Real-Time IT Contract Trends & Actionable Insights

Contract Job Market Index

Description	Rank 6 Months to 8 Jun 2026	Rank YoY Change	Median Daily Rate	Median Daily Rate YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Microsoft	13	Down -11 places-11	£550	+22.22%	4 4.00%	15
Microsoft Azure	2	New entry-	£450	-	21 21.00%	10
Microsoft 365	14	Down -8 places-8	£220	-46.66%	3 3.00%	1
Microsoft Copilot	16	New entry-	-	-	1 1.00%
Microsoft Excel	12	Down -6 places-6	-	-	5 5.00%	3
Microsoft Windows	5	Up 1 place+1	£350	-36.36%	15 15.00%	1
Microsoft Office	16	Down -11 places-11	£220	-46.66%	1 1.00%	1
Microsoft Blazor	16	New entry-	-	-	1 1.00%
Microsoft Access	16	New entry-	-	-	1 1.00%
Microsoft Power BI	14	Down -9 places-9	-	-	3 3.00%	3
Microsoft Purview	16	New entry-	£550	-	1 1.00%	1
Microsoft Power Platform	14	Down -9 places-9	-	-	3 3.00%	3
Microsoft .NET (dotNet)	14	New entry-	£550	-	3 3.00%
Microsoft SharePoint	14	New entry-	-	-	3 3.00%
Microsoft Power Apps	16	New entry-	-	-	1 1.00%
Microsoft PowerPoint	15	Down -9 places-9	-	-	2 2.00%
Microsoft Azure DevOps	15	New entry-	£450	-	2 2.00%
Microsoft Windows Server	9	Down -3 places-3	£300	-45.45%	8 8.00%
Microsoft OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive)	16	New entry-	-	-	1 1.00%
Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365)	16	Down -9 places-9	-	-	1 1.00%
Microsoft Azure Engineer	13	New entry-	£513	-	4 4.00%	1
Microsoft Active Directory	15	New entry-	£300	-	2 2.00%	2
Microsoft Azure Developer	16	New entry-	-	-	1 1.00%
Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB	15	New entry-	£550	-	2 2.00%
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB)	16	New entry-	-	-	1 1.00%
Microsoft Azure Certification	16	New entry-	-	-	1 1.00%	3
Microsoft Entity Framework	16	New entry-	-	-	1 1.00%
Microsoft Certified Professional	14	New entry-	-	-	3 3.00%
Microsoft Azure Service Bus	12	New entry-	£550	-	5 5.00%	1
Microsoft Windows Server 2019	15	New entry-	£300	-	2 2.00%
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Specialist (D365 Specialist)	16	New entry-	-	-	1 1.00%
Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory, Azure AD)	16	New entry-	-	-	1 1.00%	1
Microsoft Copilot Studio (formerly Power Virtual Agents)	16	New entry-	-	-	1 1.00%
CRM	15	New entry-	£575	-	2 2.00%	9
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)	16	New entry-	£375	-	1 1.00%
DevOps Engineer - Microsoft Azure	15	New entry-	£450	-	2 2.00%
Data Engineer - Microsoft Azure	15	New entry-	£575	-	2 2.00%