Senior Microsoft Specialist Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Microsoft Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Microsoft Specialist daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 May 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
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Microsoft Specialist 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.008% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.008% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £500 - -

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 11,776 19,130 22,540
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.12% 92.57% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,547 11,679 15,813
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 842 2,253 1,158
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.66 £15.75 £18.01
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.37
Median % change year-on-year -29.22% -6.64% +117.03%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.89% -18.89% +91.49%

Senior Microsoft Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Microsoft Specialist in the UK excluding London

Senior Microsoft Specialist
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 Senior Microsoft Specialist within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
East of England - 1 £500 -
Senior Microsoft Specialist
UK

Senior Microsoft Specialist Skill Set
Top 28 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, Senior Microsoft Specialist 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 Senior Microsoft Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Biometrics
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) Military
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Information Assurance
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) Line Management
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Presales
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding

Senior Microsoft Specialist 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
General
1 1 (100.00%) Military
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Biometrics
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Assurance
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Line Management
1 1 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (100.00%) Presales
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow