Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Canary Wharf

Microsoft
Tower Hamlets > Canary Wharf

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Canary Wharf 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 16 October 2025, 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
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 7 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 +10
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 8 11 33
As % of all contract jobs in Canary Wharf 14.81% 18.03% 21.29%
As % of the Vendors category 23.53% 28.21% 51.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 29
10th Percentile £243 £495 £450
25th Percentile £298 £540 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +4.17% +83.05%
75th Percentile £585 £585 £630
90th Percentile - £599 £650
Tower Hamlets median daily rate £525 £563 £540
% change year-on-year -6.67% +4.17% +111.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £14.45
25th Percentile - - £14.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £15.52
75th Percentile - - £16.18
90th Percentile - - £16.58
Tower Hamlets median hourly rate £25.15 - £15.52

All Vendors
Canary Wharf

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 Canary Wharf.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 34 39 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Canary Wharf 62.96% 63.93% 41.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 36 53
10th Percentile £346 £325 £450
25th Percentile £528 £450 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £540 £540
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -1.82%
75th Percentile £733 £585 £630
90th Percentile £1,000 £663 £660
Tower Hamlets median daily rate £585 £540 £540
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £14.45
25th Percentile - - £14.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £15.52
75th Percentile - - £16.18
90th Percentile - - £16.58
Tower Hamlets median hourly rate £25.15 - £15.52

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Canary Wharf

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Canary Wharf

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Daily Rate Trend in Canary Wharf

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Canary Wharf citing Microsoft.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Canary Wharf citing Microsoft

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Daily Rate Histogram in Canary Wharf

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Canary Wharf over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Canary Wharf

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Hourly Rate Trend in Canary Wharf

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Canary Wharf citing Microsoft.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Canary Wharf citing Microsoft

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Canary Wharf 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Chatbot
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) Internet
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 2 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Junior
2 1 (12.50%) Junior PMO
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Programme Planner
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) PKI
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (12.50%) Replication
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (25.00%) AI
3 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Conversational UI
3 2 (25.00%) Data Science
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (25.00%) Ethical Hacking
3 2 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (25.00%) Key Management
3 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (25.00%) OWASP
3 2 (25.00%) Project Management
3 2 (25.00%) Secure Coding
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 2 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
4 1 (12.50%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (25.00%) NIST
1 2 (25.00%) PMO
1 2 (25.00%) SOC 2
2 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Remedy