Microsoft Developer Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Developer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Microsoft Developer daily rate in the Thames Valley is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 142 142 166
Rank change year-on-year 0 +24 -43
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft Developer 3 9 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.11% 0.30% 0.086%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.32% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 2
10th Percentile - £560 £495
25th Percentile £463 £575 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £496
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +20.91% +0.76%
75th Percentile £556 £625 £498
90th Percentile £598 - £498
South East median daily rate £538 £600 £423
% change year-on-year -10.42% +42.01% -12.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,586 2,787 3,367
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.49% 93.87% 95.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,470 1,927 2,300
10th Percentile £213 £313 £188
25th Percentile £370 £406 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £598 £575
90th Percentile £675 £685 £645
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 71 103
10th Percentile £15.85 £17.11 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £20.00 £12.75
Median hourly rate £44.00 £42.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% +142.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £66.11 £26.11
90th Percentile £82.55 £79.19 £67.25
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +5.56% +114.29% -16.00%

Microsoft Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings that featured Microsoft Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Developer in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Developer in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Developer in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Developer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Developer in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Developer in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Developer in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Developer
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 Developer within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 18 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
Berkshire - 2 £475 -
Buckinghamshire +22 1 £600 - 3
Microsoft Developer
South East

Microsoft Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, Microsoft Developer 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 Thames Valley region featuring Microsoft Developer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Local Government
1 2 (66.67%) User Stories
1 2 (66.67%) Qualitative Research
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) Quantitative Research
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
1 2 (66.67%) Power Automate
2 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) API Management
2 1 (33.33%) Azure API Management
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) OpenAPI
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Swagger
2 1 (33.33%) SOLID
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Azure

Microsoft Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Power Automate
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure API Management
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
General
1 2 (66.67%) Local Government
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) OpenAPI
1 1 (33.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Qualitative Research
1 2 (66.67%) Quantitative Research
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) User Stories
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) API Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) SOLID
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft