Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Sutton

Microsoft
South London > Sutton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sutton 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 15 November 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
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 4 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Sutton 66.67% 14.29% 28.57%
As % of the Vendors category 66.67% 50.00% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £515 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% -21.74% +39.39%
75th Percentile £545 - £588
90th Percentile - - -
South London median daily rate £425 £390 £606
% change year-on-year +8.85% -35.60% +33.24%

All Vendors
Sutton

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 Sutton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 3 2 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sutton 100.00% 28.57% 57.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £513 £315 £513
25th Percentile £514 £338 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £375 £575
Median % change year-on-year +41.33% -34.78% +39.39%
75th Percentile £545 £413 £638
90th Percentile - £435 £668
South London median daily rate £475 £545 £500
% change year-on-year -12.84% +9.00% -9.09%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Sutton

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Sutton

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in Sutton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sutton citing Microsoft.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sutton citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Sutton

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sutton citing Microsoft.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sutton citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sutton 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Puppet
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) PagerDuty