Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Hounslow

Microsoft
West London > Hounslow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hounslow 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 19 December 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
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 11 14
Rank change year-on-year +8 +3 +4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 12 6 9
As % of all contract jobs in Hounslow 23.08% 8.11% 7.89%
As % of the Vendors category 52.17% 31.58% 25.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 8
10th Percentile £193 £316 £185
25th Percentile £238 £459 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £609 £400
Median % change year-on-year -52.79% +52.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £303 £644 £563
90th Percentile £309 £675 £600
West London median daily rate £386 £455 £414
% change year-on-year -15.11% +10.04% -2.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £33.00 - -
Median hourly rate £34.00 - -
75th Percentile £35.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West London median hourly rate £34.00 £22.27 £34.67
% change year-on-year +52.67% -35.77% -

All Vendors
Hounslow

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 Hounslow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 23 19 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hounslow 44.23% 25.68% 30.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 22
10th Percentile £270 £233 £85
25th Percentile £327 £359 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -12.20% -2.38%
75th Percentile £538 £607 £597
90th Percentile £552 £648 £611
West London median daily rate £450 £453 £475
% change year-on-year -0.55% -4.74% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £66.00
25th Percentile £33.00 - £67.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 - £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +118.75%
75th Percentile £37.88 - £72.50
90th Percentile £39.60 - £74.00
West London median hourly rate £34.00 £22.27 £38.94
% change year-on-year +52.67% -42.81% +4.62%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Hounslow

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Hounslow

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in Hounslow

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hounslow citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Hounslow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Hounslow over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Hounslow

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Hounslow

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hounslow citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Contract Job Locations in Hounslow

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Hounslow region over the 6 months to 19 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
Feltham - 4 £175 - 1
Osterley - 1 £300 -
Microsoft
West London

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hounslow 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 1 (8.33%) Confluence
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (8.33%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) DHCP
1 4 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (16.67%) Structured Cabling
2 2 (16.67%) VPN
2 2 (16.67%) Wireless
3 1 (8.33%) Broadband
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco Wireless
3 1 (8.33%) Ethernet
3 1 (8.33%) Firewall
3 1 (8.33%) FTP
3 1 (8.33%) HTTPS
3 1 (8.33%) LAN
3 1 (8.33%) NX-OS
3 1 (8.33%) RTP
3 1 (8.33%) SSH
3 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (8.33%) VLAN
3 1 (8.33%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
1 3 (25.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
1 3 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 3 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
1 3 (25.00%) Analyst
1 3 (25.00%) IT Analyst
1 3 (25.00%) IT Support
1 3 (25.00%) IT Support Analyst
1 3 (25.00%) Support Analyst
1 3 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Administrator
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Network Support
2 1 (8.33%) Network Support Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Project Administrator
2 1 (8.33%) Project Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Project Support Administrator
2 1 (8.33%) Project Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Spring
1 1 (8.33%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 3 (25.00%) Smartphone
2 2 (16.67%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (8.33%) BYOD
3 1 (8.33%) CCTV
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (8.33%) Driving Licence
3 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Android
2 3 (25.00%) Apple iOS
2 3 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (8.33%) Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Mac OS
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (16.67%) Agile
3 2 (16.67%) Customer Engagement
3 2 (16.67%) Customer Experience
3 2 (16.67%) Logistics
3 2 (16.67%) Project Management
3 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (8.33%) AI
4 1 (8.33%) Creative Thinking
4 1 (8.33%) Customer Service
4 1 (8.33%) Data Entry
4 1 (8.33%) ERP
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Issue Tracking
4 1 (8.33%) Microservices
4 1 (8.33%) Process Management
4 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
4 1 (8.33%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (8.33%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Groovy
1 1 (8.33%) Java
1 1 (8.33%) Kotlin
1 1 (8.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) CCNA
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (8.33%) City & Guilds
1 1 (8.33%) MCP
1 1 (8.33%) MCSA
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (8.33%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (8.33%) Docker
3 1 (8.33%) Firmware
3 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Apple
1 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco
2 2 (16.67%) Cvent
2 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) Google