Microsoft Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 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 5 5 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 2,922 3,902 4,648
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.08% 16.26% 15.05%
As % of the Vendors category 32.82% 36.50% 37.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,831 2,822 3,232
10th Percentile £175 £170 £150
25th Percentile £259 £300 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% +8.82% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £579 £538
90th Percentile £675 £675 £620
UK median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 413 157 328
10th Percentile £11.00 £13.15 £10.20
25th Percentile £12.86 £15.25 £12.85
Median hourly rate £15.00 £19.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +15.15% -4.72%
75th Percentile £24.43 £35.00 £22.29
90th Percentile £54.75 £58.00 £43.75
UK median hourly rate £15.42 £23.50 £18.55
% change year-on-year -34.38% +26.68% +6.00%

All Vendors
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,902 10,691 12,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.89% 44.56% 39.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,347 7,366 8,359
10th Percentile £206 £205 £185
25th Percentile £363 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.82%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £690 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £517 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.52% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 953 474 642
10th Percentile £11.80 £14.28 £10.77
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.72 £13.89
Median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.62
Median % change year-on-year -44.26% +106.79% +0.64%
75th Percentile £58.70 £63.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £54.65
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

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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 within the UK excluding London 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
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
Scotland +4 305 £400 - 273
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
Wales +1 81 £515 +3.00% 119
North East +17 44 £230 -3.16% 108
Northern Ireland +2 30 £550 +175.00% 64
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UK

Microsoft
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
1 311 (10.64%) SharePoint
2 225 (7.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 69 (2.36%) Confluence
4 37 (1.27%) SharePoint Server
5 29 (0.99%) IIS
6 20 (0.68%) CMS
7 18 (0.62%) Skype for Business
8 16 (0.55%) Apache
9 14 (0.48%) Tomcat
10 10 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
11 8 (0.27%) WordPress
12 7 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 7 (0.24%) Apache Spark
13 5 (0.17%) SAS
14 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2000
14 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2003
14 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
14 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
14 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
14 4 (0.14%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 628 (21.49%) Microsoft Office
2 449 (15.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 198 (6.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 82 (2.81%) Microsoft Project
5 80 (2.74%) Spreadsheet
6 41 (1.40%) MS Visio
7 13 (0.44%) Acrobat
8 10 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 9 (0.31%) CATIA
10 3 (0.10%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.068%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.068%) InfoPath
11 2 (0.068%) Windchill
12 1 (0.034%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.034%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.034%) Siemens NX
12 1 (0.034%) Simulink
12 1 (0.034%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 51 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.62%) Teamcenter
3 12 (0.41%) Primavera
4 9 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.27%) DELMIA
6 7 (0.24%) Magento
6 7 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
7 6 (0.21%) Shopify
8 5 (0.17%) Aareon QL
8 5 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
8 5 (0.17%) SmartPlant
9 4 (0.14%) assyst
9 4 (0.14%) iTrent
9 4 (0.14%) LabWindows
9 4 (0.14%) Maximo
10 3 (0.10%) OpenText VIM for SAP
10 3 (0.10%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 723 (24.74%) Azure
2 624 (21.36%) Microsoft 365
3 275 (9.41%) Power Platform
4 155 (5.30%) Dynamics 365
5 141 (4.83%) Entra ID
6 126 (4.31%) AWS
7 96 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
8 90 (3.08%) PowerApps
9 78 (2.67%) SaaS
10 76 (2.60%) Power Automate
11 69 (2.36%) OneDrive
12 65 (2.22%) PaaS
13 47 (1.61%) IaaS
14 43 (1.47%) Azure Stack
15 40 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
16 39 (1.33%) Azure Sentinel
16 39 (1.33%) OCI
17 31 (1.06%) GitHub
18 27 (0.92%) Azure Data Factory
19 21 (0.72%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 209 (7.15%) Firewall
2 192 (6.57%) DNS
3 135 (4.62%) DHCP
4 100 (3.42%) VPN
5 97 (3.32%) TCP/IP
6 95 (3.25%) LAN
7 90 (3.08%) SAN
8 67 (2.29%) WAN
9 60 (2.05%) Wi-Fi
10 47 (1.61%) Network Security
11 41 (1.40%) Wireless
12 36 (1.23%) BGP
12 36 (1.23%) Remote Desktop
13 30 (1.03%) VoIP
14 27 (0.92%) VLAN
15 26 (0.89%) Skype
16 24 (0.82%) HTTP
17 21 (0.72%) NAS
18 18 (0.62%) Intranet
19 16 (0.55%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (5.65%) Power BI
2 149 (5.10%) SQL Server
3 41 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
3 41 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 37 (1.27%) MySQL
5 33 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 32 (1.10%) Relational Database
7 24 (0.82%) Data Lake
8 23 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
9 17 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
10 16 (0.55%) Tableau
11 14 (0.48%) NoSQL
12 13 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (0.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 10 (0.34%) Big Data
15 9 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
16 8 (0.27%) BusinessObjects
17 7 (0.24%) Amazon Aurora
17 7 (0.24%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 155 (5.30%) JIRA
2 42 (1.44%) Git
3 36 (1.23%) Visual Studio
4 15 (0.51%) MSI
5 11 (0.38%) GitLab
5 11 (0.38%) SonarQube
6 10 (0.34%) Jenkins
6 10 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
6 10 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 10 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
7 9 (0.31%) Postman
8 8 (0.27%) Cypress.io
8 8 (0.27%) Eclipse
9 6 (0.21%) Maven
9 6 (0.21%) Subversion
10 5 (0.17%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.17%) Checkstyle
10 5 (0.17%) NUnit
11 4 (0.14%) Burp Suite
11 4 (0.14%) Selenium
General
1 1,124 (38.47%) Social Skills
2 367 (12.56%) Finance
3 332 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
4 289 (9.89%) Public Sector
5 150 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
6 121 (4.14%) Telecoms
7 96 (3.29%) Manufacturing
8 86 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
9 83 (2.84%) Legal
10 80 (2.74%) Marketing
11 71 (2.43%) Banking
12 43 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
13 42 (1.44%) Retail
14 36 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
15 28 (0.96%) Electronics
15 28 (0.96%) Local Government
15 28 (0.96%) Military
16 25 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 19 (0.65%) Automotive
18 18 (0.62%) Law
Job Titles
1 453 (15.50%) Analyst
2 229 (7.84%) Architect
3 192 (6.57%) Developer
4 177 (6.06%) Senior
5 170 (5.82%) Support Engineer
6 154 (5.27%) IT Support
7 137 (4.69%) Lead
8 135 (4.62%) Administrator
9 133 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 115 (3.94%) Service Analyst
11 111 (3.80%) Consultant
12 100 (3.42%) Project Manager
13 96 (3.29%) Service Desk Analyst
14 89 (3.05%) IT Engineer
15 81 (2.77%) Solutions Architect
16 80 (2.74%) 2nd Line Support
17 75 (2.57%) Desktop Support
18 73 (2.50%) Desktop Engineer
19 67 (2.29%) IT Technician
20 65 (2.22%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (2.50%) .NET
2 38 (1.30%) XML
3 31 (1.06%) Web Services
4 28 (0.96%) JSON
5 26 (0.89%) REST
6 25 (0.86%) .NET Framework
7 24 (0.82%) CSS
8 22 (0.75%) ARM Templates
8 22 (0.75%) HTML
9 20 (0.68%) SailPoint
10 19 (0.65%) React
11 16 (0.55%) Elastic Stack
11 16 (0.55%) Node.js
12 14 (0.48%) LDAP
12 14 (0.48%) Spring
13 12 (0.41%) SAML
14 11 (0.38%) .NET Core
14 11 (0.38%) Itk
14 11 (0.38%) OAuth
15 10 (0.34%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 161 (5.51%) Management Information System
2 108 (3.70%) PKI
3 82 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
4 70 (2.40%) Driving Licence
5 64 (2.19%) Cyber Threat
6 63 (2.16%) Data Centre
7 57 (1.95%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 55 (1.88%) Cyber Defence
9 49 (1.68%) NHS
10 48 (1.64%) Private Cloud
11 36 (1.23%) Product Ownership
12 33 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
12 33 (1.13%) Public Cloud
13 30 (1.03%) Clustering
14 29 (0.99%) Onboarding
15 26 (0.89%) Security Posture
15 26 (0.89%) Video Conferencing
16 22 (0.75%) iPhone
16 22 (0.75%) Security Operations Centre
16 22 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 974 (33.33%) Windows
2 387 (13.24%) Windows 10
3 308 (10.54%) Windows Server
4 219 (7.49%) Linux
5 112 (3.83%) Windows Server 2012
6 109 (3.73%) Windows Server 2019
7 102 (3.49%) Windows Server 2016
8 93 (3.18%) Windows 7
9 60 (2.05%) Apple iOS
10 41 (1.40%) Mac OS
11 32 (1.10%) Ubuntu
12 30 (1.03%) Android
13 23 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 21 (0.72%) Windows NT
15 20 (0.68%) Debian
16 18 (0.62%) Unix
16 18 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
17 16 (0.55%) Windows XP
18 14 (0.48%) Windows Server 2003
19 10 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 587 (20.09%) Problem-Solving
2 443 (15.16%) Customer Service
3 419 (14.34%) Agile
4 382 (13.07%) ITIL
5 260 (8.90%) Project Management
6 229 (7.84%) Migration
7 216 (7.39%) DevOps
8 204 (6.98%) Service Delivery
9 201 (6.88%) Cybersecurity
10 196 (6.71%) Business Intelligence
11 183 (6.26%) Stakeholder Management
12 175 (5.99%) Service Management
13 173 (5.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 158 (5.41%) Decision-Making
15 149 (5.10%) Incident Management
16 145 (4.96%) Change Management
17 144 (4.93%) Project Delivery
18 138 (4.72%) Analytics
19 123 (4.21%) Continuous Improvement
20 118 (4.04%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 234 (8.01%) PowerShell
2 233 (7.97%) SQL
3 104 (3.56%) C#
4 100 (3.42%) Python
5 54 (1.85%) JavaScript
6 50 (1.71%) Java
7 25 (0.86%) T-SQL
8 21 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
8 21 (0.72%) PHP
8 21 (0.72%) VB
9 20 (0.68%) Bash
9 20 (0.68%) C++
10 19 (0.65%) Bicep
11 18 (0.62%) C
12 15 (0.51%) VBScript
13 14 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 13 (0.44%) TypeScript
15 8 (0.27%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.27%) Swift
16 7 (0.24%) X++
Qualifications
1 841 (28.78%) Security Cleared
2 433 (14.82%) DV Cleared
3 429 (14.68%) SC Cleared
4 377 (12.90%) Degree
5 177 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 56 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 55 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 53 (1.81%) MCSE
9 49 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
10 46 (1.57%) Azure Certification
11 44 (1.51%) CCNA
12 42 (1.44%) APMP
12 42 (1.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 36 (1.23%) MCSA
14 35 (1.20%) A+ Certification
14 35 (1.20%) PMI Certification
14 35 (1.20%) PMP
15 33 (1.13%) CISSP
16 31 (1.06%) MCP
17 30 (1.03%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (5.85%) SLA
2 100 (3.42%) QA
3 92 (3.15%) PMO
4 62 (2.12%) NIST
5 48 (1.64%) Disclosure Scotland
6 45 (1.54%) NIST 800
7 37 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 35 (1.20%) Government Security Classifications
9 30 (1.03%) GDPR
10 25 (0.86%) Data Quality
11 24 (0.82%) Accessibility
12 16 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
12 16 (0.55%) JSP 440
13 9 (0.31%) NCSC
14 6 (0.21%) GMP
14 6 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 6 (0.21%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 5 (0.17%) ISO 9001
15 5 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 661 (22.62%) Active Directory
2 206 (7.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 91 (3.11%) Hyper-V
4 72 (2.46%) VMware ESXi
5 45 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
6 43 (1.47%) Firmware
7 42 (1.44%) Virtual Desktop
8 40 (1.37%) vSphere
9 29 (0.99%) Docker
10 27 (0.92%) VMware NSX
11 15 (0.51%) XenApp
12 13 (0.44%) BitLocker
13 12 (0.41%) XenDesktop
14 10 (0.34%) Microsoft App-V
14 10 (0.34%) Terminal Services
15 9 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
16 8 (0.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 8 (0.27%) VMware Workstation
17 7 (0.24%) KVM
18 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 245 (8.38%) SCCM
2 192 (6.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 80 (2.74%) WSUS
4 66 (2.26%) SCOM
5 56 (1.92%) vCenter Server
6 51 (1.75%) Kubernetes
7 47 (1.61%) Terraform
8 42 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
9 38 (1.30%) Ansible
10 31 (1.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 23 (0.79%) Jamf Pro
12 22 (0.75%) OPNET
13 21 (0.72%) Sysprep
14 15 (0.51%) Grafana
14 15 (0.51%) NetBackup
15 14 (0.48%) EMC NetWorker
16 13 (0.44%) WMI
17 12 (0.41%) Microsoft Clustering
17 12 (0.41%) Nessus
17 12 (0.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 304 (10.40%) VMware
2 120 (4.11%) ServiceNow
3 104 (3.56%) Cisco
4 98 (3.35%) Oracle
5 91 (3.11%) Citrix
6 86 (2.94%) SAP
7 79 (2.70%) Atlassian
8 78 (2.67%) HP
9 58 (1.98%) Apple
10 52 (1.78%) Red Hat
11 51 (1.75%) Veeam
12 46 (1.57%) Google
13 43 (1.47%) Adobe
14 41 (1.40%) Splunk
15 39 (1.33%) Dell
16 34 (1.16%) Salesforce
17 27 (0.92%) Palo Alto
18 25 (0.86%) Avaya
19 23 (0.79%) Juniper
20 22 (0.75%) CyberArk