Microsoft Consultant Contracts in London

Microsoft Consultant
England > London

The median Microsoft Consultant daily rate in London is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 351 476
Rank change year-on-year +5 +125 +96
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft Consultant 7 44 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.056% 0.25% 0.078%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.060% 0.26% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 17 11
10th Percentile - £505 -
25th Percentile - £563 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £563 - £575
90th Percentile £660 £615 £638
England median daily rate £463 £600 £513
% change year-on-year -22.92% +17.07% -8.07%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,753 16,611 25,696
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.40% 93.26% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,049 12,008 18,613
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £443 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £679 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 338 287
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.05 £20.02 £22.57
Median hourly rate £34.33 £27.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.82% -21.43% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.88 £64.67 £76.10
England median hourly rate £30.78 £36.02 £44.77
% change year-on-year -14.55% -19.53% +98.96%

Microsoft Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Microsoft Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Consultant in London

Microsoft Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Consultant in London

Microsoft Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Consultant in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Consultant in London

Microsoft Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Consultant in London

Microsoft Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Microsoft Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Microsoft Consultant in the job title.

1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) SIEM
3 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (28.57%) Security Operations
3 2 (28.57%) Workshop Facilitation
3 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 2 (28.57%) SOAR
3 2 (28.57%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (14.29%) Python
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
4 1 (14.29%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 1 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (14.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (14.29%) FIDO
4 1 (14.29%) Threat Detection
4 1 (14.29%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 1 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (14.29%) GDPR
4 1 (14.29%) OpenAM
4 1 (14.29%) User Experience
4 1 (14.29%) Entra ID

Microsoft Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Local Government
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) FIDO
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth
1 1 (14.29%) OpenID
1 1 (14.29%) SAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (28.57%) Security Operations
2 2 (28.57%) SIEM
2 2 (28.57%) SOAR
2 2 (28.57%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
3 1 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
3 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
3 1 (14.29%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (14.29%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 1 (14.29%) Threat Detection
3 1 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Threat Management
3 1 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) User Experience
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (14.29%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Google