Microsoft Contracts in England

Microsoft
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 May 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 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 7 9
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 4,872 6,826 8,945
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 13.11% 13.57% 12.59%
As % of the Vendors category 31.02% 32.36% 32.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,223 5,007 6,302
10th Percentile £189 £205 £181
25th Percentile £325 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £597 £628 £600
90th Percentile £700 £719 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 429 188 401
10th Percentile £11.07 £13.29 £10.77
25th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £15.00 £21.75 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.03% +17.57% +1.26%
75th Percentile £25.00 £43.78 £35.56
90th Percentile £51.25 £64.65 £49.25
UK median hourly rate £15.42 £23.50 £18.55
% change year-on-year -34.38% +26.68% +6.00%

All Vendors
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,707 21,094 27,909
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.27% 41.93% 39.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,966 14,514 19,065
10th Percentile £256 £270 £270
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £517 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.52% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,019 598 795
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.18 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.45 £18.75 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £39.55 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.11% +88.33% -3.45%
75th Percentile £56.37 £64.50 £44.03
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.23 £58.75
UK median hourly rate £22.08 £43.75 £21.02
% change year-on-year -49.54% +108.14% -6.24%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in England.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in England.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2024. 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
London +4 2,205 £500 -6.98% 1,518
South East -1 818 £465 -2.11% 908
North of England +5 682 £425 -10.53% 893
South West +2 508 £500 -4.76% 477
North West +3 409 £450 -5.26% 504
Midlands -4 333 £425 -4.23% 704
Yorkshire +2 231 £378 -20.53% 290
West Midlands -5 225 £425 -5.56% 440
East of England -2 217 £434 +2.00% 401
East Midlands -5 101 £391 +4.27% 262
North East +17 44 £230 -3.16% 108
Microsoft
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 509 (10.45%) SharePoint
2 356 (7.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 104 (2.13%) Confluence
4 59 (1.21%) CMS
5 41 (0.84%) IIS
6 38 (0.78%) SharePoint Server
7 30 (0.62%) Skype for Business
8 26 (0.53%) Apache
9 20 (0.41%) Apache Spark
10 19 (0.39%) Tomcat
11 11 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
12 10 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
13 8 (0.16%) Drupal
13 8 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2007
13 8 (0.16%) IBM Notes
13 8 (0.16%) WordPress
14 7 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 6 (0.12%) Anypoint
15 6 (0.12%) ArcGIS
15 6 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 900 (18.47%) Microsoft Office
2 588 (12.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 280 (5.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 129 (2.65%) Microsoft Project
5 112 (2.30%) MS Visio
6 101 (2.07%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 11 (0.23%) Photoshop
9 9 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
9 9 (0.18%) CATIA
10 8 (0.16%) Adobe Premiere
11 7 (0.14%) InDesign
12 5 (0.10%) Acrobat
13 4 (0.082%) Chatbot
14 3 (0.062%) Camtasia
15 2 (0.041%) FileZilla
15 2 (0.041%) Trello
16 1 (0.021%) Final Cut Pro
16 1 (0.021%) OmniGraffle
16 1 (0.021%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 125 (2.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 38 (0.78%) Dynamics AX
3 27 (0.55%) Dynamics GP
4 16 (0.33%) Teamcenter
5 15 (0.31%) Shopify
6 13 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
6 13 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
6 13 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 12 (0.25%) Primavera
7 12 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
8 9 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
9 8 (0.16%) DELMIA
9 8 (0.16%) Endur
9 8 (0.16%) Loan IQ
9 8 (0.16%) Magento
10 7 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
11 6 (0.12%) NetSuite
11 6 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
11 6 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
12 5 (0.10%) Oracle AGIS
Cloud Services
1 1,675 (34.38%) Azure
2 1,094 (22.45%) Microsoft 365
3 554 (11.37%) Power Platform
4 375 (7.70%) Azure DevOps
5 361 (7.41%) Entra ID
6 317 (6.51%) Dynamics 365
7 268 (5.50%) AWS
8 199 (4.08%) PowerApps
9 187 (3.84%) Power Automate
10 148 (3.04%) PaaS
11 141 (2.89%) SaaS
12 113 (2.32%) OneDrive
13 110 (2.26%) IaaS
14 86 (1.77%) Serverless
15 85 (1.74%) Azure Data Factory
16 83 (1.70%) Azure Monitor
17 75 (1.54%) GCP
18 73 (1.50%) Azure Service Bus
19 70 (1.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 66 (1.35%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 310 (6.36%) Firewall
2 271 (5.56%) DNS
3 175 (3.59%) DHCP
4 165 (3.39%) VPN
5 136 (2.79%) LAN
6 114 (2.34%) TCP/IP
7 113 (2.32%) SAN
8 106 (2.18%) WAN
9 90 (1.85%) Wireless
10 78 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
11 62 (1.27%) Network Security
12 48 (0.99%) VoIP
13 42 (0.86%) BGP
13 42 (0.86%) VLAN
14 40 (0.82%) NAS
14 40 (0.82%) Skype
15 37 (0.76%) HTTP
16 36 (0.74%) Internet
17 29 (0.60%) MPLS
17 29 (0.60%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 477 (9.79%) SQL Server
2 369 (7.57%) Power BI
3 142 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
4 112 (2.30%) Data Lake
5 87 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 76 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 71 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 65 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
9 64 (1.31%) NoSQL
10 52 (1.07%) Relational Database
11 46 (0.94%) MySQL
12 39 (0.80%) Big Data
13 36 (0.74%) Tableau
14 32 (0.66%) Metadata
15 31 (0.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 23 (0.47%) MongoDB
17 22 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
18 20 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
19 18 (0.37%) Oracle Database
20 14 (0.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 233 (4.78%) JIRA
2 133 (2.73%) Git
3 66 (1.35%) Visual Studio
4 58 (1.19%) Jenkins
5 46 (0.94%) GitLab
6 37 (0.76%) SpecFlow
7 33 (0.68%) Selenium
8 28 (0.57%) Postman
9 23 (0.47%) TeamCity
10 20 (0.41%) MSI
11 18 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 16 (0.33%) Maven
13 15 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
14 13 (0.27%) Bitbucket
14 13 (0.27%) SonarQube
14 13 (0.27%) Visual Studio Team System
14 13 (0.27%) WebDriver
15 11 (0.23%) Subversion
16 10 (0.21%) Rational DOORS
17 9 (0.18%) Eclipse
General
1 1,754 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 900 (18.47%) Finance
3 582 (11.95%) Analytical Skills
4 418 (8.58%) Public Sector
5 229 (4.70%) Banking
6 186 (3.82%) Marketing
7 182 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
8 180 (3.69%) Presentation Skills
8 180 (3.69%) Telecoms
9 170 (3.49%) Legal
10 148 (3.04%) Manufacturing
11 133 (2.73%) Retail
12 67 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
12 67 (1.38%) Electronics
13 61 (1.25%) Law
14 55 (1.13%) Back Office
15 53 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
15 53 (1.09%) Local Government
16 50 (1.03%) Financial Institution
17 42 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 635 (13.03%) Analyst
2 521 (10.69%) Developer
3 493 (10.12%) Architect
4 388 (7.96%) Senior
5 302 (6.20%) Consultant
6 256 (5.25%) Support Engineer
7 251 (5.15%) Lead
8 185 (3.80%) IT Support
9 178 (3.65%) Project Manager
10 176 (3.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 163 (3.35%) Administrator
12 151 (3.10%) Service Analyst
13 146 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
14 140 (2.87%) Azure Engineer
15 124 (2.55%) IT Engineer
16 123 (2.52%) Service Desk Analyst
17 118 (2.42%) 2nd Line Support
18 117 (2.40%) Senior Developer
19 114 (2.34%) Desktop Support
20 101 (2.07%) Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 316 (6.49%) .NET
2 158 (3.24%) XML
3 106 (2.18%) .NET Framework
4 104 (2.13%) .NET Core
5 88 (1.81%) CSS
6 86 (1.77%) JSON
7 85 (1.74%) HTML
8 81 (1.66%) REST
9 72 (1.48%) Web Services
10 67 (1.38%) React
11 60 (1.23%) AngularJS
12 53 (1.09%) ASP.NET
13 52 (1.07%) ARM Templates
14 37 (0.76%) Kafka
15 34 (0.70%) LDAP
15 34 (0.70%) Node.js
16 30 (0.62%) RESTful
17 28 (0.57%) SailPoint
17 28 (0.57%) Spring
18 27 (0.55%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 250 (5.13%) Management Information System
2 139 (2.85%) PKI
3 129 (2.65%) Product Ownership
4 116 (2.38%) Data Centre
5 111 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
6 82 (1.68%) Cyber Threat
7 81 (1.66%) Data Structures
8 77 (1.58%) Onboarding
9 67 (1.38%) Driving Licence
10 65 (1.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 64 (1.31%) Cyber Defence
11 64 (1.31%) NHS
12 60 (1.23%) Video Conferencing
13 59 (1.21%) Security Posture
14 56 (1.15%) Cloud Native
15 47 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
15 47 (0.96%) Private Cloud
16 45 (0.92%) Public Cloud
17 42 (0.86%) Clustering
18 38 (0.78%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 1,358 (27.87%) Windows
2 497 (10.20%) Windows 10
