Microsoft Graph Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Graph API
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Microsoft Graph skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 573 525 535
Rank change year-on-year -48 +10 +88
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Graph 105 32 26
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.099% 0.068%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.89% 0.38% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 19 18
10th Percentile £319 £304 £400
25th Percentile £404 £305 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £375 £565
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -33.63% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £519 £614
90th Percentile £716 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £310 £525
% change year-on-year +61.29% -40.95% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £29.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £29.25 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Microsoft Graph falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 11,783 8,312 9,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.65% 25.61% 24.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,748 5,566 6,315
10th Percentile £375 £353 £356
25th Percentile £435 £413 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £634 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 293 180 187
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.20 £25.60
25th Percentile £49.00 £41.13 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -14.77% -2.99%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.20 £74.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +4.00%

Microsoft Graph
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Microsoft Graph job vacancy trend in the UK

Microsoft Graph
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Microsoft Graph
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Graph over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Graph in the UK

Microsoft Graph
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Microsoft Graph
Top 14 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 Graph within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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 -52 99 £500 +17.65% 88
London -44 62 £497 +7.46% 52
Work from Home -36 38 £500 +61.29% 50
UK excluding London -82 38 £500 +61.29% 45
South East -48 17 £500 - 20
North of England -59 14 £457 +30.43% 13
North West -37 10 £575 +41.98% 8
Midlands -37 8 £500 +61.29% 4
West Midlands -44 8 £500 +61.29% 3
Yorkshire - 4 £338 - 5
Wales -14 1 £310 +31.91% 1
South West -50 1 - - 1
Scotland - 1 £525 - 4
East of England - 1 £400 - 5

Microsoft Graph
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 47 (44.76%) SharePoint
2 15 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.90%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.95%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 62 (59.05%) Entra ID
2 58 (55.24%) Azure
3 50 (47.62%) Microsoft 365
4 47 (44.76%) Power Platform
5 31 (29.52%) Power Automate
6 27 (25.71%) Azure Logic Apps
7 19 (18.10%) Microsoft Copilot
8 18 (17.14%) Azure Functions
8 18 (17.14%) OneDrive
8 18 (17.14%) Serverless
9 17 (16.19%) PowerApps
10 16 (15.24%) Azure AI
11 15 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (13.33%) Microsoft Purview
13 12 (11.43%) GitHub
14 11 (10.48%) Copilot Studio
15 10 (9.52%) AWS
16 7 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
17 6 (5.71%) Azure App Service
17 6 (5.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.86%) Unified Communications
1 3 (2.86%) VPN
1 3 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.90%) DKIM
2 2 (1.90%) DMARC
2 2 (1.90%) DNS
2 2 (1.90%) Firewall
2 2 (1.90%) LAN
2 2 (1.90%) PSTN
2 2 (1.90%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.90%) WAN
3 1 (0.95%) VLAN
3 1 (0.95%) VoIP
3 1 (0.95%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (20.00%) Power BI
2 7 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (5.71%) Data Lake
4 5 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (4.76%) Big Data
4 5 (4.76%) Metadata
5 3 (2.86%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.90%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (1.90%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.90%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (4.76%) MSI
2 3 (2.86%) JIRA
3 2 (1.90%) AdminStudio
3 2 (1.90%) Git
3 2 (1.90%) InstallShield
4 1 (0.95%) Jenkins
General
1 26 (24.76%) Social Skills
2 20 (19.05%) Finance
3 12 (11.43%) Banking
4 11 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.62%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (6.67%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.81%) Military
8 2 (1.90%) Law
8 2 (1.90%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.95%) Aviation
9 1 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.95%) Legal
9 1 (0.95%) Local Government
9 1 (0.95%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.95%) Retail
9 1 (0.95%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (16.19%) Developer
2 13 (12.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 12 (11.43%) Senior
4 10 (9.52%) Data Engineer
5 9 (8.57%) Consultant
6 8 (7.62%) Architect
6 8 (7.62%) SharePoint Developer
7 7 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
7 7 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Developer
7 7 (6.67%) Voice Engineer
8 6 (5.71%) Lead
8 6 (5.71%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) Big Data Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) PowerShell Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) Python Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) Analyst
10 4 (3.81%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) Cisco Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) Cisco Voice Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) Power Platform Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (20.95%) REST
2 12 (11.43%) JSON
3 11 (10.48%) SPFx
4 10 (9.52%) React
5 8 (7.62%) .NET
5 8 (7.62%) OAuth
5 8 (7.62%) OAuth2
5 8 (7.62%) OpenID
6 7 (6.67%) CSS
6 7 (6.67%) FIDO
6 7 (6.67%) HTML
6 7 (6.67%) Model Context Protocol
6 7 (6.67%) Terraform
7 5 (4.76%) LangChain
7 5 (4.76%) Langfuse
7 5 (4.76%) LangGraph
7 5 (4.76%) SAML
8 4 (3.81%) HTML5
8 4 (3.81%) jQuery
8 4 (3.81%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.24%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (9.52%) AI Agents
3 8 (7.62%) Cloud Native
4 7 (6.67%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (4.76%) Management Information System
5 5 (4.76%) Virtual Team
6 4 (3.81%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (3.81%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.86%) PKI
7 3 (2.86%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.90%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.90%) IoT
8 2 (1.90%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.90%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Licensing
9 1 (0.95%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 20 (19.05%) Windows
2 2 (1.90%) Android
2 2 (1.90%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.90%) Windows 10
2 2 (1.90%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.90%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (1.90%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (0.95%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (40.00%) AI
2 24 (22.86%) Analytics
2 24 (22.86%) CI/CD
3 21 (20.00%) DevOps
3 21 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (18.10%) Agile
5 17 (16.19%) LLM
6 15 (14.29%) Change Management
6 15 (14.29%) Identity Management
6 15 (14.29%) Roadmaps
6 15 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 15 (14.29%) Zero Trust
7 14 (13.33%) Generative AI
7 14 (13.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 14 (13.33%) Workflow
8 13 (12.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (11.43%) Runbook
9 12 (11.43%) User Experience
10 11 (10.48%) Data Engineering
10 11 (10.48%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (49.52%) PowerShell
2 27 (25.71%) Python
3 14 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 11 (10.48%) SQL
5 10 (9.52%) TypeScript
6 9 (8.57%) C#
7 5 (4.76%) Bicep
8 3 (2.86%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.90%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.90%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.95%) Bash
Qualifications
1 18 (17.14%) Degree
2 15 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 10 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (7.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 8 (7.62%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.76%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.90%) CISSP
7 2 (1.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.90%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.95%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (7.62%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.76%) NIST
4 3 (2.86%) QA
5 2 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.95%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.95%) GDPR
6 1 (0.95%) NCSC
System Software
1 28 (26.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.81%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (1.90%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.95%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.95%) Docker
4 1 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (24.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (4.76%) SCCM
3 3 (2.86%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (2.86%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.95%) Ansible
4 1 (0.95%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (0.95%) PingFederate
4 1 (0.95%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 99 (94.29%) Microsoft
2 14 (13.33%) ServiceNow
3 11 (10.48%) OpenAI
4 7 (6.67%) Cisco
4 7 (6.67%) Ribbon
4 7 (6.67%) Splunk
4 7 (6.67%) Workday
5 6 (5.71%) Foundry
5 6 (5.71%) Salesforce
6 5 (4.76%) Amplitude
7 4 (3.81%) Oracle
7 4 (3.81%) Remedy
7 4 (3.81%) SAP
8 3 (2.86%) Apple
8 3 (2.86%) Bloomberg
8 3 (2.86%) Citrix
9 2 (1.90%) Google
9 2 (1.90%) Ivanti
9 2 (1.90%) Okta
10 1 (0.95%) UiPath