Microsoft Consultant Contracts in England

Microsoft Consultant
UK > England

The median Microsoft Consultant daily rate in England is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 467 485 639
Rank change year-on-year +18 +154 +66
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft Consultant 19 56 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.078% 0.15% 0.068%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.084% 0.16% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 23 22
10th Percentile £400 £475 £439
25th Percentile £430 £500 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £600 £513
Median % change year-on-year -22.92% +17.07% -8.07%
75th Percentile £556 - £600
90th Percentile £730 £630 £684
UK median daily rate £452 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -24.67% +14.29% -4.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,595 34,453 47,601
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,023 22,865 33,797
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £640 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 899 2,434 1,402
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.30
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.78 £36.02 £44.77
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% -19.53% +98.96%
75th Percentile £64.13 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.95
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%

Microsoft Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Microsoft Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Consultant in England

Microsoft Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Consultant in England

Microsoft Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Consultant in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Consultant in England

Microsoft Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Consultant in England

Microsoft Consultant
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Consultant within the England region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
London +5 7 £400 -33.33% 14
South East +46 5 £550 +10.00% 14
North of England +25 3 £475 - 14
South West +41 1 £450 -10.00% 4
Yorkshire +7 1 £475 - 2
East of England - 1 - - 2
Midlands - 1 - - 7
North East - 1 £550 - 1
North West - 1 £450 - 11
West Midlands - 1 - - 5
Microsoft Consultant
UK

Microsoft Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Microsoft Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Microsoft Consultant in the job title.

1 16 (84.21%) Microsoft
2 7 (36.84%) Migration
3 6 (31.58%) Power Platform
4 5 (26.32%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (21.05%) Finance
5 4 (21.05%) Azure
6 3 (15.79%) Data Migration
6 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (15.79%) Entra ID
6 3 (15.79%) Project Management
6 3 (15.79%) PowerApps
6 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
6 3 (15.79%) Analytics
6 3 (15.79%) Workshop Facilitation
7 2 (10.53%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (10.53%) Power BI
7 2 (10.53%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (10.53%) Security Operations
7 2 (10.53%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 2 (10.53%) Threat Detection
7 2 (10.53%) Customer Requirements
7 2 (10.53%) SOAR
7 2 (10.53%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (10.53%) GAP Analysis
7 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
7 2 (10.53%) SharePoint
7 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (10.53%) ERP
7 2 (10.53%) Cutover Planning

Microsoft Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (10.53%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) Power Platform
2 5 (26.32%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (21.05%) Azure
4 3 (15.79%) Entra ID
4 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (15.79%) PowerApps
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (5.26%) Power Automate
6 1 (5.26%) SaaS
6 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Power BI
2 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.26%) MS Access
2 1 (5.26%) RDBMS
2 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
General
1 4 (21.05%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Electronics
3 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.26%) Local Government
3 1 (5.26%) Marketing
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) FIDO
1 1 (5.26%) OAuth
1 1 (5.26%) OpenID
1 1 (5.26%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) FMCG
1 1 (5.26%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Migration
2 3 (15.79%) Analytics
2 3 (15.79%) Data Migration
2 3 (15.79%) Project Management
2 3 (15.79%) Workshop Facilitation
3 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (10.53%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (10.53%) Cutover Planning
3 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (10.53%) ERP
3 2 (10.53%) GAP Analysis
3 2 (10.53%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (10.53%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 2 (10.53%) Security Operations
3 2 (10.53%) SIEM
3 2 (10.53%) SOAR
3 2 (10.53%) Threat Detection
4 1 (5.26%) Data Modelling
4 1 (5.26%) ETL
4 1 (5.26%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) C++
1 1 (5.26%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.26%) Python
1 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
1 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (5.26%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.26%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.26%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 16 (84.21%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Google