Microsoft Contracts in Central London

Microsoft
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 5 July 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
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 -1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 297 405 529
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 14.78% 17.06% 14.04%
As % of the Vendors category 31.97% 38.43% 34.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 319 420
10th Percentile £263 £260 £200
25th Percentile £363 £430 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £543
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -0.92% +3.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £725 £750 £801
London median daily rate £513 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +2.55% -7.41% +0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 1
10th Percentile £23.78 - -
25th Percentile £26.45 £12.75 £51.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £17.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +67.65% -67.62% +98.11%
75th Percentile £30.25 £27.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £124.60 - -
London median hourly rate £23.23 £19.50 £25.86
% change year-on-year +19.10% -24.58% -40.08%

All Vendors
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 929 1,054 1,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 46.22% 44.40% 40.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 584 771 1,039
10th Percentile £310 £319 £231
25th Percentile £425 £438 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £675 £675 £694
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
London median daily rate £530 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -0.93% -2.73% -0.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 9 9
10th Percentile £23.23 £12.75 £15.74
25th Percentile £26.91 £16.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £32.83 £21.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.31% -16.00% -24.24%
75th Percentile £62.00 £27.00 £52.75
90th Percentile £75.90 £51.35 £53.15
London median hourly rate £28.33 £23.99 £30.75
% change year-on-year +18.07% -21.98% -12.14%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Central London

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Central London

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Central London over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Central London

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Central London

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in Central London over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in Central London

Microsoft
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 within the Central London region over the 6 months to 5 July 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 -5 271 £500 -9.09% 720
City of Westminster +8 10 £630 +9.57% 49
West End of London 0 7 £250 -50.50% 50
Southwark - 4 - - 3
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 - - 2
Microsoft
London

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 34 (11.45%) SharePoint
2 16 (5.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.02%) Confluence
4 4 (1.35%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.35%) CMS
5 2 (0.67%) SAS
6 1 (0.34%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.34%) Apache
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.34%) IIS
6 1 (0.34%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.34%) Umbraco
Applications
1 48 (16.16%) Microsoft Office
2 43 (14.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (5.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (5.05%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (3.03%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.34%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.34%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 23 (7.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.02%) Endur
3 5 (1.68%) Aladdin
4 3 (1.01%) CA PPM
4 3 (1.01%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (1.01%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.67%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.67%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.34%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.34%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.34%) Kondor
6 1 (0.34%) Maximo
6 1 (0.34%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.34%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.34%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 122 (41.08%) Azure
2 65 (21.89%) Microsoft 365
3 44 (14.81%) Power Platform
4 31 (10.44%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (10.10%) AWS
6 26 (8.75%) Dynamics 365
7 21 (7.07%) Entra ID
8 18 (6.06%) PaaS
9 14 (4.71%) IaaS
10 13 (4.38%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (4.38%) SaaS
11 12 (4.04%) Serverless
12 11 (3.70%) Power Automate
13 9 (3.03%) Azure AKS
14 8 (2.69%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (2.69%) Azure Sentinel
14 8 (2.69%) GCP
14 8 (2.69%) PowerApps
15 6 (2.02%) Microsoft Copilot
16 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.07%) Firewall
2 11 (3.70%) DNS
3 7 (2.36%) Network Security
4 6 (2.02%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.02%) VPN
4 6 (2.02%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (1.68%) LAN
5 5 (1.68%) MPLS
6 4 (1.35%) BGP
6 4 (1.35%) WAN
7 3 (1.01%) DHCP
7 3 (1.01%) HTTP
7 3 (1.01%) SAN
7 3 (1.01%) Unified Communications
7 3 (1.01%) WebEx
8 2 (0.67%) IGMP
8 2 (0.67%) Multicast
8 2 (0.67%) OSPF
8 2 (0.67%) SSL
8 2 (0.67%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (8.42%) Power BI
2 24 (8.08%) SQL Server
3 13 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (3.70%) Tableau
5 9 (3.03%) Data Lake
6 8 (2.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (2.02%) BusinessObjects
8 5 (1.68%) Crystal Reports
8 5 (1.68%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (1.35%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (1.01%) Power Query
11 2 (0.67%) Airbyte
11 2 (0.67%) Metadata
11 2 (0.67%) MS Access
11 2 (0.67%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.67%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 18 (6.06%) JIRA
2 8 (2.69%) Git
3 5 (1.68%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.35%) GitLab
5 2 (0.67%) JMeter
5 2 (0.67%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.67%) MSI
5 2 (0.67%) NUnit
5 2 (0.67%) Postman
5 2 (0.67%) REST Assured
5 2 (0.67%) Selenium
5 2 (0.67%) Visual Studio Team System
6 1 (0.34%) Snyk
6 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.34%) TeamCity
General
1 128 (43.10%) Finance
2 126 (42.42%) Social Skills
3 31 (10.44%) Banking
4 29 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (6.40%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (4.04%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (4.04%) Front Office
8 10 (3.37%) Legal
9 7 (2.36%) Marketing
9 7 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.36%) Public Sector
10 6 (2.02%) Law
11 5 (1.68%) Back Office
11 5 (1.68%) Billing
11 5 (1.68%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.01%) Arabic Language
13 3 (1.01%) International Banking
13 3 (1.01%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (20.54%) Analyst
2 35 (11.78%) Architect
3 27 (9.09%) Consultant
3 27 (9.09%) Developer
4 21 (7.07%) Senior
5 20 (6.73%) Business Analyst
5 20 (6.73%) Lead
5 20 (6.73%) Solutions Architect
6 16 (5.39%) Support Analyst
7 14 (4.71%) IT Support
8 13 (4.38%) Azure Architect
9 12 (4.04%) Azure Engineer
9 12 (4.04%) Data Analyst
9 12 (4.04%) Project Manager
9 12 (4.04%) Support Engineer
10 8 (2.69%) Coordinator
10 8 (2.69%) Data Engineer
10 8 (2.69%) IT Engineer
10 8 (2.69%) Lead Consultant
11 7 (2.36%) Lead Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.06%) .NET
2 10 (3.37%) HTML
3 9 (3.03%) REST
4 8 (2.69%) CSS
5 7 (2.36%) RESTful
6 6 (2.02%) Web Services
7 5 (1.68%) Lightning Web Components
7 5 (1.68%) OAuth
7 5 (1.68%) SOAP
8 4 (1.35%) .NET Framework
8 4 (1.35%) ADO
8 4 (1.35%) jQuery
8 4 (1.35%) Middleware
9 3 (1.01%) .NET Core
9 3 (1.01%) ARM Templates
9 3 (1.01%) Bootstrap
9 3 (1.01%) Entity Framework
9 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Graph
9 3 (1.01%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (0.67%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.38%) Cloud Native
2 11 (3.70%) Product Ownership
3 8 (2.69%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.36%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.02%) iPad
5 6 (2.02%) iPhone
5 6 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.68%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.68%) PMI
6 5 (1.68%) Private Cloud
6 5 (1.68%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.35%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.35%) Reinsurance
7 4 (1.35%) Social Media
8 3 (1.01%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.01%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.01%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 55 (18.52%) Windows
2 18 (6.06%) Windows Server
3 14 (4.71%) Linux
4 13 (4.38%) Windows 10
5 8 (2.69%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.68%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.35%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.67%) Unix
8 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.34%) Android
9 1 (0.34%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (21.89%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (19.87%) Agile
2 59 (19.87%) DevOps
3 44 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 41 (13.80%) Project Management
5 36 (12.12%) Migration
6 33 (11.11%) CRM
7 32 (10.77%) CI/CD
7 32 (10.77%) ITIL
8 29 (9.76%) Data Analysis
9 25 (8.42%) Change Management
10 24 (8.08%) Asset Management
10 24 (8.08%) Project Delivery
11 23 (7.74%) Business Intelligence
11 23 (7.74%) Requirements Gathering
11 23 (7.74%) Roadmaps
12 22 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
12 22 (7.41%) Scrum
13 21 (7.07%) Continuous Improvement
14 18 (6.06%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 59 (19.87%) SQL
2 32 (10.77%) Python
3 27 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 16 (5.39%) C#
5 15 (5.05%) JavaScript
6 9 (3.03%) Java
7 7 (2.36%) Bicep
7 7 (2.36%) VBA
8 3 (1.01%) Bash
9 2 (0.67%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.67%) C++
10 1 (0.34%) COBOL
10 1 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.34%) Go
10 1 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.34%) R
10 1 (0.34%) RPG
10 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.34%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.34%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 43 (14.48%) Degree
2 21 (7.07%) Security Cleared
3 14 (4.71%) Azure Certification
4 13 (4.38%) SC Cleared
5 12 (4.04%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (3.03%) PMI Certification
7 8 (2.69%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.68%) CCNA
9 5 (1.68%) PMP
10 4 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.01%) CCNP
11 3 (1.01%) CFA
11 3 (1.01%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.67%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.67%) CCIE
12 2 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.67%) VCAP
12 2 (0.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.70%) Data Quality
1 11 (3.70%) QA
2 10 (3.37%) Accessibility
2 10 (3.37%) MiFID
3 8 (2.69%) EMIR
3 8 (2.69%) GDPR
3 8 (2.69%) PMO
4 6 (2.02%) SLA
5 4 (1.35%) COBIT
5 4 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.35%) NIST
6 2 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.67%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.34%) UCITS
7 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (16.84%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.01%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.01%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.67%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.67%) XenApp
5 2 (0.67%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.34%) Docker
6 1 (0.34%) Firmware
6 1 (0.34%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.34%) OpenDJ
6 1 (0.34%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.34%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 20 (6.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (5.39%) Terraform
3 12 (4.04%) SCCM
4 9 (3.03%) Kubernetes
5 8 (2.69%) Ansible
6 7 (2.36%) ITRS Geneos
7 5 (1.68%) Grafana
8 3 (1.01%) Kibana
8 3 (1.01%) WSUS
9 2 (0.67%) CASB
9 2 (0.67%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.67%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.34%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.34%) Istio
10 1 (0.34%) Nessus
10 1 (0.34%) Puppet
10 1 (0.34%) WMI
Vendors
1 20 (6.73%) ServiceNow
2 12 (4.04%) Cisco
3 11 (3.70%) Citrix
3 11 (3.70%) Databricks
3 11 (3.70%) Oracle
4 10 (3.37%) Salesforce
5 9 (3.03%) Google
6 8 (2.69%) VMware
7 6 (2.02%) Adobe
7 6 (2.02%) SAP
7 6 (2.02%) Workday
8 5 (1.68%) Apple
8 5 (1.68%) Bloomberg
9 4 (1.35%) Charles River
9 4 (1.35%) HP
9 4 (1.35%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.35%) Zscaler
10 3 (1.01%) Broadcom
10 3 (1.01%) Meraki
10 3 (1.01%) Tenable