Microsoft Contract Job Trends 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 30 December 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
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 19 18
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 11 10 19
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 12.94% 8.26% 11.52%
As % of the Vendors category 37.93% 18.87% 32.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 17
10th Percentile £486 £349 £479
25th Percentile £492 £380 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £380 £672
Median % change year-on-year +31.43% -43.39% +35.76%
75th Percentile £561 £428 £673
90th Percentile £581 £518 £690
South London median daily rate £492 £380 £613
% change year-on-year +29.47% -37.96% +36.11%

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 29 53 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 34.12% 43.80% 35.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 39 47
10th Percentile £418 £381 £231
25th Percentile £492 £538 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -2.04% +11.36%
75th Percentile £561 - £672
90th Percentile £604 £675 £675
South London median daily rate £496 £588 £510
% change year-on-year -15.62% +15.20% -5.56%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Croydon

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Microsoft.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Microsoft.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 1 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (63.64%) Entra ID
3 6 (54.55%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (36.36%) Azure Service Fabric
4 4 (36.36%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (36.36%) PaaS
5 3 (27.27%) Azure App Service
5 3 (27.27%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 3 (27.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (27.27%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (27.27%) Azure Event Grid
5 3 (27.27%) Azure Functions
5 3 (27.27%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (27.27%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (27.27%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (27.27%) GitHub
5 3 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (27.27%) Power Automate
5 3 (27.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
1 1 (9.09%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (45.45%) Public Sector
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Backend Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) ARM Templates
1 4 (36.36%) Entity Framework
1 4 (36.36%) SailPoint
1 4 (36.36%) YAML
2 3 (27.27%) .NET
2 3 (27.27%) .NET Core
2 3 (27.27%) AngularJS
2 3 (27.27%) Node.js
2 3 (27.27%) PyTorch
2 3 (27.27%) React
2 3 (27.27%) TensorFlow
3 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
3 1 (9.09%) Playwright
3 1 (9.09%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) AI Agents
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
3 7 (63.64%) Microservices
4 4 (36.36%) Agile
4 4 (36.36%) AI
4 4 (36.36%) B2C
4 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
5 3 (27.27%) Analytics
5 3 (27.27%) API Management
5 3 (27.27%) Compliance Management
5 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
5 3 (27.27%) Data Encryption
5 3 (27.27%) Data Science
5 3 (27.27%) Incident Management
5 3 (27.27%) Integration Patterns
5 3 (27.27%) Machine Learning
5 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (27.27%) RBAC
5 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) SQL
2 6 (54.55%) C#
3 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
3 4 (36.36%) Python
4 3 (27.27%) Bicep
4 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
5 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) SC Cleared
1 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
1 1 (9.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Active Directory
1 7 (63.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 4 (36.36%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 3 (27.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Databricks
1 3 (27.27%) OpenAI
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow