Microsoft Contract Job Trends 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 2 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
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 8 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 4 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in Merton 16.00% 3.70% 13.16%
As % of the Vendors category 50.00% 20.00% 22.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £223 - £154
25th Percentile £238 - £156
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £400 £195
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +105.13% -26.42%
75th Percentile £344 - £488
90th Percentile £378 - -
South London median daily rate £425 £380 £594
% change year-on-year +11.84% -36.00% +31.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £54.55 - -
Median hourly rate £58.94 - -
75th Percentile £63.32 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £58.94 - £29.33

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 5 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merton 32.00% 18.52% 57.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 14
10th Percentile £243 £405 £98
25th Percentile £331 £413 £120
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £171
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +177.37% -59.71%
75th Percentile £525 £488 £466
90th Percentile - £510 £488
South London median daily rate £475 £570 £500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £28.45
25th Percentile £54.55 - £39.36
Median hourly rate £58.94 - £46.86
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.46%
75th Percentile £63.32 - £66.95
90th Percentile - - £75.73
South London median hourly rate £58.94 - £41.00
% change year-on-year - - -5.99%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Merton

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Merton

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in Merton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merton citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Merton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Merton over the 6 months to 2 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Merton

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Merton

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Merton citing Microsoft

Microsoft
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 2 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
New Malden - 2 £400 - 1
Wimbledon - 2 £250 - 2
Microsoft
South London

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merton 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Applications Support
1 1 (25.00%) Applications Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Coordinator
1 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) IT Support
1 1 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Project Coordinator
1 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Contract Management
2 1 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (25.00%) Emotional Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform