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 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 7 9
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 4,766 6,542 8,976
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 13.09% 13.67% 12.75%
As % of the Vendors category 31.17% 32.49% 32.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,162 4,793 6,356
10th Percentile £189 £204 £184
25th Percentile £325 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £594 £630 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 186 408
10th Percentile £11.07 £13.29 £10.77
25th Percentile £13.14 £16.16 £13.25
Median hourly rate £15.00 £21.12 £17.60
Median % change year-on-year -28.96% +19.97% -0.90%
75th Percentile £24.81 £43.39 £35.00
90th Percentile £53.38 £62.25 £50.23
UK median hourly rate £15.00 £22.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year -33.33% +21.62% +6.83%

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 15,292 20,136 27,842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.99% 42.08% 39.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,750 13,852 19,104
10th Percentile £263 £270 £275
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +2.38% +9.38%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £638
90th Percentile £744 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,029 571 790
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.15 £37.00 £21.15
Median % change year-on-year -40.14% +74.92% +3.18%
75th Percentile £56.49 £63.00 £47.44
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £62.55
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £41.98 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.78% +95.24% +2.38%

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

Microsoft
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 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in England

Microsoft
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

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in England over the 6 months to 23 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 23 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 +3 2,163 £500 -9.09% 1,302
South East -1 799 £465 +3.33% 833
North of England +4 646 £450 -5.26% 1,029
South West +1 490 £500 -4.76% 491
North West +2 390 £450 -5.26% 560
Midlands -3 343 £400 -5.88% 764
West Midlands -2 229 £400 -11.11% 475
East of England 0 222 £428 +0.59% 395
Yorkshire +2 218 £425 -10.53% 351
East Midlands -4 106 £400 +6.67% 290
North East +9 40 £378 +45.38% 126
Microsoft
UK

Microsoft
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
1 496 (10.41%) SharePoint
2 341 (7.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 101 (2.12%) Confluence
4 63 (1.32%) CMS
5 34 (0.71%) IIS
6 33 (0.69%) SharePoint Server
7 31 (0.65%) Apache Spark
8 25 (0.52%) Skype for Business
9 20 (0.42%) Apache
10 11 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
11 10 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
12 9 (0.19%) Tomcat
13 8 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2007
13 8 (0.17%) WordPress
14 7 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 7 (0.15%) Drupal
15 6 (0.13%) Anypoint
15 6 (0.13%) ArcGIS
15 6 (0.13%) SharePoint 2013
16 5 (0.10%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 852 (17.88%) Microsoft Office
2 582 (12.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 285 (5.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 131 (2.75%) Microsoft Project
5 103 (2.16%) Spreadsheet
6 102 (2.14%) MS Visio
7 15 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 11 (0.23%) Photoshop
9 9 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
9 9 (0.19%) CATIA
10 8 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
10 8 (0.17%) Chatbot
11 7 (0.15%) InDesign
12 5 (0.10%) Acrobat
13 2 (0.042%) Adobe After Effects
13 2 (0.042%) FileZilla
13 2 (0.042%) InfoPath
13 2 (0.042%) Trello
14 1 (0.021%) Final Cut Pro
14 1 (0.021%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 130 (2.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 37 (0.78%) Dynamics AX
3 24 (0.50%) Dynamics GP
4 16 (0.34%) Shopify
4 16 (0.34%) Teamcenter
5 13 (0.27%) Primavera
6 12 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 12 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 11 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
8 10 (0.21%) Endur
8 10 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
9 9 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
10 8 (0.17%) DELMIA
10 8 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
10 8 (0.17%) Magento
11 7 (0.15%) NetSuite
12 6 (0.13%) Oracle Assets
12 6 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
13 5 (0.10%) Oracle AGIS
13 5 (0.10%) SmartPlant
Cloud Services
1 1,631 (34.22%) Azure
2 1,036 (21.74%) Microsoft 365
3 572 (12.00%) Power Platform
4 384 (8.06%) Azure DevOps
5 346 (7.26%) Entra ID
6 333 (6.99%) Dynamics 365
7 278 (5.83%) AWS
8 211 (4.43%) PowerApps
9 201 (4.22%) Power Automate
10 146 (3.06%) PaaS
11 135 (2.83%) SaaS
12 114 (2.39%) OneDrive
13 110 (2.31%) IaaS
14 92 (1.93%) Serverless
15 89 (1.87%) Azure Monitor
16 84 (1.76%) Azure Data Factory
17 83 (1.74%) GCP
18 80 (1.68%) Azure Service Bus
19 77 (1.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 64 (1.34%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 299 (6.27%) Firewall
2 248 (5.20%) DNS
3 165 (3.46%) DHCP
4 149 (3.13%) VPN
5 126 (2.64%) LAN
6 108 (2.27%) SAN
7 105 (2.20%) WAN
8 97 (2.04%) TCP/IP
9 87 (1.83%) Wireless
10 83 (1.74%) Wi-Fi
11 52 (1.09%) VoIP
12 51 (1.07%) Network Security
13 40 (0.84%) VLAN
14 37 (0.78%) BGP
14 37 (0.78%) Internet
14 37 (0.78%) NAS
15 34 (0.71%) Skype
16 29 (0.61%) Intranet
17 28 (0.59%) Remote Desktop
18 26 (0.55%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 504 (10.57%) SQL Server
2 384 (8.06%) Power BI
3 140 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
4 117 (2.45%) Data Lake
5 87 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 77 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
7 71 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 68 (1.43%) NoSQL
9 61 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
9 61 (1.28%) Relational Database
10 50 (1.05%) Big Data
11 49 (1.03%) MySQL
12 35 (0.73%) Tableau
13 31 (0.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 29 (0.61%) Metadata
15 24 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
16 23 (0.48%) MongoDB
17 22 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
18 18 (0.38%) Redis
19 17 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 218 (4.57%) JIRA
2 135 (2.83%) Git
3 74 (1.55%) Visual Studio
4 61 (1.28%) Jenkins
5 47 (0.99%) GitLab
6 39 (0.82%) Postman
7 33 (0.69%) SpecFlow
8 32 (0.67%) Selenium
9 24 (0.50%) MSI
10 22 (0.46%) TeamCity
11 18 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 15 (0.31%) Maven
12 15 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
12 15 (0.31%) WebDriver
13 14 (0.29%) SonarQube
14 12 (0.25%) Bitbucket
14 12 (0.25%) Eclipse
15 11 (0.23%) Subversion
15 11 (0.23%) Visual Studio Team System
16 10 (0.21%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1,708 (35.84%) Social Skills
2 887 (18.61%) Finance
3 578 (12.13%) Analytical Skills
4 409 (8.58%) Public Sector
5 227 (4.76%) Banking
6 179 (3.76%) Marketing
7 166 (3.48%) Telecoms
8 162 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
9 160 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
10 151 (3.17%) Legal
11 137 (2.87%) Retail
12 132 (2.77%) Manufacturing
13 64 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
14 58 (1.22%) Back Office
15 56 (1.17%) Electronics
16 51 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
17 47 (0.99%) Financial Institution
18 46 (0.97%) Law
18 46 (0.97%) Local Government
19 44 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 619 (12.99%) Analyst
2 531 (11.14%) Developer
3 499 (10.47%) Architect
4 394 (8.27%) Senior
5 307 (6.44%) Consultant
6 242 (5.08%) Lead
6 242 (5.08%) Support Engineer
7 175 (3.67%) IT Support
7 175 (3.67%) Project Manager
8 173 (3.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 171 (3.59%) Administrator
10 160 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
11 137 (2.87%) Service Analyst
12 135 (2.83%) Azure Engineer
13 123 (2.58%) IT Engineer
14 122 (2.56%) Senior Developer
15 113 (2.37%) 2nd Line Support
16 111 (2.33%) Service Desk Analyst
17 109 (2.29%) Desktop Support
18 97 (2.04%) Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 327 (6.86%) .NET
2 170 (3.57%) XML
3 111 (2.33%) .NET Framework
4 104 (2.18%) .NET Core
5 100 (2.10%) HTML
6 96 (2.01%) CSS
7 87 (1.83%) Web Services
8 83 (1.74%) JSON
9 82 (1.72%) React
10 74 (1.55%) REST
11 66 (1.38%) AngularJS
12 57 (1.20%) ASP.NET
13 54 (1.13%) ARM Templates
14 50 (1.05%) Kafka
15 33 (0.69%) Middleware
16 32 (0.67%) Node.js
16 32 (0.67%) RESTful
17 29 (0.61%) Spring
17 29 (0.61%) Swagger
18 28 (0.59%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 230 (4.83%) Management Information System
2 137 (2.87%) PKI
3 136 (2.85%) Product Ownership
4 112 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
5 103 (2.16%) Data Centre
6 88 (1.85%) Data Structures
7 85 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
8 77 (1.62%) Onboarding
9 65 (1.36%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 64 (1.34%) Cyber Defence
11 62 (1.30%) Security Posture
12 58 (1.22%) Driving Licence
12 58 (1.22%) NHS
13 55 (1.15%) Video Conferencing
14 54 (1.13%) Cloud Native
15 42 (0.88%) Public Cloud
16 41 (0.86%) Private Cloud
16 41 (0.86%) Virtual Team
17 39 (0.82%) Clustering
18 38 (0.80%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1,306 (27.40%) Windows
2 456 (9.57%) Windows 10
3 428 (8.98%) Windows Server
4 330 (6.92%) Linux
5 128 (2.69%) Windows Server 2012
6 114 (2.39%) Windows Server 2019
7 113 (2.37%) Windows Server 2016
8 109 (2.29%) Windows 7
9 69 (1.45%) Apple iOS
10 63 (1.32%) Android
11 59 (1.24%) Mac OS
12 52 (1.09%) Unix
13 35 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 32 (0.67%) Ubuntu
15 23 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
16 20 (0.42%) VMS
16 20 (0.42%) Windows XP
17 19 (0.40%) Mac OS X
18 18 (0.38%) Windows NT
19 14 (0.29%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 869 (18.23%) Problem-Solving
2 863 (18.11%) Agile
3 660 (13.85%) DevOps
4 557 (11.69%) Customer Service
5 512 (10.74%) ITIL
6 474 (9.95%) Migration
7 450 (9.44%) Business Intelligence
8 442 (9.27%) Project Management
9 324 (6.80%) CI/CD
10 295 (6.19%) Analytics
11 284 (5.96%) Cybersecurity
12 280 (5.87%) Stakeholder Management
13 265 (5.56%) Change Management
14 247 (5.18%) Project Delivery
15 236 (4.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 234 (4.91%) Service Delivery
17 231 (4.85%) Data Modelling
18 227 (4.76%) Scrum
19 215 (4.51%) CRM
20 212 (4.45%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 584 (12.25%) SQL
2 541 (11.35%) PowerShell
3 398 (8.35%) C#
4 262 (5.50%) Python
5 161 (3.38%) JavaScript
6 132 (2.77%) Java
7 104 (2.18%) Bicep
8 67 (1.41%) T-SQL
9 59 (1.24%) TypeScript
10 46 (0.97%) Bash
11 37 (0.78%) VB
12 36 (0.76%) C++
13 32 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
14 29 (0.61%) C
14 29 (0.61%) Shell Script
14 29 (0.61%) VBScript
15 26 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 26 (0.55%) PL/SQL
16 18 (0.38%) PHP
17 15 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 951 (19.95%) Security Cleared
2 635 (13.32%) Degree
3 535 (11.23%) SC Cleared
4 425 (8.92%) DV Cleared
5 268 (5.62%) Microsoft Certification
6 133 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 110 (2.31%) Azure Certification
8 77 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
9 75 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
10 73 (1.53%) CISSP
11 64 (1.34%) CCNA
12 59 (1.24%) MCSE
13 55 (1.15%) APMP
14 51 (1.07%) MCSA
15 49 (1.03%) Master's Degree
16 47 (0.99%) CCNP
17 46 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
18 44 (0.92%) PMI Certification
19 43 (0.90%) CISM
19 43 (0.90%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 216 (4.53%) SLA
2 170 (3.57%) QA
3 115 (2.41%) PMO
4 101 (2.12%) NIST
5 90 (1.89%) GDPR
6 78 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 64 (1.34%) Accessibility
8 60 (1.26%) Data Quality
9 54 (1.13%) NIST 800
10 34 (0.71%) Government Security Classifications
11 29 (0.61%) PCI DSS
12 27 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
13 26 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
14 22 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 20 (0.42%) WCAG
16 13 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 12 (0.25%) HIPAA
18 10 (0.21%) JSP 440
18 10 (0.21%) NCSC
19 9 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 1,044 (21.91%) Active Directory
2 250 (5.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 113 (2.37%) Hyper-V
4 88 (1.85%) Docker
5 84 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
6 61 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 59 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
8 58 (1.22%) vSphere
9 50 (1.05%) Firmware
10 29 (0.61%) VMware NSX
11 20 (0.42%) XenApp
12 16 (0.34%) XenDesktop
13 14 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 13 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
15 12 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
16 11 (0.23%) BitLocker
17 9 (0.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
18 8 (0.17%) VMware Server
19 6 (0.13%) KVM
20 5 (0.10%) NFS
Systems Management
1 316 (6.63%) SCCM
2 287 (6.02%) Microsoft Intune
3 158 (3.32%) Kubernetes
4 145 (3.04%) Terraform
5 91 (1.91%) WSUS
6 85 (1.78%) SCOM
7 70 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
8 65 (1.36%) Ansible
9 49 (1.03%) Jamf Pro
10 48 (1.01%) vCenter Server
11 46 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 30 (0.63%) Grafana
13 26 (0.55%) Prometheus
14 20 (0.42%) EMC NetWorker
14 20 (0.42%) Puppet
15 19 (0.40%) Sysprep
16 18 (0.38%) Nessus
16 18 (0.38%) NetBackup
16 18 (0.38%) OPNET
17 16 (0.34%) WMI
Vendors
1 379 (7.95%) VMware
2 238 (4.99%) Oracle
3 205 (4.30%) SAP
4 194 (4.07%) ServiceNow
5 158 (3.32%) Cisco
6 138 (2.90%) Citrix
6 138 (2.90%) Google
7 103 (2.16%) Apple
8 89 (1.87%) HP
9 87 (1.83%) Salesforce
10 82 (1.72%) Dell
11 73 (1.53%) Databricks
12 72 (1.51%) Adobe
13 65 (1.36%) Veeam
14 62 (1.30%) Splunk
15 52 (1.09%) Atlassian
16 50 (1.05%) Palo Alto
17 48 (1.01%) Red Hat
18 46 (0.97%) Qualys
19 40 (0.84%) IBM