Microsoft Developer Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 September 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
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 356 409
Rank change year-on-year +3 +53 +93
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft Developer 15 12 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.097% 0.067% 0.056%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.073% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 11
10th Percentile £436 £508 £413
25th Percentile £478 £519 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £625
90th Percentile £625 £623 -
UK median daily rate £546 £550 £488
% change year-on-year -0.68% +12.82% -2.50%

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 13,901 16,426 20,258
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.87% 92.25% 94.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,555 9,542 13,514
10th Percentile £213 £220 £225
25th Percentile £361 £375 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £660 £676 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,258 1,435 1,184
10th Percentile £13.46 £14.33 £14.06
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% +5.88% +93.18%
75th Percentile £52.50 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.88
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.01% +68.77%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Microsoft Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Microsoft Developer job vacancies 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 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Developer in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Microsoft Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Microsoft Developer job vacancies 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 17 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
Midlands -7 7 £600 +20.00% 4
North of England -9 7 £500 -9.09% 2
East Midlands - 5 - - 2
North West -15 4 £525 -4.55%
West Midlands -11 2 £600 +20.00% 2
North East - 2 - -
East of England +4 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £475 - 2
Microsoft Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 2025, 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 15 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (60.00%) Power Platform
3 7 (46.67%) Dynamics 365
3 7 (46.67%) Power Automate
4 6 (40.00%) PowerApps
4 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (33.33%) Public Sector
5 5 (33.33%) SQL
6 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
6 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
6 4 (26.67%) Azure
7 3 (20.00%) Confluence
7 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (20.00%) .NET
7 3 (20.00%) Agile
7 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
7 3 (20.00%) DevOps
7 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
7 3 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (13.33%) IoT
8 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (13.33%) OpenEdge
8 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (13.33%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (13.33%) MySQL
8 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
8 2 (13.33%) ITIL
8 2 (13.33%) CRM

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) Confluence
1 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (13.33%) OpenEdge
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (6.67%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) Power Platform
2 7 (46.67%) Dynamics 365
2 7 (46.67%) Power Automate
3 6 (40.00%) PowerApps
4 4 (26.67%) Azure
5 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (6.67%) Azure Functions
7 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) MySQL
1 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) .NET
2 2 (13.33%) HTML
3 1 (6.67%) .NET Core
3 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (6.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) IoT
1 2 (13.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Data Fabric
2 1 (6.67%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (20.00%) Agile
2 3 (20.00%) DevOps
2 3 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (13.33%) CRM
3 2 (13.33%) Customer Service
3 2 (13.33%) ITIL
3 2 (13.33%) Mobile Application Development
3 2 (13.33%) Waterfall
4 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (6.67%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (6.67%) Log Analytics
4 1 (6.67%) People Management
4 1 (6.67%) SFIA
4 1 (6.67%) Unit Testing
4 1 (6.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) C#
2 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.67%) Bicep
3 1 (6.67%) T-SQL
3 1 (6.67%) X++
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (13.33%) Degree
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Microsoft