Microsoft Developer Contracts

Microsoft Developer
UK

The median Microsoft Developer daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 545 601 785
Rank change year-on-year +56 +184 -160
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft Developer 45 98 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.17% 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.18% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 78 40
10th Percentile £400 £413 £338
25th Percentile £410 £502 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £585 £555
Median % change year-on-year -18.73% +5.32% +17.40%
75th Percentile £594 £625 £638
90th Percentile £625 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £586 £450
% change year-on-year -10.41% +30.22% -3.68%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,895 54,705 83,445
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.63% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,959 38,196 58,620
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,673 1,532 2,041
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.73% +112.16% +5.26%

Microsoft Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Developer in the UK

Microsoft Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Developer in the UK

Microsoft Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Developer over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Developer in the UK

Microsoft Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Developer in the UK

Microsoft Developer
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 11 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
England +74 41 £475 -15.63% 11
London +83 27 £410 -26.79% 2
Work from Home +75 19 £400 -31.74% 3
UK excluding London +28 12 £525 -10.41% 9
Midlands +29 4 £500 +17.65% 1
West Midlands +16 4 £500 +17.65% 1
South West +12 4 £575 +21.05%
South East +6 4 £513 -14.58% 5

Microsoft Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 11 May 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 featuring Microsoft Developer in the job title.

1 27 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 22 (48.89%) CRM
2 22 (48.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (40.00%) Azure
3 18 (40.00%) Power Platform
4 17 (37.78%) Agile
5 13 (28.89%) Artificial Intelligence
5 13 (28.89%) C#
6 12 (26.67%) Business Transformation
6 12 (26.67%) Roadmaps
7 11 (24.44%) Strategic Roadmap
7 11 (24.44%) Case Management
7 11 (24.44%) Data Ingestion
7 11 (24.44%) IT Strategy
8 10 (22.22%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (22.22%) .NET
9 9 (20.00%) SQL Server
9 9 (20.00%) Power Automate
9 9 (20.00%) PowerApps
10 7 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (15.56%) DevOps
10 7 (15.56%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (15.56%) Social Skills
11 6 (13.33%) Azure Functions
11 6 (13.33%) Serverless
11 6 (13.33%) Power BI
11 6 (13.33%) TDD
11 6 (13.33%) Degree
11 6 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
12 5 (11.11%) Migration

Microsoft Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.22%) MQSeries
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 22 (48.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.22%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 18 (40.00%) Azure
1 18 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 10 (22.22%) Dynamics 365
3 9 (20.00%) Power Automate
3 9 (20.00%) PowerApps
4 7 (15.56%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (13.33%) Azure Functions
5 6 (13.33%) Serverless
6 4 (8.89%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (8.89%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (8.89%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (6.67%) Azure API Management
7 3 (6.67%) PaaS
8 2 (4.44%) Azure Batch
8 2 (4.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (4.44%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (4.44%) Azure Storage
8 2 (4.44%) OneDrive
8 2 (4.44%) SonarCloud
9 1 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (13.33%) Power BI
3 5 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (4.44%) Big Data
4 2 (4.44%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.44%) MySQL
4 2 (4.44%) OLTP
4 2 (4.44%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.22%) Power Query
5 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Git
2 3 (6.67%) Moq
2 3 (6.67%) NUnit
3 2 (4.44%) Visual Studio Team System
4 1 (2.22%) Postman
4 1 (2.22%) Serilog
General
1 7 (15.56%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.67%) Finance
3 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.44%) Local Government
3 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.22%) French Language
4 1 (2.22%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (22.22%) .NET
2 3 (6.67%) .NET Framework
2 3 (6.67%) ASP.NET
2 3 (6.67%) HTML
2 3 (6.67%) JSON
3 2 (4.44%) ARM Templates
3 2 (4.44%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (4.44%) CSS
3 2 (4.44%) HTML5
3 2 (4.44%) HTML5 Canvas
3 2 (4.44%) React
3 2 (4.44%) Web Services
3 2 (4.44%) XML
4 1 (2.22%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.22%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (2.22%) CSS3
4 1 (2.22%) Entity Framework
4 1 (2.22%) OpenAPI
4 1 (2.22%) Swagger
4 1 (2.22%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.44%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (48.89%) CRM
2 17 (37.78%) Agile
3 13 (28.89%) Artificial Intelligence
4 12 (26.67%) Business Transformation
4 12 (26.67%) Roadmaps
5 11 (24.44%) Case Management
5 11 (24.44%) Data Ingestion
5 11 (24.44%) IT Strategy
5 11 (24.44%) Strategic Roadmap
6 7 (15.56%) DevOps
6 7 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (13.33%) TDD
8 5 (11.11%) Data Migration
8 5 (11.11%) Migration
9 4 (8.89%) Analytics
9 4 (8.89%) CI/CD
9 4 (8.89%) Test Automation
10 3 (6.67%) API Management
10 3 (6.67%) Business Analytics
Programming Languages
1 13 (28.89%) C#
2 5 (11.11%) Java
2 5 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 4 (8.89%) Python
3 4 (8.89%) SQL
4 2 (4.44%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.22%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.22%) R
5 1 (2.22%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.22%) X++
Qualifications
1 6 (13.33%) Degree
2 3 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
Systems Management
1 2 (4.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.22%) Adobe
2 1 (2.22%) Virgin Media