Microsoft Copilot Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Copilot
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Microsoft Copilot skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft Copilot over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 394 -
Rank change year-on-year +72 - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Copilot 17 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.024% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.41% 0.092% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 0
10th Percentile £212 £388 -
25th Percentile £220 £491 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £675 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% - -
75th Percentile £538 £688 -
90th Percentile £620 - -
UK median daily rate £525 £500 -
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

Microsoft Copilot 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,099 5,425 7,981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.04% 26.14% 33.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,902 3,831 5,919
10th Percentile £240 £213 £240
25th Percentile £388 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 260 226
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.62
Median hourly rate £21.46 £17.71 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -28.09% +31.31%
75th Percentile £33.45 £26.50 £64.88
90th Percentile £69.25 £61.51 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Microsoft Copilot
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Microsoft Copilot as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Copilot in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Copilot
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Copilot in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Copilot
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Copilot in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Copilot in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Copilot
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 Copilot within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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 - 9 £513 - 17
North of England +26 4 £188 - 16
Yorkshire +8 2 £188 - 4
Scotland - 2 £525 - 8
North East - 2 - - 2
Wales - 1 £275 -
East of England - 1 - - 4
Microsoft Copilot
UK

Microsoft Copilot
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 6 (35.29%) SharePoint
2 2 (11.76%) OpenEdge
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 11 (64.71%) Azure
2 10 (58.82%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (41.18%) Power Platform
4 5 (29.41%) Power Automate
5 4 (23.53%) PowerApps
6 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (11.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (11.76%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
8 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
8 1 (5.88%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) DHCP
1 1 (5.88%) DNS
1 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) MySQL
2 2 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (11.76%) MariaDB
2 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
2 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.76%) Power BI
2 2 (11.76%) Power Query
2 2 (11.76%) Redis
2 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Architect
2 3 (17.65%) Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Developer
3 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Power Platform Developer
4 1 (5.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Designer
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Solutions Designer
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Deployment Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) ARM Templates
1 2 (11.76%) HTML5 Canvas
1 2 (11.76%) JSON
1 2 (11.76%) YAML
2 1 (5.88%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (11.76%) Low-Code
1 2 (11.76%) Mobile App
1 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Artificial Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (23.53%) Architectural Patterns
2 4 (23.53%) Machine Learning
3 3 (17.65%) ITIL
3 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
4 2 (11.76%) Agile
4 2 (11.76%) Analytics
4 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
4 2 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (11.76%) Design Patterns
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (11.76%) Kanban
4 2 (11.76%) Log Analytics
4 2 (11.76%) Mobile Application Development
4 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (11.76%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) Bash
2 2 (11.76%) Bicep
2 2 (11.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (11.76%) Java
2 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Ansible
1 2 (11.76%) Grafana
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (11.76%) Progress Chef
1 2 (11.76%) Prometheus
1 2 (11.76%) SCCM
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (82.35%) Microsoft