Microsoft Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 12 9
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 355 456 585
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 16.12% 12.54% 13.82%
As % of the Vendors category 37.57% 31.98% 37.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 354 478
10th Percentile £312 £231 £250
25th Percentile £441 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +2.86%
75th Percentile £672 £688 £609
90th Percentile £771 £800 £701
Central London median daily rate £550 £535 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% +1.90% +0.96%
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
Central London median hourly rate £15.25 £52.50 £26.34
% change year-on-year -70.95% +99.32% +87.14%

All Vendors
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 945 1,426 1,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.92% 39.21% 37.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 690 942 1,187
10th Percentile £313 £263 £313
25th Percentile £430 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £561 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +2.05% +4.76%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £650
90th Percentile £775 £800 £738
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +5.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 22
10th Percentile £12.75 £16.27 -
25th Percentile £13.56 £18.42 £13.88
Median hourly rate £19.75 £21.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% - +33.02%
75th Percentile £23.75 £36.97 £43.56
90th Percentile £25.38 £53.15 £50.68
Central London median hourly rate £18.93 £21.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -9.86% - +12.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 36 (10.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 35 (9.86%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.13%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.85%) Apache
4 3 (0.85%) IBM Domino
4 3 (0.85%) IBM Notes
5 2 (0.56%) CMS
5 2 (0.56%) IIS
6 1 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.28%) Confluence
6 1 (0.28%) Gunicorn
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.28%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.28%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 48 (13.52%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (10.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (7.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (4.51%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (4.51%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.85%) Adobe Premiere
6 2 (0.56%) Camtasia
7 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (3.38%) Dynamics GP
2 11 (3.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (2.25%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.56%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.56%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.56%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.28%) BusinessWorks
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle HRMS
5 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.28%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.28%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 163 (45.92%) Azure
2 94 (26.48%) Microsoft 365
3 67 (18.87%) Power Platform
4 36 (10.14%) Entra ID
5 34 (9.58%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (9.58%) Dynamics 365
6 28 (7.89%) PowerApps
7 25 (7.04%) Power Automate
8 15 (4.23%) AWS
9 11 (3.10%) Microsoft Purview
9 11 (3.10%) Mimecast
10 10 (2.82%) IaaS
10 10 (2.82%) OneDrive
10 10 (2.82%) WhatsApp
11 9 (2.54%) GCP
11 9 (2.54%) GitHub
12 8 (2.25%) Azure Key Vault
13 7 (1.97%) SaaS
14 6 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
14 6 (1.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.48%) Firewall
2 14 (3.94%) DNS
3 7 (1.97%) VPN
4 6 (1.69%) LAN
4 6 (1.69%) WAN
5 5 (1.41%) MPLS
5 5 (1.41%) Network Security
5 5 (1.41%) SD-WAN
5 5 (1.41%) Wireless
6 4 (1.13%) SAN
6 4 (1.13%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.85%) DHCP
7 3 (0.85%) DKIM
7 3 (0.85%) DMARC
7 3 (0.85%) H.323
7 3 (0.85%) SMTP
7 3 (0.85%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.85%) WebEx
8 2 (0.56%) Structured Cabling
8 2 (0.56%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (10.99%) SQL Server
2 38 (10.70%) Power BI
3 19 (5.35%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (3.66%) Data Lake
4 13 (3.66%) MongoDB
5 9 (2.54%) Metadata
6 7 (1.97%) MySQL
7 6 (1.69%) Data Mart
7 6 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (1.41%) Delta Lake
8 5 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.13%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.13%) Tableau
10 3 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.85%) Big Data
10 3 (0.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.85%) Star Schema
11 2 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.56%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 15 (4.23%) Git
2 12 (3.38%) JIRA
3 8 (2.25%) GitLab
4 7 (1.97%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.97%) SpecFlow
5 6 (1.69%) Selenium
5 6 (1.69%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.41%) Postman
7 4 (1.13%) Subversion
8 3 (0.85%) JUnit
8 3 (0.85%) Mockito
8 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.56%) Android Studio
9 2 (0.56%) GoCD
9 2 (0.56%) ScalaTest
9 2 (0.56%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.56%) Visual Studio Team System
9 2 (0.56%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.28%) TestNG
General
1 133 (37.46%) Social Skills
2 109 (30.70%) Finance
3 55 (15.49%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (12.96%) Banking
5 30 (8.45%) Legal
6 22 (6.20%) Presentation Skills
6 22 (6.20%) Public Sector
7 17 (4.79%) Financial Institution
8 14 (3.94%) Retail
9 12 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (3.38%) Marketing
10 10 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (2.25%) General Ledger
11 8 (2.25%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.69%) French Language
13 5 (1.41%) Local Government
14 4 (1.13%) Back Office
14 4 (1.13%) Law
14 4 (1.13%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 54 (15.21%) Architect
2 37 (10.42%) Analyst
3 36 (10.14%) Consultant
4 35 (9.86%) Developer
5 24 (6.76%) Senior
6 21 (5.92%) Lead
6 21 (5.92%) Microsoft Consultant
7 18 (5.07%) Project Manager
8 15 (4.23%) Azure Engineer
9 13 (3.66%) Site Engineer
9 13 (3.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 11 (3.10%) Data Analyst
10 11 (3.10%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (2.82%) Great Plains Consultant
11 10 (2.82%) IT Support
11 10 (2.82%) Microsoft 365 Architect
11 10 (2.82%) Security Engineer
12 9 (2.54%) Azure Architect
12 9 (2.54%) IT Engineer
12 9 (2.54%) Power Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (7.89%) .NET
2 18 (5.07%) XML
3 12 (3.38%) Kafka
4 11 (3.10%) JSON
5 10 (2.82%) .NET Core
5 10 (2.82%) .NET Framework
5 10 (2.82%) CSS
5 10 (2.82%) RabbitMQ
5 10 (2.82%) REST
6 9 (2.54%) HTML
6 9 (2.54%) Microsoft Graph
7 8 (2.25%) ASP.NET
7 8 (2.25%) React
8 7 (1.97%) PySpark
8 7 (1.97%) RESTful
9 5 (1.41%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (1.13%) jQuery
10 4 (1.13%) Web Services
11 3 (0.85%) EDI
11 3 (0.85%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.07%) Management Information System
2 15 (4.23%) Data Structures
2 15 (4.23%) Product Ownership
3 14 (3.94%) Data Centre
4 10 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (2.54%) Security Posture
5 9 (2.54%) Video Conferencing
6 8 (2.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.97%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.69%) PKI
9 5 (1.41%) Blackberry
10 4 (1.13%) Derivative
10 4 (1.13%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.13%) Reinsurance
10 4 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.85%) BYOD
11 3 (0.85%) Market Risk
11 3 (0.85%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.85%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.56%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 57 (16.06%) Windows
2 22 (6.20%) Linux
3 16 (4.51%) Windows Server
4 14 (3.94%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.69%) Android
6 4 (1.13%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.85%) Windows 7
7 3 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.56%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.56%) Unix
9 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.28%) CentOS
9 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.28%) VMS
9 1 (0.28%) Windows 8
9 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (23.94%) Agile
2 72 (20.28%) DevOps
3 71 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 48 (13.52%) CI/CD
5 46 (12.96%) Business Intelligence
6 43 (12.11%) Migration
7 36 (10.14%) Analytics
8 35 (9.86%) Project Management
9 32 (9.01%) Change Management
9 32 (9.01%) Data Loss Prevention
9 32 (9.01%) ITIL
9 32 (9.01%) Stakeholder Management
10 29 (8.17%) Cybersecurity
11 28 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 27 (7.61%) Computer Science
12 27 (7.61%) Data Modelling
13 24 (6.76%) Scrum
14 22 (6.20%) Customer Service
15 21 (5.92%) Continuous Improvement
16 20 (5.63%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 60 (16.90%) PowerShell
2 46 (12.96%) SQL
3 33 (9.30%) C#
4 32 (9.01%) Python
5 15 (4.23%) Java
6 11 (3.10%) Shell Script
7 10 (2.82%) T-SQL
8 7 (1.97%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.69%) Bash
9 6 (1.69%) Go
10 5 (1.41%) Bicep
10 5 (1.41%) C++
11 4 (1.13%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.85%) Scala
13 2 (0.56%) PHP
13 2 (0.56%) R
14 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.28%) Perl
14 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 69 (19.44%) Degree
2 21 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (3.94%) Security Cleared
4 13 (3.66%) SC Cleared
5 12 (3.38%) ITIL Certification
6 11 (3.10%) CISSP
7 9 (2.54%) Azure Certification
8 8 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (1.97%) CISM
9 7 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.41%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (1.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.85%) CCNA
12 3 (0.85%) CCSK
13 2 (0.56%) A+ Certification
13 2 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.56%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 1 (0.28%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.51%) SLA
2 13 (3.66%) QA
3 9 (2.54%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 8 (2.25%) NIST
4 8 (2.25%) PMO
5 7 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.13%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.85%) GDPR
7 3 (0.85%) NCSC
7 3 (0.85%) WCAG
8 2 (0.56%) COBIT
8 2 (0.56%) GAAP
8 2 (0.56%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.28%) GRC
9 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.28%) NIST 800
System Software
1 59 (16.62%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.82%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 10 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.13%) Docker
4 4 (1.13%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.56%) XenApp
6 1 (0.28%) Ceph
6 1 (0.28%) Firmware
6 1 (0.28%) KVM
6 1 (0.28%) NFS
6 1 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (8.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (5.35%) Kubernetes
3 14 (3.94%) SCCM
4 12 (3.38%) Grafana
4 12 (3.38%) Prometheus
5 10 (2.82%) Consul
6 8 (2.25%) PingFederate
6 8 (2.25%) Terraform
7 6 (1.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (1.69%) Ansible
8 5 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.13%) FortiGate
9 4 (1.13%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (1.13%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.13%) Puppet
9 4 (1.13%) QRadar
10 3 (0.85%) Nagios
11 2 (0.56%) Graylog
12 1 (0.28%) Hadoop YARN
12 1 (0.28%) Mesos
Vendors
1 16 (4.51%) Citrix
2 14 (3.94%) Cisco
2 14 (3.94%) VMware
3 13 (3.66%) Databricks
4 11 (3.10%) Oracle
4 11 (3.10%) SaltStack
5 10 (2.82%) iManage
6 9 (2.54%) Apple
6 9 (2.54%) SAP
7 8 (2.25%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.97%) Google
9 6 (1.69%) Adobe
9 6 (1.69%) Cadence
9 6 (1.69%) IBM
9 6 (1.69%) Proofpoint
10 4 (1.13%) Okta
11 3 (0.85%) Dell
11 3 (0.85%) Lotus
11 3 (0.85%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.85%) Splunk