Microsoft Copilot Contract Job Trends in Central London

Microsoft Copilot
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Microsoft Copilot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 126 152
Rank change year-on-year +4 +26 -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Copilot 6 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.32% 0.13% 0.032%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.79% 0.33% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% - -
75th Percentile £638 £588 -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £550 £600 -
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.00 - -
Median hourly rate £34.00 - -
75th Percentile £36.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £34.00 - -

All Cloud Skills
Central London

Microsoft Copilot falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 755 919 1,307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.67% 39.48% 41.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 536 611 902
10th Percentile £329 £396 £313
25th Percentile £432 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £657 £675 £688
90th Percentile £755 £775 £775
London median daily rate £530 £550 £567
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.96% -3.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 6
10th Percentile £18.87 - £14.63
25th Percentile £25.25 £27.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% -8.79%
75th Percentile £54.46 - £34.44
90th Percentile £65.57 £69.50 £45.25
London median hourly rate £27.95 £30.80 £40.50
% change year-on-year -9.24% -23.96% +15.71%

Microsoft Copilot
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Microsoft Copilot job vacancy trend in Central London

Microsoft Copilot
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Microsoft Copilot.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft Copilot
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Copilot within the Central London region over the 6 months to 6 October 2025. 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
City of London +11 6 £625 +8.70% 12
Microsoft Copilot
London

Microsoft Copilot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 3 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (16.67%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
3 4 (66.67%) Copilot Studio
3 4 (66.67%) Power Automate
4 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (50.00%) PowerApps
5 2 (33.33%) Azure AI
5 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (33.33%) GitHub
5 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
6 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (16.67%) OneDrive
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Power BI
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (16.67%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (16.67%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (16.67%) Power Query
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (16.67%) Tableau
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Banking
4 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) LangChain
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (16.67%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) AI Agents
1 2 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Low-Code
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Generative AI
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 2 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 2 (33.33%) RBAC
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Register
3 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 1 (16.67%) API Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) Internal Audit
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bicep
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) EU AI Act
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
1 2 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) OpenAI
3 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow