Microsoft Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Microsoft Corporation.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 2,860 3,800 4,581
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.96% 16.26% 15.06%
As % of the Vendors category 32.68% 36.37% 37.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,806 2,719 3,167
10th Percentile £175 £169 £150
25th Percentile £260 £300 £227
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year -0.65% +8.82% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £675 £675 £619
UK median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - +12.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 413 163 331
10th Percentile £11.00 £13.26 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.86 £15.33 £13.23
Median hourly rate £15.00 £19.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +15.15% -5.71%
75th Percentile £25.00 £34.38 £22.33
90th Percentile £55.09 £57.33 £44.69
UK median hourly rate £15.00 £22.41 £18.55
% change year-on-year -33.07% +20.81% +6.00%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Microsoft is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,752 10,449 12,199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.73% 44.72% 40.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,263 7,156 8,228
10th Percentile £206 £205 £185
25th Percentile £363 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
75th Percentile £600 £598 £575
90th Percentile £690 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 477 641
10th Percentile £11.84 £14.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.72 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.77% +97.37% +2.70%
75th Percentile £59.94 £62.50 £36.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £56.70
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -3.72%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

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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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
South East 0 800 £465 - 830
North of England +4 654 £448 -5.63% 921
South West +1 507 £500 -4.76% 486
North West +2 393 £450 -5.26% 489
Midlands -3 337 £400 -5.88% 708
Scotland +4 294 £350 -15.66% 232
West Midlands -4 226 £400 -11.11% 440
Yorkshire +2 225 £380 -20.00% 320
East of England -2 214 £434 +2.00% 384
East Midlands -4 104 £400 +11.11% 269
Wales 0 79 £515 -1.90% 116
North East +11 38 £378 +51.96% 118
Northern Ireland +5 28 £550 +223.53% 57
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UK

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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
1 300 (10.49%) SharePoint
2 225 (7.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 71 (2.48%) Confluence
4 37 (1.29%) SharePoint Server
5 19 (0.66%) CMS
5 19 (0.66%) IIS
6 16 (0.56%) Skype for Business
7 10 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
8 9 (0.31%) Apache Spark
9 8 (0.28%) Apache
10 7 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 7 (0.24%) WordPress
11 6 (0.21%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2000
12 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2003
12 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
12 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
12 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
12 4 (0.14%) IBM Notes
12 4 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 610 (21.33%) Microsoft Office
2 442 (15.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 198 (6.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 87 (3.04%) Microsoft Project
5 81 (2.83%) Spreadsheet
6 38 (1.33%) MS Visio
7 13 (0.45%) Acrobat
8 10 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 9 (0.31%) CATIA
10 3 (0.10%) InfoPath
10 3 (0.10%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.070%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.035%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.035%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.035%) Siemens NX
12 1 (0.035%) Simulink
12 1 (0.035%) SPSS
12 1 (0.035%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 54 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.63%) Teamcenter
3 12 (0.42%) Primavera
4 9 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.28%) DELMIA
6 7 (0.24%) Magento
6 7 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
7 6 (0.21%) Shopify
8 5 (0.17%) Aareon QL
8 5 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
8 5 (0.17%) SmartPlant
9 4 (0.14%) iTrent
9 4 (0.14%) LabWindows
9 4 (0.14%) Maximo
10 3 (0.10%) OpenText VIM for SAP
10 3 (0.10%) SAP FI-AP
10 3 (0.10%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 697 (24.37%) Azure
2 592 (20.70%) Microsoft 365
3 278 (9.72%) Power Platform
4 152 (5.31%) Dynamics 365
5 136 (4.76%) Entra ID
6 121 (4.23%) AWS
7 95 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
8 90 (3.15%) PowerApps
9 79 (2.76%) Power Automate
10 73 (2.55%) SaaS
11 68 (2.38%) OneDrive
12 63 (2.20%) PaaS
13 45 (1.57%) IaaS
14 43 (1.50%) Azure Stack
15 42 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
16 40 (1.40%) OCI
17 38 (1.33%) Azure Sentinel
18 31 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
19 30 (1.05%) GitHub
20 22 (0.77%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 201 (7.03%) Firewall
2 194 (6.78%) DNS
3 144 (5.03%) DHCP
4 98 (3.43%) VPN
5 89 (3.11%) LAN
5 89 (3.11%) TCP/IP
6 88 (3.08%) SAN
7 65 (2.27%) WAN
8 62 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
9 42 (1.47%) Network Security
10 41 (1.43%) Wireless
11 38 (1.33%) Remote Desktop
12 36 (1.26%) BGP
13 30 (1.05%) VoIP
14 25 (0.87%) VLAN
15 23 (0.80%) Skype
16 20 (0.70%) Intranet
17 19 (0.66%) NAS
18 17 (0.59%) Ethernet
18 17 (0.59%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (6.05%) Power BI
2 153 (5.35%) SQL Server
3 45 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 44 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
5 37 (1.29%) MySQL
6 34 (1.19%) Relational Database
7 33 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 28 (0.98%) Data Lake
9 20 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
9 20 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
11 15 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (0.52%) NoSQL
11 15 (0.52%) Tableau
12 14 (0.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 11 (0.38%) Big Data
13 11 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
14 9 (0.31%) BusinessObjects
15 8 (0.28%) RDBMS
16 7 (0.24%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 151 (5.28%) JIRA
2 41 (1.43%) Git
3 40 (1.40%) Visual Studio
4 16 (0.56%) MSI
5 11 (0.38%) Eclipse
5 11 (0.38%) GitLab
5 11 (0.38%) Jenkins
5 11 (0.38%) SonarQube
6 10 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
6 10 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 10 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
7 9 (0.31%) Postman
8 8 (0.28%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.21%) Maven
9 6 (0.21%) Subversion
10 5 (0.17%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.17%) Checkstyle
11 4 (0.14%) Burp Suite
11 4 (0.14%) NUnit
12 3 (0.10%) Storybook
General
1 1,100 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 364 (12.73%) Finance
3 313 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
4 271 (9.48%) Public Sector
5 151 (5.28%) Organisational Skills
6 104 (3.64%) Telecoms
7 89 (3.11%) Manufacturing
8 80 (2.80%) Marketing
9 78 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
10 77 (2.69%) Legal
11 73 (2.55%) Banking
12 43 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
12 43 (1.50%) Retail
13 35 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
14 32 (1.12%) Military
15 27 (0.94%) Local Government
16 26 (0.91%) Electronics
17 25 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 18 (0.63%) Automotive
19 17 (0.59%) Police
Job Titles
1 445 (15.56%) Analyst
2 224 (7.83%) Architect
3 192 (6.71%) Developer
4 170 (5.94%) Senior
5 164 (5.73%) Support Engineer
6 144 (5.03%) IT Support
7 140 (4.90%) Administrator
8 133 (4.65%) Lead
9 129 (4.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 112 (3.92%) Consultant
10 112 (3.92%) Service Analyst
11 99 (3.46%) Project Manager
12 93 (3.25%) Service Desk Analyst
13 85 (2.97%) IT Engineer
14 77 (2.69%) 2nd Line Support
14 77 (2.69%) Desktop Support
15 75 (2.62%) Desktop Engineer
15 75 (2.62%) Solutions Architect
16 63 (2.20%) Support Analyst
17 62 (2.17%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (2.59%) .NET
2 38 (1.33%) XML
3 34 (1.19%) Web Services
4 27 (0.94%) JSON
5 26 (0.91%) .NET Framework
5 26 (0.91%) REST
6 25 (0.87%) CSS
7 23 (0.80%) ARM Templates
7 23 (0.80%) HTML
8 21 (0.73%) SailPoint
9 20 (0.70%) React
10 18 (0.63%) Node.js
11 17 (0.59%) Elastic Stack
12 14 (0.49%) Spring
13 12 (0.42%) LDAP
13 12 (0.42%) SAML
14 11 (0.38%) .NET Core
14 11 (0.38%) Itk
14 11 (0.38%) OAuth
15 10 (0.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 147 (5.14%) Management Information System
2 111 (3.88%) PKI
3 81 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
4 67 (2.34%) Cyber Threat
4 67 (2.34%) Driving Licence
5 60 (2.10%) Data Centre
6 59 (2.06%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 57 (1.99%) Cyber Defence
8 50 (1.75%) NHS
9 48 (1.68%) Private Cloud
10 34 (1.19%) Public Cloud
11 32 (1.12%) Product Ownership
12 31 (1.08%) Onboarding
13 27 (0.94%) Clustering
14 25 (0.87%) Security Posture
14 25 (0.87%) Video Conferencing
15 22 (0.77%) iPhone
15 22 (0.77%) Virtual Team
16 21 (0.73%) Data Structures
17 20 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 950 (33.22%) Windows
2 376 (13.15%) Windows 10
3 312 (10.91%) Windows Server
4 205 (7.17%) Linux
5 110 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
6 109 (3.81%) Windows Server 2019
7 103 (3.60%) Windows Server 2016
8 93 (3.25%) Windows 7
9 58 (2.03%) Apple iOS
10 39 (1.36%) Mac OS
11 31 (1.08%) Ubuntu
12 29 (1.01%) Android
13 20 (0.70%) Windows NT
14 18 (0.63%) Unix
14 18 (0.63%) Windows Server 2008
15 17 (0.59%) Debian
15 17 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 17 (0.59%) Windows XP
16 13 (0.45%) Windows Server 2003
17 12 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 562 (19.65%) Problem-Solving
2 439 (15.35%) Customer Service
3 405 (14.16%) Agile
4 372 (13.01%) ITIL
5 265 (9.27%) Project Management
6 227 (7.94%) Migration
7 216 (7.55%) DevOps
8 205 (7.17%) Service Delivery
9 199 (6.96%) Business Intelligence
9 199 (6.96%) Cybersecurity
10 180 (6.29%) Stakeholder Management
11 170 (5.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 170 (5.94%) Service Management
12 156 (5.45%) Decision-Making
13 148 (5.17%) Incident Management
14 141 (4.93%) Project Delivery
15 139 (4.86%) Change Management
16 138 (4.83%) Analytics
17 121 (4.23%) Continuous Improvement
18 112 (3.92%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 239 (8.36%) PowerShell
2 238 (8.32%) SQL
3 109 (3.81%) C#
4 99 (3.46%) Python
5 56 (1.96%) JavaScript
6 50 (1.75%) Java
7 26 (0.91%) T-SQL
8 24 (0.84%) C++
9 23 (0.80%) VB
10 22 (0.77%) Bash
11 20 (0.70%) Bicep
11 20 (0.70%) PHP
12 18 (0.63%) C
13 17 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
14 16 (0.56%) VBScript
15 14 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 13 (0.45%) TypeScript
17 9 (0.31%) PL/SQL
18 8 (0.28%) Swift
19 7 (0.24%) X++
Qualifications
1 834 (29.16%) Security Cleared
2 426 (14.90%) SC Cleared
3 423 (14.79%) DV Cleared
4 370 (12.94%) Degree
5 176 (6.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 57 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 57 (1.99%) MCSE
7 50 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 47 (1.64%) APMP
8 47 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
9 43 (1.50%) CCNA
9 43 (1.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 39 (1.36%) Azure Certification
11 38 (1.33%) MCSA
12 36 (1.26%) A+ Certification
13 34 (1.19%) PMI Certification
13 34 (1.19%) PMP
14 31 (1.08%) MCP
15 29 (1.01%) CCNP
16 28 (0.98%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (5.77%) SLA
2 95 (3.32%) QA
3 93 (3.25%) PMO
4 64 (2.24%) NIST
5 49 (1.71%) Disclosure Scotland
6 46 (1.61%) NIST 800
7 37 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 35 (1.22%) Government Security Classifications
9 32 (1.12%) GDPR
10 24 (0.84%) Data Quality
11 22 (0.77%) Accessibility
12 16 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
12 16 (0.56%) JSP 440
13 9 (0.31%) NCSC
14 6 (0.21%) GMP
14 6 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 6 (0.21%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 5 (0.17%) ISO 9001
15 5 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 653 (22.83%) Active Directory
2 198 (6.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 88 (3.08%) Hyper-V
4 70 (2.45%) VMware ESXi
5 48 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
6 42 (1.47%) Firmware
7 41 (1.43%) vSphere
8 39 (1.36%) Virtual Desktop
9 30 (1.05%) Docker
9 30 (1.05%) VMware NSX
10 15 (0.52%) BitLocker
11 14 (0.49%) XenApp
12 11 (0.38%) XenDesktop
13 10 (0.35%) Terminal Services
14 9 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
14 9 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
15 8 (0.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 8 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
16 7 (0.24%) KVM
17 6 (0.21%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 244 (8.53%) SCCM
2 183 (6.40%) Microsoft Intune
3 84 (2.94%) WSUS
4 68 (2.38%) SCOM
5 58 (2.03%) vCenter Server
6 54 (1.89%) Kubernetes
7 47 (1.64%) Terraform
8 41 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
9 37 (1.29%) Ansible
10 31 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 23 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
11 23 (0.80%) OPNET
12 21 (0.73%) Sysprep
13 16 (0.56%) NetBackup
14 15 (0.52%) EMC NetWorker
14 15 (0.52%) Grafana
15 14 (0.49%) Prometheus
15 14 (0.49%) WMI
16 12 (0.42%) Nessus
17 10 (0.35%) Argo
Vendors
1 291 (10.17%) VMware
2 115 (4.02%) ServiceNow
3 108 (3.78%) Cisco
4 101 (3.53%) Oracle
5 85 (2.97%) Citrix
5 85 (2.97%) SAP
6 77 (2.69%) Atlassian
6 77 (2.69%) HP
7 59 (2.06%) Apple
8 52 (1.82%) Veeam
9 45 (1.57%) Google
10 44 (1.54%) Dell
11 43 (1.50%) Adobe
12 41 (1.43%) Red Hat
13 38 (1.33%) Splunk
14 34 (1.19%) Salesforce
15 27 (0.94%) Palo Alto
16 23 (0.80%) Juniper
17 22 (0.77%) CyberArk
18 20 (0.70%) Varonis