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 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 12 13
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 2,170 3,030 4,264
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 12.42% 11.88% 10.95%
As % of the Vendors category 30.22% 29.92% 28.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,545 2,323 3,157
10th Percentile £213 £258 £263
25th Percentile £375 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% +9.74%
75th Percentile £606 £664 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 38 76
10th Percentile £12.50 £16.13 £14.88
25th Percentile £14.06 £19.63 £25.11
Median hourly rate £18.80 £26.75 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.74% -39.89% +154.29%
75th Percentile £23.75 £43.86 £49.25
90th Percentile £26.50 £64.50 £56.57
England median hourly rate £15.00 £21.12 £17.82
% change year-on-year -28.96% +18.49% +1.54%

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 7,180 10,126 14,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.10% 39.72% 37.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,937 7,184 10,496
10th Percentile £300 £331 £356
25th Percentile £425 £452 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £775
England median daily rate £515 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -3.74% +1.90% +8.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 127 173
10th Percentile £13.87 £16.13 £17.12
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.00 £23.91
Median hourly rate £23.50 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.96% -22.86% +31.33%
75th Percentile £36.75 £53.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £61.50
England median hourly rate £22.50 £37.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -39.19% +72.09% +4.88%

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

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in London over the 6 months to 28 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

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in London over the 6 months to 28 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 28 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 +5 385 £550 +1.85% 193
West London +9 50 £350 -22.22% 84
East London +1 40 £500 +1.01% 63
South London -1 25 £245 -47.03% 41
Microsoft
England

Microsoft
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
1 254 (11.71%) SharePoint
2 145 (6.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 44 (2.03%) CMS
4 34 (1.57%) Confluence
5 19 (0.88%) Apache Spark
6 17 (0.78%) Skype for Business
7 16 (0.74%) IIS
8 12 (0.55%) Apache
9 7 (0.32%) Drupal
10 6 (0.28%) Anypoint
10 6 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
10 6 (0.28%) SharePoint 2013
11 4 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
12 3 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.14%) MQSeries
12 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.092%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.092%) nginx
13 2 (0.092%) WebLogic
Applications
1 310 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 188 (8.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 103 (4.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 75 (3.46%) MS Visio
5 49 (2.26%) Microsoft Project
6 18 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.37%) Photoshop
8 7 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.32%) InDesign
9 6 (0.28%) Adobe Premiere
9 6 (0.28%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.14%) Acrobat
12 2 (0.092%) FileZilla
12 2 (0.092%) Trello
13 1 (0.046%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.046%) Adobe Captivate
13 1 (0.046%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.046%) OmniGraffle
13 1 (0.046%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 81 (3.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (1.11%) Dynamics AX
2 24 (1.11%) Dynamics GP
3 11 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 10 (0.46%) Endur
5 9 (0.41%) Shopify
6 8 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.28%) 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 Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
9 3 (0.14%) Eikon
9 3 (0.14%) OPENHousing
9 3 (0.14%) OpenLink RightAngle
9 3 (0.14%) SAP HR
9 3 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 974 (44.88%) Azure
2 513 (23.64%) Microsoft 365
3 322 (14.84%) Power Platform
4 279 (12.86%) Azure DevOps
5 233 (10.74%) Entra ID
6 189 (8.71%) Dynamics 365
7 168 (7.74%) AWS
8 133 (6.13%) Power Automate
9 126 (5.81%) PowerApps
10 83 (3.82%) PaaS
11 72 (3.32%) Azure Service Bus
12 68 (3.13%) SaaS
13 66 (3.04%) IaaS
14 64 (2.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 61 (2.81%) Serverless
16 58 (2.67%) GCP
17 53 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
18 52 (2.40%) OneDrive
19 51 (2.35%) GitHub
20 46 (2.12%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 112 (5.16%) Firewall
2 89 (4.10%) DNS
3 70 (3.23%) VPN
4 49 (2.26%) DHCP
5 48 (2.21%) LAN
6 47 (2.17%) WAN
7 46 (2.12%) Wireless
8 24 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
9 23 (1.06%) VoIP
10 22 (1.01%) Internet
10 22 (1.01%) SAN
10 22 (1.01%) TCP/IP
11 20 (0.92%) MPLS
12 19 (0.88%) SD-WAN
12 19 (0.88%) Skype
13 17 (0.78%) VLAN
14 15 (0.69%) NAS
14 15 (0.69%) Network Security
15 12 (0.55%) Cisco IOS
15 12 (0.55%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 354 (16.31%) SQL Server
2 226 (10.41%) Power BI
3 95 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
4 75 (3.46%) Data Lake
5 54 (2.49%) Azure SQL Database
6 52 (2.40%) NoSQL
7 42 (1.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 41 (1.89%) Relational Database
9 40 (1.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 38 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
11 33 (1.52%) Big Data
12 27 (1.24%) MySQL
13 25 (1.15%) Metadata
14 24 (1.11%) Tableau
15 20 (0.92%) MongoDB
16 17 (0.78%) Redis
17 16 (0.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 15 (0.69%) RDBMS
19 12 (0.55%) OLTP
20 11 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 92 (4.24%) JIRA
2 89 (4.10%) Git
3 43 (1.98%) Jenkins
4 33 (1.52%) SpecFlow
5 32 (1.47%) GitLab
5 32 (1.47%) Postman
5 32 (1.47%) Visual Studio
6 30 (1.38%) Selenium
7 21 (0.97%) TeamCity
8 15 (0.69%) WebDriver
9 13 (0.60%) Maven
10 10 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 9 (0.41%) Visual Studio Team System
12 8 (0.37%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.32%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.32%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.32%) JUnit
14 6 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
15 5 (0.23%) ERwin
15 5 (0.23%) Subversion
General
1 697 (32.12%) Social Skills
2 564 (25.99%) Finance
3 292 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
4 217 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 165 (7.60%) Banking
6 103 (4.75%) Marketing
7 92 (4.24%) Presentation Skills
8 89 (4.10%) Legal
9 86 (3.96%) Retail
10 58 (2.67%) Telecoms
11 54 (2.49%) Back Office
12 49 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
13 46 (2.12%) Manufacturing
14 40 (1.84%) Financial Institution
15 30 (1.38%) Law
15 30 (1.38%) Local Government
16 29 (1.34%) Electronics
16 29 (1.34%) General Ledger
16 29 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 29 (1.34%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 350 (16.13%) Developer
2 267 (12.30%) Architect
3 253 (11.66%) Analyst
4 249 (11.47%) Senior
5 187 (8.62%) Consultant
6 115 (5.30%) Lead
7 107 (4.93%) Senior Developer
8 98 (4.52%) Support Engineer
9 94 (4.33%) Project Manager
10 83 (3.82%) Solutions Architect
11 79 (3.64%) Azure Engineer
12 62 (2.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 56 (2.58%) IT Support
14 54 (2.49%) Data Architect
14 54 (2.49%) Support Analyst
15 53 (2.44%) Azure Developer
16 51 (2.35%) IT Engineer
17 50 (2.30%) Desktop Support
18 49 (2.26%) Software Developer
19 45 (2.07%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 249 (11.47%) .NET
2 134 (6.18%) XML
3 93 (4.29%) .NET Core
4 81 (3.73%) .NET Framework
5 78 (3.59%) HTML
6 74 (3.41%) CSS
7 66 (3.04%) React
8 56 (2.58%) AngularJS
