Microsoft Contracts in Hillingdon

Microsoft
West London > Hillingdon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hillingdon 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 9 39
Rank change year-on-year -1 +30 -37
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 3 10 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hillingdon 6.38% 10.00% 1.95%
As % of the Vendors category 12.50% 22.22% 7.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 4
10th Percentile - - £143
25th Percentile - £350 £148
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £475 £275
Median % change year-on-year - +72.73% +57.14%
75th Percentile - £538 £422
90th Percentile - - £460
West London median daily rate £375 £410 £450
% change year-on-year -8.54% -8.89% +5.88%

All Vendors
Hillingdon

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 Hillingdon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 24 45 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hillingdon 51.06% 45.00% 26.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 32 45
10th Percentile £308 £350 £349
25th Percentile £325 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £509 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.46% -15.21% +150.00%
75th Percentile £475 £600 £650
90th Percentile £563 £627 -
West London median daily rate £413 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -13.16% -9.52% +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
West London median hourly rate £22.27 £33.37 £70.00
% change year-on-year -33.25% -52.34% +233.33%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Hillingdon

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Hillingdon

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hillingdon

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Hillingdon

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hillingdon

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Hillingdon

Microsoft
Contract Job Locations in Hillingdon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Hillingdon region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Northwood - 3 - - 1
Microsoft
West London

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hillingdon 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 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) iSCSI
2 1 (33.33%) SAN
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Administrator
1 3 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) VMWare Administrator
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) ITSM
1 3 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 3 (100.00%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Workstation
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware