Microsoft Contracts in West End of London

Microsoft
Central London > West End of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West End of London requiring knowledge or experience of Microsoft products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Microsoft Corporation.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 5 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 8 10 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West End of London 11.76% 19.61% 18.75%
As % of the Vendors category 20.51% 32.26% 39.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 12
10th Percentile £105 £175 £173
25th Percentile £195 £248 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £505 £310
Median % change year-on-year -10.89% +62.90% -22.98%
75th Percentile £469 £508 £400
90th Percentile £548 - £517
Central London median daily rate £502 £545 £538
% change year-on-year -7.89% +1.40% +2.38%

All Vendors
West End of London

Microsoft falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in West End of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 39 31 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West End of London 57.35% 60.78% 47.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 18 30
10th Percentile £281 £245 £209
25th Percentile £450 £463 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £505 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +2.02% -7.22%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £536
90th Percentile £630 £578 £570
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550

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Job Vacancy Trend in West End of London

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West End of London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in West End of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West End of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in West End of London.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in West End of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in West End of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in West End of London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in West End of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West End of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in West End of London.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in West End of London

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Contract Job Locations in West End of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the West End of London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Holborn -3 3 £450 -10.89% 1
Microsoft
Central London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West End of London 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 (37.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (25.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) S/MIME
1 3 (37.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Power Query
1 1 (12.50%) PowerPivot
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Service Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Excel Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) IT Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Tools Developer
3 1 (12.50%) VBA Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) CSS
1 1 (12.50%) HTML
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (12.50%) OAuth
1 1 (12.50%) React
1 1 (12.50%) REST
1 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Algorithms
1 3 (37.50%) PKI
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (37.50%) Key Management
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Asset Management
3 2 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (12.50%) CRM
4 1 (12.50%) Data Management
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) ERP
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Server Management
4 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Web Development
4 1 (12.50%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
2 1 (12.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Degree
2 4 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune