Microsoft Copilot Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Copilot
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Microsoft Copilot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 121 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Copilot 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.24% 0.050% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.63% 0.15% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £449 - -
25th Percentile £484 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - -
75th Percentile £634 - -
90th Percentile £666 - -
South East median daily rate £550 £545 £168
% change year-on-year +0.92% +225.37% -

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 788 684 757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 37.70% 33.86% 30.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 533 448 521
10th Percentile £257 £321 £200
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.25% -4.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £665 £700
South East median daily rate £485 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -5.83% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 15 18
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.50 £16.66
25th Percentile £17.79 £20.90 £19.25
Median hourly rate £40.44 £29.00 £33.66
Median % change year-on-year +39.43% -13.84% +60.29%
75th Percentile £90.50 £54.24 £70.13
90th Percentile £98.50 £64.73 £82.92
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £28.75 £29.66
% change year-on-year -30.43% -3.07% +48.30%

Microsoft Copilot
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Microsoft Copilot job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Copilot
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Microsoft Copilot.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft Copilot
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Copilot in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Copilot in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Copilot
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 17 December 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 -1 5 £563 - 3
Microsoft Copilot
South East

Microsoft Copilot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Copilot Studio
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
General
1 2 (40.00%) Back Office
2 1 (20.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) PMO Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Transformation Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) AI
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (40.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (40.00%) Technology Transformation
4 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
4 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
4 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (20.00%) LLM
4 1 (20.00%) Project Governance
4 1 (20.00%) Prompt Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Resource Management
4 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce