Microsoft Contracts in London

Microsoft
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 13 13
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 +3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 2,208 3,076 4,239
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 12.40% 11.43% 10.89%
As % of the Vendors category 30.36% 29.29% 28.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,569 2,329 3,091
10th Percentile £208 £252 £263
25th Percentile £370 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% - +13.16%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £639
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
England median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 42 83
10th Percentile £12.50 £16.13 £15.20
25th Percentile £14.85 £18.84 £22.52
Median hourly rate £19.50 £26.61 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.71% -40.21% +66.98%
75th Percentile £25.15 £51.28 £49.25
90th Percentile £33.85 £64.05 £51.00
England median hourly rate £15.00 £21.22 £18.43
% change year-on-year -29.31% +15.17% +0.85%

All Vendors
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,272 10,501 14,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.85% 39.00% 37.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,974 7,428 10,348
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £657 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £775
England median daily rate £519 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -3.53% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 129 187
10th Percentile £13.87 £16.13 £16.18
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.00 £21.75
Median hourly rate £23.65 £30.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.46% -12.86% +27.27%
75th Percentile £36.19 £56.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £63.88 £70.00 £62.70
England median hourly rate £22.50 £39.55 £21.00
% change year-on-year -43.11% +88.33% -3.45%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in London

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in London

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London +5 389 £545 +1.40% 193
West London +9 57 £405 -10.00% 92
East London +1 43 £505 +6.88% 69
South London -3 27 £245 -38.75% 44
Microsoft
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 249 (11.28%) SharePoint
2 158 (7.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 41 (1.86%) CMS
4 39 (1.77%) Confluence
5 19 (0.86%) Skype for Business
6 16 (0.72%) Apache Spark
6 16 (0.72%) IIS
7 11 (0.50%) Apache
8 8 (0.36%) Drupal
9 6 (0.27%) Anypoint
9 6 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2010
9 6 (0.27%) SharePoint 2013
10 5 (0.23%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
11 4 (0.18%) IBM Domino
11 4 (0.18%) IBM Notes
12 3 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.091%) CICS
13 2 (0.091%) MQSeries
Applications
1 333 (15.08%) Microsoft Office
2 208 (9.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 113 (5.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 79 (3.58%) MS Visio
5 54 (2.45%) Microsoft Project
6 21 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.36%) Photoshop
8 7 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.32%) Adobe Premiere
8 7 (0.32%) InDesign
9 4 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.18%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.14%) Acrobat
10 3 (0.14%) Camtasia
11 2 (0.091%) FileZilla
11 2 (0.091%) Trello
12 1 (0.045%) Adobe Captivate
12 1 (0.045%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.045%) Final Cut Pro
12 1 (0.045%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 84 (3.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (1.13%) Dynamics AX
2 25 (1.13%) Dynamics GP
3 12 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 9 (0.41%) Shopify
5 8 (0.36%) Endur
5 8 (0.36%) Loan IQ
5 8 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
7 5 (0.23%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.18%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle AGIS
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.14%) Eikon
9 3 (0.14%) OPENHousing
9 3 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 3 (0.14%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 977 (44.25%) Azure
2 551 (24.95%) Microsoft 365
3 329 (14.90%) Power Platform
4 275 (12.45%) Azure DevOps
5 232 (10.51%) Entra ID
6 180 (8.15%) Dynamics 365
7 154 (6.97%) AWS
8 131 (5.93%) Power Automate
9 126 (5.71%) PowerApps
10 82 (3.71%) PaaS
11 72 (3.26%) SaaS
12 65 (2.94%) Serverless
13 64 (2.90%) Azure Service Bus
13 64 (2.90%) IaaS
14 60 (2.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 59 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
16 56 (2.54%) GCP
16 56 (2.54%) OneDrive
17 53 (2.40%) GitHub
18 44 (1.99%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 110 (4.98%) Firewall
2 97 (4.39%) DNS
3 72 (3.26%) VPN
4 52 (2.36%) DHCP
5 47 (2.13%) LAN
5 47 (2.13%) Wireless
6 43 (1.95%) WAN
7 27 (1.22%) TCP/IP
8 25 (1.13%) SAN
9 23 (1.04%) Internet
10 21 (0.95%) MPLS
10 21 (0.95%) Skype
11 20 (0.91%) VoIP
12 18 (0.82%) NAS
12 18 (0.82%) VLAN
12 18 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
13 17 (0.77%) Network Security
13 17 (0.77%) SD-WAN
14 16 (0.72%) HTTP
15 15 (0.68%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 334 (15.13%) SQL Server
2 226 (10.24%) Power BI
3 100 (4.53%) Data Warehouse
4 78 (3.53%) Data Lake
5 50 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
5 50 (2.26%) NoSQL
6 46 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 39 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
8 37 (1.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 30 (1.36%) Big Data
10 29 (1.31%) Relational Database
11 26 (1.18%) Metadata
12 25 (1.13%) MySQL
13 24 (1.09%) Tableau
14 20 (0.91%) MongoDB
15 18 (0.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 14 (0.63%) Redis
17 13 (0.59%) Oracle Database
18 12 (0.54%) OLTP
19 11 (0.50%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 97 (4.39%) JIRA
2 82 (3.71%) Git
3 44 (1.99%) Jenkins
4 37 (1.68%) GitLab
5 35 (1.59%) SpecFlow
6 29 (1.31%) Visual Studio
7 27 (1.22%) Selenium
8 22 (1.00%) Postman
8 22 (1.00%) TeamCity
9 13 (0.59%) Maven
9 13 (0.59%) WebDriver
10 11 (0.50%) Visual Studio Team System
11 10 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 8 (0.36%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.27%) ERwin
13 6 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
14 5 (0.23%) Hudson
14 5 (0.23%) Subversion
15 4 (0.18%) Cucumber
15 4 (0.18%) Gradle
General
1 724 (32.79%) Social Skills
2 573 (25.95%) Finance
3 287 (13.00%) Analytical Skills
4 214 (9.69%) Public Sector
5 164 (7.43%) Banking
6 112 (5.07%) Marketing
7 100 (4.53%) Legal
8 97 (4.39%) Presentation Skills
9 84 (3.80%) Retail
10 60 (2.72%) Telecoms
11 59 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
12 54 (2.45%) Back Office
13 52 (2.36%) Manufacturing
14 45 (2.04%) Financial Institution
15 44 (1.99%) Law
16 38 (1.72%) Local Government
17 36 (1.63%) Electronics
18 34 (1.54%) Investment Banking
19 29 (1.31%) General Ledger
20 28 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 343 (15.53%) Developer
2 266 (12.05%) Architect
3 264 (11.96%) Analyst
4 241 (10.91%) Senior
5 185 (8.38%) Consultant
6 119 (5.39%) Lead
7 104 (4.71%) Support Engineer
8 102 (4.62%) Senior Developer
9 96 (4.35%) Project Manager
10 87 (3.94%) Azure Engineer
11 74 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
12 60 (2.72%) Data Architect
13 58 (2.63%) IT Support
14 56 (2.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 56 (2.54%) Support Analyst
15 53 (2.40%) Desktop Support
16 51 (2.31%) Azure Developer
17 49 (2.22%) Software Developer
18 48 (2.17%) Business Analyst
18 48 (2.17%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 245 (11.10%) .NET
2 127 (5.75%) XML
3 93 (4.21%) .NET Core
4 82 (3.71%) .NET Framework
5 68 (3.08%) CSS
6 64 (2.90%) HTML
7 57 (2.58%) REST
8 56 (2.54%) JSON
9 54 (2.45%) React
10 48 (2.17%) AngularJS
11 44 (1.99%) ASP.NET
12 42 (1.90%) Web Services
13 33 (1.49%) Kafka
14 28 (1.27%) ARM Templates
15 25 (1.13%) RabbitMQ
16 24 (1.09%) PySpark
17 23 (1.04%) Swagger
18 22 (1.00%) LDAP
19 21 (0.95%) RESTful
20 19 (0.86%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 112 (5.07%) Product Ownership
2 93 (4.21%) Management Information System
3 64 (2.90%) Data Centre
3 64 (2.90%) Data Structures
4 42 (1.90%) Onboarding
5 39 (1.77%) Cloud Native
6 36 (1.63%) PKI
7 35 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
7 35 (1.59%) Video Conferencing
8 34 (1.54%) Security Posture
9 24 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
9 24 (1.09%) NHS
10 22 (1.00%) Smartphone
11 21 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 21 (0.95%) Hedge funds
11 21 (0.95%) iPhone
12 20 (0.91%) Clustering
13 19 (0.86%) Public Cloud
14 18 (0.82%) Virtual Team
15 17 (0.77%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 458 (20.74%) Windows
2 138 (6.25%) Windows 10
3 136 (6.16%) Windows Server
4 119 (5.39%) Linux
5 42 (1.90%) Android
6 40 (1.81%) Windows 7
7 34 (1.54%) Unix
8 29 (1.31%) Mac OS
9 23 (1.04%) Apple iOS
10 17 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
11 15 (0.68%) Mac OS X
11 15 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
12 13 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 13 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
13 9 (0.41%) Solaris
14 8 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
14 8 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
15 7 (0.32%) VMS
16 5 (0.23%) Ubuntu
17 4 (0.18%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 498 (22.55%) Agile
2 428 (19.38%) DevOps
3 362 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
4 281 (12.73%) Business Intelligence
5 268 (12.14%) Migration
6 227 (10.28%) CI/CD
7 214 (9.69%) Project Management
8 194 (8.79%) ITIL
9 178 (8.06%) Scrum
10 167 (7.56%) Customer Service
11 161 (7.29%) Analytics
12 151 (6.84%) Data Modelling
13 140 (6.34%) Project Delivery
14 131 (5.93%) Change Management
15 114 (5.16%) Stakeholder Management
16 113 (5.12%) Computer Science
17 110 (4.98%) Cybersecurity
18 106 (4.80%) CRM
19 102 (4.62%) Roadmaps
20 97 (4.39%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 331 (14.99%) SQL
2 327 (14.81%) PowerShell
3 272 (12.32%) C#
4 161 (7.29%) Python
5 93 (4.21%) JavaScript
6 84 (3.80%) Java
7 75 (3.40%) Bicep
8 45 (2.04%) T-SQL
9 43 (1.95%) TypeScript
10 30 (1.36%) Bash
11 23 (1.04%) Shell Script
12 17 (0.77%) PL/SQL
13 13 (0.59%) PHP
14 12 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 12 (0.54%) Go
14 12 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
15 11 (0.50%) Scala
15 11 (0.50%) VBA
16 10 (0.45%) C++
17 9 (0.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 319 (14.45%) Degree
2 187 (8.47%) Security Cleared
3 157 (7.11%) SC Cleared
4 102 (4.62%) Microsoft Certification
5 78 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 65 (2.94%) Azure Certification
7 45 (2.04%) CISSP
8 36 (1.63%) DV Cleared
9 32 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
10 25 (1.13%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (1.09%) CISM
12 20 (0.91%) CCNA
12 20 (0.91%) PMI Certification
13 19 (0.86%) A+ Certification
14 18 (0.82%) CCNP
14 18 (0.82%) PMP
15 15 (0.68%) AWS Certification
15 15 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
16 14 (0.63%) Master's Degree
17 12 (0.54%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (3.53%) SLA
2 73 (3.31%) QA
3 52 (2.36%) GDPR
4 48 (2.17%) PMO
5 45 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 39 (1.77%) Data Quality
7 37 (1.68%) NIST
8 36 (1.63%) Accessibility
9 18 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 14 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
10 14 (0.63%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.63%) WCAG
11 10 (0.45%) NCSC
12 9 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 8 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (0.36%) GRC
14 6 (0.27%) GAAP
14 6 (0.27%) ISO 22301
15 5 (0.23%) COBIT
16 4 (0.18%) HIPAA
System Software
1 470 (21.29%) Active Directory
2 70 (3.17%) Docker
3 56 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (1.72%) Hyper-V
5 32 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.77%) vSphere
7 14 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 11 (0.50%) Firmware
9 6 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (0.23%) NFS
11 4 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.18%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.18%) XenApp
11 4 (0.18%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.14%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.14%) KVM
13 2 (0.091%) VMware Server
14 1 (0.045%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 120 (5.43%) SCCM
2 116 (5.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 99 (4.48%) Terraform
4 96 (4.35%) Kubernetes
5 32 (1.45%) Ansible
5 32 (1.45%) Jamf Pro
6 30 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 20 (0.91%) WSUS
9 18 (0.82%) Grafana
9 18 (0.82%) Prometheus
10 16 (0.72%) SCOM
11 13 (0.59%) Puppet
12 11 (0.50%) Consul
12 11 (0.50%) Netcool
13 10 (0.45%) FortiGate
13 10 (0.45%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 9 (0.41%) Progress Chef
15 8 (0.36%) PingFederate
15 8 (0.36%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 152 (6.88%) Oracle
2 119 (5.39%) SAP
3 111 (5.03%) VMware
4 91 (4.12%) ServiceNow
5 79 (3.58%) Google
6 72 (3.26%) Citrix
7 67 (3.03%) Cisco
8 59 (2.67%) Databricks
9 58 (2.63%) Salesforce
10 53 (2.40%) Apple
11 47 (2.13%) Dell
12 42 (1.90%) Adobe
13 39 (1.77%) Splunk
14 27 (1.22%) HP
14 27 (1.22%) IBM
15 24 (1.09%) Qualys
16 23 (1.04%) Palo Alto
17 18 (0.82%) NetApp
17 18 (0.82%) SolarWinds
18 17 (0.77%) CyberArk