Microsoft Copilot Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Copilot
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Microsoft Copilot skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft Copilot over the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 287 323 -
Rank change year-on-year +36 - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Copilot 28 18 0
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.28% 0.14% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.67% 0.36% -
Number of daily rates quoted 18 14 0
10th Percentile £321 £408 -
25th Percentile £397 £472 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 -
75th Percentile £569 £600 -
90th Percentile £600 £646 -
UK median daily rate £500 £500 -

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Microsoft Copilot falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,185 4,981 8,822
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 41.30% 37.73% 39.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,934 3,528 6,533
10th Percentile £340 £345 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £754 £775 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 53 134
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.70 £16.33
25th Percentile £28.75 £18.50 £21.48
Median hourly rate £41.25 £36.00 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -10.56% +13.38%
75th Percentile £68.06 £62.00 £68.06
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.38 £23.80 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.02% -32.00% +59.09%

Microsoft Copilot
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Microsoft Copilot as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Microsoft Copilot trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Microsoft Copilot
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Microsoft Copilot.

Microsoft Copilot daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft Copilot
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Microsoft Copilot over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Microsoft Copilot daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft Copilot
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 13 (46.43%) Power Platform
2 11 (39.29%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (35.71%) Copilot Studio
4 8 (28.57%) Azure
4 8 (28.57%) Power Automate
5 6 (21.43%) PowerApps
6 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (3.57%) Azure AKS
8 1 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (32.14%) Power BI
2 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.57%) MariaDB
3 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.57%) MySQL
3 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.57%) Power Query
3 1 (3.57%) Redis
3 1 (3.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Git
General
1 10 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.00%) Finance
3 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Banking
4 3 (10.71%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 2 (7.14%) Retail
5 2 (7.14%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.57%) Electronics
6 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (10.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 3 (10.71%) Consultant
1 3 (10.71%) Developer
1 3 (10.71%) Lead
1 3 (10.71%) Platform Engineer
1 3 (10.71%) Power Platform Engineer
2 2 (7.14%) Analyst
2 2 (7.14%) Architect
2 2 (7.14%) Business Analyst
2 2 (7.14%) IT Trainer
2 2 (7.14%) Power Platform Developer
2 2 (7.14%) Senior
2 2 (7.14%) Senior Developer
2 2 (7.14%) Trainer
3 1 (3.57%) Change Consultant
3 1 (3.57%) Change Management Consultant
3 1 (3.57%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (3.57%) Programme Planner
3 1 (3.57%) Rollout Engineer
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) HTML5 Canvas
2 2 (7.14%) .NET
2 2 (7.14%) .NET Framework
2 2 (7.14%) ASP.NET
2 2 (7.14%) ASP.NET Core
2 2 (7.14%) CSS
2 2 (7.14%) Entity Framework
2 2 (7.14%) HTML
2 2 (7.14%) PySpark
3 1 (3.57%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.57%) JSON
3 1 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Low-Code
1 2 (7.14%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.57%) PMI
2 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) Artificial Intelligence
2 9 (32.14%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (21.43%) Machine Learning
4 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
5 4 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (10.71%) Agile
6 3 (10.71%) Analytics
6 3 (10.71%) DevOps
6 3 (10.71%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (10.71%) Project Management
7 2 (7.14%) Change Management
7 2 (7.14%) Customer Retention
7 2 (7.14%) Data Architecture
7 2 (7.14%) MLOps
7 2 (7.14%) Programme Management
7 2 (7.14%) Runbook
7 2 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (7.14%) Workflow
7 2 (7.14%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.29%) Python
2 2 (7.14%) C#
2 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 2 (7.14%) SQL
3 1 (3.57%) Bash
3 1 (3.57%) Bicep
3 1 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (3.57%) Java
3 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.57%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) PMO
2 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) P3O
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Ansible
1 1 (3.57%) Grafana
1 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
1 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
1 1 (3.57%) SCCM
1 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (67.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) Palantir
3 1 (3.57%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.57%) CyberArk
3 1 (3.57%) Foundry
3 1 (3.57%) Planview
3 1 (3.57%) SAP