Microsoft Contracts in Milton Keynes

Microsoft
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes 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 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 3 6
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 +1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 24 78 139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 14.04% 19.95% 18.66%
As % of the Vendors category 28.57% 38.61% 44.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 63 117
10th Percentile £274 £175 £223
25th Percentile £375 £238 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £465 £480
Median % change year-on-year +17.21% -3.13% +9.09%
75th Percentile £590 £532 £550
90th Percentile £600 £550 £593
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £550 £449 £480
% change year-on-year +22.53% -6.49% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 1
10th Percentile - £18.00 -
25th Percentile - £22.54 £9.50
Median hourly rate £13.00 £23.22 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.00% +132.15% -7.15%
75th Percentile - £48.75 £10.50
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £14.20 £23.22 £10.00
% change year-on-year -38.83% +132.15% -7.15%

All Vendors
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 84 202 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 49.12% 51.66% 41.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 160 255
10th Percentile £341 £224 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.11% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £553 £550
90th Percentile £734 £661 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £508 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.84% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 1
10th Percentile £13.68 £19.35 -
25th Percentile £14.69 £22.59 £9.50
Median hourly rate £17.25 £24.09 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.39% +140.90% -7.15%
75th Percentile £32.88 £44.06 £10.50
90th Percentile £55.15 £48.75 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £14.20 £24.09 £10.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% +140.90% -7.15%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Milton Keynes

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Milton Keynes

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Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Milton Keynes

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Milton Keynes

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 4 (16.67%) Confluence
2 2 (8.33%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (8.33%) Camunda
2 2 (8.33%) IIS
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle ASCP
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 14 (58.33%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) AWS
3 4 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (8.33%) GitHub
4 2 (8.33%) PaaS
4 2 (8.33%) SaaS
5 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.17%) Mimecast
5 1 (4.17%) Nutanix
5 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) DNS
1 3 (12.50%) VPN
2 2 (8.33%) BGP
2 2 (8.33%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (8.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (8.33%) Firewall
2 2 (8.33%) MPLS
2 2 (8.33%) NGFW
2 2 (8.33%) OSPF
2 2 (8.33%) SD-WAN
2 2 (8.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (8.33%) VLAN
2 2 (8.33%) VSAN
2 2 (8.33%) WAN
3 1 (4.17%) DHCP
3 1 (4.17%) FTP
3 1 (4.17%) HTTP
3 1 (4.17%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (8.33%) Big Data
2 2 (8.33%) Data Lake
2 2 (8.33%) MS Access
2 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (4.17%) Power BI
3 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) ERwin
1 3 (12.50%) PowerDesigner
2 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.33%) JIRA
2 2 (8.33%) QARun
2 2 (8.33%) Terragrunt
2 2 (8.33%) WinRunner
General
1 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Finance
2 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.17%) Automotive
3 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Architect
2 6 (25.00%) Analyst
2 6 (25.00%) Senior
3 4 (16.67%) Technical Architect
3 4 (16.67%) Test Analyst
4 3 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Data Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Data Modeller
5 2 (8.33%) Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Java Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Java Technical Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Test Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Specialist
6 1 (4.17%) BizTalk Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Principal Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Principal Technical Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Desktop Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) .NET
1 2 (8.33%) AngularJS
1 2 (8.33%) Kafka
1 2 (8.33%) Keycloak
1 2 (8.33%) Middleware
1 2 (8.33%) OpenJDK
1 2 (8.33%) PySpark
1 2 (8.33%) Spring Boot
1 2 (8.33%) Web Services
2 1 (4.17%) .NET Framework
2 1 (4.17%) EDI
2 1 (4.17%) JSON
2 1 (4.17%) MSMQ
2 1 (4.17%) REST
2 1 (4.17%) SOAP
2 1 (4.17%) WCF
2 1 (4.17%) XML
2 1 (4.17%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 2 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) PKI
3 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.17%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (37.50%) Windows
2 2 (8.33%) Unix
2 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.17%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (20.83%) Agile
2 5 (20.83%) DevSecOps
2 5 (20.83%) Microservices
2 5 (20.83%) Migration
2 5 (20.83%) TOGAF
3 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 4 (16.67%) DevOps
3 4 (16.67%) Integration Testing
3 4 (16.67%) ITIL
3 4 (16.67%) Logistics
3 4 (16.67%) Software Testing
3 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (16.67%) System Integration Testing
3 4 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 4 (16.67%) Test Planning
3 4 (16.67%) Validation
3 4 (16.67%) Waterfall
4 3 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) SQL
2 2 (8.33%) C#
2 2 (8.33%) Java
2 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.33%) Python
2 2 (8.33%) VB
3 1 (4.17%) ActionScript
3 1 (4.17%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 3 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Degree
5 1 (4.17%) CRISC
5 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (4.17%) MCSE
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) NCSC
2 2 (8.33%) QA
3 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (4.17%) NIST
3 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (12.50%) VMware NSX
2 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) SCOM
1 2 (8.33%) Terraform
2 1 (4.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Cisco
1 3 (12.50%) Palo Alto
1 3 (12.50%) Sparx
1 3 (12.50%) VMware
2 2 (8.33%) Citrix
2 2 (8.33%) Databricks
2 2 (8.33%) Dynatrace
2 2 (8.33%) IBM
2 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.17%) Commvault
3 1 (4.17%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (4.17%) HP
3 1 (4.17%) Imperva
3 1 (4.17%) McAfee
3 1 (4.17%) Netskope
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.17%) SAP