%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (46.00%) SharePoint
6 21 (42.00%) ITIL
7 20 (40.00%) Firewall
7 20 (40.00%) Security Cleared
8 15 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
8 15 (30.00%) DV Cleared
8 15 (30.00%) Service Management
8 15 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
9 14 (28.00%) BGP
9 14 (28.00%) ITSM
9 14 (28.00%) SharePoint Server
9 14 (28.00%) JIRA
9 14 (28.00%) Capacity Management
9 14 (28.00%) Confluence
9 14 (28.00%) Network Management
9 14 (28.00%) Atlassian
9 14 (28.00%) SCOM
9 14 (28.00%) Private Cloud
9 14 (28.00%) Government Security Classifications
9 14 (28.00%) Security Monitoring
9 14 (28.00%) Azure Stack
10 13 (26.00%) Customer Service
11 11 (22.00%) PowerShell
12 10 (20.00%) Active Directory
13 9 (18.00%) Power Platform

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 23 (46.00%) SharePoint
2 15 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (28.00%) Confluence
3 14 (28.00%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (16.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (48.00%) Azure
1 24 (48.00%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (28.00%) Azure Stack
3 9 (18.00%) Power Platform
3 9 (18.00%) PowerApps
4 8 (16.00%) OneDrive
5 7 (14.00%) Entra ID
5 7 (14.00%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 20 (40.00%) Firewall
2 14 (28.00%) BGP
3 6 (12.00%) Unified Communications
4 2 (4.00%) VPN
5 1 (2.00%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (28.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.00%) Appium
2 1 (2.00%) Selenium
General
1 32 (64.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.00%) Finance
3 5 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.00%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (2.00%) Police
Miscellaneous
1 14 (28.00%) Private Cloud
2 6 (12.00%) Digital Signage
2 6 (12.00%) PKI
3 2 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 34 (68.00%) Windows
2 6 (12.00%) Windows Server
2 6 (12.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 6 (12.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (4.00%) Linux
3 2 (4.00%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.00%) Android
4 1 (2.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (42.00%) ITIL
2 15 (30.00%) Service Management
3 14 (28.00%) Capacity Management
3 14 (28.00%) ITSM
3 14 (28.00%) Network Management
3 14 (28.00%) Security Monitoring
4 13 (26.00%) Customer Service
5 7 (14.00%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (12.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 6 (12.00%) Service Delivery
7 3 (6.00%) Mentoring
7 3 (6.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (6.00%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (4.00%) Agile
8 2 (4.00%) Business Strategy
8 2 (4.00%) Customer Requirements
8 2 (4.00%) Data Protection
8 2 (4.00%) Information Security
8 2 (4.00%) Migration
9 1 (2.00%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (22.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.00%) C#
2 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 20 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (30.00%) DV Cleared
3 5 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.00%) Degree
5 1 (2.00%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (28.00%) Government Security Classifications
2 7 (14.00%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 5 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (28.00%) SCOM
3 6 (12.00%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (6.00%) SCCM
5 2 (4.00%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 50 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (28.00%) Atlassian
3 6 (12.00%) Oracle
4 5 (10.00%) VMware
5 3 (6.00%) Veeam
6 1 (2.00%) Google