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 26 February 2021 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 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.
Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services
19,873
28,809
41,549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK
41.77%
42.35%
41.92%
Number of daily rates quoted
12,550
18,191
26,071
Median daily rate
£468
£450
£450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.94%
-
+2.86%
10th Percentile
£252
£214
£256
90th Percentile
£650
£650
£638
UK excluding London median daily rate
£425
£425
£425
Number of hourly rates quoted
673
1,145
1,483
Median hourly rate
£23.00
£18.70
£17.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.99%
+6.86%
+2.13%
10th Percentile
£11.19
£11.86
£10.75
90th Percentile
£61.25
£50.00
£47.50
Median hourly rate
£19.00
£17.50
£16.50
% change year-on-year
+8.57%
+6.06%
+4.04%
Microsoft Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
Microsoft Contractor Daily Rate Trend
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft.
Microsoft Daily Rate Histogram
Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft over the 6 months to 26 February 2021.
Microsoft Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft.
Microsoft Hourly Rate Histogram
Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft over the 6 months to 26 February 2021.
Microsoft Top 17 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 26 February 2021. 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
For the 6 months to 26 February 2021, 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.
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:
