Microsoft Engineer Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Microsoft Engineer daily rate in the Thames Valley is £350, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 138 147
Rank change year-on-year +39 +9 -
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft Engineer 3 7 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.20% 0.26% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.28% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 4
10th Percentile - £295 £354
25th Percentile - £363 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £400 £413
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -3.03% -
75th Percentile - £450 £508
90th Percentile - £548 £611
South East median daily rate £435 £388 £375
% change year-on-year +12.26% +3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £18.00 -
South East median hourly rate - £18.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 1,405 2,505 2,767
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.98% 93.26% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 1,430 1,916
10th Percentile £300 £206 £313
25th Percentile £409 £370 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 189 76
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.78 £17.31
25th Percentile £16.94 £19.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £45.65 £45.00 £46.70
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -3.64% +166.86%
75th Percentile £65.62 £62.50 £66.21
90th Percentile £77.47 £84.57 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Microsoft Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Engineer in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Engineer in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Engineer in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Engineer
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 Engineer within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +32 3 £350 -31.71%
Microsoft Engineer
South East

Microsoft Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Thames Valley region featuring Microsoft Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
2 2 (66.67%) Big Data
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Spark
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Databricks
2 2 (66.67%) PySpark
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) API Management
3 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Migration

Microsoft Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Big Data
General
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) API Management
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Use Case
1 2 (66.67%) User Stories
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Databricks