3 421 (8.64%) Windows Server
4 335 (6.88%) Linux
5 127 (2.61%) Windows Server 2012
6 126 (2.59%) Windows 7
7 118 (2.42%) Windows Server 2019
8 110 (2.26%) Windows Server 2016
9 73 (1.50%) Apple iOS
10 66 (1.35%) Android
11 64 (1.31%) Mac OS
12 50 (1.03%) Unix
13 37 (0.76%) Ubuntu
14 36 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 26 (0.53%) Windows Server 2008
16 21 (0.43%) Windows NT
17 20 (0.41%) Debian
17 20 (0.41%) Mac OS X
18 19 (0.39%) Windows XP
19 17 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 899 (18.45%) Problem-Solving
2 862 (17.69%) Agile
3 643 (13.20%) DevOps
4 569 (11.68%) Customer Service
5 551 (11.31%) ITIL
6 478 (9.81%) Migration
7 452 (9.28%) Business Intelligence
8 433 (8.89%) Project Management
9 314 (6.44%) CI/CD
10 298 (6.12%) Cybersecurity
11 291 (5.97%) Analytics
12 280 (5.75%) Stakeholder Management
13 262 (5.38%) Change Management
14 260 (5.34%) Project Delivery
15 255 (5.23%) Service Delivery
16 241 (4.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 232 (4.76%) Data Modelling
18 227 (4.66%) Scrum
19 222 (4.56%) Decision-Making
20 216 (4.43%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 568 (11.66%) SQL
2 534 (10.96%) PowerShell
3 381 (7.82%) C#
4 264 (5.42%) Python
5 146 (3.00%) JavaScript
6 133 (2.73%) Java
7 94 (1.93%) Bicep
8 68 (1.40%) T-SQL
9 51 (1.05%) TypeScript
10 48 (0.99%) Bash
11 35 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
12 30 (0.62%) C++
13 29 (0.60%) Shell Script
14 28 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 26 (0.53%) PL/SQL
15 26 (0.53%) VB
16 25 (0.51%) C
17 23 (0.47%) VBScript
18 20 (0.41%) PHP
19 14 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 986 (20.24%) Security Cleared
2 646 (13.26%) Degree
3 552 (11.33%) SC Cleared
4 459 (9.42%) DV Cleared
5 268 (5.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 134 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 107 (2.20%) Azure Certification
8 87 (1.79%) CISSP
9 78 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
10 77 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
11 60 (1.23%) CCNA
12 57 (1.17%) MCSE
13 52 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
14 49 (1.01%) A+ Certification
14 49 (1.01%) APMP
15 48 (0.99%) CISM
16 45 (0.92%) MCSA
17 44 (0.90%) CCNP
17 44 (0.90%) PMI Certification
18 43 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 234 (4.80%) SLA
2 162 (3.33%) QA
3 120 (2.46%) PMO
4 105 (2.16%) NIST
5 83 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 82 (1.68%) GDPR
7 62 (1.27%) Data Quality
8 56 (1.15%) Accessibility
9 54 (1.11%) NIST 800
10 39 (0.80%) Government Security Classifications
11 28 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
12 26 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
13 23 (0.47%) PCI DSS
13 23 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 17 (0.35%) NCSC
14 17 (0.35%) WCAG
15 16 (0.33%) JSP 440
16 13 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 11 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 10 (0.21%) GRC
System Software
1 1,074 (22.04%) Active Directory
2 250 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 115 (2.36%) Hyper-V
4 93 (1.91%) Docker
5 81 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
6 62 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
7 55 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 54 (1.11%) Firmware
9 50 (1.03%) vSphere
10 25 (0.51%) VMware NSX
11 19 (0.39%) XenApp
12 16 (0.33%) XenDesktop
13 13 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
14 11 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 10 (0.21%) KVM
16 9 (0.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 9 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
16 9 (0.18%) VMware Workstation
17 8 (0.16%) BitLocker
18 5 (0.10%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 335 (6.88%) SCCM
2 306 (6.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 148 (3.04%) Kubernetes
4 147 (3.02%) Terraform
5 97 (1.99%) WSUS
6 82 (1.68%) SCOM
7 69 (1.42%) Ansible
8 65 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
9 53 (1.09%) Jamf Pro
10 50 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 50 (1.03%) vCenter Server
11 28 (0.57%) Grafana
12 25 (0.51%) Prometheus
13 23 (0.47%) OPNET
14 22 (0.45%) EMC NetWorker
15 21 (0.43%) Sysprep
16 20 (0.41%) Puppet
17 17 (0.35%) Nessus
17 17 (0.35%) NetBackup
18 16 (0.33%) WMI
Vendors
1 390 (8.00%) VMware
2 240 (4.93%) Oracle
3 216 (4.43%) SAP
4 204 (4.19%) ServiceNow
5 159 (3.26%) Cisco
6 154 (3.16%) Citrix
7 129 (2.65%) Google
8 102 (2.09%) Apple
9 98 (2.01%) HP
10 95 (1.95%) Salesforce
11 77 (1.58%) Databricks
12 75 (1.54%) Dell
13 74 (1.52%) Splunk
14 72 (1.48%) Adobe
15 64 (1.31%) Red Hat
16 63 (1.29%) Veeam
17 59 (1.21%) Atlassian
18 50 (1.03%) Palo Alto
19 45 (0.92%) IBM
19 45 (0.92%) Qualys