Microsoft Contracts in the Home Counties

Microsoft
South East > Home Counties

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Home Counties 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 3 4 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +6
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 1 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Home Counties 14.29% 12.50% 20.00%
As % of the Vendors category 16.67% 33.33% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £490
25th Percentile - £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £475 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -26.92% +30.00%
75th Percentile - £488 £725
90th Percentile - - £770
South East median daily rate £492 £465 £473
% change year-on-year +5.70% -1.59% +5.00%

All Vendors
Home Counties

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 the Home Counties.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6 3 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Home Counties 85.71% 37.50% 60.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 9
10th Percentile £496 £476 £450
25th Percentile £505 £497 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £538 £800
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% -32.81% +39.13%
75th Percentile £610 £572 £1,100
90th Percentile £634 £589 -
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.80% - +2.56%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Home Counties

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Home Counties.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the Home Counties

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Home Counties

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in the Home Counties.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in the Home Counties

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Home Counties

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in the Home Counties.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in the Home Counties

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Home Counties 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 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker