Microsoft Contract Job Trends 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 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 17 October 2026, 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 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	5	6	6
Rank change year-on-year	+1	0	0
Contract jobs citing Microsoft	383	278	339
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London	17.88%	16.21%	15.98%
As % of the Vendors category	37.81%	32.29%	36.22%
Number of daily rates quoted	273	209	233
10^th Percentile	£281	£281	£251
25^th Percentile	£413	£363	£431
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£500	£525
Median % change year-on-year	+5.00%	-4.76%	-4.55%
75^th Percentile	£650	£638	£638
90^th Percentile	£750	£725	£708
Central London median daily rate	£525	£500	£525
% change year-on-year	+5.00%	-4.76%	-4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted	3	2	4
10^th Percentile	£20.40	£22.48	£42.15
25^th Percentile	£21.75	£23.19	£64.88
Median hourly rate	£24.00	£25.25	£98.50
Median % change year-on-year	-4.95%	-74.37%	-
75^th Percentile	£25.07	£28.19	£112.00
90^th Percentile	£25.70	£29.43	-
Central London median hourly rate	£25.07	£22.00	£98.50
% change year-on-year	+13.93%	-77.66%	-

All Vendors
City of 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 the City of London.

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services	1,013	861	936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London	47.29%	50.20%	44.13%
Number of daily rates quoted	702	602	594
10^th Percentile	£331	£325	£338
25^th Percentile	£447	£423	£463
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£550	£550
75^th Percentile	£668	£675	£675
90^th Percentile	£750	£750	£750
Central London median daily rate	£550	£550	£550
Number of hourly rates quoted	14	10	12
10^th Percentile	£18.75	£19.11	£18.70
25^th Percentile	£19.31	£20.63	£25.38
Median hourly rate	£23.58	£26.33	£71.25
Median % change year-on-year	-10.43%	-63.05%	+103.57%
75^th Percentile	£38.69	£50.13	£118.38
90^th Percentile	£55.95	£63.93	£137.50
Central London median hourly rate	£26.13	£26.33	£50.00
% change year-on-year	-0.74%	-47.35%	+122.22%

Microsoft Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Microsoft Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Microsoft 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 17 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in the City of London

Microsoft Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Microsoft Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 17 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Microsoft also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region with a requirement for Microsoft.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	43.1%	165
2	Stakeholder Management	23.0%	88
3	DevOps	20.4%	78
4	Problem-Solving	20.1%	77
5	Microsoft 365	19.8%	76
6	Power Platform	19.6%	75
7	Agile	18.5%	71
8	Migration	18.0%	69
9	Security Cleared	17.8%	68
9	Windows	17.8%	68
11	SQL	17.2%	66
12	CI/CD	16.7%	64
13	Active Directory	16.4%	63
13	Analytics	16.4%	63
15	Entra ID	14.9%	57
16	Python	14.6%	56
17	AI	14.1%	54
18	Stakeholder Engagement	13.6%	52
19	SC Cleared	12.8%	49
20	Azure DevOps	12.5%	48
21	Business Intelligence	12.0%	46
22	Data Modelling	11.5%	44
23	Power BI	11.2%	43
24	SharePoint	11.0%	42
25	Data Governance	10.2%	39
26	Data Quality	9.9%	38
27	Roadmaps	9.4%	36
27	ServiceNow	9.4%	36
29	Dynamics 365	9.1%	35
30	AWS	8.9%	34

Microsoft Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Vendors

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	ServiceNow	9.4%	36
2	Databricks	5.7%	22
3	Google	5.2%	20
4	Oracle	5.0%	19
5	SAP	4.2%	16
6	Cisco	3.1%	12
6	VMware	3.1%	12
8	Apple	2.6%	10
8	Bloomberg	2.6%	10
10	Citrix	2.3%	9
11	IBM	2.1%	8
12	Dynatrace	1.8%	7
12	Foundry	1.8%	7
12	OpenAI	1.8%	7
12	Splunk	1.8%	7
12	Workday	1.8%	7
17	Salesforce	1.6%	6
18	eFront	1.3%	5
18	HP	1.3%	5
18	Informatica	1.3%	5