Microsoft Copilot Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Microsoft Copilot
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of 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 112 123 151
Rank change year-on-year +11 +28 -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Copilot 6 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.35% 0.095% 0.034%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.87% 0.24% 0.083%
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 - - -
Central London median daily rate £625 £575 -
% change year-on-year +8.70% - -
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 - - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 - -

All Cloud Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 690 826 1,212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.16% 39.26% 41.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 537 828
10th Percentile £339 £393 £325
25th Percentile £442 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.50% -4.30%
75th Percentile £665 £675 £688
90th Percentile £751 £775 £779
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 6
10th Percentile £22.30 - £14.63
25th Percentile £26.75 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% +30.12% -8.79%
75th Percentile £56.75 £59.75 £34.44
90th Percentile £70.21 £79.40 £45.25
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% -8.79%

Microsoft Copilot
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Microsoft Copilot job vacancy trend in the City of London

Microsoft Copilot
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Microsoft Copilot.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft Copilot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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