Microsoft Purview Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Purview (formerly Azure Purview)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Microsoft Purview skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft Purview over the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 318 353 371
Rank change year-on-year +35 +18 +137
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Purview 56 23 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.13% 0.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.18% 0.47% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 14 37
10th Percentile £410 £461 £463
25th Percentile £439 £514 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £664 £600
90th Percentile £685 £721 £669
UK median daily rate £515 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -9.69% +3.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 -
% change year-on-year +1.56% - -

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

Microsoft Purview 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 4,753 4,902 6,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.76% 26.92% 31.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,187 3,365 5,066
10th Percentile £251 £250 £223
25th Percentile £385 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £647 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 192 239
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £16.06 £17.38
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.37 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -11.70% -15.37% +31.17%
75th Percentile £36.00 £52.18 £58.13
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £27.76 £24.18 £34.90
% change year-on-year +14.81% -30.71% +62.31%

Microsoft Purview
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Purview in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Purview
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Purview in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Purview
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Purview in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Purview in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Purview
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 Purview within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 August 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
North of England -8 17 £454 -29.69% 15
Midlands +3 14 £550 - 5
North West +3 14 £460 -23.33% 8
West Midlands +8 13 £575 - 3
Scotland -4 8 £750 - 7
East of England - 8 £613 - 2
South West +17 5 £550 -2.22% 6
South East +26 4 £463 -9.76% 24
North East - 2 - - 1
Yorkshire -16 1 £438 -37.05% 6
Wales - 1 £800 -
Microsoft Purview
UK

Microsoft Purview
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 22 (39.29%) SharePoint
2 9 (16.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (5.36%) Confluence
4 2 (3.57%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 3 (5.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (10.71%) SAP PM
2 4 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.79%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 30 (53.57%) Azure
2 29 (51.79%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (23.21%) Entra ID
4 11 (19.64%) OneDrive
5 10 (17.86%) Azure Sentinel
6 9 (16.07%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (16.07%) Power Platform
7 7 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 7 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (10.71%) Collibra
9 5 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (8.93%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (8.93%) GitHub
9 5 (8.93%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (5.36%) Alation
10 3 (5.36%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (3.57%) Power Automate
11 2 (3.57%) PowerApps
11 2 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.71%) Firewall
2 3 (5.36%) Network Security
3 2 (3.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 7 (12.50%) Delta Lake
1 7 (12.50%) Power BI
2 6 (10.71%) GIS
2 6 (10.71%) Oracle Database
3 3 (5.36%) IBM InfoSphere
4 2 (3.57%) MySQL
4 2 (3.57%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.57%) QlikView
4 2 (3.57%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.57%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.79%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (1.79%) Git
General
1 15 (26.79%) Social Skills
2 11 (19.64%) Finance
3 4 (7.14%) Legal
3 4 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.57%) Banking
4 2 (3.57%) Law
5 1 (1.79%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Marketing
5 1 (1.79%) Military
5 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (28.57%) Architect
2 12 (21.43%) Security Engineer
3 10 (17.86%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 8 (14.29%) Project Manager
5 6 (10.71%) Data Manager
5 6 (10.71%) Design Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Analyst
6 5 (8.93%) Data Architect
7 4 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (5.36%) Data Governance Analyst
8 3 (5.36%) Data Governance Manager
8 3 (5.36%) Data Migration Specialist
8 3 (5.36%) Developer
8 3 (5.36%) Governance Manager
8 3 (5.36%) Migration Specialist
8 3 (5.36%) Project Governance Manager
8 3 (5.36%) Security Architect
9 2 (3.57%) Azure Architect
9 2 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.71%) Kafka
2 1 (1.79%) ADO
2 1 (1.79%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (1.79%) PySpark
2 1 (1.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) IoT
1 6 (10.71%) SCADA
2 5 (8.93%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 4 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (5.36%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.57%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.79%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.79%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.79%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 11 (19.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (46.43%) Data Governance
2 20 (35.71%) Data Loss Prevention
3 16 (28.57%) Zero Trust
4 11 (19.64%) Migration
5 10 (17.86%) Cloud Security
5 10 (17.86%) Identity Access Management
6 8 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (14.29%) Security Operations
7 7 (12.50%) Analytics
7 7 (12.50%) Data Migration
7 7 (12.50%) DevOps
7 7 (12.50%) Impact Analysis
7 7 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (10.71%) CI/CD
8 6 (10.71%) Data Protection
8 6 (10.71%) Knowledge Transfer
8 6 (10.71%) Mentoring
8 6 (10.71%) Privileged Identity Management
8 6 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (23.21%) PowerShell
2 10 (17.86%) SQL
3 7 (12.50%) Kusto Query Language
3 7 (12.50%) Python
4 4 (7.14%) Bicep
5 1 (1.79%) Bash
5 1 (1.79%) Java
Qualifications
1 16 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (21.43%) Degree
3 7 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 4 (7.14%) Azure Certification
4 4 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (25.00%) GDPR
2 11 (19.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (16.07%) NIST
4 8 (14.29%) HIPAA
5 7 (12.50%) Data Quality
6 2 (3.57%) NCSC
7 1 (1.79%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (1.79%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (1.79%) JSP 440
7 1 (1.79%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (8.93%) Terraform
2 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.79%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.79%) QRadar
3 1 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 52 (92.86%) Microsoft
2 9 (16.07%) Informatica
3 7 (12.50%) Databricks
4 6 (10.71%) Oracle
4 6 (10.71%) SAP
5 3 (5.36%) IBM
6 2 (3.57%) Atlassian
6 2 (3.57%) Darktrace
6 2 (3.57%) Fortinet
6 2 (3.57%) Zscaler
7 1 (1.79%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.79%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.79%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.79%) Imperva
7 1 (1.79%) LogRhythm
7 1 (1.79%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.79%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.79%) Thycotic