9 53 (2.44%) JSON
10 49 (2.26%) REST
11 48 (2.21%) ASP.NET
11 48 (2.21%) Web Services
12 35 (1.61%) Kafka
13 27 (1.24%) ARM Templates
14 26 (1.20%) Swagger
15 25 (1.15%) RESTful
16 24 (1.11%) PySpark
16 24 (1.11%) RabbitMQ
17 23 (1.06%) Middleware
18 21 (0.97%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 116 (5.35%) Product Ownership
2 91 (4.19%) Management Information System
3 67 (3.09%) Data Structures
4 60 (2.76%) Data Centre
5 43 (1.98%) Onboarding
6 39 (1.80%) Cloud Native
7 38 (1.75%) Security Posture
8 36 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
9 34 (1.57%) PKI
10 33 (1.52%) Video Conferencing
11 24 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
12 22 (1.01%) Mobile App
12 22 (1.01%) Virtual Team
13 21 (0.97%) Algorithms
13 21 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 21 (0.97%) Smartphone
14 20 (0.92%) iPhone
15 19 (0.88%) Hedge funds
16 18 (0.83%) NHS
16 18 (0.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 453 (20.88%) Windows
2 146 (6.73%) Windows Server
3 129 (5.94%) Linux
4 124 (5.71%) Windows 10
5 42 (1.94%) Android
6 41 (1.89%) Unix
7 36 (1.66%) Windows 7
8 26 (1.20%) Mac OS
9 24 (1.11%) Apple iOS
10 22 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
11 17 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 17 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
12 13 (0.60%) Mac OS X
13 11 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
14 8 (0.37%) VMS
15 6 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
15 6 (0.28%) Solaris
15 6 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
16 5 (0.23%) CentOS
17 4 (0.18%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 512 (23.59%) Agile
2 431 (19.86%) DevOps
3 352 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
4 275 (12.67%) Migration
5 267 (12.30%) Business Intelligence
6 234 (10.78%) CI/CD
7 211 (9.72%) Project Management
8 186 (8.57%) ITIL
9 181 (8.34%) Scrum
10 165 (7.60%) Customer Service
11 160 (7.37%) Analytics
12 144 (6.64%) Data Modelling
13 129 (5.94%) Change Management
14 122 (5.62%) Computer Science
14 122 (5.62%) Project Delivery
15 115 (5.30%) Stakeholder Management
16 107 (4.93%) Cybersecurity
17 105 (4.84%) CRM
18 97 (4.47%) TDD
19 96 (4.42%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 351 (16.18%) SQL
2 314 (14.47%) PowerShell
3 274 (12.63%) C#
4 154 (7.10%) Python
5 101 (4.65%) JavaScript
6 84 (3.87%) Java
7 79 (3.64%) Bicep
8 48 (2.21%) TypeScript
9 47 (2.17%) T-SQL
10 25 (1.15%) Bash
11 24 (1.11%) Shell Script
12 16 (0.74%) PL/SQL
13 14 (0.65%) Go
14 12 (0.55%) C++
14 12 (0.55%) PHP
14 12 (0.55%) VBA
15 11 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 11 (0.51%) Scala
16 10 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
17 8 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 310 (14.29%) Degree
2 189 (8.71%) Security Cleared
3 159 (7.33%) SC Cleared
4 108 (4.98%) Microsoft Certification
5 80 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 72 (3.32%) Azure Certification
7 40 (1.84%) CISSP
8 32 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
8 32 (1.47%) DV Cleared
9 24 (1.11%) CISM
10 23 (1.06%) CCNA
10 23 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
11 20 (0.92%) CCNP
11 20 (0.92%) Master's Degree
11 20 (0.92%) PMI Certification
12 19 (0.88%) PMP
13 18 (0.83%) AWS Certification
14 15 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
15 13 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 12 (0.55%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (3.73%) QA
2 72 (3.32%) SLA
3 56 (2.58%) GDPR
4 45 (2.07%) Accessibility
5 42 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 39 (1.80%) PMO
7 38 (1.75%) Data Quality
8 32 (1.47%) NIST
9 19 (0.88%) PCI DSS
10 18 (0.83%) WCAG
11 15 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 13 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 8 (0.37%) HIPAA
15 7 (0.32%) COBIT
15 7 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.28%) GAAP
17 5 (0.23%) NCSC
18 4 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
18 4 (0.18%) GRC
System Software
1 468 (21.57%) Active Directory
2 68 (3.13%) Docker
3 65 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (1.75%) Hyper-V
5 34 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (0.92%) vSphere
7 16 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.51%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 11 (0.51%) Firmware
9 8 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
9 8 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.28%) XenApp
10 6 (0.28%) XenDesktop
11 5 (0.23%) VMware NSX
12 4 (0.18%) BitLocker
12 4 (0.18%) NFS
13 3 (0.14%) KVM
13 3 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
14 2 (0.092%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.092%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 113 (5.21%) SCCM
2 104 (4.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 101 (4.65%) Kubernetes
4 100 (4.61%) Terraform
5 35 (1.61%) Ansible
6 31 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
7 29 (1.34%) Jamf Pro
8 18 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 18 (0.83%) Grafana
9 16 (0.74%) Prometheus
10 15 (0.69%) Puppet
11 14 (0.65%) SCOM
11 14 (0.65%) WSUS
12 12 (0.55%) Progress Chef
13 11 (0.51%) Consul
14 10 (0.46%) FortiGate
15 9 (0.41%) Netcool
16 8 (0.37%) PingFederate
16 8 (0.37%) Tivoli Storage Manager
17 6 (0.28%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 152 (7.00%) Oracle
2 119 (5.48%) VMware
3 104 (4.79%) SAP
4 90 (4.15%) ServiceNow
5 82 (3.78%) Google
6 71 (3.27%) Cisco
7 65 (3.00%) Citrix
8 56 (2.58%) Databricks
9 55 (2.53%) Apple
10 51 (2.35%) Salesforce
11 48 (2.21%) Dell
12 43 (1.98%) Adobe
13 31 (1.43%) Splunk
14 28 (1.29%) HP
15 26 (1.20%) CyberArk
16 25 (1.15%) Qualys
17 23 (1.06%) NetApp
18 22 (1.01%) Palo Alto
19 21 (0.97%) IBM
20 17 (0.78%) CA