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 12 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
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 4 6
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 22 78 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 13.25% 19.75% 18.19%
As % of the Vendors category 27.85% 38.24% 44.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 63 112
10th Percentile £257 £175 £230
25th Percentile £350 £305 £332
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £465 £484
Median % change year-on-year +10.22% -3.88% +8.71%
75th Percentile £594 £517 £550
90th Percentile £606 £550 £594
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £550 £449 £480
% change year-on-year +22.53% -6.49% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 2
10th Percentile - £18.00 £10.18
25th Percentile - £22.54 £11.19
Median hourly rate £13.00 £23.22 £13.75
Median % change year-on-year -44.00% +68.84% +27.67%
75th Percentile - £48.75 £16.69
90th Percentile - - £17.93
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £14.20 £23.22 £13.75
% change year-on-year -38.83% +68.84% +27.67%

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 79 204 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 47.59% 51.65% 41.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 159 246
10th Percentile £325 £223 £275
25th Percentile £404 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £550
90th Percentile £739 £662 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £503 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.84% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 13 2
10th Percentile £13.68 £18.90 £10.18
25th Percentile £14.69 £22.58 £11.19
Median hourly rate £17.25 £23.75 £13.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.37% +72.73% +27.67%
75th Percentile £32.88 £48.75 £16.69
90th Percentile £55.15 - £17.93
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £14.20 £23.48 £17.50
% change year-on-year -39.53% +34.19% +62.49%

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 12 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 3 (13.64%) BizTalk Server
1 3 (13.64%) Confluence
1 3 (13.64%) IIS
2 2 (9.09%) Camunda
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle ASCP
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 12 (54.55%) Azure
2 5 (22.73%) AWS
3 4 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
4 2 (9.09%) GitHub
4 2 (9.09%) PaaS
4 2 (9.09%) SaaS
5 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.55%) Mimecast
5 1 (4.55%) Nutanix
5 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) DNS
1 3 (13.64%) VPN
2 2 (9.09%) BGP
2 2 (9.09%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (9.09%) Firewall
2 2 (9.09%) MPLS
2 2 (9.09%) NGFW
2 2 (9.09%) OSPF
2 2 (9.09%) SD-WAN
2 2 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 2 (9.09%) VLAN
2 2 (9.09%) VSAN
2 2 (9.09%) WAN
3 1 (4.55%) DHCP
3 1 (4.55%) FTP
3 1 (4.55%) HTTP
3 1 (4.55%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (9.09%) MS Access
2 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) ERwin
1 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 2 (9.09%) JIRA
1 2 (9.09%) PowerDesigner
1 2 (9.09%) QARun
1 2 (9.09%) Terragrunt
1 2 (9.09%) WinRunner
General
1 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Automotive
4 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Architect
2 6 (27.27%) Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) Senior
3 4 (18.18%) Technical Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Test Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Java Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Java Technical Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Test Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Administrator
6 1 (4.55%) Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Data Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Data Modeller
6 1 (4.55%) Desktop Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Desktop Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Network Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Security Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Technical Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) .NET
2 2 (9.09%) .NET Framework
2 2 (9.09%) AngularJS
2 2 (9.09%) Kafka
2 2 (9.09%) Keycloak
2 2 (9.09%) Middleware
2 2 (9.09%) OpenJDK
2 2 (9.09%) Spring Boot
2 2 (9.09%) Web Services
3 1 (4.55%) EDI
3 1 (4.55%) JSON
3 1 (4.55%) MSMQ
3 1 (4.55%) REST
3 1 (4.55%) SOAP
3 1 (4.55%) WCF
3 1 (4.55%) XML
3 1 (4.55%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Public Cloud
2 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) PKI
3 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.55%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (45.45%) Windows
2 3 (13.64%) Windows Server
3 2 (9.09%) Unix
4 1 (4.55%) Windows 10
4 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (27.27%) Migration
3 5 (22.73%) Agile
3 5 (22.73%) DevSecOps
3 5 (22.73%) Microservices
3 5 (22.73%) TOGAF
4 4 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 4 (18.18%) DevOps
4 4 (18.18%) Integration Testing
4 4 (18.18%) ITIL
4 4 (18.18%) Logistics
4 4 (18.18%) Software Testing
4 4 (18.18%) System Integration Testing
4 4 (18.18%) Test Automation
4 4 (18.18%) Test Planning
4 4 (18.18%) Validation
4 4 (18.18%) Waterfall
5 3 (13.64%) Data Modelling
5 3 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
1 3 (13.64%) SQL
2 2 (9.09%) C#
2 2 (9.09%) Java
2 2 (9.09%) VB
3 1 (4.55%) ActionScript
3 1 (4.55%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 6 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.64%) AWS Certification
3 3 (13.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Degree
5 1 (4.55%) CRISC
5 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (4.55%) MCSE
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) NCSC
2 2 (9.09%) QA
3 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (4.55%) NIST
3 1 (4.55%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (13.64%) VMware NSX
2 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) SCOM
2 2 (9.09%) Terraform
3 1 (4.55%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Cisco
1 3 (13.64%) Dynatrace
1 3 (13.64%) IBM
1 3 (13.64%) Palo Alto
1 3 (13.64%) ServiceNow
1 3 (13.64%) VMware
2 2 (9.09%) Citrix
2 2 (9.09%) Sparx
3 1 (4.55%) Commvault
3 1 (4.55%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (4.55%) HP
3 1 (4.55%) Imperva
3 1 (4.55%) McAfee
3 1 (4.55%) Netskope
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.55%) SAP