Microsoft Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 10 8
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 +6
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 345 447 597
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 16.00% 12.89% 14.29%
As % of the Vendors category 36.94% 32.77% 37.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 347 482
10th Percentile £262 £227 £245
25th Percentile £444 £440 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% +5.71% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £612
90th Percentile £763 £800 £713
Central London median daily rate £550 £543 £525
% change year-on-year +1.29% +3.43% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 8
10th Percentile - - £15.00
25th Percentile £12.75 £51.25 £23.06
Median hourly rate £15.25 £52.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -70.95% +98.11% +107.84%
75th Percentile £20.25 £53.75 £45.50
90th Percentile £24.30 - £77.53
Central London median hourly rate £15.25 £52.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year -70.95% +98.11% +98.13%

All Vendors
City of London

Microsoft is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 934 1,364 1,576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.32% 39.33% 37.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 685 901 1,191
10th Percentile £315 £263 £313
25th Percentile £450 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £669
90th Percentile £791 £800 £738
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 21
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.87 £13.88
25th Percentile £14.38 £18.42 £21.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £50.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -55.00% +88.68% +89.29%
75th Percentile £25.38 £52.88 £44.86
90th Percentile £75.70 £53.30 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £30.75
% change year-on-year -40.00% +21.95% +114.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City 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 37 (10.72%) SharePoint
2 36 (10.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.87%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.87%) CMS
4 2 (0.58%) Apache
4 2 (0.58%) Confluence
4 2 (0.58%) IIS
5 1 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.29%) Gunicorn
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.29%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.29%) WebSphere
Applications
1 42 (12.17%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (9.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 24 (6.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (4.35%) MS Visio
5 12 (3.48%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.87%) Adobe Premiere
6 3 (0.87%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.29%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 12 (3.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (3.19%) Dynamics GP
3 8 (2.32%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.58%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.58%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.58%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.29%) BusinessWorks
5 1 (0.29%) Endur
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle HRMS
5 1 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.29%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.29%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 156 (45.22%) Azure
2 76 (22.03%) Microsoft 365
3 63 (18.26%) Power Platform
4 38 (11.01%) Dynamics 365
5 36 (10.43%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (10.43%) Entra ID
6 31 (8.99%) PowerApps
7 27 (7.83%) Power Automate
8 19 (5.51%) AWS
9 11 (3.19%) GCP
9 11 (3.19%) Microsoft Purview
9 11 (3.19%) OneDrive
10 10 (2.90%) GitHub
10 10 (2.90%) WhatsApp
11 9 (2.61%) IaaS
11 9 (2.61%) Mimecast
12 8 (2.32%) Azure Key Vault
13 7 (2.03%) Azure Service Bus
14 6 (1.74%) Collibra
15 5 (1.45%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.96%) Firewall
2 9 (2.61%) VPN
2 9 (2.61%) WAN
3 8 (2.32%) DNS
4 7 (2.03%) LAN
5 6 (1.74%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.45%) Network Security
6 5 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (1.45%) Wireless
7 4 (1.16%) MPLS
7 4 (1.16%) SAN
7 4 (1.16%) VoIP
8 3 (0.87%) H.323
8 3 (0.87%) Internet
8 3 (0.87%) WebEx
9 2 (0.58%) CTI
9 2 (0.58%) DHCP
9 2 (0.58%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.58%) Structured Cabling
9 2 (0.58%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (12.46%) SQL Server
2 34 (9.86%) Power BI
3 16 (4.64%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (4.06%) MongoDB
5 12 (3.48%) Data Lake
6 8 (2.32%) Metadata
7 7 (2.03%) MySQL
7 7 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (2.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (1.74%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.74%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.16%) Tableau
11 3 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.87%) Big Data
11 3 (0.87%) Data Mart
11 3 (0.87%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.87%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.87%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (4.64%) Git
2 10 (2.90%) GitLab
3 9 (2.61%) JIRA
4 8 (2.32%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.03%) Postman
5 7 (2.03%) SpecFlow
6 6 (1.74%) Selenium
6 6 (1.74%) Visual Studio
7 4 (1.16%) JUnit
7 4 (1.16%) Subversion
8 3 (0.87%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.87%) Mockito
8 3 (0.87%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.58%) Android Studio
9 2 (0.58%) Appium
9 2 (0.58%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.58%) GoCD
9 2 (0.58%) JMeter
9 2 (0.58%) WebDriver
General
1 121 (35.07%) Social Skills
2 111 (32.17%) Finance
3 58 (16.81%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (15.36%) Banking
5 26 (7.54%) Legal
6 21 (6.09%) Presentation Skills
7 19 (5.51%) Public Sector
8 16 (4.64%) Financial Institution
8 16 (4.64%) Retail
9 11 (3.19%) Marketing
10 10 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (2.90%) Investment Banking
11 8 (2.32%) General Ledger
11 8 (2.32%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.45%) Back Office
12 5 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.16%) French Language
14 3 (0.87%) Advertising
15 2 (0.58%) Law
15 2 (0.58%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 51 (14.78%) Architect
2 44 (12.75%) Developer
3 37 (10.72%) Consultant
4 33 (9.57%) Analyst
5 25 (7.25%) Senior
6 21 (6.09%) Microsoft Consultant
7 19 (5.51%) Lead
8 17 (4.93%) Project Manager
9 15 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
10 14 (4.06%) Site Engineer
10 14 (4.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 12 (3.48%) Data Analyst
12 11 (3.19%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (3.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (2.90%) Great Plains Consultant
13 10 (2.90%) IT Engineer
13 10 (2.90%) IT Support
13 10 (2.90%) Security Engineer
14 9 (2.61%) Azure Architect
14 9 (2.61%) Power Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (10.14%) .NET
2 20 (5.80%) XML
3 15 (4.35%) Kafka
4 14 (4.06%) CSS
4 14 (4.06%) HTML
5 13 (3.77%) React
6 12 (3.48%) .NET Core
7 11 (3.19%) .NET Framework
7 11 (3.19%) JSON
7 11 (3.19%) RabbitMQ
7 11 (3.19%) REST
8 10 (2.90%) RESTful
9 9 (2.61%) Microsoft Graph
10 8 (2.32%) ASP.NET
10 8 (2.32%) Web Services
11 6 (1.74%) Middleware
12 5 (1.45%) AngularJS
12 5 (1.45%) ASP.NET Core
13 4 (1.16%) PySpark
13 4 (1.16%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.22%) Data Structures
1 18 (5.22%) Management Information System
2 16 (4.64%) Product Ownership
3 13 (3.77%) Data Centre
4 11 (3.19%) Algorithms
4 11 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (2.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 9 (2.61%) Security Posture
5 9 (2.61%) Video Conferencing
6 7 (2.03%) PKI
7 5 (1.45%) Blackberry
8 4 (1.16%) Derivative
8 4 (1.16%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.16%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.87%) IVR
9 3 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (0.87%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 57 (16.52%) Windows
2 29 (8.41%) Linux
3 20 (5.80%) Windows Server
4 12 (3.48%) Windows 10
5 7 (2.03%) Android
6 4 (1.16%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.87%) Unix
7 3 (0.87%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.58%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.58%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.29%) CentOS
9 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (26.09%) Agile
2 76 (22.03%) DevOps
3 69 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (15.07%) CI/CD
5 47 (13.62%) Migration
6 45 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
7 35 (10.14%) Analytics
8 34 (9.86%) Stakeholder Management
9 33 (9.57%) Project Management
10 29 (8.41%) Cybersecurity
11 28 (8.12%) Change Management
11 28 (8.12%) Computer Science
11 28 (8.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 28 (8.12%) Scrum
12 26 (7.54%) Data Loss Prevention
13 25 (7.25%) Data Modelling
13 25 (7.25%) ITIL
14 20 (5.80%) Microservices
15 19 (5.51%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (5.51%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 59 (17.10%) PowerShell
2 50 (14.49%) SQL
3 36 (10.43%) C#
4 32 (9.28%) Python
5 21 (6.09%) Java
6 12 (3.48%) JavaScript
6 12 (3.48%) Shell Script
7 10 (2.90%) T-SQL
8 9 (2.61%) Go
9 8 (2.32%) C++
10 7 (2.03%) TypeScript
11 6 (1.74%) Bicep
12 5 (1.45%) Bash
13 3 (0.87%) PHP
14 2 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.58%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.58%) R
14 2 (0.58%) Scala
14 2 (0.58%) VBA
15 1 (0.29%) XPath
Qualifications
1 66 (19.13%) Degree
2 22 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (3.19%) ITIL Certification
3 11 (3.19%) Security Cleared
4 10 (2.90%) Azure Certification
4 10 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (2.61%) SC Cleared
6 7 (2.03%) CISSP
7 6 (1.74%) CISM
8 5 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.45%) CompTIA Security+
8 5 (1.45%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.87%) CCNA
11 2 (0.58%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.58%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.58%) PMP
11 2 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 1 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.35%) SLA
2 14 (4.06%) QA
3 9 (2.61%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.61%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (1.74%) GDPR
4 6 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.45%) WCAG
6 4 (1.16%) COBIT
6 4 (1.16%) NIST
6 4 (1.16%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.87%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.87%) PMO
8 2 (0.58%) GAAP
8 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.58%) NCSC
8 2 (0.58%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.29%) P3O
System Software
1 60 (17.39%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (3.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 10 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.45%) Docker
6 4 (1.16%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.58%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.58%) vSphere
7 2 (0.58%) XenApp
8 1 (0.29%) Ceph
8 1 (0.29%) Firmware
8 1 (0.29%) KVM
8 1 (0.29%) NFS
8 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (6.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 14 (4.06%) SCCM
4 13 (3.77%) Grafana
4 13 (3.77%) Prometheus
5 11 (3.19%) Consul
6 8 (2.32%) PingFederate
6 8 (2.32%) Terraform
7 7 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (1.74%) Ansible
9 5 (1.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (1.45%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.45%) Puppet
10 4 (1.16%) FortiGate
10 4 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (1.16%) QRadar
11 3 (0.87%) CASB
11 3 (0.87%) Nagios
12 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Clustering
12 2 (0.58%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 17 (4.93%) Citrix
1 17 (4.93%) Oracle
2 16 (4.64%) Cisco
2 16 (4.64%) VMware
3 12 (3.48%) SaltStack
4 11 (3.19%) Apple
4 11 (3.19%) ServiceNow
5 10 (2.90%) Google
5 10 (2.90%) iManage
5 10 (2.90%) SAP
6 9 (2.61%) Databricks
7 8 (2.32%) Adobe
8 6 (1.74%) Cadence
9 4 (1.16%) Avaya
9 4 (1.16%) Dell
9 4 (1.16%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.16%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.87%) Okta
10 3 (0.87%) Splunk
10 3 (0.87%) Symantec