Microsoft Graph Contracts

Microsoft Graph API
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Microsoft Graph skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft Graph over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 497 555 680
Rank change year-on-year +58 +125 +116
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Graph 23 27 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.079% 0.062% 0.064%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.35% 0.30% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 33
10th Percentile £224 £425 £301
25th Percentile £331 £550 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £700 £500
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +40.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £675 £775 £675
90th Percentile £750 - £733
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £350 £500
% change year-on-year +64.29% -30.00% -1.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 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 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

Microsoft Graph
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Graph in the UK

Microsoft Graph
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Graph in the UK

Microsoft Graph
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Graph over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Graph in the UK

Microsoft Graph
Top 10 Contract 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 1 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
England +48 16 £500 -28.57% 15
UK excluding London +67 10 £575 +64.29% 8
London +26 8 £375 -46.43% 9
Work from Home +40 6 £268 -57.20% 11
South West - 6 £650 - 1
Wales - 2 £160 - 1
Midlands +18 1 £224 -
West Midlands +10 1 £224 -
North of England - 1 - - 2
North West - 1 - - 1

Microsoft Graph
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 6 (26.09%) SharePoint
2 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (91.30%) Azure
2 17 (73.91%) Entra ID
3 16 (69.57%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (30.43%) Power Platform
5 6 (26.09%) Google Workspace
5 6 (26.09%) OneDrive
6 5 (21.74%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (17.39%) Azure Functions
7 4 (17.39%) PowerApps
7 4 (17.39%) Serverless
8 3 (13.04%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (13.04%) Cloud Run
8 3 (13.04%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (13.04%) GCP
9 1 (4.35%) Power Automate
9 1 (4.35%) SaaS
9 1 (4.35%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) DNS
1 1 (4.35%) Firewall
1 1 (4.35%) HTTP
1 1 (4.35%) VPN
1 1 (4.35%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) SQL Server
1 6 (26.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (13.04%) BigQuery
3 2 (8.70%) Power BI
4 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (47.83%) Social Skills
2 6 (26.09%) Legal
3 2 (8.70%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Developer
2 5 (21.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Site Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Azure Developer
4 3 (13.04%) GCP Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Middleware Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Power Apps Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Automation Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Collaboration Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Power BI Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Power Platform Developer
6 1 (4.35%) PowerShell Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) .NET
2 3 (13.04%) ASP.NET Web API
2 3 (13.04%) HTML5 Canvas
2 3 (13.04%) Middleware
3 2 (8.70%) AngularJS
3 2 (8.70%) Node.js
3 2 (8.70%) React
3 2 (8.70%) REST
4 1 (4.35%) CSS
4 1 (4.35%) HTML
4 1 (4.35%) JSON
4 1 (4.35%) OAuth
4 1 (4.35%) OAuth2
4 1 (4.35%) OpenID
4 1 (4.35%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (8.70%) NHS
3 1 (4.35%) Hedge funds
3 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.35%) Low-Code
3 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
1 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Agile
2 8 (34.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (30.43%) Migration
4 6 (26.09%) Change Management
4 6 (26.09%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (26.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 6 (26.09%) Validation
5 5 (21.74%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (21.74%) Identity Management
5 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (17.39%) Cost Reduction
6 4 (17.39%) Data Loss Prevention
6 4 (17.39%) DevOps
6 4 (17.39%) IT Strategy
6 4 (17.39%) Roadmaps
6 4 (17.39%) Storage Management
6 4 (17.39%) Strategic Planning
6 4 (17.39%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (13.04%) API Development
7 3 (13.04%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 16 (69.57%) PowerShell
2 6 (26.09%) SQL
3 5 (21.74%) JavaScript
4 4 (17.39%) C#
5 2 (8.70%) Python
6 1 (4.35%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.35%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 17 (73.91%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (95.65%) Microsoft
2 9 (39.13%) Google
3 1 (4.35%) Cisco
3 1 (4.35%) CyberArk
3 1 (4.35%) Okta