Microsoft Copilot Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Copilot
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Microsoft Copilot skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft Copilot over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Copilot 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.12% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.36% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £181 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £188 - -
75th Percentile £194 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £500 -
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -

All Cloud Skills
North of England

Microsoft Copilot falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,111 1,408 2,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.72% 29.53% 36.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 999 1,595
10th Percentile £248 £263 £300
25th Percentile £385 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £643 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 79 37
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £16.22
25th Percentile £26.72 £15.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.91 £16.06 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +92.43% -59.44% +111.93%
75th Percentile £73.44 £20.77 £65.00
90th Percentile £97.98 £43.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Microsoft Copilot
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Microsoft Copilot as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Copilot in the North of England

Microsoft Copilot
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Copilot within the North of England 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
Yorkshire - 2 £188 - 3
North East - 2 - - 2
Microsoft Copilot
England

Microsoft Copilot
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (50.00%) OpenEdge
1 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) Power Automate
3 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (50.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Deployment Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile Application Development
1 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (25.00%) SDLC
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft