Microsoft Contracts in Croydon

Microsoft
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Croydon 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 27 24
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 0
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 8 7 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 8.79% 4.83% 7.39%
As % of the Vendors category 24.24% 20.59% 23.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 13
10th Percentile £350 £176 £192
25th Percentile £440 £253 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £403 £540
Median % change year-on-year +22.98% -25.46% +68.75%
75th Percentile £653 £568 £550
90th Percentile £700 £655 £593
South London median daily rate £513 £245 £425
% change year-on-year +109.18% -42.35% +28.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £14.64 -
South London median hourly rate £15.84 £15.86 £15.00
% change year-on-year -0.09% +5.70% -67.60%

All Vendors
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 33 34 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 36.26% 23.45% 31.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 23 45
10th Percentile £485 £298 £201
25th Percentile £513 £413 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £483 £550
Median % change year-on-year +24.35% -12.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile - £538 £584
90th Percentile £675 £567 £645
South London median daily rate £600 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +26.32% -5.00% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £15.86 -
South London median hourly rate £15.84 £27.01 £19.50
% change year-on-year -41.34% +38.49% -57.28%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Croydon

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Croydon

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Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Croydon over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Croydon

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Croydon

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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 2 (25.00%) Drupal
Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) Copilot Studio
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Copilot
3 2 (25.00%) Power Automate
3 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (25.00%) PowerApps
3 2 (25.00%) Serverless
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (12.50%) IaaS
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (12.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) NAS
1 1 (12.50%) SAN
1 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
1 1 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Lead
1 4 (50.00%) Product Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
1 2 (25.00%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
1 1 (12.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Conversational UI
1 4 (50.00%) Product Management
1 4 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) Case Management
3 2 (25.00%) Coaching
3 2 (25.00%) CRM
3 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) ERP
3 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) C#
1 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (25.00%) PHP
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Salesforce
1 2 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Dell
2 1 (12.50%) EMC
2 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
2 1 (12.50%) SonicWALL
2 1 (12.50%) VMware