Microsoft Engineer Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Engineer
England > South East

The median Microsoft Engineer daily rate in the South East is £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 194 211 252
Rank change year-on-year +17 +41 -51
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft Engineer 9 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.16% 0.086% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.091% 0.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 4
10th Percentile £280 £263 £317
25th Percentile £313 £350 £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £375 £393
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -4.49% +1.32%
75th Percentile £475 £450 £426
90th Percentile £545 £588 £456
England median daily rate £470 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -6.00% +5.26% +22.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £18.00 - -
England median hourly rate £18.00 - £59.38

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 5,156 5,513 7,500
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.60% 94.38% 95.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,099 3,836 5,074
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £394 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £604 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 476 240 339
10th Percentile £12.78 £18.04 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.16 £16.18
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.24 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% +129.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.69 £43.85
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £60.30
England median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -21.11% +100.00% +0.36%

Microsoft Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Microsoft Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Engineer in the South East

Microsoft Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Engineer in the South East

Microsoft Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Engineer in the South East

Microsoft Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Engineer in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Engineer in the South East

Microsoft Engineer
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 Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
Thames Valley +17 6 £425 +3.03%
Buckinghamshire +36 3 £250 -33.33%
Berkshire -6 2 £513 +28.13%
Surrey +8 1 £500 +138.10%
Oxfordshire +7 1 £400 -41.18%
East Sussex - 1 £300 -
Kent - 1 £350 -
Microsoft Engineer
England

Microsoft Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Microsoft Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region featuring Microsoft Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (66.67%) Windows
3 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (22.22%) Windows 7
5 2 (22.22%) Azure
5 2 (22.22%) VPN
5 2 (22.22%) SLA
5 2 (22.22%) SCCM
5 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
5 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
5 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
5 2 (22.22%) Information Security
5 2 (22.22%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (22.22%) Firewall
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
5 2 (22.22%) Business Strategy
5 2 (22.22%) Customer Service
5 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 1 (11.11%) UEBA
6 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
6 1 (11.11%) PowerApps
6 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
6 1 (11.11%) Migration
6 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365

Microsoft Engineer Skill Set
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 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) OneDrive
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
1 2 (22.22%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Appium
1 1 (11.11%) Selenium
General
1 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) BYOD
1 1 (11.11%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Windows 7
3 1 (11.11%) Android
3 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Business Strategy
1 2 (22.22%) Customer Requirements
1 2 (22.22%) Customer Service
1 2 (22.22%) Information Security
1 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (11.11%) Analytics
2 1 (11.11%) Case Management
2 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
2 1 (11.11%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
2 1 (11.11%) Performance Testing
2 1 (11.11%) SIEM
2 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
2 1 (11.11%) Test Scripting
2 1 (11.11%) UEBA
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) C#
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (22.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Google