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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 400 502 580
Rank change year-on-year +102 +78 +261
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Purview 129 85 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.20% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.18% 0.61% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 54 73
10th Percentile £408 £463 £475
25th Percentile £463 £503 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +50.00%
75th Percentile £638 £747 £635
90th Percentile £738 £821 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +22.09%
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 10,930 13,929 21,577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.54% 32.30% 36.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,553 9,906 15,594
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £631 £650
90th Percentile £735 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -2.46% -2.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 342 345
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £15.92 £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £46.30 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.69 £24.81
% change year-on-year +21.31% -28.70% +30.58%

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 8 May 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 8 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 +107 111 £550 -4.35% 128
London +70 72 £600 +6.19% 68
UK excluding London +78 42 £500 -13.04% 81
Work from Home +55 42 £520 -5.45% 92
North of England +30 18 £475 -15.56% 19
Midlands +27 13 £575 - 7
West Midlands +21 12 £600 +4.35% 5
North West +17 12 £468 -16.89% 13
Scotland +21 5 £425 - 2
South East +44 4 £450 -23.40% 44
North East -1 4 £688 -
South West +35 2 £563 -10.00% 8
Yorkshire +5 2 £438 - 6

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 (17.05%) SharePoint
2 12 (9.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (3.88%) Confluence
4 2 (1.55%) OpenEdge
5 1 (0.78%) Apache
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (2.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.78%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.88%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 72 (55.81%) Azure
2 41 (31.78%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (18.60%) Power Platform
4 17 (13.18%) Entra ID
5 15 (11.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 15 (11.63%) Collibra
6 14 (10.85%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (10.08%) OneDrive
8 9 (6.98%) AWS
8 9 (6.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 8 (6.20%) Azure Sentinel
10 7 (5.43%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (3.10%) Alation
12 4 (3.10%) PowerApps
13 3 (2.33%) GCP
13 3 (2.33%) GitHub
13 3 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (2.33%) Snowflake
14 2 (1.55%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.65%) Firewall
2 3 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.55%) Network Security
4 1 (0.78%) DHCP
4 1 (0.78%) DNS
4 1 (0.78%) NAS
4 1 (0.78%) SAN
4 1 (0.78%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.78%) VPN
4 1 (0.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (16.28%) Power BI
2 13 (10.08%) Data Lake
3 10 (7.75%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (6.98%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (6.98%) Delta Lake
4 9 (6.98%) Metadata
5 5 (3.88%) GIS
5 5 (3.88%) Oracle Database
6 4 (3.10%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.10%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.33%) IBM InfoSphere
8 2 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.55%) MySQL
8 2 (1.55%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.78%) Big Data
9 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (0.78%) Oracle ODI
9 1 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.78%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 5 (3.88%) JIRA
2 1 (0.78%) Git
2 1 (0.78%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (27.91%) Finance
2 31 (24.03%) Social Skills
3 11 (8.53%) Banking
4 10 (7.75%) Legal
5 7 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.43%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.33%) Marketing
7 3 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.55%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.55%) Retail
9 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Military
9 1 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.78%) Publishing
9 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (20.93%) Architect
2 16 (12.40%) Consultant
3 15 (11.63%) Lead
4 14 (10.85%) Azure Engineer
5 12 (9.30%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 11 (8.53%) Analyst
7 9 (6.98%) Data Architect
8 8 (6.20%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (6.20%) Data Engineer
8 8 (6.20%) Senior
9 7 (5.43%) Data Manager
10 6 (4.65%) Project Manager
11 5 (3.88%) Security Architect
11 5 (3.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 5 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
12 4 (3.10%) Data Governance Manager
12 4 (3.10%) Designer
12 4 (3.10%) Governance Manager
12 4 (3.10%) Project Governance Manager
12 4 (3.10%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.88%) Kafka
1 5 (3.88%) PySpark
2 4 (3.10%) .NET
3 1 (0.78%) ADO
3 1 (0.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.75%) Insider Threat
1 10 (7.75%) Onboarding
2 7 (5.43%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.88%) IoT
3 5 (3.88%) SCADA
4 4 (3.10%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.10%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.33%) BYOD
5 3 (2.33%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.33%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.55%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.55%) FMCG
6 2 (1.55%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.55%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.55%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.55%) PKI
6 2 (1.55%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.55%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.30%) Windows
2 1 (0.78%) Android
2 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.78%) Linux
2 1 (0.78%) Unix
2 1 (0.78%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (37.21%) Data Governance
2 42 (32.56%) Data Loss Prevention
3 22 (17.05%) Analytics
3 22 (17.05%) Cybersecurity
4 20 (15.50%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (14.73%) Artificial Intelligence
5 19 (14.73%) Cloud Security
5 19 (14.73%) Data Protection
6 15 (11.63%) Agile
6 15 (11.63%) Business Intelligence
6 15 (11.63%) ETL
7 14 (10.85%) Data Management
7 14 (10.85%) Data Modelling
8 12 (9.30%) Data Architecture
8 12 (9.30%) Data Engineering
8 12 (9.30%) Migration
8 12 (9.30%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (8.53%) Collaborative Working
9 11 (8.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (8.53%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 24 (18.60%) SQL
2 19 (14.73%) Python
3 15 (11.63%) PowerShell
4 7 (5.43%) Kusto Query Language
5 5 (3.88%) Bicep
5 5 (3.88%) Scala
6 3 (2.33%) Java
7 2 (1.55%) C#
7 2 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.55%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.78%) Bash
Qualifications
1 19 (14.73%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (9.30%) CISM
2 12 (9.30%) CISSP
3 10 (7.75%) Degree
3 10 (7.75%) Security Cleared
4 9 (6.98%) Azure Certification
5 8 (6.20%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.55%) CISA
7 1 (0.78%) CITP
7 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (17.83%) GDPR
2 14 (10.85%) Data Quality
3 11 (8.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 11 (8.53%) HIPAA
4 10 (7.75%) SOC 2
5 7 (5.43%) Accessibility
6 4 (3.10%) NIST
7 2 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (1.55%) NIST 800
7 2 (1.55%) QA
8 1 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 14 (10.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.78%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.78%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (7.75%) CASB
2 8 (6.20%) Terraform
3 7 (5.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (3.10%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (2.33%) SCCM
6 2 (1.55%) Nagios
7 1 (0.78%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 102 (79.07%) Microsoft
2 20 (15.50%) Databricks
3 15 (11.63%) Informatica
4 11 (8.53%) Zscaler
5 8 (6.20%) ServiceNow
6 6 (4.65%) Oracle
6 6 (4.65%) SAP
7 4 (3.10%) Splunk
8 3 (2.33%) Google
8 3 (2.33%) IBM
9 2 (1.55%) Cisco
9 2 (1.55%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.55%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.55%) Qualys
9 2 (1.55%) Snow
9 2 (1.55%) Tenable
10 1 (0.78%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.78%) Nexthink
10 1 (0.78%) Thycotic
10 1 (0.78%) Virgin Media