Microsoft Developer Contracts

Microsoft Developer
UK

The median Microsoft Developer daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 550 617 796
Rank change year-on-year +67 +179 -189
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft Developer 44 99 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.17% 0.066%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.18% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 79 41
10th Percentile £378 £413 £338
25th Percentile £408 £503 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £586 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.94% +6.55% +16.28%
75th Percentile £600 £628 £638
90th Percentile £625 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £586 £400
% change year-on-year -16.81% +46.50% -14.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,181 56,479 84,762
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,164 39,476 59,482
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.87% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,646 1,570 2,098
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.49 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.18% +117.95% +2.55%

Microsoft Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Microsoft Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Developer in the UK

Microsoft Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Developer in the UK

Microsoft Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Developer over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Developer in the UK

Microsoft Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Developer.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Developer in the UK

Microsoft Developer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 28 April 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
England +82 40 £475 -16.52% 11
London +91 27 £430 -23.21% 2
Work from Home +82 19 £400 -31.74% 3
UK excluding London +39 11 £488 -16.81% 8
West Midlands +30 4 £450 +5.88%
Midlands +26 4 £450 +5.88%
South West +15 4 £575 +21.05%
South East +7 3 £475 -20.83% 4

Microsoft Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Microsoft Developer 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 featuring Microsoft Developer in the job title.

1 27 (61.36%) Microsoft
2 22 (50.00%) CRM
2 22 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (40.91%) Power Platform
4 17 (38.64%) Agile
4 17 (38.64%) Azure
5 14 (31.82%) Artificial Intelligence
6 12 (27.27%) C#
6 12 (27.27%) Business Transformation
7 11 (25.00%) Case Management
7 11 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
7 11 (25.00%) IT Strategy
7 11 (25.00%) .NET
7 11 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
7 11 (25.00%) Roadmaps
8 9 (20.45%) PowerApps
8 9 (20.45%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (18.18%) SQL Server
9 8 (18.18%) Power Automate
10 6 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (13.64%) Java
10 6 (13.64%) Degree
10 6 (13.64%) Power BI
10 6 (13.64%) DevOps
10 6 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (13.64%) Social Skills
11 5 (11.36%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (11.36%) Serverless
11 5 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (11.36%) Azure Functions

Microsoft Developer Skill Set
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 2 (4.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 22 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (40.91%) Power Platform
2 17 (38.64%) Azure
3 9 (20.45%) Dynamics 365
3 9 (20.45%) PowerApps
4 8 (18.18%) Power Automate
5 6 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (11.36%) Azure Functions
6 5 (11.36%) Serverless
7 4 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (6.82%) Azure API Management
8 3 (6.82%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (6.82%) PaaS
9 2 (4.55%) Azure Batch
9 2 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (4.55%) Azure Storage
9 2 (4.55%) SonarCloud
10 1 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (2.27%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 6 (13.64%) Power BI
3 5 (11.36%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (4.55%) Big Data
4 2 (4.55%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.55%) MySQL
4 2 (4.55%) OLTP
4 2 (4.55%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.27%) Power Query
5 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Git
2 2 (4.55%) Moq
2 2 (4.55%) NUnit
2 2 (4.55%) Visual Studio Team System
3 1 (2.27%) Postman
General
1 6 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.82%) Finance
3 2 (4.55%) Local Government
3 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.27%) French Language
4 1 (2.27%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (25.00%) .NET
2 4 (9.09%) .NET Framework
3 3 (6.82%) ASP.NET
3 3 (6.82%) JSON
3 3 (6.82%) React
4 2 (4.55%) ARM Templates
4 2 (4.55%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (4.55%) CSS
4 2 (4.55%) HTML
4 2 (4.55%) Web Services
4 2 (4.55%) XML
5 1 (2.27%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.27%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (2.27%) CSS3
5 1 (2.27%) Entity Framework
5 1 (2.27%) HTML5
5 1 (2.27%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (2.27%) OpenAPI
5 1 (2.27%) Swagger
5 1 (2.27%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (50.00%) CRM
2 17 (38.64%) Agile
3 14 (31.82%) Artificial Intelligence
4 12 (27.27%) Business Transformation
5 11 (25.00%) Case Management
5 11 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
5 11 (25.00%) IT Strategy
5 11 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 11 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
6 6 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (13.64%) DevOps
7 5 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (11.36%) TDD
8 4 (9.09%) Analytics
8 4 (9.09%) Data Migration
8 4 (9.09%) Migration
8 4 (9.09%) Software Engineering
9 3 (6.82%) Business Analytics
9 3 (6.82%) Process Improvement
9 3 (6.82%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 12 (27.27%) C#
2 6 (13.64%) Java
3 5 (11.36%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.82%) Python
4 3 (6.82%) SQL
5 2 (4.55%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.27%) R
6 1 (2.27%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.27%) X++
Qualifications
1 6 (13.64%) Degree
2 2 (4.55%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (61.36%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.27%) Adobe
2 1 (2.27%) Virgin Media