Microsoft Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 2,875 3,817 4,616
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.01% 16.24% 15.06%
As % of the Vendors category 32.79% 36.51% 37.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,805 2,745 3,202
10th Percentile £175 £170 £150
25th Percentile £258 £301 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +8.82% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £675 £675 £619
UK median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 414 162 331
10th Percentile £11.00 £13.03 £10.62
25th Percentile £12.86 £15.25 £13.16
Median hourly rate £15.00 £19.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +15.15% -5.31%
75th Percentile £25.00 £33.44 £22.33
90th Percentile £55.91 £57.33 £44.69
UK median hourly rate £15.00 £22.08 £18.55
% change year-on-year -32.07% +19.03% +6.00%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,767 10,454 12,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.72% 44.48% 39.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,256 7,184 8,264
10th Percentile £206 £205 £185
25th Percentile £363 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £690 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 961 479 634
10th Percentile £11.80 £14.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.61 £14.00
Median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -42.77% +100.53% +1.08%
75th Percentile £59.92 £62.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.05 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -2.27%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

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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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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 East 0 803 £465 -0.43% 856
North of England +4 655 £428 -9.89% 951
South West +2 506 £500 -4.76% 497
North West +3 389 £450 -5.26% 508
Midlands -3 338 £400 -7.78% 757
Scotland +4 305 £370 -10.30% 250
Yorkshire +2 227 £378 -20.53% 336
West Midlands -3 227 £400 -11.11% 474
East of England -2 213 £440 +3.41% 401
East Midlands -4 104 £400 +8.11% 283
Wales 0 79 £515 -1.90% 120
North East +12 41 £325 +36.84% 114
Northern Ireland +4 29 £550 +197.30% 66
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UK

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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
1 301 (10.47%) SharePoint
2 227 (7.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 70 (2.43%) Confluence
4 37 (1.29%) SharePoint Server
5 21 (0.73%) IIS
6 19 (0.66%) CMS
7 16 (0.56%) Skype for Business
8 10 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
9 8 (0.28%) Apache
9 8 (0.28%) Apache Spark
10 7 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 7 (0.24%) WordPress
11 6 (0.21%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2000
12 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2003
12 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
12 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
12 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
12 4 (0.14%) IBM Notes
12 4 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 614 (21.36%) Microsoft Office
2 443 (15.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 198 (6.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 86 (2.99%) Microsoft Project
5 81 (2.82%) Spreadsheet
6 39 (1.36%) MS Visio
7 13 (0.45%) Acrobat
8 10 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 9 (0.31%) CATIA
10 3 (0.10%) InfoPath
10 3 (0.10%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.070%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.070%) Windchill
12 1 (0.035%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.035%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.035%) Siemens NX
12 1 (0.035%) Simulink
12 1 (0.035%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 52 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.63%) Teamcenter
3 12 (0.42%) Primavera
4 9 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.28%) DELMIA
6 7 (0.24%) Magento
6 7 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
7 6 (0.21%) Shopify
8 5 (0.17%) Aareon QL
8 5 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
8 5 (0.17%) SmartPlant
9 4 (0.14%) iTrent
9 4 (0.14%) LabWindows
9 4 (0.14%) Maximo
10 3 (0.10%) OpenText VIM for SAP
10 3 (0.10%) SAP FI-AP
10 3 (0.10%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 697 (24.24%) Azure
2 599 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
3 278 (9.67%) Power Platform
4 151 (5.25%) Dynamics 365
5 136 (4.73%) Entra ID
6 121 (4.21%) AWS
7 94 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
8 90 (3.13%) PowerApps
9 79 (2.75%) Power Automate
10 74 (2.57%) SaaS
11 67 (2.33%) OneDrive
12 63 (2.19%) PaaS
13 45 (1.57%) IaaS
14 43 (1.50%) Azure Stack
15 41 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
16 40 (1.39%) OCI
17 37 (1.29%) Azure Sentinel
18 28 (0.97%) GitHub
19 27 (0.94%) Azure Data Factory
20 21 (0.73%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 204 (7.10%) Firewall
2 194 (6.75%) DNS
3 141 (4.90%) DHCP
4 96 (3.34%) VPN
5 91 (3.17%) SAN
5 91 (3.17%) TCP/IP
6 90 (3.13%) LAN
7 65 (2.26%) WAN
8 61 (2.12%) Wi-Fi
9 40 (1.39%) Network Security
9 40 (1.39%) Wireless
10 37 (1.29%) Remote Desktop
11 36 (1.25%) BGP
12 30 (1.04%) VoIP
13 25 (0.87%) VLAN
14 22 (0.77%) Skype
15 20 (0.70%) Intranet
16 19 (0.66%) NAS
17 17 (0.59%) Ethernet
17 17 (0.59%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (5.98%) Power BI
2 151 (5.25%) SQL Server
3 43 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
4 41 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 37 (1.29%) MySQL
6 34 (1.18%) Relational Database
7 31 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 26 (0.90%) Data Lake
9 22 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
10 18 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
11 17 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
12 16 (0.56%) Tableau
13 15 (0.52%) NoSQL
14 14 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
15 12 (0.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 11 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
17 10 (0.35%) Big Data
18 9 (0.31%) BusinessObjects
19 8 (0.28%) RDBMS
20 7 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 149 (5.18%) JIRA
2 41 (1.43%) Git
3 40 (1.39%) Visual Studio
4 15 (0.52%) MSI
5 11 (0.38%) Eclipse
5 11 (0.38%) GitLab
5 11 (0.38%) SonarQube
6 10 (0.35%) Jenkins
6 10 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
6 10 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 10 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
7 9 (0.31%) Postman
8 8 (0.28%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.21%) Maven
9 6 (0.21%) Subversion
10 5 (0.17%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.17%) Checkstyle
11 4 (0.14%) Burp Suite
11 4 (0.14%) NUnit
12 3 (0.10%) Storybook
General
1 1,102 (38.33%) Social Skills
2 362 (12.59%) Finance
3 310 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
4 279 (9.70%) Public Sector
5 149 (5.18%) Organisational Skills
6 105 (3.65%) Telecoms
7 92 (3.20%) Manufacturing
8 78 (2.71%) Legal
8 78 (2.71%) Marketing
8 78 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
9 74 (2.57%) Banking
10 43 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
11 42 (1.46%) Retail
12 35 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
13 31 (1.08%) Military
14 27 (0.94%) Local Government
15 26 (0.90%) Electronics
16 25 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 18 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
17 18 (0.63%) Police
Job Titles
1 448 (15.58%) Analyst
2 224 (7.79%) Architect
3 195 (6.78%) Developer
4 173 (6.02%) Senior
5 165 (5.74%) Support Engineer
6 143 (4.97%) IT Support
7 140 (4.87%) Administrator
8 134 (4.66%) Lead
9 130 (4.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 115 (4.00%) Service Analyst
11 113 (3.93%) Consultant
12 101 (3.51%) Project Manager
13 96 (3.34%) Service Desk Analyst
14 85 (2.96%) IT Engineer
15 78 (2.71%) 2nd Line Support
16 77 (2.68%) Desktop Support
17 75 (2.61%) Solutions Architect
18 74 (2.57%) Desktop Engineer
19 64 (2.23%) IT Technician
19 64 (2.23%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (2.57%) .NET
2 39 (1.36%) XML
3 36 (1.25%) Web Services
4 28 (0.97%) JSON
5 26 (0.90%) .NET Framework
5 26 (0.90%) REST
6 25 (0.87%) CSS
7 23 (0.80%) HTML
8 22 (0.77%) ARM Templates
9 21 (0.73%) SailPoint
10 20 (0.70%) React
11 18 (0.63%) Node.js
12 17 (0.59%) Elastic Stack
13 14 (0.49%) Spring
14 12 (0.42%) LDAP
14 12 (0.42%) SAML
15 11 (0.38%) .NET Core
15 11 (0.38%) Itk
15 11 (0.38%) OAuth
16 10 (0.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 148 (5.15%) Management Information System
2 111 (3.86%) PKI
3 81 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
4 67 (2.33%) Driving Licence
5 66 (2.30%) Cyber Threat
6 61 (2.12%) Data Centre
7 59 (2.05%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 57 (1.98%) Cyber Defence
9 49 (1.70%) NHS
10 48 (1.67%) Private Cloud
11 34 (1.18%) Public Cloud
12 33 (1.15%) Product Ownership
13 30 (1.04%) Onboarding
14 28 (0.97%) Clustering
15 25 (0.87%) Security Posture
15 25 (0.87%) Video Conferencing
16 22 (0.77%) iPhone
16 22 (0.77%) Virtual Team
17 21 (0.73%) Data Structures
18 20 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 958 (33.32%) Windows
2 378 (13.15%) Windows 10
3 311 (10.82%) Windows Server
4 208 (7.23%) Linux
5 109 (3.79%) Windows Server 2012
5 109 (3.79%) Windows Server 2019
6 102 (3.55%) Windows Server 2016
7 92 (3.20%) Windows 7
8 59 (2.05%) Apple iOS
9 39 (1.36%) Mac OS
10 33 (1.15%) Ubuntu
11 30 (1.04%) Android
12 20 (0.70%) Windows NT
13 19 (0.66%) Debian
14 18 (0.63%) Unix
14 18 (0.63%) Windows Server 2008
15 17 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 17 (0.59%) Windows XP
16 14 (0.49%) Windows Server 2003
17 11 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 563 (19.58%) Problem-Solving
2 441 (15.34%) Customer Service
3 407 (14.16%) Agile
4 375 (13.04%) ITIL
5 263 (9.15%) Project Management
6 229 (7.97%) Migration
7 214 (7.44%) DevOps
8 208 (7.23%) Service Delivery
9 199 (6.92%) Business Intelligence
10 198 (6.89%) Cybersecurity
11 179 (6.23%) Stakeholder Management
12 171 (5.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 171 (5.95%) Service Management
13 155 (5.39%) Decision-Making
14 147 (5.11%) Incident Management
15 142 (4.94%) Project Delivery
16 137 (4.77%) Change Management
17 135 (4.70%) Analytics
18 120 (4.17%) Continuous Improvement
19 113 (3.93%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 238 (8.28%) PowerShell
2 230 (8.00%) SQL
3 109 (3.79%) C#
4 101 (3.51%) Python
5 57 (1.98%) JavaScript
6 50 (1.74%) Java
7 25 (0.87%) T-SQL
8 24 (0.83%) C++
9 23 (0.80%) Bash
9 23 (0.80%) VB
10 20 (0.70%) PHP
11 19 (0.66%) Bicep
12 18 (0.63%) C
13 17 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
14 16 (0.56%) VBScript
15 14 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 13 (0.45%) TypeScript
17 9 (0.31%) PL/SQL
18 8 (0.28%) Swift
19 7 (0.24%) X++
Qualifications
1 836 (29.08%) Security Cleared
2 428 (14.89%) SC Cleared
3 426 (14.82%) DV Cleared
4 370 (12.87%) Degree
5 174 (6.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 57 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 55 (1.91%) MCSE
8 50 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 49 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
10 47 (1.63%) APMP
11 45 (1.57%) CCNA
12 42 (1.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 39 (1.36%) Azure Certification
14 37 (1.29%) MCSA
15 36 (1.25%) A+ Certification
16 35 (1.22%) PMI Certification
16 35 (1.22%) PMP
17 31 (1.08%) CCNP
17 31 (1.08%) MCP
18 28 (0.97%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (5.81%) SLA
2 95 (3.30%) QA
3 92 (3.20%) PMO
4 62 (2.16%) NIST
5 49 (1.70%) Disclosure Scotland
6 45 (1.57%) NIST 800
7 36 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 35 (1.22%) Government Security Classifications
9 30 (1.04%) GDPR
10 24 (0.83%) Data Quality
11 22 (0.77%) Accessibility
12 16 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
12 16 (0.56%) JSP 440
13 9 (0.31%) NCSC
14 6 (0.21%) GMP
14 6 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 6 (0.21%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 5 (0.17%) ISO 9001
15 5 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 658 (22.89%) Active Directory
2 195 (6.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 88 (3.06%) Hyper-V
4 73 (2.54%) VMware ESXi
5 47 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
6 43 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
7 42 (1.46%) vSphere
8 41 (1.43%) Firmware
9 30 (1.04%) Docker
9 30 (1.04%) VMware NSX
10 14 (0.49%) BitLocker
10 14 (0.49%) XenApp
11 11 (0.38%) XenDesktop
12 10 (0.35%) Terminal Services
13 9 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
13 9 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
14 8 (0.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 8 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
15 7 (0.24%) KVM
16 6 (0.21%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 247 (8.59%) SCCM
2 192 (6.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 83 (2.89%) WSUS
4 68 (2.37%) SCOM
5 59 (2.05%) vCenter Server
6 54 (1.88%) Kubernetes
7 45 (1.57%) Terraform
8 41 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
9 37 (1.29%) Ansible
10 32 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 23 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
11 23 (0.80%) OPNET
12 21 (0.73%) Sysprep
13 16 (0.56%) Grafana
13 16 (0.56%) NetBackup
14 15 (0.52%) EMC NetWorker
15 14 (0.49%) Prometheus
16 13 (0.45%) WMI
17 12 (0.42%) Nessus
18 10 (0.35%) Argo
Vendors
1 292 (10.16%) VMware
2 117 (4.07%) ServiceNow
3 108 (3.76%) Cisco
4 101 (3.51%) Oracle
5 87 (3.03%) Citrix
6 85 (2.96%) SAP
7 78 (2.71%) HP
8 77 (2.68%) Atlassian
9 59 (2.05%) Apple
10 51 (1.77%) Veeam
11 44 (1.53%) Google
12 43 (1.50%) Adobe
12 43 (1.50%) Dell
13 42 (1.46%) Red Hat
14 38 (1.32%) Splunk
15 34 (1.18%) Salesforce
16 27 (0.94%) Palo Alto
17 23 (0.80%) Juniper
18 22 (0.77%) CyberArk
19 20 (0.70%) Varonis