Microsoft Copilot Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Copilot
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Microsoft Copilot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 92 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Copilot 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.36% 0.072% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.28% 0.35% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £483 - -
25th Percentile £531 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 -
75th Percentile £638 £638 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £560 £168
% change year-on-year -6.25% +234.33% -

All Cloud Skills
East of England

Microsoft Copilot falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 392 287 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 28.16% 20.56% 23.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 171 288
10th Percentile £213 £213 £185
25th Percentile £384 £300 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £420 £466
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -9.92% -8.80%
75th Percentile £580 £563 £575
90th Percentile £675 £638 £675
England median daily rate £500 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 10 28
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.06 £15.06
Median hourly rate £25.00 £20.69 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.86% +3.43% +29.03%
75th Percentile £65.25 £27.87 £65.64
90th Percentile £67.00 £55.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%

Microsoft Copilot
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Microsoft Copilot job vacancy trend in the East of England

Microsoft Copilot
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Copilot in the East of England over the 6 months to 23 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Copilot in the East of England

Microsoft Copilot
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Copilot within the East of England region over the 6 months to 23 October 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
Bedfordshire -4 2 £625 - 1
Hertfordshire - 2 £450 - 3
Cambridgeshire - 1 - - 2
Microsoft Copilot
England

Microsoft Copilot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure AI
2 2 (40.00%) ChatGPT
2 2 (40.00%) Copilot Studio
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Google Workspace
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) Salesforce Einstein
3 1 (20.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Power BI
2 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) scikit-learn
1 2 (40.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Digital Signage
1 1 (20.00%) Midjourney
1 1 (20.00%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) AI
2 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) API Development
3 2 (40.00%) B2B
3 2 (40.00%) B2C
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) CRM
3 2 (40.00%) Data Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Data Science
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Feature Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) LLM
3 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) MLOps
3 2 (40.00%) Prompt Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Google
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) OpenAI
3 2 (40.00%) Foundry
4 1 (20.00%) Genesys
4 1 (20.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (20.00%) SAP
4 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow