Microsoft Contracts in London

Microsoft
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 12 13
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 2,192 3,056 4,210
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 12.42% 11.67% 10.93%
As % of the Vendors category 30.29% 29.75% 28.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,554 2,331 3,095
10th Percentile £210 £250 £261
25th Percentile £375 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £538
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +0.47% +13.16%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £644
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +13.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 42 82
10th Percentile £12.50 £16.16 £14.78
25th Percentile £14.06 £19.63 £23.13
Median hourly rate £18.80 £26.75 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.74% -39.89% +66.98%
75th Percentile £23.75 £51.28 £49.25
90th Percentile £26.50 £64.05 £51.00
England median hourly rate £15.00 £21.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -28.57% +13.51% +1.26%

All Vendors
London

Microsoft is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,236 10,271 14,521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.00% 39.21% 37.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,943 7,275 10,291
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +7.32%
75th Percentile £669 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £775
England median daily rate £518 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -3.18% +1.90% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 128 182
10th Percentile £13.86 £16.30 £16.55
25th Percentile £16.86 £21.00 £23.60
Median hourly rate £22.50 £30.38 £35.03
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% -13.29% +27.39%
75th Percentile £35.06 £57.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £58.63 £70.00 £61.63
England median hourly rate £22.50 £38.50 £21.39
% change year-on-year -41.56% +79.99% +1.86%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in London

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in London

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in London

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in London

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the London region over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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
Central London +5 393 £538 +1.18% 199
West London +7 53 £375 -16.67% 79
East London +2 40 £505 +6.88% 48
South London -6 26 £245 -45.56% 29
Microsoft
England

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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:

Application Platforms
1 248 (11.31%) SharePoint
2 158 (7.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 42 (1.92%) CMS
4 37 (1.69%) Confluence
5 18 (0.82%) Apache Spark
5 18 (0.82%) Skype for Business
6 16 (0.73%) IIS
7 11 (0.50%) Apache
8 8 (0.36%) Drupal
9 6 (0.27%) Anypoint
9 6 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2010
9 6 (0.27%) SharePoint 2013
10 4 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
11 3 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.14%) IBM Domino
11 3 (0.14%) IBM Notes
11 3 (0.14%) MQSeries
11 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.091%) WebLogic
Applications
1 319 (14.55%) Microsoft Office
2 202 (9.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 111 (5.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 77 (3.51%) MS Visio
5 51 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
6 19 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.36%) Photoshop
8 7 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.32%) Adobe Premiere
8 7 (0.32%) InDesign
9 6 (0.27%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.14%) Acrobat
11 3 (0.14%) Camtasia
12 2 (0.091%) FileZilla
12 2 (0.091%) Trello
13 1 (0.046%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.046%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.046%) OmniGraffle
13 1 (0.046%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 83 (3.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (1.14%) Dynamics AX
2 25 (1.14%) Dynamics GP
3 12 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 9 (0.41%) Endur
4 9 (0.41%) Shopify
5 8 (0.36%) Loan IQ
5 8 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.23%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
7 4 (0.18%) Aladdin
7 4 (0.18%) Oracle AGIS
7 4 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
7 4 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 4 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.14%) Eikon
8 3 (0.14%) OPENHousing
8 3 (0.14%) OpenLink RightAngle
8 3 (0.14%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 970 (44.25%) Azure
2 542 (24.73%) Microsoft 365
3 327 (14.92%) Power Platform
4 281 (12.82%) Azure DevOps
5 232 (10.58%) Entra ID
6 184 (8.39%) Dynamics 365
7 162 (7.39%) AWS
8 131 (5.98%) Power Automate
9 127 (5.79%) PowerApps
10 80 (3.65%) PaaS
11 66 (3.01%) Azure Service Bus
11 66 (3.01%) SaaS
11 66 (3.01%) Serverless
12 64 (2.92%) IaaS
13 61 (2.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 57 (2.60%) GCP
15 54 (2.46%) Azure Data Factory
16 53 (2.42%) OneDrive
17 52 (2.37%) GitHub
18 45 (2.05%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 113 (5.16%) Firewall
2 92 (4.20%) DNS
3 71 (3.24%) VPN
4 49 (2.24%) DHCP
4 49 (2.24%) LAN
5 47 (2.14%) Wireless
6 45 (2.05%) WAN
7 25 (1.14%) TCP/IP
8 24 (1.09%) SAN
9 23 (1.05%) VoIP
10 22 (1.00%) Internet
10 22 (1.00%) MPLS
11 20 (0.91%) Skype
11 20 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
12 19 (0.87%) VLAN
13 18 (0.82%) NAS
14 17 (0.78%) SD-WAN
15 16 (0.73%) Network Security
16 13 (0.59%) Cisco IOS
16 13 (0.59%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 343 (15.65%) SQL Server
2 225 (10.26%) Power BI
3 98 (4.47%) Data Warehouse
4 77 (3.51%) Data Lake
5 49 (2.24%) NoSQL
6 48 (2.19%) Azure SQL Database
7 44 (2.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 39 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
9 38 (1.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 36 (1.64%) Relational Database
11 32 (1.46%) Big Data
12 25 (1.14%) Metadata
12 25 (1.14%) MySQL
12 25 (1.14%) Tableau
13 21 (0.96%) MongoDB
14 18 (0.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 16 (0.73%) Redis
16 12 (0.55%) OLTP
17 11 (0.50%) RDBMS
18 10 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 95 (4.33%) JIRA
2 85 (3.88%) Git
3 43 (1.96%) Jenkins
4 35 (1.60%) GitLab
4 35 (1.60%) SpecFlow
5 31 (1.41%) Visual Studio
6 29 (1.32%) Selenium
7 27 (1.23%) Postman
8 24 (1.09%) TeamCity
9 15 (0.68%) WebDriver
10 13 (0.59%) Maven
11 10 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 10 (0.46%) Visual Studio Team System
12 8 (0.36%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.32%) Cucumber
14 6 (0.27%) JUnit
14 6 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
15 5 (0.23%) ERwin
15 5 (0.23%) Hudson
15 5 (0.23%) Subversion
General
1 720 (32.85%) Social Skills
2 577 (26.32%) Finance
3 290 (13.23%) Analytical Skills
4 217 (9.90%) Public Sector
5 171 (7.80%) Banking
6 109 (4.97%) Marketing
7 98 (4.47%) Legal
8 95 (4.33%) Presentation Skills
9 86 (3.92%) Retail
10 57 (2.60%) Back Office
10 57 (2.60%) Telecoms
11 56 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
12 47 (2.14%) Manufacturing
13 45 (2.05%) Financial Institution
14 38 (1.73%) Investment Banking
14 38 (1.73%) Law
15 37 (1.69%) Local Government
16 32 (1.46%) Electronics
17 30 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 29 (1.32%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 346 (15.78%) Developer
2 270 (12.32%) Architect
3 264 (12.04%) Analyst
4 247 (11.27%) Senior
5 183 (8.35%) Consultant
6 116 (5.29%) Lead
7 106 (4.84%) Senior Developer
8 103 (4.70%) Support Engineer
9 98 (4.47%) Project Manager
10 82 (3.74%) Azure Engineer
11 78 (3.56%) Solutions Architect
12 59 (2.69%) Data Architect
13 58 (2.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 57 (2.60%) IT Support
15 54 (2.46%) Support Analyst
16 51 (2.33%) Azure Developer
16 51 (2.33%) Desktop Support
17 49 (2.24%) Business Analyst
17 49 (2.24%) Software Developer
18 48 (2.19%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 254 (11.59%) .NET
2 134 (6.11%) XML
3 96 (4.38%) .NET Core
4 80 (3.65%) .NET Framework
5 71 (3.24%) HTML
6 68 (3.10%) CSS
7 58 (2.65%) React
8 57 (2.60%) JSON
9 55 (2.51%) REST
10 50 (2.28%) AngularJS
11 47 (2.14%) ASP.NET
11 47 (2.14%) Web Services
12 33 (1.51%) Kafka
13 28 (1.28%) ARM Templates
14 26 (1.19%) PySpark
15 25 (1.14%) RabbitMQ
16 24 (1.09%) Swagger
17 23 (1.05%) RESTful
18 21 (0.96%) ASP.NET Core
19 20 (0.91%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 116 (5.29%) Product Ownership
2 87 (3.97%) Management Information System
3 65 (2.97%) Data Structures
4 61 (2.78%) Data Centre
5 42 (1.92%) Onboarding
6 39 (1.78%) Cloud Native
7 35 (1.60%) PKI
7 35 (1.60%) Security Posture
8 34 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
9 33 (1.51%) Video Conferencing
10 25 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
11 22 (1.00%) Smartphone
12 20 (0.91%) Algorithms
12 20 (0.91%) Clustering
12 20 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 20 (0.91%) iPhone
12 20 (0.91%) Mobile App
12 20 (0.91%) NHS
13 19 (0.87%) Public Cloud
13 19 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 451 (20.57%) Windows
2 141 (6.43%) Windows Server
3 129 (5.89%) Windows 10
4 127 (5.79%) Linux
5 44 (2.01%) Android
6 38 (1.73%) Unix
7 37 (1.69%) Windows 7
8 28 (1.28%) Mac OS
9 25 (1.14%) Apple iOS
10 18 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
11 17 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 15 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
13 14 (0.64%) Mac OS X
14 12 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
15 9 (0.41%) Solaris
16 8 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
17 7 (0.32%) VMS
17 7 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
18 4 (0.18%) CentOS
18 4 (0.18%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 506 (23.08%) Agile
2 435 (19.84%) DevOps
3 360 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
4 270 (12.32%) Business Intelligence
5 267 (12.18%) Migration
6 232 (10.58%) CI/CD
7 213 (9.72%) Project Management
8 187 (8.53%) ITIL
9 178 (8.12%) Scrum
10 170 (7.76%) Customer Service
11 164 (7.48%) Analytics
12 147 (6.71%) Data Modelling
13 137 (6.25%) Project Delivery
14 132 (6.02%) Change Management
15 116 (5.29%) Stakeholder Management
16 114 (5.20%) Computer Science
17 106 (4.84%) CRM
17 106 (4.84%) Cybersecurity
18 96 (4.38%) ETL
18 96 (4.38%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 334 (15.24%) SQL
2 318 (14.51%) PowerShell
3 279 (12.73%) C#
4 160 (7.30%) Python
5 100 (4.56%) JavaScript
6 86 (3.92%) Java
7 77 (3.51%) Bicep
8 45 (2.05%) TypeScript
9 43 (1.96%) T-SQL
10 28 (1.28%) Bash
11 23 (1.05%) Shell Script
12 15 (0.68%) PL/SQL
13 13 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 12 (0.55%) Go
15 11 (0.50%) C++
15 11 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
15 11 (0.50%) PHP
16 10 (0.46%) Scala
16 10 (0.46%) VBA
17 9 (0.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 314 (14.32%) Degree
2 188 (8.58%) Security Cleared
3 157 (7.16%) SC Cleared
4 106 (4.84%) Microsoft Certification
5 78 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 68 (3.10%) Azure Certification
7 47 (2.14%) CISSP
8 34 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
8 34 (1.55%) DV Cleared
9 25 (1.14%) CISM
9 25 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
10 21 (0.96%) CCNA
11 19 (0.87%) CCNP
11 19 (0.87%) PMI Certification
12 17 (0.78%) AWS Certification
12 17 (0.78%) Master's Degree
12 17 (0.78%) PMP
13 15 (0.68%) A+ Certification
14 14 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
15 13 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (3.65%) QA
2 77 (3.51%) SLA
3 55 (2.51%) GDPR
4 45 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 45 (2.05%) PMO
5 38 (1.73%) Accessibility
5 38 (1.73%) Data Quality
5 38 (1.73%) NIST
6 17 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 16 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 15 (0.68%) WCAG
9 14 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 9 (0.41%) NCSC
11 8 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 6 (0.27%) GAAP
12 6 (0.27%) GRC
12 6 (0.27%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.27%) ISO 22301
13 5 (0.23%) COBIT
System Software
1 471 (21.49%) Active Directory
2 72 (3.28%) Docker
3 60 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (1.64%) Hyper-V
5 31 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.78%) vSphere
7 15 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (0.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 11 (0.50%) Firmware
10 6 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
11 5 (0.23%) NFS
12 4 (0.18%) BitLocker
12 4 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.18%) VMware NSX
12 4 (0.18%) XenApp
12 4 (0.18%) XenDesktop
13 3 (0.14%) KVM
13 3 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
14 2 (0.091%) VMware Server
15 1 (0.046%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 112 (5.11%) SCCM
2 106 (4.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 101 (4.61%) Terraform
4 99 (4.52%) Kubernetes
5 34 (1.55%) Ansible
6 32 (1.46%) Jamf Pro
6 32 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 19 (0.87%) Grafana
9 18 (0.82%) Prometheus
10 14 (0.64%) Puppet
10 14 (0.64%) SCOM
10 14 (0.64%) WSUS
11 12 (0.55%) Consul
12 11 (0.50%) Netcool
12 11 (0.50%) Progress Chef
13 10 (0.46%) FortiGate
13 10 (0.46%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 8 (0.36%) EMC NetWorker
14 8 (0.36%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 154 (7.03%) Oracle
2 115 (5.25%) SAP
3 114 (5.20%) VMware
4 88 (4.01%) ServiceNow
5 80 (3.65%) Google
6 70 (3.19%) Cisco
7 68 (3.10%) Citrix
8 59 (2.69%) Databricks
9 56 (2.55%) Apple
10 54 (2.46%) Salesforce
11 49 (2.24%) Dell
12 42 (1.92%) Adobe
13 37 (1.69%) Splunk
14 30 (1.37%) HP
15 27 (1.23%) IBM
16 24 (1.09%) Qualys
17 22 (1.00%) CyberArk
17 22 (1.00%) Palo Alto
18 19 (0.87%) NetApp
19 17 (0.78%) SolarWinds