Senior Microsoft Specialist Contracts

Senior Microsoft Specialist
UK

The median Senior Microsoft Specialist daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 519 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Microsoft Specialist 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.004% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 27,138 40,367 56,304
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,714 26,265 39,350
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,034 2,668 1,565
10th Percentile £14.06 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.40
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.50 £42.43
% change year-on-year -29.11% -6.91% +117.60%

Senior Microsoft Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Microsoft Specialist in the UK

Senior Microsoft Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Microsoft Specialist in the UK

Senior Microsoft Specialist
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Microsoft Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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 - 1 £500 -
East of England - 1 £500 -
UK excluding London - 1 £500 -

Senior Microsoft Specialist Skill Set
Top 28 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Senior Microsoft Specialist 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 Senior Microsoft Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Biometrics
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) Military
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Information Assurance
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) Line Management
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Presales
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding

Senior Microsoft Specialist 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
General
1 1 (100.00%) Military
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Biometrics
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Assurance
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Line Management
1 1 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (100.00%) Presales
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow