Microsoft Copilot Contracts

Microsoft Copilot
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Microsoft Copilot skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft Copilot over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 456 576 -
Rank change year-on-year +120 - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Copilot 63 24 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.055% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.57% 0.17% -
Number of daily rates quoted 32 16 0
10th Percentile £268 £438 -
25th Percentile £472 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% - -
75th Percentile £600 £600 -
90th Percentile £650 £669 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £388 £675 -
% change year-on-year -42.59% - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Microsoft Copilot 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 10,997 14,094 22,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.61% 32.33% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,640 10,005 15,924
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £634 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 348 350
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.43 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.60% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £48.56 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.53 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.47% -28.03% +31.31%

Microsoft Copilot
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Microsoft Copilot as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Copilot in the UK

Microsoft Copilot
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Copilot.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Copilot in the UK

Microsoft Copilot
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Copilot over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Copilot in the UK

Microsoft Copilot
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Copilot within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +99 55 £550 +10.00% 75
London +59 40 £550 +10.00% 26
UK excluding London +64 14 £388 -42.59% 56
Work from Home +53 13 £525 +5.00% 42
South East - 6 £500 - 14
North of England - 4 £188 - 14
North East - 2 - - 2
Yorkshire - 2 £188 - 3
Scotland - 2 £525 - 7
East of England - 1 - - 3
Wales - 1 £275 -

Microsoft Copilot
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 18 (28.57%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.17%) Drupal
2 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.17%) OpenEdge
3 1 (1.59%) CMS
3 1 (1.59%) Confluence
3 1 (1.59%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 4 (6.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 41 (65.08%) Microsoft 365
2 37 (58.73%) Azure
3 32 (50.79%) Power Platform
4 17 (26.98%) Power Automate
4 17 (26.98%) PowerApps
5 15 (23.81%) Copilot Studio
6 10 (15.87%) Microsoft Purview
7 6 (9.52%) Entra ID
7 6 (9.52%) GitHub
8 5 (7.94%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (6.35%) ChatGPT
10 3 (4.76%) OneDrive
11 2 (3.17%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (3.17%) AWS
11 2 (3.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (3.17%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (3.17%) Mimecast
12 1 (1.59%) Azure AI
12 1 (1.59%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.94%) Firewall
2 4 (6.35%) VPN
3 3 (4.76%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (3.17%) DHCP
4 2 (3.17%) DNS
4 2 (3.17%) SD-WAN
4 2 (3.17%) VLAN
4 2 (3.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (31.75%) Power BI
2 7 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 5 (7.94%) BusinessObjects
3 5 (7.94%) Crystal Reports
3 5 (7.94%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (7.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (7.94%) Tableau
4 4 (6.35%) MySQL
5 2 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (3.17%) MariaDB
5 2 (3.17%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.17%) Power Query
5 2 (3.17%) Redis
5 2 (3.17%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.59%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (3.17%) JIRA
1 2 (3.17%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.59%) Gemini Tracker
General
1 28 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 19 (30.16%) Finance
3 9 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (9.52%) Banking
5 5 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.94%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.76%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.17%) Billing
7 2 (3.17%) Electronics
7 2 (3.17%) Legal
7 2 (3.17%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.17%) Marketing
8 1 (1.59%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 17 (26.98%) Developer
2 10 (15.87%) Consultant
3 7 (11.11%) Lead
4 5 (7.94%) Designer
4 5 (7.94%) Microsoft Developer
4 5 (7.94%) Power BI Developer
4 5 (7.94%) Power Platform Developer
4 5 (7.94%) Solutions Designer
5 4 (6.35%) Architect
5 4 (6.35%) Deployment Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
5 4 (6.35%) Windows Deployment Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Windows Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Lead Consultant
6 3 (4.76%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Project Manager
6 3 (4.76%) Senior Developer
6 3 (4.76%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.70%) YAML
2 4 (6.35%) JSON
3 2 (3.17%) .NET
3 2 (3.17%) ARM Templates
3 2 (3.17%) ASP.NET
3 2 (3.17%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (1.59%) ADO
4 1 (1.59%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.59%) CSS
4 1 (1.59%) EDI
4 1 (1.59%) HTML
4 1 (1.59%) jQuery
4 1 (1.59%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.52%) Low-Code
2 4 (6.35%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.17%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (3.17%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.17%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.17%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.59%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (44.44%) Artificial Intelligence
2 10 (15.87%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (14.29%) Generative AI
4 8 (12.70%) Data Loss Prevention
5 7 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (11.11%) Mentoring
5 7 (11.11%) User Experience
6 6 (9.52%) API Integration
6 6 (9.52%) Business Analysis
6 6 (9.52%) Infrastructure Automation
6 6 (9.52%) Product Thinking
6 6 (9.52%) SDLC
7 5 (7.94%) Agile
7 5 (7.94%) Analytics
7 5 (7.94%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (7.94%) Machine Learning
7 5 (7.94%) Requirements Gathering
7 5 (7.94%) Roadmaps
7 5 (7.94%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (19.05%) Python
1 12 (19.05%) SQL
2 11 (17.46%) PowerShell
3 7 (11.11%) Bicep
4 6 (9.52%) JavaScript
5 5 (7.94%) C#
6 4 (6.35%) Java
7 2 (3.17%) Bash
7 2 (3.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (3.17%) PHP
7 2 (3.17%) Ruby
8 1 (1.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (7.94%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (3.17%) Azure Certification
2 2 (3.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.35%) QA
2 2 (3.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.59%) EU AI Act
3 1 (1.59%) GDPR
3 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (1.59%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (6.35%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.17%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (1.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (9.52%) SCCM
2 5 (7.94%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (4.76%) Terraform
4 2 (3.17%) Ansible
4 2 (3.17%) Grafana
4 2 (3.17%) Progress Chef
4 2 (3.17%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.59%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 48 (76.19%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.94%) ServiceNow
3 4 (6.35%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.76%) Cisco
4 3 (4.76%) CyberArk
4 3 (4.76%) Planview
4 3 (4.76%) Sybase
5 2 (3.17%) OpenAI
5 2 (3.17%) SAP
6 1 (1.59%) Google
6 1 (1.59%) OneTrust
6 1 (1.59%) Oracle
6 1 (1.59%) Sitecore