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The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft over the 6 months to 9 April 2020 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Microsoft Corporation.
| Microsoft UK |
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6 months to
9 Apr 2020 |
Same period 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
| Rank |
5 |
7 |
8 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+2 |
+1 |
-1 |
| Contract jobs citing Microsoft |
7,828 |
11,886 |
11,215 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK |
12.92% |
12.28% |
11.11% |
| As % of the Vendors category |
30.21% |
28.82% |
26.70% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
4,900 |
7,783 |
7,189 |
| Median daily rate |
£425 |
£425 |
£400 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
- |
+6.25% |
+3.23% |
| 10th Percentile |
£163 |
£175 |
£175 |
| 90th Percentile |
£600 |
£613 |
£575 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£400 |
£402 |
£375 |
| % change year-on-year |
-0.50% |
+7.20% |
+7.14% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
636 |
714 |
753 |
| Median hourly rate |
£18.00 |
£15.31 |
£15.50 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+17.59% |
-1.24% |
+6.06% |
| 10th Percentile |
£11.26 |
£10.56 |
£10.75 |
| 90th Percentile |
£43.75 |
£37.50 |
£38.60 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£17.10 |
£14.85 |
£15.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
+15.15% |
-1.00% |
+3.45% |
Microsoft is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.
| All Vendors UK |
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services |
25,911 |
41,247 |
41,997 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
42.78% |
42.61% |
41.61% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
15,508 |
25,695 |
26,187 |
| Median daily rate |
£450 |
£450 |
£450 |
| 10th Percentile |
£213 |
£263 |
£243 |
| 90th Percentile |
£650 |
£638 |
£625 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£425 |
£425 |
£405 |
| % change year-on-year |
- |
+4.94% |
+1.25% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
1,213 |
1,412 |
1,430 |
| Median hourly rate |
£19.50 |
£18.03 |
£17.50 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+8.17% |
+3.01% |
+2.94% |
| 10th Percentile |
£11.86 |
£10.92 |
£10.75 |
| 90th Percentile |
£51.75 |
£49.50 |
£47.50 |
| Median hourly rate |
£18.21 |
£17.00 |
£16.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
+7.12% |
+6.25% |
-3.03% |
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Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
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Contractor Daily Rate Trend
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft.
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Daily Rate Histogram
Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft over the 6 months to 9 April 2020.
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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft.
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Hourly Rate Histogram
Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft over the 6 months to 9 April 2020.
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Top 18 Contract Locations
The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the UK over the 6 months to 9 April 2020. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.
For the 6 months to 9 April 2020, IT contractor jobs citing Microsoft also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for Microsoft.
| 1 |
2,862 (36.56%) |
Windows |
| 2 |
2,606 (33.29%) |
Azure |
| 3 |
2,007 (25.64%) |
Active Directory |
| 4 |
1,651 (21.09%) |
SQL |
| 5 |
1,649 (21.07%) |
Office 365 |
| 6 |
1,517 (19.38%) |
Microsoft Office |
| 7 |
1,502 (19.19%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 8 |
1,315 (16.80%) |
SQL Server |
| 9 |
1,128 (14.41%) |
Finance |
| 10 |
1,056 (13.49%) |
Security Cleared |
| 11 |
1,045 (13.35%) |
.NET |
| 12 |
1,036 (13.23%) |
Migration |
| 13 |
989 (12.63%) |
Windows 10 |
| 14 |
962 (12.29%) |
Windows Server |
| 15 |
932 (11.91%) |
Business Intelligence |
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Co-occurring IT Skills by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
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