Microsoft Graph Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft Graph API
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Microsoft Graph skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 478 496
Rank change year-on-year -47 +18 +79
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Graph 100 36 26
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.13% 0.080%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.02% 0.50% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 20 17
10th Percentile £328 £305 £385
25th Percentile £450 £330 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £575
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -15.22% +15.00%
75th Percentile £675 £628 £614
90th Percentile £800 £688 £670
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £593
% change year-on-year +10.53% -19.83% +19.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £87.50 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Microsoft Graph falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,834 7,167 8,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.28% 25.51% 24.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,473 4,836 5,249
10th Percentile £381 £356 £360
25th Percentile £450 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 170 171
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £35.00
25th Percentile £54.68 £41.34 £43.00
Median hourly rate £66.66 £54.35 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.65% -16.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £51.97 £65.00
% change year-on-year +25.07% -20.05% +8.33%

Microsoft Graph
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Microsoft Graph job vacancy trend in England

Microsoft Graph
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Microsoft Graph.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Microsoft Graph

Microsoft Graph
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Graph in England over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Graph in England

Microsoft Graph
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 Graph within the England region over the 6 months to 9 October 2026. 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 -56 62 £544 +8.75% 58
South East -44 18 £500 - 12
North of England -55 13 £475 +35.71% 15
North West -43 10 £475 +17.28% 10
Midlands -34 9 £500 +61.29% 4
West Midlands -36 9 £500 +61.29% 4
Yorkshire - 3 - - 5
South West -32 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 £600 - 9
Microsoft Graph
UK

Microsoft Graph
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 39 (39.00%) SharePoint
2 13 (13.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.00%) Apache
3 1 (1.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.00%) Camunda
Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 61 (61.00%) Azure
2 55 (55.00%) Entra ID
3 44 (44.00%) Power Platform
4 40 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
5 29 (29.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 23 (23.00%) Microsoft Copilot
7 22 (22.00%) Power Automate
8 20 (20.00%) Azure Functions
8 20 (20.00%) Serverless
9 19 (19.00%) Azure AI
9 19 (19.00%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (17.00%) Copilot Studio
11 16 (16.00%) GitHub
12 15 (15.00%) AWS
13 14 (14.00%) Microsoft Purview
13 14 (14.00%) OneDrive
14 11 (11.00%) PowerApps
15 9 (9.00%) Amazon Bedrock
16 7 (7.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 6 (6.00%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.00%) DKIM
1 3 (3.00%) DMARC
1 3 (3.00%) DNS
2 2 (2.00%) Firewall
2 2 (2.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.00%) VPN
3 1 (1.00%) SMTP
3 1 (1.00%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (21.00%) Power BI
2 7 (7.00%) Data Lake
2 7 (7.00%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (6.00%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (6.00%) Metadata
4 5 (5.00%) Big Data
4 5 (5.00%) Neo4j
5 3 (3.00%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.00%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (2.00%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.00%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (5.00%) MSI
2 4 (4.00%) Git
3 2 (2.00%) AdminStudio
3 2 (2.00%) InstallShield
3 2 (2.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.00%) JIRA
General
1 21 (21.00%) Finance
2 19 (19.00%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.00%) Banking
4 9 (9.00%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (6.00%) Military
6 5 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.00%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.00%) Law
9 1 (1.00%) Aviation
9 1 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.00%) Local Government
9 1 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.00%) Retail
9 1 (1.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (16.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 11 (11.00%) Consultant
2 11 (11.00%) Senior
3 10 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 9 (9.00%) Architect
4 9 (9.00%) Developer
5 8 (8.00%) Applications Engineer
6 7 (7.00%) Automation Engineer
6 7 (7.00%) Voice Engineer
7 5 (5.00%) Big Data Engineer
7 5 (5.00%) Lead
7 5 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 5 (5.00%) Microsoft Engineer
7 5 (5.00%) Python Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) Analyst
8 4 (4.00%) Cisco Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) Cisco Voice Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) Power Platform Consultant
8 4 (4.00%) PowerShell Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (23.00%) REST
2 15 (15.00%) JSON
3 10 (10.00%) OAuth
3 10 (10.00%) OAuth2
4 9 (9.00%) OpenID
5 8 (8.00%) Terraform
6 7 (7.00%) .NET
6 7 (7.00%) FIDO
6 7 (7.00%) Model Context Protocol
6 7 (7.00%) Semantic Kernel
7 6 (6.00%) SAML
7 6 (6.00%) SPFx
8 5 (5.00%) LangChain
8 5 (5.00%) Langfuse
8 5 (5.00%) LangGraph
8 5 (5.00%) React
9 4 (4.00%) A2A Protocol
10 3 (3.00%) GraphQL
10 3 (3.00%) OpenAPI
10 3 (3.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 20 (20.00%) AI Agents
2 18 (18.00%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (10.00%) Cloud Native
4 9 (9.00%) Onboarding
5 5 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (5.00%) Legacy Applications
5 5 (5.00%) Low-Code
5 5 (5.00%) Management Information System
5 5 (5.00%) Virtual Team
6 3 (3.00%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.00%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.00%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.00%) Taxonomies
8 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.00%) Learning Management System
8 1 (1.00%) Linked Data
8 1 (1.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 17 (17.00%) Windows
2 2 (2.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (2.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (1.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (50.00%) AI
2 26 (26.00%) CI/CD
3 22 (22.00%) Analytics
3 22 (22.00%) LLM
4 21 (21.00%) DevOps
5 20 (20.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 19 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (16.00%) Generative AI
8 15 (15.00%) Roadmaps
8 15 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (14.00%) Agile
9 14 (14.00%) Zero Trust
10 13 (13.00%) Change Management
10 13 (13.00%) Runbook
11 12 (12.00%) Data Engineering
11 12 (12.00%) Data Pipeline
11 12 (12.00%) Identity Management
11 12 (12.00%) Workflow
12 11 (11.00%) Identity Access Management
12 11 (11.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 49 (49.00%) PowerShell
2 31 (31.00%) Python
3 14 (14.00%) SQL
4 10 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 9 (9.00%) JavaScript
6 8 (8.00%) C#
7 6 (6.00%) Bicep
8 3 (3.00%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (2.00%) Bash
9 2 (2.00%) Java
10 1 (1.00%) Gremlin
10 1 (1.00%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (17.00%) Degree
2 15 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 8 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (7.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 7 (7.00%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.00%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.00%) CISSP
6 2 (2.00%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.00%) CISM
7 1 (1.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (5.00%) NIST
4 3 (3.00%) QA
5 1 (1.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 26 (26.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (3.00%) Docker
4 2 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (6.00%) SCCM
3 5 (5.00%) Kubernetes
4 4 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.00%) Ansible
6 1 (1.00%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.00%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 99 (99.00%) Microsoft
2 18 (18.00%) OpenAI
3 12 (12.00%) ServiceNow
4 10 (10.00%) Foundry
5 8 (8.00%) Salesforce
6 7 (7.00%) Cisco
6 7 (7.00%) Ribbon
6 7 (7.00%) Splunk
7 5 (5.00%) Amplitude
7 5 (5.00%) Citrix
7 5 (5.00%) Google
8 4 (4.00%) IBM
8 4 (4.00%) Remedy
8 4 (4.00%) UiPath
8 4 (4.00%) Workday
9 3 (3.00%) Bloomberg
9 3 (3.00%) Ivanti
9 3 (3.00%) Oracle
9 3 (3.00%) SAP
10 2 (2.00%) Databricks