Microsoft Copilot Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Copilot
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Microsoft Copilot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 451 509
Rank change year-on-year +184 +58 +141
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Copilot 502 107 60
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.92% 0.33% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.66% 0.87% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 64 30
10th Percentile £367 £313 £363
25th Percentile £450 £400 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £541
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.62% -
75th Percentile £625 £588 £647
90th Percentile £719 £688 £753
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.74% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.50 £32.00 -
Median hourly rate £27.50 £34.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.12% - -
75th Percentile £45.20 £36.00 -
90th Percentile £64.30 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.00 - -

All Cloud Computing 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 18,875 12,342 13,214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.72% 37.50% 34.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,517 8,222 8,956
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 608 305 203
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.44
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £20.15
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.25 £30.88
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -11.79%
75th Percentile £67.73 £53.75 £60.83
90th Percentile £81.25 £69.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +52.79% -34.55% +11.11%

Microsoft Copilot
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Copilot relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Microsoft Copilot job vacancy trend in the UK

Microsoft Copilot
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microsoft Copilot.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft Copilot
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Copilot over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Copilot in the UK

Microsoft Copilot
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microsoft Copilot.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft Copilot
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Copilot over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Copilot in the UK

Microsoft Copilot
Top 16 Contract Job 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 13 September 2026. 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 +158 438 £525 +5.00% 401
London +82 254 £550 - 248
UK excluding London +45 179 £498 +4.74% 215
Work from Home +16 119 £525 +5.00% 366
North of England +12 86 £510 +13.33% 46
North West -4 54 £510 -21.54% 25
Midlands -14 33 £450 -5.26% 30
Yorkshire -10 30 £625 +233.33% 14
South East -54 20 £510 -0.49% 65
West Midlands -31 19 £450 -5.26% 23
East Midlands - 14 £435 - 7
East of England -11 13 £510 - 11
Scotland -13 13 £513 +12.33% 22
South West -31 13 £460 -22.03% 27
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 9
North East -41 2 £325 - 7

Microsoft Copilot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 143 (28.49%) SharePoint
2 51 (10.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (3.19%) Confluence
4 14 (2.79%) SharePoint Server
5 5 (1.00%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.60%) CMS
6 3 (0.60%) Mendix
7 2 (0.40%) HCL Notes
7 2 (0.40%) Liferay
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.20%) IIS
8 1 (0.20%) Moodle
8 1 (0.20%) SAS
8 1 (0.20%) Totara
8 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 27 (5.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.39%) Chatbot
3 11 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (2.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.40%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.20%) OneSumX
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 284 (56.57%) Power Platform
2 240 (47.81%) Azure
2 240 (47.81%) Microsoft 365
3 175 (34.86%) Copilot Studio
4 149 (29.68%) Power Automate
5 133 (26.49%) PowerApps
6 85 (16.93%) Azure AI
7 64 (12.75%) OneDrive
8 57 (11.35%) Dynamics 365
9 55 (10.96%) Entra ID
10 52 (10.36%) Microsoft Purview
11 46 (9.16%) Azure DevOps
12 37 (7.37%) GitHub
13 31 (6.18%) Azure Logic Apps
14 29 (5.78%) Anthropic Claude
15 28 (5.58%) ChatGPT
16 26 (5.18%) AWS
17 24 (4.78%) Serverless
18 21 (4.18%) Azure Functions
19 19 (3.78%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.20%) Intranet
2 4 (0.80%) Broadband
2 4 (0.80%) LAN
2 4 (0.80%) WAN
3 3 (0.60%) DNS
3 3 (0.60%) Firewall
3 3 (0.60%) Network Security
3 3 (0.60%) SMS
3 3 (0.60%) SMTP
4 2 (0.40%) Internet
5 1 (0.20%) HTTP
5 1 (0.20%) Skype
5 1 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (22.91%) Power BI
2 21 (4.18%) Metadata
3 13 (2.59%) Power Query
4 10 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.20%) Delta Lake
6 5 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.00%) SQL Server
7 4 (0.80%) EDRMS
7 4 (0.80%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.80%) Oracle Database
7 4 (0.80%) Redis
7 4 (0.80%) Tableau
8 3 (0.60%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.60%) Db2
8 3 (0.60%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.40%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.40%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.40%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 39 (7.77%) JIRA
2 12 (2.39%) Git
2 12 (2.39%) Visual Studio
3 5 (1.00%) MLflow
4 4 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (0.80%) Zephyr
5 2 (0.40%) Postman
5 2 (0.40%) Selenium
5 2 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.20%) Appium
6 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.20%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.20%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.20%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.20%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.20%) MSTest
6 1 (0.20%) NUnit
6 1 (0.20%) Storybook
6 1 (0.20%) WebDriver
General
1 152 (30.28%) Social Skills
2 121 (24.10%) Finance
3 61 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (9.96%) Public Sector
5 29 (5.78%) Banking
6 20 (3.98%) Legal
7 15 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (2.59%) Law
9 12 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.20%) Military
11 6 (1.20%) Publishing
11 6 (1.20%) Social Science
12 5 (1.00%) Back Office
12 5 (1.00%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.80%) Aviation
14 3 (0.60%) General Ledger
14 3 (0.60%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 105 (20.92%) Developer
2 59 (11.75%) Architect
3 53 (10.56%) Consultant
4 38 (7.57%) Analyst
5 37 (7.37%) Lead
6 33 (6.57%) Solutions Architect
7 31 (6.18%) Power Platform Developer
8 25 (4.98%) Senior
9 23 (4.58%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
9 23 (4.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 19 (3.78%) Microsoft Consultant
11 18 (3.59%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
11 18 (3.59%) Microsoft 365 Architect
11 18 (3.59%) Trainer
12 17 (3.39%) Designer
13 16 (3.19%) Dynamics 365 Developer
14 15 (2.99%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
15 14 (2.79%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
16 13 (2.59%) Content Designer
16 13 (2.59%) Power Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (7.17%) .NET
2 25 (4.98%) REST
3 20 (3.98%) Microsoft Graph
4 16 (3.19%) JSON
5 14 (2.79%) React
5 14 (2.79%) Terraform
6 12 (2.39%) LangChain
7 10 (1.99%) SPFx
8 8 (1.59%) LangGraph
8 8 (1.59%) pytest
9 7 (1.39%) CSS
9 7 (1.39%) Semantic Kernel
10 6 (1.20%) Model Context Protocol
10 6 (1.20%) YAML
11 5 (1.00%) ARM Templates
11 5 (1.00%) ASP.NET
11 5 (1.00%) HTML5 Canvas
11 5 (1.00%) OAuth
11 5 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
12 4 (0.80%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 94 (18.73%) AI Agents
2 37 (7.37%) Low-Code
3 19 (3.78%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.59%) Cloud Native
5 16 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (2.39%) Management Information System
7 11 (2.19%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.19%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (1.79%) Security Posture
9 8 (1.59%) BYOD
9 8 (1.59%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.80%) AS400
12 4 (0.80%) iSeries
12 4 (0.80%) Social Media
13 3 (0.60%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.99%) Windows
2 5 (1.00%) Android
2 5 (1.00%) Linux
3 4 (0.80%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.60%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (62.95%) AI
2 115 (22.91%) Business Intelligence
3 105 (20.92%) Stakeholder Management
4 95 (18.92%) Agile
4 95 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
5 91 (18.13%) DevOps
6 73 (14.54%) CI/CD
6 73 (14.54%) Generative AI
6 73 (14.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 70 (13.94%) LLM
8 68 (13.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 68 (13.55%) Roadmaps
9 66 (13.15%) Analytics
10 64 (12.75%) Use Case
10 64 (12.75%) Workflow
11 59 (11.75%) User Experience
12 55 (10.96%) Data Governance
13 43 (8.57%) Prompt Engineering
14 41 (8.17%) Data Loss Prevention
15 38 (7.57%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 54 (10.76%) Python
2 51 (10.16%) PowerShell
3 50 (9.96%) SQL
4 35 (6.97%) C#
5 31 (6.18%) JavaScript
6 20 (3.98%) TypeScript
7 13 (2.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 9 (1.79%) X++
9 8 (1.59%) Java
10 7 (1.39%) Bicep
11 4 (0.80%) Scala
12 3 (0.60%) Bash
12 3 (0.60%) Perl
13 2 (0.40%) C
13 2 (0.40%) C++
13 2 (0.40%) Go
14 1 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.20%) VBA
14 1 (0.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 68 (13.55%) Security Cleared
2 56 (11.16%) SC Cleared
3 47 (9.36%) Degree
4 27 (5.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 21 (4.18%) Azure Certification
6 13 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (2.19%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 5 (1.00%) PMI Certification
11 5 (1.00%) PMP
12 3 (0.60%) CISSP
12 3 (0.60%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.20%) CASP
14 1 (0.20%) CompTIA Security+
14 1 (0.20%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.20%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.97%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.18%) QA
3 18 (3.59%) PMO
4 12 (2.39%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.99%) GDPR
7 9 (1.79%) Actionable Recommendations
7 9 (1.79%) GRC
8 8 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 6 (1.20%) NIST
9 6 (1.20%) WCAG
10 5 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (1.00%) SLA
11 3 (0.60%) EU AI Act
12 2 (0.40%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.20%) ITGC
13 1 (0.20%) P3O
System Software
1 31 (6.18%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.39%) Docker
3 5 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (6.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (2.39%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.60%) Grafana
6 2 (0.40%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.20%) Argo
7 1 (0.20%) Control-M
7 1 (0.20%) QRadar
7 1 (0.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 425 (84.66%) Microsoft
2 51 (10.16%) OpenAI
3 49 (9.76%) Foundry
4 38 (7.57%) ServiceNow
5 18 (3.59%) SAP
6 16 (3.19%) Oracle
7 13 (2.59%) Google
8 11 (2.19%) Databricks
9 10 (1.99%) Ariba
9 10 (1.99%) UiPath
10 7 (1.39%) Atlassian
10 7 (1.39%) IBM
11 6 (1.20%) Mistral
12 5 (1.00%) Apple
12 5 (1.00%) Proofpoint
12 5 (1.00%) Zscaler
13 4 (0.80%) DocuSign
13 4 (0.80%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.80%) Samsung
14 3 (0.60%) Workday