Microsoft Purview Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Purview (formerly Azure Purview)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Microsoft Purview skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 123 140
Rank change year-on-year +13 +17 -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Purview 3 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.19% 0.18% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.49% 0.59% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £507 -
25th Percentile - £508 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% -3.49% -
75th Percentile - £533 £591
90th Percentile - £536 £619
South East median daily rate £463 £519 £538
% change year-on-year -10.84% -3.49% -

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

Microsoft Purview 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 618 674 805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 38.17% 30.43% 28.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 458 571
10th Percentile £250 £363 £233
25th Percentile £400 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £650
90th Percentile £654 £663 £725
South East median daily rate £492 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -4.00% -2.38% +3.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 21
10th Percentile £14.30 £18.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £14.75 £20.39 £19.25
Median hourly rate £17.19 £35.50 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -51.59% +9.91% +53.81%
75th Percentile £32.05 £60.72 £35.00
90th Percentile £42.71 £64.73 £64.50
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £40.50 £27.83
% change year-on-year -53.53% +45.53% +33.41%

Microsoft Purview
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Microsoft Purview as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Purview in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Purview
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

Microsoft Purview
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 Purview within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 15 September 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 +12 1 - - 4
Buckinghamshire +6 1 £500 -4.76% 1
Oxfordshire - 1 - -
Microsoft Purview
South East

Microsoft Purview
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%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) IaaS
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Security
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) HIPAA
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft