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 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 523 507 566
Rank change year-on-year -16 +59 +186
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Graph 63 28 37
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.082% 0.084%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.77% 0.38% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 20 24
10th Percentile £314 £400 £340
25th Percentile £400 £497 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £593 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.39% +18.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £619
90th Percentile £684 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £331 £625 £425
% change year-on-year -47.00% +47.06% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £27.50
Median hourly rate £46.00 - £30.00
75th Percentile - - £32.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £30.00

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 8,225 7,446 9,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.39% 21.93% 22.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,450 4,726 6,854
10th Percentile £354 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 93 173
10th Percentile £30.75 £21.40 £32.60
25th Percentile £43.00 £35.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £58.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.97 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.25 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -2.69% +25.26% -20.17%

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 21 December 2025.

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 10 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 21 December 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 +2 59 £525 -11.39% 12
London +31 47 £535 -9.70% 8
Work from Home +4 21 £500 -13.04% 6
UK excluding London -35 11 £331 -47.00% 8
North of England - 5 £331 - 4
South West -16 3 - -
South East -20 3 - - 3
North West - 2 £313 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 - - 4
North East - 1 £350 -

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 31 (49.21%) SharePoint
2 18 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.17%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 52 (82.54%) Azure
2 49 (77.78%) Microsoft 365
3 43 (68.25%) Entra ID
4 30 (47.62%) Power Platform
5 21 (33.33%) PowerApps
6 20 (31.75%) Power Automate
7 17 (26.98%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (26.98%) Microsoft Copilot
8 16 (25.40%) GitHub
9 13 (20.63%) Azure Monitor
9 13 (20.63%) Copilot Studio
9 13 (20.63%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (19.05%) Azure Logic Apps
11 11 (17.46%) OneDrive
12 10 (15.87%) Azure AI
13 9 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
13 9 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
14 8 (12.70%) Azure Service Bus
15 7 (11.11%) Azure App Service
15 7 (11.11%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.11%) Firewall
2 5 (7.94%) SMTP
3 4 (6.35%) DNS
4 3 (4.76%) DKIM
4 3 (4.76%) DMARC
4 3 (4.76%) HTTP
5 2 (3.17%) SSL
5 2 (3.17%) Wireshark
6 1 (1.59%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (1.59%) DHCP
6 1 (1.59%) Internet
6 1 (1.59%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.59%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.59%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.29%) Power BI
2 7 (11.11%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.59%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Jenkins
1 3 (4.76%) JIRA
2 2 (3.17%) Fiddler
3 1 (1.59%) GitLab
3 1 (1.59%) MSI
General
1 16 (25.40%) Social Skills
2 12 (19.05%) Finance
3 8 (12.70%) Banking
4 5 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.94%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.35%) Corporate Banking
6 3 (4.76%) Legal
7 2 (3.17%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.17%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.59%) Billing
8 1 (1.59%) Electronics
8 1 (1.59%) Italian Language
8 1 (1.59%) Law
8 1 (1.59%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.59%) Marketing
8 1 (1.59%) Military
8 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (20.63%) Developer
2 9 (14.29%) Architect
3 7 (11.11%) Microsoft Engineer
3 7 (11.11%) Senior
4 6 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 5 (7.94%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (7.94%) Consultant
5 5 (7.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (7.94%) Microsoft Developer
6 4 (6.35%) Lead
6 4 (6.35%) Power Platform Engineer
6 4 (6.35%) Security Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Analyst
7 3 (4.76%) Mobile Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.17%) .NET Developer
8 2 (3.17%) C# Developer
8 2 (3.17%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.17%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (28.57%) REST
2 17 (26.98%) .NET
3 13 (20.63%) OAuth
4 7 (11.11%) .NET Framework
4 7 (11.11%) JSON
4 7 (11.11%) LangChain
5 5 (7.94%) Semantic Kernel
5 5 (7.94%) SOAP
5 5 (7.94%) Web Services
6 4 (6.35%) OpenID
6 4 (6.35%) SAML
7 3 (4.76%) ARM Templates
7 3 (4.76%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (4.76%) OAuth2
8 2 (3.17%) .NET Core
8 2 (3.17%) ASP.NET
8 2 (3.17%) GraphQL
8 2 (3.17%) LangGraph
9 1 (1.59%) HTML
9 1 (1.59%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 6 (9.52%) Low-Code
3 5 (7.94%) AI Agents
4 4 (6.35%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (4.76%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.76%) Mobile App
6 2 (3.17%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.17%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (3.17%) PKI
7 1 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.59%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.70%) Windows
2 4 (6.35%) Android
3 3 (4.76%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.17%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.59%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (36.51%) AI
2 22 (34.92%) DevOps
3 18 (28.57%) Data Loss Prevention
4 14 (22.22%) Analytics
4 14 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 13 (20.63%) Identity Management
6 12 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (17.46%) Identity Access Management
8 10 (15.87%) Log Analytics
8 10 (15.87%) Migration
8 10 (15.87%) Observability
9 9 (14.29%) API Management
9 9 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (14.29%) Task Automation
10 8 (12.70%) Data Governance
10 8 (12.70%) Enterprise Architecture
10 8 (12.70%) Prompt Engineering
10 8 (12.70%) RBAC
10 8 (12.70%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 7 (11.11%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 35 (55.56%) PowerShell
2 19 (30.16%) Python
3 16 (25.40%) C#
4 9 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
4 9 (14.29%) SQL
5 6 (9.52%) JavaScript
6 5 (7.94%) Java
6 5 (7.94%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.76%) Perl
8 2 (3.17%) Bash
8 2 (3.17%) PHP
9 1 (1.59%) Bicep
9 1 (1.59%) C
9 1 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 15 (23.81%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (15.87%) Degree
3 9 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 8 (12.70%) SC Cleared
5 7 (11.11%) Azure Certification
6 5 (7.94%) CISSP
7 4 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (4.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (4.76%) CISM
9 2 (3.17%) MCP
10 1 (1.59%) CISA
10 1 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.70%) GDPR
2 5 (7.94%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (6.35%) SOC 2
4 2 (3.17%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.17%) NIST
5 1 (1.59%) EU AI Act
5 1 (1.59%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (1.59%) MiFID
System Software
1 36 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.59%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (12.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (7.94%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.94%) Terraform
3 4 (6.35%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (4.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (3.17%) SCCM
6 1 (1.59%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (96.83%) Microsoft
2 17 (26.98%) OpenAI
3 3 (4.76%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.17%) Cisco
4 2 (3.17%) Google
5 1 (1.59%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (1.59%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.59%) Citrix
5 1 (1.59%) Ivanti
5 1 (1.59%) Proofpoint
5 1 (1.59%) Refinitiv
5 1 (1.59%) SAP
5 1 (1.59%) Veritas
5 1 (1.59%) VMware