Microsoft Licensing Contracts in England

Microsoft Licensing
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Microsoft Licensing in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft Licensing over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 556 617
Rank change year-on-year +73 +61 +149
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Licensing 3 3 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.012% 0.008% 0.034%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.034% 0.026% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 10
10th Percentile £616 £231 £300
25th Percentile £622 £259 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £313 £516
Median % change year-on-year +112.00% -39.47% +21.47%
75th Percentile £722 £359 £538
90th Percentile £739 £384 £540
UK median daily rate £663 £313 £516
% change year-on-year +112.00% -39.47% +11.62%

All Generic Skills
England

Microsoft Licensing falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,715 11,382 15,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.70% 30.40% 33.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,596 7,313 10,964
10th Percentile £304 £280 £313
25th Percentile £408 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% +2.73%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £801 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -2.51% -2.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 852 542
10th Percentile £15.50 £12.16 £9.80
25th Percentile £19.25 £15.39 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.05 £37.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year -10.68% +64.55% -15.15%
75th Percentile £62.24 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.22 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £31.76 £36.00 £22.41
% change year-on-year -11.78% +60.64% -16.94%

Microsoft Licensing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Licensing in England

Microsoft Licensing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Licensing in England

Microsoft Licensing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Licensing in England

Microsoft Licensing
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 Licensing within the England region over the 6 months to 25 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
East of England - 2 £625 -
North of England - 1 £700 - 1
North West - 1 £700 - 1
Microsoft Licensing
UK

Microsoft Licensing
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Governance Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Software Licensing
2 2 (66.67%) Contract Negotiation
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Reduction
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Software Asset Management
3 1 (33.33%) UML
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CISM
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) HIPAA
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) BiZZdesign
2 1 (33.33%) CrowdStrike