Microsoft Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 June 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
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 360 400
Rank change year-on-year +16 +40 +77
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft Engineer 13 45 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.096% 0.21% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.23% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 38 38
10th Percentile £390 £194 £210
25th Percentile £400 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £430 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% -4.44% -
75th Percentile £525 £498 £565
90th Percentile £569 £525 £616
UK median daily rate £500 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £18.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £18.00 -

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 12,381 19,636 21,542
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.37% 92.47% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,743 11,699 14,909
10th Percentile £220 £213 £231
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 969 2,517 1,118
10th Percentile £13.49 £12.56 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.96 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% - +100.00%
75th Percentile £58.58 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.44 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -27.03% -12.79% +72.00%

Microsoft Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Engineer in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Engineer in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Engineer in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Engineer in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 June 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 +43 5 £500 +33.33% 3
Midlands +5 3 £425 +21.43% 2
East of England - 3 £450 - 7
North of England +22 2 £400 -6.16% 4
West Midlands 0 2 £350 - 1
South West +19 1 - - 3
North West +2 1 £400 -6.16% 4
East Midlands - 1 £500 - 1
North East - 1 £400 -
Microsoft Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 2025, Microsoft Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (46.15%) Migration
3 5 (38.46%) Azure
4 4 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
4 4 (30.77%) Cloud Security
5 3 (23.08%) Finance
5 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (15.38%) DevOps
6 2 (15.38%) SCCM
6 2 (15.38%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
6 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
6 2 (15.38%) Task Automation
6 2 (15.38%) Zscaler
6 2 (15.38%) OneDrive
7 1 (7.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
7 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
7 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
7 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
7 1 (7.69%) SOAR
7 1 (7.69%) Incident Response
7 1 (7.69%) Threat and Vulnerability Management

Microsoft Engineer 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 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (15.38%) OneDrive
4 1 (7.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.69%) IaaS
4 1 (7.69%) PaaS
4 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
4 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) PBX
1 1 (7.69%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Data Mart
1 1 (7.69%) Power BI
General
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
1 1 (7.69%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Migration
2 4 (30.77%) Cloud Security
3 2 (15.38%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Task Automation
4 1 (7.69%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (7.69%) Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) Application Packaging
4 1 (7.69%) Case Management
4 1 (7.69%) Cyber Intelligence
4 1 (7.69%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (7.69%) Data Enrichment
4 1 (7.69%) Incident Management
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.69%) Security Operations
4 1 (7.69%) Threat Detection
4 1 (7.69%) Threat Intelligence
4 1 (7.69%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.69%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (15.38%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Zscaler