Microsoft Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £488 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 387 417 504
Rank change year-on-year +30 +87 -99
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft Developer 11 38 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.053% 0.16% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.057% 0.17% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 34 11
10th Percentile £419 £413 -
25th Percentile £463 £566 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £586 £495
Median % change year-on-year -16.81% +18.38% +6.45%
75th Percentile £584 £625 £638
90th Percentile £619 £676 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £586 £555
% change year-on-year -18.94% +5.59% +17.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 19,245 22,798 29,861
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.68% 94.05% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,847 15,968 20,881
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £594 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,208 1,203 1,503
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.43 £12.06
25th Percentile £15.63 £18.13 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +0.94%

Microsoft Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Developer in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Developer in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Developer in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Developer in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Developer
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 Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. 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
West Midlands +36 4 £450 +5.88% 1
Midlands +35 4 £450 +5.88% 1
South West +21 4 £575 +21.05%
South East +5 3 £475 -20.83% 4
Microsoft Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Microsoft Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 9 (81.82%) Microsoft
2 6 (54.55%) Power Platform
3 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
3 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (36.36%) Power BI
4 4 (36.36%) CRM
4 4 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (36.36%) C#
4 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
4 4 (36.36%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (27.27%) Data Management
5 3 (27.27%) Contact Management
5 3 (27.27%) TDD
5 3 (27.27%) .NET
5 3 (27.27%) Dashboard Development
5 3 (27.27%) Azure Functions
5 3 (27.27%) Serverless
5 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (27.27%) Azure
5 3 (27.27%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (27.27%) Process Improvement
5 3 (27.27%) Business Analytics
5 3 (27.27%) Analytics
5 3 (27.27%) PaaS
5 3 (27.27%) DevOps
5 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
5 3 (27.27%) Power Automate
6 2 (18.18%) SonarCloud
6 2 (18.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (18.18%) Moq

Microsoft Developer 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Power Platform
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) Azure Functions
2 3 (27.27%) PaaS
2 3 (27.27%) Power Automate
2 3 (27.27%) Serverless
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (18.18%) SonarCloud
4 1 (9.09%) Azure API Management
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (9.09%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Power BI
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
2 3 (27.27%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
1 2 (18.18%) Moq
1 2 (18.18%) NUnit
2 1 (9.09%) Postman
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Local Government
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) .NET
2 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
2 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
2 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (9.09%) CSS
3 1 (9.09%) HTML
3 1 (9.09%) OpenAPI
3 1 (9.09%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (36.36%) CRM
3 3 (27.27%) Analytics
3 3 (27.27%) Business Analytics
3 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 3 (27.27%) Contact Management
3 3 (27.27%) Dashboard Development
3 3 (27.27%) Data Management
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Process Improvement
3 3 (27.27%) TDD
4 2 (18.18%) Business Analysis
4 2 (18.18%) MVC
4 2 (18.18%) Qualitative Research
4 2 (18.18%) Quantitative Research
4 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) User Stories
5 1 (9.09%) Agile
5 1 (9.09%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) C#
2 2 (18.18%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Microsoft