Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Brentford

Microsoft
Hounslow > Brentford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Brentford requiring knowledge or experience of Microsoft products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft over the 6 months leading up to 6 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 1 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Brentford 60.00% 50.00% -
As % of the Vendors category 60.00% 100.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 £220 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £240 -
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% - -
75th Percentile £388 £260 -
90th Percentile - - -
Hounslow median daily rate £375 £488 £488
% change year-on-year -23.08% - +14.71%

All Vendors
Brentford

Microsoft falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Brentford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 5 1 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Brentford 100.00% 50.00% 57.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile - - £557
25th Percentile £363 £220 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £240 £594
Median % change year-on-year +82.29% -59.58% +18.75%
75th Percentile £538 £260 £638
90th Percentile £560 - -
Hounslow median daily rate £488 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -10.00% -4.76%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Brentford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Brentford.

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Brentford

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in Brentford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Brentford citing Microsoft.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Brentford citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Brentford

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Brentford citing Microsoft.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Brentford citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Brentford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (100.00%) Power BI
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (66.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) PMO