Microsoft Developer Contracts

Microsoft Developer
UK

The median Microsoft Developer daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 556 618 802
Rank change year-on-year +62 +184 -182
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft Developer 44 98 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.17% 0.069%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.18% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 78 42
10th Percentile £378 £413 £338
25th Percentile £408 £506 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £586 £555
Median % change year-on-year -18.94% +5.59% +17.40%
75th Percentile £591 £630 £638
90th Percentile £624 £700 £686
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £586 £450
% change year-on-year -14.68% +30.22% -3.68%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,029 55,895 84,701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,060 39,048 59,505
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,665 1,566 2,078
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.11 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%

Microsoft Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Microsoft Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Developer in the UK

Microsoft Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Developer in the UK

Microsoft Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Developer over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Developer in the UK

Microsoft Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Developer in the UK

Microsoft Developer
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 Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 5 May 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 +86 40 £475 -17.39% 14
London +96 26 £410 -26.79% 2
Work from Home +84 18 £400 -31.74% 4
UK excluding London +33 12 £500 -14.68% 9
Midlands +28 4 £450 +5.88% 4
South West +23 4 £575 +21.05%
West Midlands +22 4 £450 +5.88% 3
South East +10 4 £513 -14.58% 5

Microsoft Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Microsoft Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Microsoft Developer in the job title.

1 27 (61.36%) Microsoft
2 21 (47.73%) CRM
2 21 (47.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (40.91%) Power Platform
4 17 (38.64%) Agile
4 17 (38.64%) Azure
5 14 (31.82%) Artificial Intelligence
6 12 (27.27%) C#
6 12 (27.27%) Business Transformation
6 12 (27.27%) Roadmaps
7 11 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
7 11 (25.00%) Case Management
7 11 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
7 11 (25.00%) IT Strategy
8 9 (20.45%) .NET
8 9 (20.45%) SQL Server
8 9 (20.45%) Power Automate
8 9 (20.45%) PowerApps
9 8 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (13.64%) Degree
10 6 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (13.64%) Power BI
10 6 (13.64%) DevOps
10 6 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (13.64%) Social Skills
11 5 (11.36%) Azure Functions
11 5 (11.36%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (11.36%) Serverless
11 5 (11.36%) Java

Microsoft Developer Skill Set
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 3 (6.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 21 (47.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.27%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 18 (40.91%) Power Platform
2 17 (38.64%) Azure
3 9 (20.45%) Power Automate
3 9 (20.45%) PowerApps
4 8 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (11.36%) Azure Functions
6 5 (11.36%) Serverless
7 4 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (6.82%) Azure API Management
8 3 (6.82%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (6.82%) PaaS
9 2 (4.55%) Azure Batch
9 2 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (4.55%) Azure Storage
9 2 (4.55%) OneDrive
9 2 (4.55%) SonarCloud
10 1 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.45%) SQL Server
2 6 (13.64%) Power BI
3 5 (11.36%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (4.55%) Big Data
4 2 (4.55%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.55%) MySQL
4 2 (4.55%) OLTP
4 2 (4.55%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.27%) Power Query
5 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Git
2 2 (4.55%) Moq
2 2 (4.55%) NUnit
2 2 (4.55%) Visual Studio Team System
3 1 (2.27%) Postman
General
1 6 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.82%) Finance
3 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.55%) Local Government
3 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.27%) French Language
4 1 (2.27%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.45%) .NET
2 3 (6.82%) .NET Framework
2 3 (6.82%) ASP.NET
2 3 (6.82%) JSON
3 2 (4.55%) ARM Templates
3 2 (4.55%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (4.55%) CSS
3 2 (4.55%) HTML
3 2 (4.55%) Web Services
3 2 (4.55%) XML
4 1 (2.27%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (2.27%) CSS3
4 1 (2.27%) Entity Framework
4 1 (2.27%) HTML5
4 1 (2.27%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (2.27%) OpenAPI
4 1 (2.27%) React
4 1 (2.27%) Swagger
4 1 (2.27%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (47.73%) CRM
2 17 (38.64%) Agile
3 14 (31.82%) Artificial Intelligence
4 12 (27.27%) Business Transformation
4 12 (27.27%) Roadmaps
5 11 (25.00%) Case Management
5 11 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
5 11 (25.00%) IT Strategy
5 11 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
6 6 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (13.64%) DevOps
6 6 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (11.36%) TDD
8 4 (9.09%) Analytics
8 4 (9.09%) Data Migration
8 4 (9.09%) Migration
9 3 (6.82%) Business Analytics
9 3 (6.82%) Dashboard Development
9 3 (6.82%) Process Improvement
9 3 (6.82%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (27.27%) C#
2 5 (11.36%) Java
3 4 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 4 (9.09%) Python
4 3 (6.82%) SQL
5 2 (4.55%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.27%) R
6 1 (2.27%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.27%) X++
Qualifications
1 6 (13.64%) Degree
2 3 (6.82%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
Systems Management
1 2 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (61.36%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.27%) Adobe
2 1 (2.27%) Virgin Media