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 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 2,834 3,825 4,615
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.92% 16.27% 15.06%
As % of the Vendors category 32.59% 36.41% 37.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,785 2,740 3,187
10th Percentile £175 £170 £150
25th Percentile £260 £300 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £462 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% +8.75% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £534
90th Percentile £675 £675 £619
UK median daily rate £495 £500 £499
% change year-on-year -1.00% +0.20% +11.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 412 164 338
10th Percentile £11.00 £13.26 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.86 £15.36 £13.21
Median hourly rate £15.00 £19.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +15.15% -5.31%
75th Percentile £25.00 £34.06 £22.25
90th Percentile £55.10 £57.33 £44.68
UK median hourly rate £15.00 £22.46 £18.55
% change year-on-year -33.20% +21.05% +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 8,695 10,506 12,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.69% 44.70% 40.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,220 7,194 8,302
10th Percentile £206 £205 £188
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 £600 £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 960 476 653
10th Percentile £11.80 £14.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.67 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.77% +97.37% +2.70%
75th Percentile £59.93 £62.00 £36.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £56.61
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -4.10%

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

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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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -1 795 £465 -0.01% 860
North of England +4 647 £450 -5.26% 990
South West +1 503 £500 -4.76% 500
North West +3 391 £450 -5.26% 536
Midlands -3 335 £400 -5.88% 767
Scotland +4 291 £350 -15.97% 253
West Midlands -4 224 £410 -8.89% 475
Yorkshire +2 220 £410 -13.68% 332
East of England -2 214 £434 +2.00% 406
East Midlands -4 104 £400 +11.11% 293
Wales 0 74 £513 -2.38% 123
North East +10 38 £378 +59.16% 128
Northern Ireland +5 28 £550 +223.53% 71
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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
1 294 (10.37%) SharePoint
2 223 (7.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 71 (2.51%) Confluence
4 37 (1.31%) SharePoint Server
5 19 (0.67%) CMS
6 17 (0.60%) IIS
7 16 (0.56%) Skype for Business
8 10 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
9 9 (0.32%) Apache Spark
10 8 (0.28%) Apache
11 7 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 6 (0.21%) Tomcat
12 6 (0.21%) WordPress
13 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2000
13 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2003
13 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
13 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
13 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
13 4 (0.14%) IBM Notes
13 4 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 601 (21.21%) Microsoft Office
2 439 (15.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 196 (6.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 87 (3.07%) Microsoft Project
5 81 (2.86%) Spreadsheet
6 38 (1.34%) MS Visio
7 13 (0.46%) Acrobat
8 10 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 9 (0.32%) CATIA
10 3 (0.11%) InfoPath
10 3 (0.11%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.071%) 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 (1.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.64%) Teamcenter
3 12 (0.42%) Primavera
4 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.28%) DELMIA
6 7 (0.25%) Magento
6 7 (0.25%) 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 (0.18%) Aareon QL
8 5 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
8 5 (0.18%) SmartPlant
9 4 (0.14%) iTrent
9 4 (0.14%) LabWindows
9 4 (0.14%) Maximo
10 3 (0.11%) OpenText VIM for SAP
10 3 (0.11%) SAP FI-AP
10 3 (0.11%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 687 (24.24%) Azure
2 583 (20.57%) Microsoft 365
3 278 (9.81%) Power Platform
4 152 (5.36%) Dynamics 365
5 134 (4.73%) Entra ID
6 120 (4.23%) AWS
7 94 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
8 90 (3.18%) PowerApps
9 79 (2.79%) Power Automate
10 73 (2.58%) SaaS
11 65 (2.29%) OneDrive
12 63 (2.22%) PaaS
13 45 (1.59%) IaaS
14 43 (1.52%) Azure Stack
15 42 (1.48%) Azure Monitor
16 40 (1.41%) OCI
17 38 (1.34%) Azure Sentinel
18 31 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
19 27 (0.95%) GitHub
20 22 (0.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 200 (7.06%) Firewall
2 192 (6.77%) DNS
3 142 (5.01%) DHCP
4 97 (3.42%) VPN
5 87 (3.07%) TCP/IP
6 86 (3.03%) LAN
7 84 (2.96%) SAN
8 62 (2.19%) WAN
9 61 (2.15%) Wi-Fi
10 42 (1.48%) Network Security
11 41 (1.45%) Wireless
12 37 (1.31%) Remote Desktop
13 36 (1.27%) BGP
14 30 (1.06%) VoIP
15 25 (0.88%) VLAN
16 23 (0.81%) Skype
17 20 (0.71%) Intranet
18 19 (0.67%) NAS
19 17 (0.60%) Ethernet
19 17 (0.60%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (6.10%) Power BI
2 150 (5.29%) SQL Server
3 44 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
3 44 (1.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 34 (1.20%) MySQL
4 34 (1.20%) Relational Database
5 32 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 28 (0.99%) Data Lake
7 20 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
7 20 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
8 17 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
9 15 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (0.53%) NoSQL
9 15 (0.53%) Tableau
10 14 (0.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 11 (0.39%) Big Data
11 11 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (0.32%) BusinessObjects
13 8 (0.28%) RDBMS
14 7 (0.25%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 150 (5.29%) JIRA
2 41 (1.45%) Git
3 40 (1.41%) Visual Studio
4 16 (0.56%) MSI
5 11 (0.39%) Eclipse
5 11 (0.39%) GitLab
5 11 (0.39%) Jenkins
5 11 (0.39%) 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 (0.32%) Postman
8 8 (0.28%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.21%) Maven
9 6 (0.21%) Subversion
10 5 (0.18%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.18%) Checkstyle
11 4 (0.14%) Burp Suite
11 4 (0.14%) NUnit
12 3 (0.11%) Storybook
General
1 1,095 (38.64%) Social Skills
2 362 (12.77%) Finance
3 312 (11.01%) Analytical Skills
4 269 (9.49%) Public Sector
5 149 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
6 104 (3.67%) Telecoms
7 88 (3.11%) Manufacturing
8 80 (2.82%) Marketing
9 77 (2.72%) Legal
9 77 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
10 72 (2.54%) Banking
11 43 (1.52%) Retail
12 42 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
13 35 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
14 32 (1.13%) Military
15 27 (0.95%) Local Government
16 26 (0.92%) Electronics
17 24 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 18 (0.64%) Automotive
19 17 (0.60%) Police
Job Titles
1 442 (15.60%) Analyst
2 221 (7.80%) Architect
3 190 (6.70%) Developer
4 170 (6.00%) Senior
5 162 (5.72%) Support Engineer
6 143 (5.05%) IT Support
7 139 (4.90%) Administrator
8 131 (4.62%) Lead
9 127 (4.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 112 (3.95%) Consultant
11 110 (3.88%) Service Analyst
12 94 (3.32%) Project Manager
13 91 (3.21%) Service Desk Analyst
14 83 (2.93%) IT Engineer
15 77 (2.72%) Desktop Support
16 76 (2.68%) 2nd Line Support
17 75 (2.65%) Desktop Engineer
17 75 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
18 62 (2.19%) Support Analyst
19 60 (2.12%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (2.61%) .NET
2 38 (1.34%) XML
3 34 (1.20%) Web Services
4 27 (0.95%) JSON
5 26 (0.92%) .NET Framework
5 26 (0.92%) REST
6 25 (0.88%) CSS
7 23 (0.81%) ARM Templates
7 23 (0.81%) HTML
8 21 (0.74%) SailPoint
9 20 (0.71%) React
10 18 (0.64%) Node.js
11 17 (0.60%) Elastic Stack
12 14 (0.49%) Spring
13 12 (0.42%) SAML
14 11 (0.39%) .NET Core
14 11 (0.39%) Itk
14 11 (0.39%) LDAP
14 11 (0.39%) OAuth
15 10 (0.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 147 (5.19%) Management Information System
2 110 (3.88%) PKI
3 81 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
4 67 (2.36%) Cyber Threat
4 67 (2.36%) Driving Licence
5 59 (2.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 58 (2.05%) Data Centre
7 57 (2.01%) Cyber Defence
8 50 (1.76%) NHS
9 48 (1.69%) Private Cloud
10 33 (1.16%) Public Cloud
11 31 (1.09%) Onboarding
11 31 (1.09%) Product Ownership
12 27 (0.95%) Clustering
13 25 (0.88%) Security Posture
13 25 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
14 22 (0.78%) iPhone
14 22 (0.78%) Virtual Team
15 21 (0.74%) Data Structures
16 20 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 939 (33.13%) Windows
2 373 (13.16%) Windows 10
3 306 (10.80%) Windows Server
4 203 (7.16%) Linux
5 109 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
5 109 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
6 102 (3.60%) Windows Server 2016
7 92 (3.25%) Windows 7
8 57 (2.01%) Apple iOS
9 39 (1.38%) Mac OS
10 29 (1.02%) Ubuntu
11 28 (0.99%) Android
12 20 (0.71%) Windows NT
13 18 (0.64%) Unix
13 18 (0.64%) Windows Server 2008
14 17 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 17 (0.60%) Windows XP
15 15 (0.53%) Debian
16 13 (0.46%) Windows Server 2003
17 12 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 556 (19.62%) Problem-Solving
2 434 (15.31%) Customer Service
3 398 (14.04%) Agile
4 369 (13.02%) ITIL
5 262 (9.24%) Project Management
6 223 (7.87%) Migration
7 215 (7.59%) DevOps
8 204 (7.20%) Service Delivery
9 199 (7.02%) Business Intelligence
9 199 (7.02%) Cybersecurity
10 179 (6.32%) Stakeholder Management
11 169 (5.96%) Service Management
12 168 (5.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 156 (5.50%) Decision-Making
14 148 (5.22%) Incident Management
15 139 (4.90%) Change Management
16 138 (4.87%) Project Delivery
17 137 (4.83%) Analytics
18 121 (4.27%) Continuous Improvement
19 112 (3.95%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 237 (8.36%) PowerShell
1 237 (8.36%) SQL
2 109 (3.85%) C#
3 95 (3.35%) Python
4 56 (1.98%) JavaScript
5 50 (1.76%) Java
6 26 (0.92%) T-SQL
7 24 (0.85%) C++
8 23 (0.81%) VB
9 20 (0.71%) Bash
9 20 (0.71%) Bicep
10 18 (0.64%) C
11 17 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
11 17 (0.60%) PHP
12 16 (0.56%) VBScript
13 14 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 13 (0.46%) TypeScript
15 9 (0.32%) PL/SQL
16 8 (0.28%) Swift
17 7 (0.25%) X++
Qualifications
1 829 (29.25%) Security Cleared
2 422 (14.89%) SC Cleared
3 420 (14.82%) DV Cleared
4 365 (12.88%) Degree
5 175 (6.18%) Microsoft Certification
6 57 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
6 57 (2.01%) MCSE
7 50 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 47 (1.66%) APMP
9 45 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
10 42 (1.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 41 (1.45%) CCNA
12 39 (1.38%) Azure Certification
13 38 (1.34%) MCSA
14 36 (1.27%) A+ Certification
15 34 (1.20%) PMI Certification
15 34 (1.20%) PMP
16 30 (1.06%) MCP
17 28 (0.99%) CISSP
17 28 (0.99%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (5.75%) SLA
2 95 (3.35%) QA
3 93 (3.28%) PMO
4 64 (2.26%) NIST
5 49 (1.73%) Disclosure Scotland
6 46 (1.62%) NIST 800
7 37 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 35 (1.24%) Government Security Classifications
9 32 (1.13%) GDPR
10 24 (0.85%) Data Quality
11 21 (0.74%) Accessibility
12 16 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
12 16 (0.56%) JSP 440
13 9 (0.32%) NCSC
14 6 (0.21%) GMP
14 6 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 6 (0.21%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 5 (0.18%) ISO 9001
15 5 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 645 (22.76%) Active Directory
2 196 (6.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 87 (3.07%) Hyper-V
4 67 (2.36%) VMware ESXi
5 47 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
6 42 (1.48%) Firmware
7 41 (1.45%) vSphere
8 39 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
9 30 (1.06%) Docker
9 30 (1.06%) VMware NSX
10 15 (0.53%) BitLocker
11 14 (0.49%) XenApp
12 11 (0.39%) XenDesktop
13 10 (0.35%) Terminal Services
14 9 (0.32%) Microsoft App-V
14 9 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
15 8 (0.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 7 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
17 6 (0.21%) KVM
17 6 (0.21%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 241 (8.50%) SCCM
2 180 (6.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 84 (2.96%) WSUS
4 68 (2.40%) SCOM
5 57 (2.01%) vCenter Server
6 54 (1.91%) Kubernetes
7 47 (1.66%) Terraform
8 41 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
9 37 (1.31%) Ansible
10 31 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 23 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
11 23 (0.81%) OPNET
12 21 (0.74%) Sysprep
13 16 (0.56%) NetBackup
14 15 (0.53%) EMC NetWorker
14 15 (0.53%) Grafana
15 14 (0.49%) Prometheus
15 14 (0.49%) WMI
16 12 (0.42%) Nessus
17 9 (0.32%) Graylog
Vendors
1 283 (9.99%) VMware
2 115 (4.06%) ServiceNow
3 107 (3.78%) Cisco
4 100 (3.53%) Oracle
5 85 (3.00%) Citrix
6 84 (2.96%) SAP
7 76 (2.68%) HP
8 73 (2.58%) Atlassian
9 59 (2.08%) Apple
10 52 (1.83%) Veeam
11 44 (1.55%) Dell
11 44 (1.55%) Google
12 43 (1.52%) Adobe
13 39 (1.38%) Red Hat
14 38 (1.34%) Splunk
15 34 (1.20%) Salesforce
16 26 (0.92%) Palo Alto
17 23 (0.81%) Juniper
18 22 (0.78%) CyberArk
19 20 (0.71%) Varonis