Microsoft Contract Job Trends 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 20 October 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
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 11 11
Rank change year-on-year +9 0 -5
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 6 3 7
As % of all contract jobs in West End of London 16.67% 5.08% 8.24%
As % of the Vendors category 46.15% 10.34% 21.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 7
10th Percentile £279 £151 £110
25th Percentile £400 £153 £146
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £163 £245
Median % change year-on-year +207.69% -33.67% -60.32%
75th Percentile £613 £353 £500
90th Percentile £725 £464 £538
Central London median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

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 13 29 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West End of London 36.11% 49.15% 37.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 19 26
10th Percentile £339 £281 £163
25th Percentile £456 £394 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year +32.50% +1.01% -8.33%
75th Percentile £806 £551 £548
90th Percentile £825 £563 £615
Central London median daily rate £545 £549 £550
% change year-on-year -0.64% -0.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £26.93 -
25th Percentile £50.72 £29.23 -
Median hourly rate £51.44 £33.65 -
Median % change year-on-year +52.89% - -
75th Percentile £52.16 £38.23 -
90th Percentile - £40.64 -
Central London median hourly rate £24.50 £50.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -51.00% +140.96% -1.19%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in West End of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West End of London.

Microsoft job vacancy trend in West End of London

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Daily Rate Trend in West End of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing Microsoft.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing Microsoft

Microsoft
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 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in West End of London

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in West End of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing Microsoft.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing Microsoft

Microsoft
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 20 October 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
Westminster - 3 £663 - 2
Holborn - 1 £400 -
Microsoft
Central London

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West End of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Power Automate
2 3 (50.00%) PowerApps
3 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
4 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (16.67%) IaaS
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (16.67%) Nutanix
4 1 (16.67%) OneDrive
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DKIM
1 1 (16.67%) DMARC
1 1 (16.67%) PSTN
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) CRM Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Programme Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Service Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Tools Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth
1 1 (16.67%) React
1 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
1 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Converged Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Experience
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (16.67%) Secure Coding
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Ticket Management
2 1 (16.67%) User Experience
2 1 (16.67%) Webhook
2 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C#
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) A+ Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco
1 1 (16.67%) Citrix
1 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
1 1 (16.67%) VMware