Microsoft Copilot Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Copilot
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Copilot 11 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.36% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £220 - -
25th Percentile £360 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £569 - -
90th Percentile £640 - -
England median daily rate £500 £500 -

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 944 1,315 1,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.95% 23.03% 29.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 612 887 1,211
10th Percentile £250 £275 £250
25th Percentile £375 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £593 £608 £638
90th Percentile £660 £675 £713
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 58 51
10th Percentile £15.05 £17.69 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.26 £18.63 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.82 £30.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.27% +9.09% +37.50%
75th Percentile £46.30 £59.95 £69.38
90th Percentile £72.25 £61.60 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £21.50 £32.30
% change year-on-year +16.98% -33.44% +53.81%

Microsoft Copilot
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Copilot in the South East

Microsoft Copilot
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Copilot in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Copilot in the South East

Microsoft Copilot
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Copilot in the South East over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Copilot in the South East

Microsoft Copilot
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 24 June 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
Berkshire - 8 £550 - 5
Thames Valley - 8 £550 - 9
Kent - 2 £220 - 2
Surrey - 1 £525 - 3
Microsoft Copilot
England

Microsoft Copilot
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (27.27%) SharePoint
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) Azure
2 6 (54.55%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (9.09%) Copilot Studio
3 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 1 (9.09%) OneDrive
3 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DHCP
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Telecoms
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (36.36%) Architectural Patterns
2 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (36.36%) Machine Learning
3 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (18.18%) Commercialisation
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Value Proposition
5 1 (9.09%) Data Governance
5 1 (9.09%) Generative AI
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) ITIL
5 1 (9.09%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (9.09%) LLM
5 1 (9.09%) Product Roadmap
5 1 (9.09%) Prompt Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
5 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (9.09%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) OpenAI