Microsoft Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 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
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 379 440
Rank change year-on-year +52 +61 +48
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft Consultant 10 9 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.079% 0.044% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.086% 0.047% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 9
10th Percentile £435 - £433
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £500 £525 £600
90th Percentile £665 £594 £705
UK median daily rate £450 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -25.00% +14.29% -4.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,687 19,029 22,516
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 92.56% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,486 11,618 15,791
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £651 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.97% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 840 2,244 1,158
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.58 £15.75 £17.92
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -4.76% +115.16%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.89% -18.89% +90.68%

Microsoft Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Microsoft Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Consultant in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Consultant in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Consultant in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Consultant in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Consultant in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 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
South East +42 4 £600 +20.00% 11
North of England +24 2 £463 - 10
Scotland - 2 £450 - 1
South West +33 1 £450 -10.00% 3
Yorkshire +16 1 £475 - 1
Midlands - 1 - - 3
North West - 1 £450 - 8
West Midlands - 1 - - 2
East of England - 1 - - 1
Microsoft Consultant
UK

Microsoft Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 5 May 2025, Microsoft Consultant 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 UK excluding London region featuring Microsoft Consultant in the job title.

1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) Migration
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (30.00%) Azure
4 2 (20.00%) Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Power BI
4 2 (20.00%) PowerApps
4 2 (20.00%) Cutover Planning
4 2 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Project Management
4 2 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
4 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (20.00%) ERP
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
5 1 (10.00%) ETL
5 1 (10.00%) C++
5 1 (10.00%) SQL
5 1 (10.00%) Windows

Microsoft Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Copilot
3 2 (20.00%) PowerApps
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (10.00%) Power Automate
4 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (10.00%) MS Access
2 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Electronics
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) FMCG
1 1 (10.00%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (20.00%) Analytics
2 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (20.00%) Cutover Planning
2 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (20.00%) ERP
2 2 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
2 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (20.00%) Project Management
2 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (10.00%) Data Strategy
3 1 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing Automation
3 1 (10.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (10.00%) Privileged Identity Management
3 1 (10.00%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (10.00%) Server Building
3 1 (10.00%) Threat Detection
3 1 (10.00%) Two-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) C++
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce