Microsoft Contracts in England

Microsoft
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Microsoft Corporation.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 7 9
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 4,813 6,687 8,871
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 13.09% 13.68% 12.64%
As % of the Vendors category 30.99% 32.62% 32.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,194 4,898 6,264
10th Percentile £189 £203 £184
25th Percentile £325 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +13.25%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £600
90th Percentile £700 £719 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - +12.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 428 193 398
10th Percentile £11.07 £13.29 £10.77
25th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £15.00 £21.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +13.51% +1.26%
75th Percentile £24.81 £43.63 £35.42
90th Percentile £52.85 £63.60 £50.84
UK median hourly rate £15.00 £22.41 £18.55
% change year-on-year -33.07% +20.81% +6.00%

All Vendors
England

Microsoft is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,533 20,498 27,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.25% 41.94% 39.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,856 14,097 18,923
10th Percentile £263 £263 £275
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% +1.90% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £748 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,019 593 783
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.21 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.45 £18.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £38.50 £21.39
Median % change year-on-year -41.56% +79.99% +1.86%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £47.34
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £62.90
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -3.72%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in England

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in England

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in England

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in England

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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 within the England region over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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 +3 2,192 £500 -7.41% 1,254
South East 0 800 £465 - 830
North of England +4 654 £448 -5.63% 924
South West +1 507 £500 -4.76% 488
North West +2 393 £450 -5.26% 493
Midlands -3 337 £400 -5.88% 709
West Midlands -4 226 £400 -11.11% 443
Yorkshire +2 225 £380 -20.00% 319
East of England -2 214 £434 +2.00% 389
East Midlands -4 104 £400 +11.11% 267
North East +11 38 £378 +51.96% 118
Microsoft
UK

Microsoft
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
1 499 (10.37%) SharePoint
2 355 (7.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 106 (2.20%) Confluence
4 61 (1.27%) CMS
5 38 (0.79%) SharePoint Server
6 33 (0.69%) IIS
7 27 (0.56%) Skype for Business
8 24 (0.50%) Apache Spark
9 18 (0.37%) Apache
10 11 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
11 10 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
12 9 (0.19%) Tomcat
13 8 (0.17%) Drupal
13 8 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2007
13 8 (0.17%) WordPress
14 7 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 7 (0.15%) IBM Notes
15 6 (0.12%) Anypoint
15 6 (0.12%) ArcGIS
15 6 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 874 (18.16%) Microsoft Office
2 576 (11.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 281 (5.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 131 (2.72%) Microsoft Project
5 106 (2.20%) MS Visio
6 100 (2.08%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 11 (0.23%) Photoshop
9 9 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
9 9 (0.19%) CATIA
10 8 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
10 8 (0.17%) Chatbot
11 7 (0.15%) InDesign
12 5 (0.10%) Acrobat
13 3 (0.062%) Camtasia
14 2 (0.042%) FileZilla
14 2 (0.042%) InfoPath
14 2 (0.042%) Trello
15 1 (0.021%) Adobe Captivate
15 1 (0.021%) CINEMA 4D
Business Applications
1 129 (2.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 38 (0.79%) Dynamics AX
3 27 (0.56%) Dynamics GP
4 16 (0.33%) Teamcenter
5 15 (0.31%) Shopify
6 13 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 12 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
7 12 (0.25%) Primavera
8 11 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
8 11 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
9 9 (0.19%) Endur
9 9 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
10 8 (0.17%) DELMIA
10 8 (0.17%) Loan IQ
10 8 (0.17%) Magento
11 7 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
11 7 (0.15%) NetSuite
12 6 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
12 6 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
13 5 (0.10%) Aareon QL
Cloud Services
1 1,649 (34.26%) Azure
2 1,059 (22.00%) Microsoft 365
3 558 (11.59%) Power Platform
4 383 (7.96%) Azure DevOps
5 354 (7.36%) Entra ID
6 324 (6.73%) Dynamics 365
7 275 (5.71%) AWS
8 201 (4.18%) PowerApps
9 190 (3.95%) Power Automate
10 145 (3.01%) PaaS
11 138 (2.87%) SaaS
12 111 (2.31%) IaaS
13 108 (2.24%) OneDrive
14 87 (1.81%) Serverless
15 85 (1.77%) Azure Monitor
16 83 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
17 80 (1.66%) GCP
18 75 (1.56%) Azure Service Bus
19 73 (1.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 68 (1.41%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 304 (6.32%) Firewall
2 264 (5.49%) DNS
3 177 (3.68%) DHCP
4 156 (3.24%) VPN
5 134 (2.78%) LAN
6 111 (2.31%) SAN
7 108 (2.24%) WAN
8 105 (2.18%) TCP/IP
9 89 (1.85%) Wireless
10 82 (1.70%) Wi-Fi
11 56 (1.16%) Network Security
12 53 (1.10%) VoIP
13 42 (0.87%) BGP
13 42 (0.87%) VLAN
14 38 (0.79%) NAS
15 36 (0.75%) Skype
16 35 (0.73%) Internet
17 33 (0.69%) Remote Desktop
18 29 (0.60%) Intranet
18 29 (0.60%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 492 (10.22%) SQL Server
2 373 (7.75%) Power BI
3 143 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
4 111 (2.31%) Data Lake
5 89 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 74 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
7 72 (1.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 63 (1.31%) NoSQL
9 62 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
10 59 (1.23%) Relational Database
11 47 (0.98%) MySQL
12 43 (0.89%) Big Data
13 37 (0.77%) Tableau
14 33 (0.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 30 (0.62%) Metadata
16 24 (0.50%) MongoDB
17 22 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
18 19 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
19 17 (0.35%) Redis
20 15 (0.31%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 227 (4.72%) JIRA
2 131 (2.72%) Git
3 70 (1.45%) Visual Studio
4 57 (1.18%) Jenkins
5 45 (0.93%) GitLab
6 35 (0.73%) SpecFlow
7 33 (0.69%) Postman
8 32 (0.66%) Selenium
9 25 (0.52%) TeamCity
10 21 (0.44%) MSI
11 18 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 16 (0.33%) Maven
13 15 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
13 15 (0.31%) WebDriver
14 14 (0.29%) SonarQube
15 13 (0.27%) Bitbucket
16 12 (0.25%) Eclipse
16 12 (0.25%) Visual Studio Team System
17 11 (0.23%) Subversion
18 10 (0.21%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1,727 (35.88%) Social Skills
2 907 (18.84%) Finance
3 573 (11.91%) Analytical Skills
4 407 (8.46%) Public Sector
5 236 (4.90%) Banking
6 183 (3.80%) Marketing
7 180 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
8 171 (3.55%) Presentation Skills
9 165 (3.43%) Telecoms
10 161 (3.35%) Legal
11 138 (2.87%) Retail
12 137 (2.85%) Manufacturing
13 67 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
14 60 (1.25%) Electronics
15 59 (1.23%) Back Office
16 53 (1.10%) Law
17 51 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
17 51 (1.06%) Local Government
18 50 (1.04%) Financial Institution
19 44 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 627 (13.03%) Analyst
2 523 (10.87%) Developer
3 503 (10.45%) Architect
4 391 (8.12%) Senior
5 299 (6.21%) Consultant
6 249 (5.17%) Support Engineer
7 246 (5.11%) Lead
8 182 (3.78%) Project Manager
9 174 (3.62%) IT Support
10 173 (3.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 171 (3.55%) Administrator
12 153 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
13 145 (3.01%) Service Analyst
14 135 (2.80%) Azure Engineer
15 125 (2.60%) Senior Developer
16 120 (2.49%) IT Engineer
17 117 (2.43%) Service Desk Analyst
18 113 (2.35%) 2nd Line Support
18 113 (2.35%) Desktop Support
19 98 (2.04%) Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 327 (6.79%) .NET
2 168 (3.49%) XML
3 107 (2.22%) .NET Core
4 105 (2.18%) .NET Framework
5 96 (1.99%) HTML
6 92 (1.91%) CSS
7 86 (1.79%) JSON
8 84 (1.75%) Web Services
9 79 (1.64%) REST
10 76 (1.58%) React
11 62 (1.29%) AngularJS
12 57 (1.18%) ASP.NET
13 52 (1.08%) ARM Templates
14 39 (0.81%) Kafka
15 33 (0.69%) Node.js
16 32 (0.66%) RESTful
17 30 (0.62%) LDAP
17 30 (0.62%) Middleware
18 29 (0.60%) PySpark
19 28 (0.58%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 230 (4.78%) Management Information System
2 142 (2.95%) PKI
3 131 (2.72%) Product Ownership
4 112 (2.33%) Data Centre
5 109 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
6 86 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
7 84 (1.75%) Data Structures
8 79 (1.64%) Onboarding
9 67 (1.39%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 66 (1.37%) Cyber Defence
11 64 (1.33%) Driving Licence
12 61 (1.27%) NHS
13 60 (1.25%) Security Posture
14 56 (1.16%) Video Conferencing
15 55 (1.14%) Cloud Native
16 47 (0.98%) Private Cloud
17 46 (0.96%) Public Cloud
18 40 (0.83%) Clustering
18 40 (0.83%) Virtual Team
19 38 (0.79%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1,327 (27.57%) Windows
2 474 (9.85%) Windows 10
3 431 (8.95%) Windows Server
4 329 (6.84%) Linux
5 127 (2.64%) Windows Server 2012
6 119 (2.47%) Windows 7
7 117 (2.43%) Windows Server 2019
8 111 (2.31%) Windows Server 2016
9 71 (1.48%) Apple iOS
10 66 (1.37%) Android
11 61 (1.27%) Mac OS
12 51 (1.06%) Unix
13 35 (0.73%) Ubuntu
14 34 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 25 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
16 20 (0.42%) Windows NT
16 20 (0.42%) Windows XP
17 19 (0.39%) Mac OS X
17 19 (0.39%) VMS
18 17 (0.35%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 882 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
2 866 (17.99%) Agile
3 654 (13.59%) DevOps
4 566 (11.76%) Customer Service
5 531 (11.03%) ITIL
6 476 (9.89%) Migration
7 444 (9.23%) Project Management
8 441 (9.16%) Business Intelligence
9 322 (6.69%) CI/CD
10 297 (6.17%) Analytics
11 290 (6.03%) Cybersecurity
12 282 (5.86%) Stakeholder Management
13 260 (5.40%) Change Management
13 260 (5.40%) Project Delivery
14 247 (5.13%) Service Delivery
15 235 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 230 (4.78%) Data Modelling
17 224 (4.65%) Scrum
18 218 (4.53%) Decision-Making
19 214 (4.45%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 571 (11.86%) SQL
2 537 (11.16%) PowerShell
3 395 (8.21%) C#
4 263 (5.46%) Python
5 157 (3.26%) JavaScript
6 130 (2.70%) Java
7 99 (2.06%) Bicep
8 66 (1.37%) T-SQL
9 56 (1.16%) TypeScript
10 49 (1.02%) Bash
11 35 (0.73%) C++
12 30 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
13 28 (0.58%) VB
14 27 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 27 (0.56%) Shell Script
15 26 (0.54%) C
16 25 (0.52%) PL/SQL
17 24 (0.50%) VBScript
18 18 (0.37%) PHP
19 14 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 972 (20.20%) Security Cleared
2 643 (13.36%) Degree
3 541 (11.24%) SC Cleared
4 447 (9.29%) DV Cleared
5 273 (5.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 132 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 108 (2.24%) Azure Certification
8 83 (1.72%) CISSP
9 80 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
10 78 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
11 62 (1.29%) CCNA
12 58 (1.21%) MCSE
13 55 (1.14%) APMP
14 50 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
15 48 (1.00%) MCSA
16 46 (0.96%) CCNP
16 46 (0.96%) Master's Degree
17 45 (0.93%) CISM
18 44 (0.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 42 (0.87%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 228 (4.74%) SLA
2 165 (3.43%) QA
3 118 (2.45%) PMO
4 109 (2.26%) NIST
5 89 (1.85%) GDPR
6 83 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 60 (1.25%) Data Quality
8 58 (1.21%) Accessibility
9 56 (1.16%) NIST 800
10 39 (0.81%) Government Security Classifications
11 28 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
12 27 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
12 27 (0.56%) PCI DSS
13 22 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 17 (0.35%) WCAG
15 16 (0.33%) JSP 440
16 15 (0.31%) NCSC
17 13 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 11 (0.23%) HIPAA
18 11 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 1,065 (22.13%) Active Directory
2 246 (5.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 110 (2.29%) Hyper-V
4 95 (1.97%) Docker
5 82 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
6 63 (1.31%) VMware ESXi
7 56 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
8 53 (1.10%) Firmware
9 52 (1.08%) vSphere
10 28 (0.58%) VMware NSX
11 18 (0.37%) XenApp
12 15 (0.31%) XenDesktop
13 12 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 12 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
14 11 (0.23%) BitLocker
15 10 (0.21%) KVM
16 9 (0.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
17 8 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
17 8 (0.17%) VMware Server
17 8 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 320 (6.65%) SCCM
2 287 (5.96%) Microsoft Intune
3 153 (3.18%) Kubernetes
4 147 (3.05%) Terraform
5 92 (1.91%) WSUS
6 82 (1.70%) SCOM
7 69 (1.43%) Ansible
7 69 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
8 53 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
8 53 (1.10%) vCenter Server
9 48 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 29 (0.60%) Grafana
11 26 (0.54%) Prometheus
12 24 (0.50%) OPNET
13 23 (0.48%) EMC NetWorker
14 21 (0.44%) Puppet
14 21 (0.44%) Sysprep
15 18 (0.37%) Nessus
15 18 (0.37%) NetBackup
16 16 (0.33%) WMI
Vendors
1 384 (7.98%) VMware
2 241 (5.01%) Oracle
3 208 (4.32%) SAP
4 200 (4.16%) ServiceNow
5 162 (3.37%) Cisco
6 141 (2.93%) Citrix
7 130 (2.70%) Google
8 105 (2.18%) Apple
9 102 (2.12%) HP
10 89 (1.85%) Salesforce
11 83 (1.72%) Dell
12 76 (1.58%) Databricks
13 71 (1.48%) Adobe
14 68 (1.41%) Splunk
15 65 (1.35%) Veeam
16 59 (1.23%) Atlassian
17 52 (1.08%) Red Hat
18 49 (1.02%) Palo Alto
19 45 (0.93%) IBM
19 45 (0.93%) Qualys