Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Kensington and Chelsea

Microsoft
Central London > Kensington and Chelsea

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kensington and Chelsea 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 29 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
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Kensington and Chelsea 66.67% - -
As % of the Vendors category 66.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £566 - -
25th Percentile £572 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - -
75th Percentile £597 - -
90th Percentile £599 - -
Central London median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +2.33%

All Vendors
Kensington and Chelsea

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 Kensington and Chelsea.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 3 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kensington and Chelsea 100.00% 28.57% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £570 - -
25th Percentile £581 £435 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £440 £425
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +3.53% -
75th Percentile £669 £445 £438
90th Percentile £710 - -
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -1.82%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Kensington and Chelsea

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Kensington and Chelsea

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Daily Rate Trend in Kensington and Chelsea

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Kensington and Chelsea citing Microsoft.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Kensington and Chelsea citing Microsoft

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Hourly Rate Trend in Kensington and Chelsea

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Kensington and Chelsea citing Microsoft.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Kensington and Chelsea citing Microsoft

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Contract Job Locations in Kensington and Chelsea

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Kensington and Chelsea region over the 6 months to 29 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
Chelsea - 2 £588 - 1
Kensington - 2 £588 - 1
Microsoft
Central London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kensington and Chelsea 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 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto