Microsoft Graph Contracts

Microsoft Graph API
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Microsoft Graph skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft Graph over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 556 672 804
Rank change year-on-year +116 +132 -146
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Graph 31 43 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.071% 0.071% 0.062%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.35% 0.30% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 38 37
10th Percentile £435 £304 £429
25th Percentile £538 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% +5.26% +6.74%
75th Percentile £775 £675 £625
90th Percentile - £720 £666
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +6.95%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Microsoft Graph is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,920 14,245 24,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.41% 23.43% 27.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,209 10,383 18,022
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £653
90th Percentile £764 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 148 256
10th Percentile £20.72 £28.73 £21.50
25th Percentile £36.96 £45.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £64.38 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -24.00% +27.55% +8.89%

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 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Graph in the UK

Microsoft Graph
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 Graph within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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 +123 29 £700 +40.00% 6
London +116 21 £700 +33.33% 4
Work from Home +129 9 £625 +31.58% 4
UK excluding London +38 9 £525 +5.00% 1
West Midlands - 6 - -
Midlands - 6 - -
South West - 2 £700 -
Scotland +35 1 £350 -41.67%

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 9 (29.03%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (93.55%) Azure
2 20 (64.52%) Power Platform
3 16 (51.61%) Entra ID
3 16 (51.61%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (48.39%) Power Automate
5 12 (38.71%) PowerApps
6 7 (22.58%) Azure Functions
6 7 (22.58%) Azure Key Vault
6 7 (22.58%) Serverless
7 6 (19.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (16.13%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (16.13%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (16.13%) IaaS
8 5 (16.13%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (16.13%) PaaS
9 4 (12.90%) Apigee
9 4 (12.90%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (12.90%) GCP
9 4 (12.90%) OneDrive
10 3 (9.68%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (48.39%) Power BI
2 4 (12.90%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (12.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (32.26%) Finance
2 7 (22.58%) Financial Institution
3 4 (12.90%) Legal
4 3 (9.68%) Banking
4 3 (9.68%) Social Skills
5 2 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (38.71%) Architect
2 10 (32.26%) Developer
3 7 (22.58%) Platform Architect
3 7 (22.58%) Power Platform Architect
4 6 (19.35%) Senior
4 6 (19.35%) Technical Architect
5 5 (16.13%) Systems Architect
6 3 (9.68%) Azure Architect
6 3 (9.68%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 3 (9.68%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Senior Developer
6 3 (9.68%) SharePoint Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Applications Developer
7 2 (6.45%) C# Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Power Apps Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Applications Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Power Apps Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Senior SQL Server Developer
7 2 (6.45%) SQL Developer
7 2 (6.45%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (38.71%) REST
2 7 (22.58%) JSON
2 7 (22.58%) XML
3 5 (16.13%) .NET
3 5 (16.13%) AngularJS
3 5 (16.13%) OAuth
3 5 (16.13%) OpenID
3 5 (16.13%) SAML
4 4 (12.90%) CSS
5 3 (9.68%) HTML5 Canvas
5 3 (9.68%) jQuery
5 3 (9.68%) React
6 2 (6.45%) Node.js
7 1 (3.23%) Redux
7 1 (3.23%) RESTful
7 1 (3.23%) SOAP
7 1 (3.23%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.23%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Linux
1 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (45.16%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (29.03%) CI/CD
3 7 (22.58%) CRM
3 7 (22.58%) Network Virtualisation
3 7 (22.58%) XML Parsing
4 6 (19.35%) Agile
5 5 (16.13%) B2C
5 5 (16.13%) DevOps
5 5 (16.13%) E-Discovery
5 5 (16.13%) ITIL
5 5 (16.13%) Migration
5 5 (16.13%) Runbook
6 4 (12.90%) Computer Science
6 4 (12.90%) ETL
6 4 (12.90%) Project Management
6 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (9.68%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (9.68%) PRINCE2
7 3 (9.68%) User Experience
7 3 (9.68%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 17 (54.84%) PowerShell
2 8 (25.81%) JavaScript
3 4 (12.90%) SQL
4 2 (6.45%) C#
4 2 (6.45%) Python
5 1 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (12.90%) Degree
1 4 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.68%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) QA
System Software
1 11 (35.48%) Active Directory
2 7 (22.58%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) PingFederate
2 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (64.52%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.13%) MuleSoft
3 3 (9.68%) Proofpoint
3 3 (9.68%) Symantec
4 1 (3.23%) Aderant
4 1 (3.23%) iManage
4 1 (3.23%) Intapp