Microsoft Purview Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft Purview (formerly Azure Purview)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Microsoft Purview skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 408 513
Rank change year-on-year +44 +105 +184
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Purview 177 88 48
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.30% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.47% 0.83% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 50 27
10th Percentile £400 £431 £458
25th Percentile £461 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -12.00% +1.21%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £688 £780 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £540
% change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% -9.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £64.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £72.00 -

All Cloud Skills
England

Microsoft Purview 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 12,009 10,593 12,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.14% 36.68% 34.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,248 7,079 9,495
10th Percentile £305 £313 £286
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £638
90th Percentile £709 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 136 248
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.00 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.41 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.86 £29.00 £24.31
Median % change year-on-year -7.40% +19.32% +8.02%
75th Percentile £55.25 £49.06 £53.75
90th Percentile £75.17 £68.75 £77.65
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £27.50 £25.81
% change year-on-year -3.64% +6.55% +14.71%

Microsoft Purview
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Microsoft Purview job vacancy trend in England

Microsoft Purview
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Microsoft Purview
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Purview in England over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Purview in England

Microsoft Purview
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 Purview within the England region over the 6 months to 20 December 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 +37 97 £525 -4.55% 15
South East 0 26 £600 +17.99% 19
North of England -40 20 £470 -19.83% 7
Midlands -19 19 £600 - 7
West Midlands -18 13 £650 +8.33% 3
South West +5 10 £513 - 1
North West -24 8 £488 -18.75% 3
North East - 7 £425 -
Yorkshire -47 6 £480 -8.57% 4
East Midlands - 6 £413 - 4
East of England - 5 £625 - 1
Microsoft Purview
UK

Microsoft Purview
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 37 (20.90%) SharePoint
2 34 (19.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.95%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.69%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (1.13%) Apache
5 2 (1.13%) Confluence
6 1 (0.56%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.56%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.69%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.13%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 98 (55.37%) Azure
2 74 (41.81%) Microsoft 365
3 65 (36.72%) Entra ID
4 45 (25.42%) Power Platform
5 21 (11.86%) Azure Data Factory
6 20 (11.30%) Azure Sentinel
7 19 (10.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 18 (10.17%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (9.04%) OneDrive
10 15 (8.47%) Azure Logic Apps
11 12 (6.78%) Azure Functions
11 12 (6.78%) Serverless
12 10 (5.65%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (5.08%) AWS
13 9 (5.08%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (5.08%) GitHub
13 9 (5.08%) Microsoft Copilot
13 9 (5.08%) PowerApps
14 8 (4.52%) Azure Key Vault
15 7 (3.95%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.47%) Firewall
2 9 (5.08%) VPN
3 5 (2.82%) DKIM
3 5 (2.82%) DMARC
3 5 (2.82%) LAN
4 4 (2.26%) MPLS
4 4 (2.26%) WAN
5 3 (1.69%) DNS
5 3 (1.69%) SMTP
5 3 (1.69%) WLAN
6 2 (1.13%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (1.13%) SAN
7 1 (0.56%) NAS
7 1 (0.56%) Network Security
7 1 (0.56%) PSTN
7 1 (0.56%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (15.25%) Power BI
2 26 (14.69%) Metadata
3 15 (8.47%) Data Lake
4 14 (7.91%) Spark SQL
5 11 (6.21%) Delta Lake
6 7 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (2.26%) Tableau
10 3 (1.69%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.69%) SQL Server
11 2 (1.13%) Big Data
11 2 (1.13%) HDInsight
11 2 (1.13%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.56%) GIS
12 1 (0.56%) Parquet
12 1 (0.56%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 5 (2.82%) Git
2 4 (2.26%) JIRA
3 2 (1.13%) Jenkins
General
1 54 (30.51%) Social Skills
2 28 (15.82%) Public Sector
3 26 (14.69%) Finance
4 20 (11.30%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (10.73%) Legal
6 12 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.95%) Banking
8 5 (2.82%) Military
9 4 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.13%) Law
10 2 (1.13%) Local Government
10 2 (1.13%) Marketing
10 2 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Advertising
11 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.56%) Finnish Language
11 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.56%) International Banking
11 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 48 (27.12%) Architect
2 32 (18.08%) Security Engineer
3 22 (12.43%) Data Architect
4 14 (7.91%) Consultant
4 14 (7.91%) Senior
5 13 (7.34%) Analyst
6 12 (6.78%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (6.78%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 12 (6.78%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (5.65%) Data Engineer
8 9 (5.08%) Microsoft Engineer
9 8 (4.52%) Microsoft 365 Architect
9 8 (4.52%) Security Architect
10 6 (3.39%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (3.39%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 6 (3.39%) Lead
10 6 (3.39%) Security Analyst
11 5 (2.82%) Azure Architect
11 5 (2.82%) Azure Data Engineer
11 5 (2.82%) Data Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.34%) PySpark
2 9 (5.08%) Microsoft Graph
3 7 (3.95%) OAuth
4 6 (3.39%) OpenID
5 5 (2.82%) REST
5 5 (2.82%) SAML
6 4 (2.26%) Kafka
6 4 (2.26%) YAML
7 2 (1.13%) .NET
7 2 (1.13%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.13%) EDI
7 2 (1.13%) JSON
7 2 (1.13%) LangChain
7 2 (1.13%) LangGraph
8 1 (0.56%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.56%) Regular Expression
8 1 (0.56%) SOAP
8 1 (0.56%) SPFx
8 1 (0.56%) Web Services
8 1 (0.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.60%) Security Posture
2 9 (5.08%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.52%) Low-Code
4 7 (3.95%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.39%) BYOD
5 6 (3.39%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.82%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.82%) IoT
6 5 (2.82%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.69%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.69%) Data Fabric
8 3 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.69%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.69%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.56%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.56%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.52%) Windows
2 1 (0.56%) Linux
2 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (35.59%) Data Governance
2 45 (25.42%) Data Loss Prevention
3 31 (17.51%) Cybersecurity
4 30 (16.95%) Analytics
5 27 (15.25%) DevOps
5 27 (15.25%) Incident Response
5 27 (15.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 26 (14.69%) Business Intelligence
6 26 (14.69%) CI/CD
6 26 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (13.56%) Cloud Security
7 24 (13.56%) Data Architecture
8 22 (12.43%) Data Modelling
8 22 (12.43%) Stakeholder Management
8 22 (12.43%) Zero Trust
9 20 (11.30%) Identity Access Management
10 19 (10.73%) Agile
10 19 (10.73%) Migration
10 19 (10.73%) Security Operations
11 18 (10.17%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 42 (23.73%) PowerShell
2 26 (14.69%) Python
3 21 (11.86%) SQL
4 9 (5.08%) Kusto Query Language
5 8 (4.52%) Java
6 5 (2.82%) Scala
7 4 (2.26%) Bicep
7 4 (2.26%) C#
7 4 (2.26%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.26%) R
8 2 (1.13%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.56%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 32 (18.08%) Security Cleared
2 25 (14.12%) SC Cleared
3 24 (13.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 20 (11.30%) Degree
5 18 (10.17%) Azure Certification
6 16 (9.04%) CISSP
7 7 (3.95%) CISM
8 6 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (2.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (2.82%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (1.13%) CCSP
11 2 (1.13%) CEH
11 2 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.13%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 2 (1.13%) MCP
12 1 (0.56%) CCNA
12 1 (0.56%) CCNP
12 1 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (19.77%) GDPR
2 21 (11.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (10.73%) Data Quality
3 19 (10.73%) NIST
4 6 (3.39%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (2.82%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.69%) GRC
6 3 (1.69%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.69%) NCSC
6 3 (1.69%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.13%) Basel III
7 2 (1.13%) EU AI Act
7 2 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 2 (1.13%) QA
8 1 (0.56%) Basel II
8 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.56%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 33 (18.64%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.69%) Docker
2 3 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.56%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (11.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (4.52%) Terraform
3 4 (2.26%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.26%) SCCM
4 2 (1.13%) CASB
4 2 (1.13%) Nessus
4 2 (1.13%) QRadar
5 1 (0.56%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.56%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.56%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 153 (86.44%) Microsoft
2 25 (14.12%) Databricks
3 11 (6.21%) Tenable
4 7 (3.95%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.39%) Fortinet
6 5 (2.82%) VMware
7 4 (2.26%) Informatica
7 4 (2.26%) Virgin Media
8 3 (1.69%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.69%) Cisco
8 3 (1.69%) OneTrust
8 3 (1.69%) Workday
9 2 (1.13%) BeyondTrust
9 2 (1.13%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.13%) Darktrace
9 2 (1.13%) LogRhythm
9 2 (1.13%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.13%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.13%) SAP
9 2 (1.13%) Zscaler