Microsoft Graph Contract Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Graph API
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Microsoft Graph skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 151 206
Rank change year-on-year -29 +55 -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Graph 4 8 4
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.088% 0.25% 0.073%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.56% 1.54% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 4
10th Percentile - £538 -
25th Percentile £406 £575 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £650 £425
Median % change year-on-year -36.54% +52.94% -
75th Percentile £419 £650 £459
90th Percentile - £651 £520
England median daily rate £534 £650 £560
% change year-on-year -17.85% +16.07% +12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

Microsoft Graph falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 713 518 795
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.65% 16.28% 14.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 316 441
10th Percentile £301 £350 £315
25th Percentile £406 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £543 £513
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +5.75% -6.73%
75th Percentile £581 £638 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £678
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 11 45
10th Percentile £40.00 £55.38 £52.55
25th Percentile £46.25 £60.38 £55.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +0.81% -4.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.13 £73.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.87 £77.80
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%

Microsoft Graph
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Graph relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Microsoft Graph job vacancy trend in the South East

Microsoft Graph
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Microsoft Graph.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Microsoft Graph

Microsoft Graph
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 Graph within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 February 2026. 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 -18 3 - -
Berkshire -22 3 - -
Surrey - 1 £413 -
Microsoft Graph
England

Microsoft Graph
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (50.00%) Azure API Management
3 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Functions
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (50.00%) SaaS
3 2 (50.00%) Serverless
4 1 (25.00%) IaaS
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SSL
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) HTTP
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Fiddler
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Billing
2 1 (25.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Support
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) OAuth
2 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (50.00%) ARM Templates
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (50.00%) OAuth2
2 2 (50.00%) OpenID
2 2 (50.00%) REST
2 2 (50.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (75.00%) Identity Management
1 3 (75.00%) Log Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 2 (50.00%) B2C
2 2 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
2 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) MLOps
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) RBAC
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) User Experience
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) PHP
2 2 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) BitLocker
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft