Microsoft Contracts in Tower Hamlets

Microsoft
East London > Tower Hamlets

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tower Hamlets 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 13 9
Rank change year-on-year +9 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 12 11 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets 21.43% 9.91% 13.04%
As % of the Vendors category 36.36% 19.64% 36.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 8
10th Percentile £563 £413 £188
25th Percentile - £510 £197
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £585 £408
Median % change year-on-year - +43.56% +42.13%
75th Percentile £612 - £538
90th Percentile £675 £587 £658
East London median daily rate £585 £510 £473
% change year-on-year +14.71% +7.94% +20.62%

All Vendors
Tower Hamlets

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 Tower Hamlets.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 33 56 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets 58.93% 50.45% 36.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 53 18
10th Percentile £463 £450 £180
25th Percentile £543 £530 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £560 £498
Median % change year-on-year +4.46% +12.56% +24.38%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £565
90th Percentile £675 £653 £628
East London median daily rate £575 £533 £418
% change year-on-year +7.88% +27.66% -7.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Tower Hamlets

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Tower Hamlets

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in Tower Hamlets.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Tower Hamlets

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Daily Rate Histogram in Tower Hamlets

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Tower Hamlets over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Tower Hamlets

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in Tower Hamlets.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Tower Hamlets

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Contract Job Locations in Tower Hamlets

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Tower Hamlets 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
Canary Wharf +8 12 £585 -
Microsoft
East London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tower Hamlets 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 6 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) Azure
2 7 (58.33%) Power Platform
3 4 (33.33%) AWS
3 4 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (33.33%) Power Automate
4 3 (25.00%) Mimecast
4 3 (25.00%) OneDrive
4 3 (25.00%) PowerApps
5 2 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (8.33%) GCP
6 1 (8.33%) Serverless
6 1 (8.33%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) DHCP
1 3 (25.00%) DNS
1 3 (25.00%) Firewall
1 3 (25.00%) SD-WAN
1 3 (25.00%) VLAN
1 3 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (16.67%) Power BI
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Lead
2 3 (25.00%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Lead Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Technical Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Agile Product Owner
4 1 (8.33%) Agile Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) CRM Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365 Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) .NET
1 4 (33.33%) HTML5 Canvas
1 4 (33.33%) JSON
2 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (16.67%) CSS
2 2 (16.67%) HTML
2 2 (16.67%) REST
2 2 (16.67%) SOAP
2 2 (16.67%) WCF
2 2 (16.67%) XML
3 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (16.67%) Replication
3 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Apple iOS
2 1 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Agile
1 4 (33.33%) Data Governance
1 4 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 3 (25.00%) Analytics
2 3 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (25.00%) Desktop Virtualisation
2 3 (25.00%) DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) ITIL
2 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (25.00%) TDD
2 3 (25.00%) Threat Management
2 3 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 2 (16.67%) API Management
3 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (16.67%) Data Management
3 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (16.67%) TOGAF
3 2 (16.67%) Web Development
3 2 (16.67%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) C#
1 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (16.67%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) T-SQL
2 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
3 1 (8.33%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) DBS Check
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (41.67%) SCCM
2 1 (8.33%) logstash
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Citrix
1 1 (8.33%) Cognizant
1 1 (8.33%) LogRhythm
1 1 (8.33%) McAfee
1 1 (8.33%) SkyKick