Microsoft Contracts in Merton

Microsoft
South London > Merton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merton 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 5 2 4
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 3 6 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merton 12.50% 31.58% 20.59%
As % of the Vendors category 37.50% 60.00% 53.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 7
10th Percentile £220 £218 £238
25th Percentile £231 £226 £304
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £251 £240 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.38% -46.67% +36.36%
75th Percentile £394 £245 £469
90th Percentile £480 £248 £488
South London median daily rate £513 £245 £425
% change year-on-year +109.18% -42.35% +28.79%

All Vendors
Merton

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 Merton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8 10 13
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merton 33.33% 52.63% 38.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 10
10th Percentile £228 £150 £253
25th Percentile £250 £188 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £233 £450
Median % change year-on-year +39.78% -48.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £475 £248 £475
90th Percentile £513 £319 £488
South London median daily rate £600 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +26.32% -5.00% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £53.94
25th Percentile - £40.82 £55.40
Median hourly rate - £43.84 £57.83
Median % change year-on-year - -24.19% +26.68%
75th Percentile - £46.86 £60.25
90th Percentile - - £61.71
South London median hourly rate £15.84 £27.01 £19.50
% change year-on-year -41.34% +38.49% -57.28%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Merton

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Merton

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merton

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Merton

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Merton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Merton over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Merton

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merton

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Merton

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Contract Job Locations in Merton

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Merton region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Morden +4 2 £388 +72.33%
Microsoft
South London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merton 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 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Local Government
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) 2nd Line Support
1 2 (66.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Manager
2 1 (33.33%) IT Operations Manager
2 1 (33.33%) IT Support
2 1 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Operations Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (66.67%) Android
2 2 (66.67%) Apple iOS
3 1 (33.33%) VMS
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Asset Management
2 2 (66.67%) ITSM
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Service Management
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Network Design
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Register
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware