Microsoft Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Microsoft Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 359 399 483
Rank change year-on-year +40 +84 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft Developer 10 14 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.060% 0.067% 0.080%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.065% 0.071% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 17
10th Percentile £518 £403 £365
25th Percentile £525 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £556 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% +11.25% +0.25%
75th Percentile £588 £672 £633
90th Percentile £618 £688 £671
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.75
Median hourly rate - - £61.50
75th Percentile - - £62.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £61.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 15,430 19,609 28,575
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 93.93% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,847 13,032 20,128
10th Percentile £220 £213 £215
25th Percentile £375 £381 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,078 1,268 1,341
10th Percentile £14.73 £14.25 £12.48
25th Percentile £19.41 £18.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% +89.36% +31.43%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £70.30
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

Microsoft Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Microsoft Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Developer in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Developer in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Developer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Developer in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
North of England +29 4 £550 +29.41% 6
North West +25 4 £550 +29.41% 4
South East +40 3 £588 -2.08% 6
East of England - 2 - - 4
Midlands +1 1 - - 3
West Midlands 0 1 - - 3
Microsoft Developer
UK

Microsoft Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Microsoft Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Microsoft Developer in the job title.

1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (40.00%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (30.00%) T-SQL
3 3 (30.00%) Migration
3 3 (30.00%) Degree
4 2 (20.00%) Retail
4 2 (20.00%) Information Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Process Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (20.00%) Shopify
4 2 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (20.00%) C
4 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
4 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
4 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (20.00%) Inventory Management
4 2 (20.00%) Stripe
4 2 (20.00%) PowerApps
4 2 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (20.00%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (20.00%) Low-Code
5 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
5 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
5 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps

Microsoft Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (20.00%) Shopify
2 1 (10.00%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (20.00%) PowerApps
3 2 (20.00%) Stripe
4 1 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Migration
1 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (20.00%) Information Architecture
2 2 (20.00%) Inventory Management
2 2 (20.00%) Process Improvement
2 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (10.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) ERP
3 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Improvement
3 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) T-SQL
3 2 (20.00%) C
4 1 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft