Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Westminster

Microsoft
City of Westminster > Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Westminster 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 5 March 2026, 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
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Westminster 17.39% - -
As % of the Vendors category 33.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £452 - -
25th Percentile £493 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 - -
75th Percentile £605 - -
90th Percentile £632 - -
City of Westminster median daily rate £560 £528 -
% change year-on-year +6.16% - -

All Vendors
Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 12 13 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Westminster 52.17% 59.09% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 2
10th Percentile £459 £413 -
25th Percentile £463 £444 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £175
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +214.29% -53.33%
75th Percentile £628 £713 £188
90th Percentile £742 £838 -
City of Westminster median daily rate £506 £516 £600
% change year-on-year -1.94% -13.96% +50.00%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Westminster

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Westminster

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in Westminster

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Westminster citing Microsoft.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Westminster citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Westminster

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Westminster over the 6 months to 5 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Westminster

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Westminster

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Westminster citing Microsoft.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Westminster citing Microsoft

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Westminster 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 3 (75.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Power Automate
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (75.00%) PowerApps
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Applications Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Applications Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) API Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) API Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Architecture Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Review
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared