Microsoft Copilot Contracts in England

Microsoft Copilot
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Microsoft Copilot skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft Copilot over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 430 523 -
Rank change year-on-year +93 - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Copilot 55 19 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.051% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.61% 0.16% -
Number of daily rates quoted 27 12 0
10th Percentile £276 - -
25th Percentile £469 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £600 £591 -
90th Percentile £650 £600 -
UK median daily rate £538 £500 -
% change year-on-year +7.50% - -

All Cloud Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 9,062 11,852 18,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.21% 31.87% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,544 13,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 321 311
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%
75th Percentile £40.50 £32.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £61.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Microsoft Copilot
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Copilot in England

Microsoft Copilot
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Copilot in England

Microsoft Copilot
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Copilot in England

Microsoft Copilot
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 Copilot within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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 +61 39 £550 +10.00% 29
South East - 8 £500 - 17
North of England - 4 £188 - 14
Yorkshire - 2 £188 - 3
North East - 2 - - 2
East of England - 1 - - 3
Microsoft Copilot
UK

Microsoft Copilot
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 17 (30.91%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.64%) Drupal
2 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.64%) OpenEdge
3 1 (1.82%) CMS
3 1 (1.82%) Confluence
3 1 (1.82%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 4 (7.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 36 (65.45%) Microsoft 365
2 33 (60.00%) Azure
3 26 (47.27%) Power Platform
4 14 (25.45%) Power Automate
4 14 (25.45%) PowerApps
5 12 (21.82%) Copilot Studio
6 9 (16.36%) Microsoft Purview
7 6 (10.91%) Entra ID
8 5 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (9.09%) GitHub
9 4 (7.27%) ChatGPT
10 3 (5.45%) OneDrive
11 2 (3.64%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (3.64%) AWS
11 2 (3.64%) Mimecast
12 1 (1.82%) Azure AI
12 1 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (1.82%) Google Gemini
12 1 (1.82%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.09%) Firewall
2 4 (7.27%) VPN
3 3 (5.45%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (3.64%) DHCP
4 2 (3.64%) DNS
4 2 (3.64%) SD-WAN
4 2 (3.64%) VLAN
4 2 (3.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (29.09%) Power BI
2 7 (12.73%) SQL Server
3 5 (9.09%) BusinessObjects
3 5 (9.09%) Crystal Reports
3 5 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (9.09%) Tableau
4 2 (3.64%) MySQL
4 2 (3.64%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.82%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (3.64%) JIRA
1 2 (3.64%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.82%) Gemini Tracker
General
1 28 (50.91%) Social Skills
2 18 (32.73%) Finance
3 9 (16.36%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (10.91%) Banking
5 5 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.45%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.45%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.64%) Billing
7 2 (3.64%) Electronics
7 2 (3.64%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.64%) Marketing
8 1 (1.82%) Legal
8 1 (1.82%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 14 (25.45%) Developer
2 8 (14.55%) Consultant
3 6 (10.91%) Lead
4 5 (9.09%) Architect
4 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Developer
4 5 (9.09%) Power BI Developer
5 4 (7.27%) Deployment Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Designer
5 4 (7.27%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
5 4 (7.27%) Solutions Designer
5 4 (7.27%) Windows Deployment Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Windows Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Lead Consultant
6 3 (5.45%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Power Platform Developer
6 3 (5.45%) Project Manager
6 3 (5.45%) SQL Developer
7 2 (3.64%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.09%) YAML
2 2 (3.64%) .NET
2 2 (3.64%) ASP.NET
2 2 (3.64%) JSON
3 1 (1.82%) ADO
3 1 (1.82%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.82%) CSS
3 1 (1.82%) EDI
3 1 (1.82%) HTML
3 1 (1.82%) jQuery
3 1 (1.82%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.27%) Low-Code
2 3 (5.45%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.64%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (3.64%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.64%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.82%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.82%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (47.27%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (14.55%) Generative AI
2 8 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (12.73%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (12.73%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (12.73%) Data Loss Prevention
3 7 (12.73%) Machine Learning
4 6 (10.91%) Business Analysis
4 6 (10.91%) User Experience
5 5 (9.09%) Agile
5 5 (9.09%) API Integration
5 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (9.09%) Product Thinking
5 5 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
5 5 (9.09%) SDLC
5 5 (9.09%) Visualisation
6 4 (7.27%) Architectural Patterns
6 4 (7.27%) Configuration Management
6 4 (7.27%) ITIL
6 4 (7.27%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 10 (18.18%) SQL
2 9 (16.36%) Python
3 8 (14.55%) PowerShell
4 6 (10.91%) JavaScript
5 5 (9.09%) C#
6 4 (7.27%) Bicep
7 2 (3.64%) Java
7 2 (3.64%) PHP
7 2 (3.64%) Ruby
8 1 (1.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (3.64%) Azure Certification
2 2 (3.64%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.27%) QA
2 2 (3.64%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.82%) EU AI Act
3 1 (1.82%) GDPR
3 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (1.82%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (7.27%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.64%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 6 (10.91%) SCCM
2 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 43 (78.18%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 4 (7.27%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.45%) Cisco
4 3 (5.45%) CyberArk
4 3 (5.45%) Planview
4 3 (5.45%) Sybase
5 2 (3.64%) OpenAI
5 2 (3.64%) SAP
6 1 (1.82%) Google
6 1 (1.82%) OneTrust
6 1 (1.82%) Oracle
6 1 (1.82%) Sitecore