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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 430 520 -
Rank change year-on-year +90 - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Copilot 62 31 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.25% 0.083% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.66% 0.26% -
Number of daily rates quoted 33 16 0
10th Percentile £313 £408 -
25th Percentile £400 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 -
75th Percentile £588 £600 -
90th Percentile £688 £694 -
UK median daily rate £500 £500 -

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 9,441 12,030 17,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.68% 32.20% 36.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,413 8,594 12,530
10th Percentile £310 £306 £325
25th Percentile £413 £418 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 335 287
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.06 £19.46
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.50 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +16.98% -33.44% +53.81%
75th Percentile £37.75 £43.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £69.00 £70.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -37.14% +59.09%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +70 41 £550 +2.33% 112
South East - 11 £500 - 36
North of England +30 4 £519 - 46
Midlands +8 2 £315 -24.10% 28
West Midlands +4 2 £315 -24.10% 15
North East - 2 - - 1
Yorkshire +3 1 £188 - 13
North West - 1 £850 - 32
East of England - 1 - - 21
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 15 (24.19%) SharePoint
2 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.23%) Drupal
3 2 (3.23%) OpenEdge
4 1 (1.61%) CMS
4 1 (1.61%) Confluence
4 1 (1.61%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 5 (8.06%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (56.45%) Azure
1 35 (56.45%) Microsoft 365
2 30 (48.39%) Power Platform
3 19 (30.65%) Power Automate
4 17 (27.42%) PowerApps
5 14 (22.58%) Copilot Studio
6 6 (9.68%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (8.06%) Entra ID
7 5 (8.06%) OneDrive
8 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (4.84%) Mimecast
9 2 (3.23%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (3.23%) AWS
9 2 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.23%) Azure Functions
9 2 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (3.23%) ChatGPT
9 2 (3.23%) Serverless
10 1 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.06%) VPN
2 3 (4.84%) DHCP
2 3 (4.84%) DNS
2 3 (4.84%) Firewall
3 2 (3.23%) SD-WAN
3 2 (3.23%) VLAN
3 2 (3.23%) WAN
4 1 (1.61%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (1.61%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (25.81%) Power BI
2 10 (16.13%) SQL Server
3 6 (9.68%) Tableau
4 5 (8.06%) BusinessObjects
4 5 (8.06%) Crystal Reports
4 5 (8.06%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (8.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (3.23%) MySQL
5 2 (3.23%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.61%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Git
1 2 (3.23%) JIRA
1 2 (3.23%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.61%) Gemini Tracker
General
1 29 (46.77%) Social Skills
2 17 (27.42%) Finance
3 8 (12.90%) Banking
4 6 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.06%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.84%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.23%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.23%) Legal
7 2 (3.23%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.23%) Retail
8 1 (1.61%) Electronics
8 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.61%) Local Government
8 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.61%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (19.35%) Developer
2 11 (17.74%) Consultant
3 8 (12.90%) Architect
4 6 (9.68%) Lead
5 5 (8.06%) Deployment Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
5 5 (8.06%) Power BI Developer
5 5 (8.06%) Windows Deployment Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) Windows Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Analyst
6 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Developer
6 4 (6.45%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Power Platform Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.84%) Lead Consultant
7 3 (4.84%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Migration Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Power Platform Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Project Manager
7 3 (4.84%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.45%) .NET
1 4 (6.45%) ASP.NET
2 3 (4.84%) CSS
2 3 (4.84%) HTML
3 2 (3.23%) .NET Framework
3 2 (3.23%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (3.23%) Entity Framework
3 2 (3.23%) HTML5 Canvas
3 2 (3.23%) JSON
3 2 (3.23%) PySpark
4 1 (1.61%) ADO
4 1 (1.61%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.61%) EDI
4 1 (1.61%) jQuery
4 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (1.61%) React
4 1 (1.61%) Software Packaging
4 1 (1.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.45%) Mobile App
2 3 (4.84%) Low-Code
2 3 (4.84%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.23%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.61%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.61%) IVR
4 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (46.77%) Artificial Intelligence
2 10 (16.13%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (14.52%) Machine Learning
4 7 (11.29%) Agile
4 7 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (11.29%) User Experience
5 6 (9.68%) Business Analysis
5 6 (9.68%) CI/CD
5 6 (9.68%) Generative AI
5 6 (9.68%) ITIL
5 6 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (9.68%) SDLC
6 5 (8.06%) Architectural Patterns
6 5 (8.06%) Configuration Management
6 5 (8.06%) Conversational UI
6 5 (8.06%) Requirements Gathering
6 5 (8.06%) Roadmaps
6 5 (8.06%) Visualisation
7 4 (6.45%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (6.45%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.52%) JavaScript
1 9 (14.52%) SQL
2 8 (12.90%) C#
2 8 (12.90%) Python
3 4 (6.45%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.23%) Java
4 2 (3.23%) PHP
4 2 (3.23%) Ruby
5 1 (1.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (3.23%) Degree
3 1 (1.61%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.61%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.06%) QA
2 2 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.61%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.61%) EU AI Act
3 1 (1.61%) GDPR
3 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (1.61%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (6.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.23%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (12.90%) Microsoft Intune
1 8 (12.90%) SCCM
2 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 47 (75.81%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.06%) ServiceNow
3 4 (6.45%) CyberArk
3 4 (6.45%) OpenAI
4 3 (4.84%) Palantir
5 2 (3.23%) Citrix
6 1 (1.61%) Automation Anywhere
6 1 (1.61%) Blue Prism
6 1 (1.61%) Cisco
6 1 (1.61%) Databricks
6 1 (1.61%) Foundry
6 1 (1.61%) Google
6 1 (1.61%) IBM
6 1 (1.61%) OneTrust
6 1 (1.61%) Oracle
6 1 (1.61%) Planview
6 1 (1.61%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.61%) SAP
6 1 (1.61%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.61%) VMware