Microsoft Engineer Contracts in Cambridge

Microsoft Engineer
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median Microsoft Engineer daily rate in Cambridge is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 0.83% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £725 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £650 - £500

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cambridge

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cambridge. 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 Cambridge with a recognized job title 103 179 263
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.83% 91.79% 94.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 104 184
10th Percentile £379 £228 £185
25th Percentile £425 £350 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +12.78% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £578 £550 £553
90th Percentile £686 £646 £600
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £488 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 29 14
10th Percentile £16.40 £21.10 £16.09
25th Percentile £28.35 £25.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £19.11
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +174.73% -66.47%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.25 £53.44
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £53.75
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £15.44 £16.30 £15.50
% change year-on-year -5.28% +5.16% +13.47%

Microsoft Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Engineer in Cambridge

Microsoft Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Engineer in Cambridge

Microsoft Engineer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, 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 Cambridge region featuring Microsoft Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (100.00%) Data Enrichment
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Case Management
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language

Microsoft Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Case Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Enrichment
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft