Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Hammersmith

Microsoft
West London > Hammersmith

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hammersmith requiring knowledge or experience of Microsoft products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft over the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
7 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 - 2
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 3 0 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hammersmith 60.00% - 30.43%
As % of the Vendors category 75.00% - 63.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile - - £144
25th Percentile £231 - £168
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £238 - £365
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.75%
75th Percentile £334 - £550
90th Percentile £389 - £613
West London median daily rate £300 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -29.41% +6.25% -8.47%

All Vendors
Hammersmith

Microsoft falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Hammersmith.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4 1 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hammersmith 80.00% 14.29% 47.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 8
10th Percentile - - £153
25th Percentile £231 - £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £238 £470 £463
Median % change year-on-year -49.47% +1.62% +15.62%
75th Percentile £334 - £550
90th Percentile £389 - £588
West London median daily rate £415 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -12.63% -9.52% +16.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Hammersmith

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Hammersmith

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Daily Rate Trend in Hammersmith

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hammersmith citing Microsoft.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hammersmith citing Microsoft

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Daily Rate Histogram in Hammersmith

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Hammersmith over the 6 months to 7 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Hammersmith

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Hourly Rate Trend in Hammersmith

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hammersmith citing Microsoft.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hammersmith citing Microsoft

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hammersmith 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:

Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Applications Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Applications Support
1 2 (66.67%) Applications Support Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) IT Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) IT Support
1 2 (66.67%) IT Support Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Management Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) LDAP
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 1 (33.33%) OpenID
1 1 (33.33%) SailPoint
1 1 (33.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) SLA
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) CyberArk
1 1 (33.33%) Okta