Microsoft Licensing Contracts

Microsoft Licensing
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Microsoft Licensing in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft Licensing 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 514 579 704
Rank change year-on-year +65 +125 +147
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Licensing 6 3 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.007% 0.023%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.060% 0.023% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 10
10th Percentile - £231 £300
25th Percentile £550 £259 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £596 £313 £516
Median % change year-on-year +90.80% -39.47% +11.62%
75th Percentile £629 £359 £538
90th Percentile £634 £384 £540
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £225 £363
% change year-on-year +177.78% -37.93% -

All Generic Skills
UK

Microsoft Licensing falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,944 13,250 19,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.97% 30.42% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,345 8,502 13,668
10th Percentile £300 £263 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 912 640
10th Percentile £16.46 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.08 £28.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year +10.02% +28.41% +9.64%

Microsoft Licensing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Licensing in the UK

Microsoft Licensing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Licensing in the UK

Microsoft Licensing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Licensing in the UK

Microsoft Licensing
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Licensing 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 +59 5 £596 +90.80% 7
London +39 3 £575 +43.75% 3
UK excluding London +64 2 £625 +177.78% 5
East of England - 2 £625 -
Work from Home +40 1 - - 7

Microsoft Licensing
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 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (66.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
3 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (50.00%) OneDrive
3 3 (50.00%) Power Automate
3 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (16.67%) IaaS
4 1 (16.67%) PaaS
4 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Data Governance Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
1 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Software Licensing
2 2 (33.33%) Contract Negotiation
2 2 (33.33%) High Availability
2 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (16.67%) Application Security
3 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
3 1 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) Cost Reduction
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
3 1 (16.67%) Data Management
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (16.67%) Software Asset Management
3 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) HIPAA
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft