Microsoft Contracts in East London

Microsoft
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East 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 16 July 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
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +12
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 21 46 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 17.21% 20.91% 18.92%
As % of the Vendors category 30.43% 38.98% 44.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 38 40
10th Percentile £265 £348 £211
25th Percentile £428 £420 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year +17.00% -6.54% +25.88%
75th Percentile £589 £585 £597
90th Percentile £680 £600 £646
London median daily rate £505 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +0.90% -7.41% +0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
Median hourly rate - £11.95 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year - -66.81% +43.51%
London median hourly rate £23.00 £20.38 £26.00
% change year-on-year +12.88% -21.63% -10.34%

All Vendors
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 69 118 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 56.56% 53.64% 42.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 105 79
10th Percentile £292 £285 £169
25th Percentile £400 £380 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.13% -8.00% +10.01%
75th Percentile £585 £585 £583
90th Percentile £675 £625 £655
London median daily rate £526 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.55% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile £25.05 - -
25th Percentile £25.65 - -
Median hourly rate £26.63 £11.95 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +122.85% -66.81% +43.51%
75th Percentile £27.62 - -
90th Percentile £28.21 £19.03 -
London median hourly rate £27.00 £25.00 £31.92
% change year-on-year +8.00% -21.68% +1.33%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in East London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East London

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in East London

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Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in East London over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in East London

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in East London

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in East London

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Contract Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the East London region over the 6 months to 16 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tower Hamlets +5 16 £585 +4.00% 6
Havering +2 1 £525 +19.32% 13
Microsoft
London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East 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 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (19.05%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Chatbot
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (52.38%) Azure
2 5 (23.81%) Entra ID
2 5 (23.81%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (23.81%) Power Platform
3 4 (19.05%) AWS
4 3 (14.29%) Azure Functions
4 3 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (14.29%) Mimecast
4 3 (14.29%) OneDrive
4 3 (14.29%) Power Automate
4 3 (14.29%) Serverless
5 2 (9.52%) Azure AI
5 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (9.52%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (9.52%) PowerApps
6 1 (4.76%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) Firewall
2 4 (19.05%) VLAN
3 3 (14.29%) DHCP
3 3 (14.29%) DNS
3 3 (14.29%) SD-WAN
3 3 (14.29%) WAN
4 2 (9.52%) Internet
4 2 (9.52%) Network Security
5 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
5 1 (4.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (9.52%) Power BI
1 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
1 2 (9.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
General
1 6 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Banking
3 1 (4.76%) Environmental Health
3 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
3 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
3 1 (4.76%) Local Government
3 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (19.05%) Architect
1 4 (19.05%) Lead
2 3 (14.29%) Consultant
2 3 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 2 (9.52%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (9.52%) Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Lead Consultant
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Technical Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Technical Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365 Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Integration Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Junior PMO
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365 Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365 Project Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Project Owner
4 1 (4.76%) Workday Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) .NET
1 2 (9.52%) .NET Framework
1 2 (9.52%) ASP.NET Web API
1 2 (9.52%) CSS
1 2 (9.52%) HTML
1 2 (9.52%) HTML5 Canvas
1 2 (9.52%) JSON
1 2 (9.52%) WCF
1 2 (9.52%) XML
2 1 (4.76%) REST
2 1 (4.76%) SOAP
2 1 (4.76%) Web Services
2 1 (4.76%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Replication
2 3 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 2 (9.52%) PKI
3 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (42.86%) Windows
2 2 (9.52%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.76%) Apple iOS
3 1 (4.76%) Linux
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (23.81%) Agile
3 4 (19.05%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (19.05%) DevOps
3 4 (19.05%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (14.29%) Analytics
4 3 (14.29%) Business Continuity
4 3 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 3 (14.29%) Desktop Virtualisation
4 3 (14.29%) ITIL
4 3 (14.29%) Project Management
4 3 (14.29%) Threat Management
4 3 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 2 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
5 2 (9.52%) Customer Service
5 2 (9.52%) Incident Response
5 2 (9.52%) Key Management
5 2 (9.52%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 2 (9.52%) Roadmaps
5 2 (9.52%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 4 (19.05%) C#
2 4 (19.05%) Python
2 4 (19.05%) SQL
3 3 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (9.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.52%) T-SQL
4 2 (9.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.76%) CCNA
2 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.76%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (9.52%) Accessibility
2 2 (9.52%) NIST
2 2 (9.52%) SOC 2
3 1 (4.76%) PMO
3 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 8 (38.10%) Active Directory
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (4.76%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) SCCM
2 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.76%) logstash
3 1 (4.76%) Terraform
3 1 (4.76%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) VMware
2 1 (4.76%) CheckPoint
2 1 (4.76%) Cisco
2 1 (4.76%) Citrix
2 1 (4.76%) Cognizant
2 1 (4.76%) CyberArk
2 1 (4.76%) LogRhythm
2 1 (4.76%) McAfee
2 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.76%) SkyKick
2 1 (4.76%) Workday