Microsoft Contracts in Central London

Microsoft
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 11 9
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 +2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 392 498 632
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 16.01% 12.92% 13.91%
As % of the Vendors category 37.62% 32.68% 37.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 391 523
10th Percentile £259 £213 £241
25th Percentile £430 £394 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +1.90% +0.96%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £600
90th Percentile £763 £800 £700
London median daily rate £500 £538 £530
% change year-on-year -6.98% +1.42% +11.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 7
10th Percentile - - £11.50
25th Percentile £12.75 £51.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £15.25 £52.50 £26.34
Median % change year-on-year -70.95% +99.32% +87.14%
75th Percentile £20.25 £53.75 £31.38
90th Percentile £24.30 - £52.50
London median hourly rate £19.50 £27.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -29.09% -38.20% +66.98%

All Vendors
Central London

Microsoft is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,042 1,524 1,684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 42.55% 39.53% 37.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 763 1,025 1,290
10th Percentile £300 £250 £313
25th Percentile £425 £425 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.52%
75th Percentile £675 £694 £650
90th Percentile £775 £795 £738
London median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 22
10th Percentile £12.75 £16.44 -
25th Percentile £14.38 £20.22 £13.88
Median hourly rate £18.93 £21.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £23.75 £25.00 £43.56
90th Percentile £25.05 £52.95 £50.68
London median hourly rate £23.80 £30.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.60% -12.14% +27.27%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 +7 355 £550 - 163
West End of London +1 11 £505 +34.67% 7
Camden +5 6 £505 +55.38% 4
Lambeth -2 2 £196 +3.29%
City of Westminster -6 1 - - 3
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 44 (11.22%) SharePoint
2 42 (10.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.02%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.77%) Apache
4 3 (0.77%) IBM Domino
4 3 (0.77%) IBM Notes
5 2 (0.51%) CMS
5 2 (0.51%) IIS
6 1 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.26%) Confluence
6 1 (0.26%) Gunicorn
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.26%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 51 (13.01%) Microsoft Office
2 46 (11.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (4.34%) MS Visio
5 16 (4.08%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.77%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.51%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (3.06%) Dynamics GP
2 11 (2.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (2.04%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.51%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.51%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.51%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.26%) BusinessWorks
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle HRMS
5 1 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.26%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.26%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.26%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 177 (45.15%) Azure
2 110 (28.06%) Microsoft 365
3 70 (17.86%) Power Platform
4 41 (10.46%) Entra ID
5 38 (9.69%) Azure DevOps
6 34 (8.67%) Dynamics 365
7 29 (7.40%) PowerApps
8 27 (6.89%) Power Automate
9 18 (4.59%) AWS
10 17 (4.34%) OneDrive
11 11 (2.81%) Microsoft Purview
11 11 (2.81%) Mimecast
12 10 (2.55%) IaaS
12 10 (2.55%) WhatsApp
13 9 (2.30%) GCP
13 9 (2.30%) GitHub
14 8 (2.04%) Azure Key Vault
15 7 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
15 7 (1.79%) SaaS
16 6 (1.53%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.87%) Firewall
2 17 (4.34%) DNS
3 9 (2.30%) VPN
4 7 (1.79%) LAN
4 7 (1.79%) WAN
5 6 (1.53%) DHCP
6 5 (1.28%) MPLS
6 5 (1.28%) Network Security
6 5 (1.28%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.28%) Wireless
7 4 (1.02%) SAN
7 4 (1.02%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.02%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.77%) DKIM
8 3 (0.77%) DMARC
8 3 (0.77%) H.323
8 3 (0.77%) SMTP
8 3 (0.77%) WebEx
9 2 (0.51%) Structured Cabling
9 2 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (13.01%) SQL Server
2 40 (10.20%) Power BI
3 21 (5.36%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (3.32%) Data Lake
4 13 (3.32%) MongoDB
5 10 (2.55%) Metadata
6 8 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (1.79%) MySQL
8 6 (1.53%) Data Mart
8 6 (1.53%) Delta Lake
8 6 (1.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (1.02%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.02%) Tableau
11 3 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.77%) Big Data
11 3 (0.77%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.77%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.77%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (4.08%) Git
2 12 (3.06%) JIRA
3 8 (2.04%) GitLab
4 7 (1.79%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.79%) SpecFlow
5 6 (1.53%) Selenium
5 6 (1.53%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.28%) Postman
7 4 (1.02%) Hudson
7 4 (1.02%) Subversion
8 3 (0.77%) JUnit
8 3 (0.77%) Mockito
8 3 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.51%) Android Studio
9 2 (0.51%) GoCD
9 2 (0.51%) ScalaTest
9 2 (0.51%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.51%) Visual Studio Team System
9 2 (0.51%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.26%) TestNG
General
1 145 (36.99%) Social Skills
2 121 (30.87%) Finance
3 59 (15.05%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (12.24%) Banking
5 32 (8.16%) Legal
6 23 (5.87%) Presentation Skills
6 23 (5.87%) Public Sector
7 20 (5.10%) Retail
8 17 (4.34%) Financial Institution
9 12 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (3.06%) Marketing
10 11 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (2.04%) General Ledger
11 8 (2.04%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.53%) French Language
12 6 (1.53%) Local Government
13 5 (1.28%) Back Office
14 4 (1.02%) Law
14 4 (1.02%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 55 (14.03%) Architect
2 46 (11.73%) Developer
3 41 (10.46%) Analyst
4 36 (9.18%) Consultant
5 28 (7.14%) Senior
6 24 (6.12%) Lead
7 21 (5.36%) Microsoft Consultant
8 19 (4.85%) Project Manager
9 15 (3.83%) Azure Engineer
10 13 (3.32%) Data Analyst
10 13 (3.32%) IT Support
10 13 (3.32%) Site Engineer
10 13 (3.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 13 (3.32%) Support Engineer
11 12 (3.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (2.81%) IT Engineer
12 11 (2.81%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (2.55%) Azure Architect
13 10 (2.55%) Microsoft 365 Architect
13 10 (2.55%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (8.67%) .NET
2 21 (5.36%) XML
3 13 (3.32%) .NET Core
4 12 (3.06%) .NET Framework
4 12 (3.06%) JSON
4 12 (3.06%) Kafka
5 10 (2.55%) CSS
5 10 (2.55%) RabbitMQ
5 10 (2.55%) REST
6 9 (2.30%) HTML
6 9 (2.30%) Microsoft Graph
7 8 (2.04%) ASP.NET
7 8 (2.04%) React
8 7 (1.79%) PySpark
8 7 (1.79%) RESTful
9 5 (1.28%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (1.02%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.02%) jQuery
10 4 (1.02%) Web Services
11 3 (0.77%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 19 (4.85%) Management Information System
2 18 (4.59%) Product Ownership
3 17 (4.34%) Data Structures
4 16 (4.08%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (2.30%) Security Posture
6 9 (2.30%) Video Conferencing
7 8 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (1.79%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.53%) PKI
10 5 (1.28%) Blackberry
10 5 (1.28%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.02%) Derivative
11 4 (1.02%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.02%) Reinsurance
11 4 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.77%) BYOD
12 3 (0.77%) Market Risk
12 3 (0.77%) Taxonomies
12 3 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 71 (18.11%) Windows
2 23 (5.87%) Linux
3 18 (4.59%) Windows Server
4 15 (3.83%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.53%) Android
6 5 (1.28%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.77%) Mac OS X
8 3 (0.77%) Unix
8 3 (0.77%) Windows 7
8 3 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.26%) CentOS
9 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.26%) VMS
9 1 (0.26%) Windows 8
9 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (23.98%) Agile
2 78 (19.90%) DevOps
3 73 (18.62%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (13.27%) CI/CD
5 48 (12.24%) Business Intelligence
6 47 (11.99%) Migration
7 40 (10.20%) Analytics
8 37 (9.44%) Project Management
9 35 (8.93%) Stakeholder Management
10 34 (8.67%) Change Management
11 33 (8.42%) ITIL
12 32 (8.16%) Data Loss Prevention
13 31 (7.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 30 (7.65%) Cybersecurity
15 28 (7.14%) Data Modelling
16 27 (6.89%) Computer Science
16 27 (6.89%) Scrum
17 25 (6.38%) Customer Service
18 24 (6.12%) Project Delivery
19 21 (5.36%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 66 (16.84%) PowerShell
2 55 (14.03%) SQL
3 37 (9.44%) C#
4 33 (8.42%) Python
5 15 (3.83%) Java
6 13 (3.32%) T-SQL
7 11 (2.81%) Shell Script
8 8 (2.04%) Bicep
9 7 (1.79%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.53%) Bash
10 6 (1.53%) Go
11 5 (1.28%) C++
12 4 (1.02%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.77%) Scala
14 2 (0.51%) PHP
14 2 (0.51%) R
15 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.26%) Perl
15 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 70 (17.86%) Degree
2 21 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (3.57%) Security Cleared
4 13 (3.32%) Azure Certification
4 13 (3.32%) SC Cleared
5 12 (3.06%) ITIL Certification
6 11 (2.81%) CISSP
7 8 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (1.79%) CISM
9 5 (1.28%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (0.77%) CCNA
11 3 (0.77%) CCSK
12 2 (0.51%) A+ Certification
12 2 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.51%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 1 (0.26%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.34%) SLA
2 13 (3.32%) QA
3 10 (2.55%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.30%) PMO
4 9 (2.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 8 (2.04%) NIST
6 7 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.28%) GDPR
8 4 (1.02%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.77%) NCSC
9 3 (0.77%) WCAG
10 2 (0.51%) COBIT
10 2 (0.51%) GAAP
10 2 (0.51%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.26%) GRC
11 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.26%) NIST 800
System Software
1 77 (19.64%) Active Directory
2 14 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 9 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.79%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.02%) Docker
7 2 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.51%) XenApp
8 1 (0.26%) Ceph
8 1 (0.26%) Firmware
8 1 (0.26%) KVM
8 1 (0.26%) NFS
8 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (8.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (4.85%) Kubernetes
3 15 (3.83%) SCCM
4 12 (3.06%) Grafana
4 12 (3.06%) Prometheus
5 10 (2.55%) Consul
6 8 (2.04%) PingFederate
6 8 (2.04%) Terraform
7 6 (1.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (1.53%) Ansible
8 5 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.02%) FortiGate
9 4 (1.02%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (1.02%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.02%) Puppet
9 4 (1.02%) QRadar
10 3 (0.77%) Nagios
11 2 (0.51%) Graylog
12 1 (0.26%) Hadoop YARN
12 1 (0.26%) Mesos
Vendors
1 18 (4.59%) VMware
2 17 (4.34%) Citrix
3 15 (3.83%) Cisco
4 14 (3.57%) Databricks
5 12 (3.06%) Oracle
6 11 (2.81%) Apple
6 11 (2.81%) SaltStack
6 11 (2.81%) SAP
7 10 (2.55%) iManage
8 9 (2.30%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.04%) Google
10 6 (1.53%) Adobe
10 6 (1.53%) Cadence
10 6 (1.53%) IBM
10 6 (1.53%) Proofpoint
11 5 (1.28%) Dell
12 4 (1.02%) Okta
13 3 (0.77%) HP
13 3 (0.77%) Lotus
13 3 (0.77%) Splunk