Microsoft Purview Contracts

Microsoft Purview (formerly Azure Purview)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Microsoft Purview skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft Purview over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 393 512 595
Rank change year-on-year +119 +83 +234
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Purview 126 88 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.20% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.15% 0.62% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 55 74
10th Percentile £400 £463 £466
25th Percentile £463 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -5.83% +50.00%
75th Percentile £625 £738 £633
90th Percentile £738 £813 £696
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -15.22% +4.55% +20.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.00 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile £85.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Microsoft Purview falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 10,997 14,094 22,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.61% 32.33% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,640 10,005 15,924
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £634 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 348 350
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.43 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.60% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £48.56 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.53 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.47% -28.03% +31.31%

Microsoft Purview
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Purview in the UK

Microsoft Purview
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Purview in the UK

Microsoft Purview
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Purview over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Purview in the UK

Microsoft Purview
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Purview within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +92 107 £550 -3.51% 99
London +58 74 £600 +6.19% 38
Work from Home +60 42 £520 -5.45% 68
UK excluding London +69 36 £488 -15.22% 59
North of England +37 18 £475 -15.56% 20
North West +14 12 £468 -16.89% 16
Midlands +25 6 £600 +4.35% 8
West Midlands +18 6 £600 +4.35% 6
Scotland +14 6 £450 - 2
South East +44 4 £450 -5.26% 22
North East +2 4 £688 -
South West +40 2 £563 -10.00% 5
Yorkshire +15 2 £438 - 4

Microsoft Purview
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 22 (17.46%) SharePoint
2 12 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (3.97%) Confluence
4 2 (1.59%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.79%) Apache
5 1 (0.79%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.79%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (2.38%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.79%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 70 (55.56%) Azure
2 46 (36.51%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (17.46%) Power Platform
4 20 (15.87%) Entra ID
5 13 (10.32%) OneDrive
6 11 (8.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 10 (7.94%) Collibra
7 10 (7.94%) Microsoft Copilot
8 9 (7.14%) AWS
9 8 (6.35%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (6.35%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (3.17%) Alation
10 4 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (3.17%) Power Automate
10 4 (3.17%) PowerApps
11 3 (2.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (2.38%) GCP
11 3 (2.38%) Snowflake
12 2 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.97%) Firewall
2 3 (2.38%) Network Security
2 3 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.79%) DHCP
3 1 (0.79%) DNS
3 1 (0.79%) NAS
3 1 (0.79%) SAN
3 1 (0.79%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.79%) VPN
3 1 (0.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (15.08%) Power BI
2 13 (10.32%) Data Lake
3 9 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (7.14%) Metadata
4 4 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (3.17%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.38%) Delta Lake
5 3 (2.38%) IBM InfoSphere
5 3 (2.38%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 2 (1.59%) MySQL
6 2 (1.59%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.79%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.79%) Big Data
7 1 (0.79%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.79%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.79%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 5 (3.97%) JIRA
2 1 (0.79%) Git
2 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (28.57%) Finance
2 32 (25.40%) Social Skills
3 11 (8.73%) Banking
4 10 (7.94%) Legal
5 8 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.35%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.38%) Marketing
7 3 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.59%) Billing
8 2 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.59%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.59%) Retail
9 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.79%) Military
9 1 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (19.84%) Architect
2 16 (12.70%) Consultant
3 15 (11.90%) Lead
4 13 (10.32%) Analyst
4 13 (10.32%) Azure Engineer
5 12 (9.52%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 8 (6.35%) Cloud Engineer
6 8 (6.35%) Senior
7 7 (5.56%) Data Architect
7 7 (5.56%) Data Manager
8 6 (4.76%) Data Engineer
8 6 (4.76%) Project Manager
9 5 (3.97%) Data Analyst
9 5 (3.97%) Designer
9 5 (3.97%) Security Architect
9 5 (3.97%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 5 (3.97%) Solutions Designer
10 4 (3.17%) Data Governance Manager
10 4 (3.17%) Governance Manager
10 4 (3.17%) Project Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.17%) .NET
1 4 (3.17%) PySpark
2 1 (0.79%) ADO
2 1 (0.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.94%) Insider Threat
2 8 (6.35%) Management Information System
3 7 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (3.17%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.38%) BYOD
5 3 (2.38%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.38%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.38%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.38%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.59%) FMCG
6 2 (1.59%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.59%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.59%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.59%) PKI
6 2 (1.59%) Replication
6 2 (1.59%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.52%) Windows
2 1 (0.79%) Android
2 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.79%) Linux
2 1 (0.79%) Unix
2 1 (0.79%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (35.71%) Data Loss Prevention
2 44 (34.92%) Data Governance
3 23 (18.25%) Cybersecurity
4 21 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (15.87%) Cloud Security
6 19 (15.08%) Analytics
6 19 (15.08%) Data Protection
7 17 (13.49%) Artificial Intelligence
8 14 (11.11%) Agile
9 13 (10.32%) Business Intelligence
9 13 (10.32%) Data Management
9 13 (10.32%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (9.52%) Collaborative Working
10 12 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (9.52%) Data Architecture
10 12 (9.52%) Data Modelling
11 11 (8.73%) Information Security
12 10 (7.94%) Data Engineering
12 10 (7.94%) Data Privacy
12 10 (7.94%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 18 (14.29%) SQL
2 15 (11.90%) PowerShell
3 13 (10.32%) Python
4 5 (3.97%) Scala
5 3 (2.38%) Bicep
5 3 (2.38%) Java
6 2 (1.59%) C#
6 2 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.59%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (1.59%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.79%) Bash
Qualifications
1 19 (15.08%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (10.32%) CISM
2 13 (10.32%) CISSP
3 11 (8.73%) Azure Certification
3 11 (8.73%) Degree
4 10 (7.94%) Security Cleared
5 8 (6.35%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.59%) CISA
7 1 (0.79%) CITP
7 1 (0.79%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (0.79%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 1 (0.79%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (15.08%) GDPR
2 11 (8.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 11 (8.73%) Data Quality
2 11 (8.73%) HIPAA
3 10 (7.94%) SOC 2
4 6 (4.76%) Accessibility
5 4 (3.17%) NIST
6 2 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (1.59%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.59%) QA
System Software
1 16 (12.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.79%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.79%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (8.73%) CASB
2 7 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (4.76%) Terraform
4 4 (3.17%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (2.38%) SCCM
6 2 (1.59%) Nagios
7 1 (0.79%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 100 (79.37%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.32%) Databricks
3 11 (8.73%) Zscaler
4 10 (7.94%) Informatica
5 8 (6.35%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.17%) Splunk
7 3 (2.38%) Google
7 3 (2.38%) IBM
8 2 (1.59%) Cisco
8 2 (1.59%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.59%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.59%) Qualys
8 2 (1.59%) Snow
8 2 (1.59%) Tenable
9 1 (0.79%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.79%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.79%) Nexthink
9 1 (0.79%) SonicWALL
9 1 (0.79%) Thycotic
9 1 (0.79%) Virgin Media