Microsoft Contract Job Trends in North London

Microsoft
London > North London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in North London 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 30 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
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 5 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 4 8 3
As % of all contract jobs in North London 16.00% 27.59% 11.11%
As % of the Vendors category 26.67% 40.00% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £269 £415 £192
25th Percentile £418 £434 £201
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £465 £220
Median % change year-on-year +8.60% +111.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £545 - £236
90th Percentile £608 - £245
London median daily rate £500 £500 £523
% change year-on-year - -4.31% -5.00%

All Vendors
North London

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 North London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15 20 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in North London 60.00% 68.97% 44.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 8
10th Percentile £400 - £204
25th Percentile £505 £248 £241
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £285 £298
Median % change year-on-year +110.53% -4.20% -37.37%
75th Percentile £675 £465 £506
90th Percentile £700 £550 £540
London median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in North London

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in North London

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in North London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in North London citing Microsoft.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in North London citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in North London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in North London over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in North London

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in North London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in North London citing Microsoft.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in North London citing Microsoft

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in North London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (25.00%) OneDrive
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) Power Query
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Local Government
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Deployment Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Security Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Deployment Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Budgeting
2 1 (25.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Planning and Forecasting
2 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ACCA
1 1 (25.00%) CIMA
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle