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 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 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 2,872 3,689 4,686
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.94% 16.15% 15.27%
As % of the Vendors category 32.89% 36.09% 37.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,795 2,634 3,244
10th Percentile £175 £169 £150
25th Percentile £256 £288 £226
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £675 £675 £625
UK median daily rate £493 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 424 151 347
10th Percentile £11.02 £13.00 £10.77
25th Percentile £12.96 £15.21 £13.23
Median hourly rate £15.00 £19.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +15.15% -2.94%
75th Percentile £25.00 £33.13 £22.25
90th Percentile £55.91 £56.40 £44.81
UK median hourly rate £15.17 £22.52 £18.50
% change year-on-year -32.62% +21.70% +8.82%

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 8,731 10,221 12,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.37% 44.74% 40.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,293 6,997 8,428
10th Percentile £208 £205 £188
25th Percentile £363 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £657
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 981 440 657
10th Percentile £12.00 £14.25 £11.28
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.77% +97.37% +4.00%
75th Percentile £58.49 £60.64 £37.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.03 £56.43
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% +2.38%

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 28 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 28 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 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
South East -1 814 £465 +3.33% 826
North of England +3 648 £450 -5.26% 1,083
South West +1 505 £500 -4.76% 480
North West +2 393 £450 -5.26% 587
Midlands -4 350 £400 -5.88% 776
Scotland +4 287 £350 -12.50% 248
West Midlands -3 235 £410 -7.61% 486
East of England 0 223 £428 +3.64% 402
Yorkshire +2 216 £425 -10.53% 369
East Midlands -4 108 £400 +6.67% 291
Wales 0 72 £513 -2.38% 118
North East +10 41 £378 +45.38% 136
Northern Ireland +6 34 £575 +223.94% 67
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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
1 294 (10.24%) SharePoint
2 224 (7.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 66 (2.30%) Confluence
4 33 (1.15%) SharePoint Server
5 22 (0.77%) IIS
6 19 (0.66%) CMS
7 15 (0.52%) Apache Spark
8 12 (0.42%) Skype for Business
9 10 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
10 9 (0.31%) Apache
11 7 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 7 (0.24%) ArcGIS
11 7 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2013
12 6 (0.21%) WordPress
13 5 (0.17%) Tomcat
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%) IBM Notes
14 4 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 592 (20.61%) Microsoft Office
2 460 (16.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 205 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 86 (2.99%) Microsoft Project
5 85 (2.96%) Spreadsheet
6 35 (1.22%) MS Visio
7 13 (0.45%) Acrobat
8 10 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 9 (0.31%) CATIA
10 3 (0.10%) InfoPath
10 3 (0.10%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.070%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.035%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.035%) Autodesk Inventor
12 1 (0.035%) MicroStation
12 1 (0.035%) Revit
12 1 (0.035%) Siemens NX
12 1 (0.035%) Simulink
12 1 (0.035%) SPSS
12 1 (0.035%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 54 (1.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.63%) Teamcenter
3 13 (0.45%) Primavera
4 10 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.28%) DELMIA
6 7 (0.24%) Magento
6 7 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
6 7 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
6 7 (0.24%) Shopify
7 6 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
8 5 (0.17%) Aareon QL
8 5 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
8 5 (0.17%) SmartPlant
9 4 (0.14%) iTrent
9 4 (0.14%) LabWindows
9 4 (0.14%) Maximo
10 3 (0.10%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.10%) SAP FI-AP
10 3 (0.10%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 694 (24.16%) Azure
2 604 (21.03%) Microsoft 365
3 299 (10.41%) Power Platform
4 158 (5.50%) Dynamics 365
5 141 (4.91%) Entra ID
6 128 (4.46%) AWS
7 107 (3.73%) PowerApps
8 101 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
9 91 (3.17%) Power Automate
10 72 (2.51%) OneDrive
11 69 (2.40%) SaaS
12 63 (2.19%) PaaS
13 47 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
14 46 (1.60%) IaaS
15 40 (1.39%) OCI
16 39 (1.36%) Azure Sentinel
17 36 (1.25%) Azure Stack
18 30 (1.04%) GitHub
19 28 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
20 27 (0.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 195 (6.79%) Firewall
2 179 (6.23%) DNS
3 134 (4.67%) DHCP
4 96 (3.34%) VPN
5 84 (2.92%) TCP/IP
6 82 (2.86%) SAN
7 80 (2.79%) LAN
8 59 (2.05%) WAN
9 58 (2.02%) Wi-Fi
10 44 (1.53%) Wireless
11 39 (1.36%) Network Security
12 32 (1.11%) Remote Desktop
13 31 (1.08%) BGP
13 31 (1.08%) VoIP
14 29 (1.01%) VLAN
15 20 (0.70%) Intranet
15 20 (0.70%) NAS
15 20 (0.70%) Skype
16 18 (0.63%) PBX
17 16 (0.56%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (6.55%) Power BI
2 151 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 44 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
3 44 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 36 (1.25%) Data Lake
5 35 (1.22%) MySQL
6 34 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 33 (1.15%) Relational Database
8 21 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
9 19 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
10 17 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
11 16 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
11 16 (0.56%) Big Data
11 16 (0.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 16 (0.56%) Tableau
12 15 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
13 14 (0.49%) NoSQL
14 11 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
15 10 (0.35%) GIS
16 9 (0.31%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 142 (4.94%) JIRA
2 46 (1.60%) Git
3 43 (1.50%) Visual Studio
4 23 (0.80%) MSI
5 16 (0.56%) GitLab
5 16 (0.56%) Jenkins
6 11 (0.38%) Eclipse
6 11 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 10 (0.35%) Postman
7 10 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
7 10 (0.35%) SonarQube
7 10 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
8 8 (0.28%) Cypress.io
9 7 (0.24%) Maven
10 6 (0.21%) InstallShield
10 6 (0.21%) Subversion
11 5 (0.17%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.17%) Checkstyle
12 4 (0.14%) Burp Suite
12 4 (0.14%) NUnit
General
1 1,107 (38.54%) Social Skills
2 366 (12.74%) Finance
3 315 (10.97%) Analytical Skills
4 286 (9.96%) Public Sector
5 137 (4.77%) Organisational Skills
6 105 (3.66%) Telecoms
7 83 (2.89%) Manufacturing
8 82 (2.86%) Marketing
9 73 (2.54%) Legal
9 73 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
10 69 (2.40%) Banking
11 44 (1.53%) Retail
12 42 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
13 35 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
13 35 (1.22%) Military
14 29 (1.01%) Local Government
15 26 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 25 (0.87%) Electronics
17 21 (0.73%) Automotive
18 16 (0.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 435 (15.15%) Analyst
2 231 (8.04%) Architect
3 202 (7.03%) Developer
4 181 (6.30%) Senior
5 164 (5.71%) Support Engineer
6 144 (5.01%) IT Support
7 143 (4.98%) Administrator
8 130 (4.53%) Lead
9 128 (4.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 121 (4.21%) Consultant
11 105 (3.66%) Service Analyst
12 92 (3.20%) Project Manager
13 86 (2.99%) Service Desk Analyst
14 83 (2.89%) IT Engineer
15 79 (2.75%) 2nd Line Support
16 76 (2.65%) Desktop Engineer
17 74 (2.58%) Solutions Architect
18 70 (2.44%) Desktop Support
19 65 (2.26%) Support Analyst
20 51 (1.78%) 1st Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (2.86%) .NET
2 38 (1.32%) Web Services
3 36 (1.25%) XML
4 32 (1.11%) .NET Framework
5 29 (1.01%) REST
6 28 (0.97%) CSS
7 27 (0.94%) HTML
8 25 (0.87%) ARM Templates
8 25 (0.87%) JSON
9 23 (0.80%) SailPoint
10 22 (0.77%) React
11 21 (0.73%) Elastic Stack
12 17 (0.59%) Kafka
12 17 (0.59%) Node.js
13 15 (0.52%) Spring
14 14 (0.49%) LDAP
15 13 (0.45%) RESTful
15 13 (0.45%) SAML
16 12 (0.42%) ADO
16 12 (0.42%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 149 (5.19%) Management Information System
2 109 (3.80%) PKI
3 85 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
4 72 (2.51%) Cyber Threat
5 63 (2.19%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 61 (2.12%) Cyber Defence
7 57 (1.98%) Driving Licence
8 54 (1.88%) Data Centre
9 47 (1.64%) NHS
10 41 (1.43%) Private Cloud
11 34 (1.18%) Product Ownership
12 31 (1.08%) Public Cloud
13 27 (0.94%) Onboarding
14 25 (0.87%) Clustering
15 24 (0.84%) Security Posture
15 24 (0.84%) Video Conferencing
16 23 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
16 23 (0.80%) Data Structures
17 22 (0.77%) iPhone
17 22 (0.77%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 940 (32.73%) Windows
2 365 (12.71%) Windows 10
3 299 (10.41%) Windows Server
4 210 (7.31%) Linux
5 111 (3.86%) Windows Server 2019
6 109 (3.80%) Windows Server 2016
7 108 (3.76%) Windows Server 2012
8 88 (3.06%) Windows 7
9 59 (2.05%) Apple iOS
10 37 (1.29%) Mac OS
11 29 (1.01%) Android
12 27 (0.94%) Ubuntu
13 21 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 17 (0.59%) Unix
14 17 (0.59%) Windows NT
14 17 (0.59%) Windows Server 2008
14 17 (0.59%) Windows XP
15 13 (0.45%) Debian
16 12 (0.42%) VMS
17 10 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 558 (19.43%) Problem-Solving
2 438 (15.25%) Customer Service
3 397 (13.82%) Agile
4 361 (12.57%) ITIL
5 261 (9.09%) Project Management
6 230 (8.01%) DevOps
7 217 (7.56%) Migration
8 214 (7.45%) Business Intelligence
9 198 (6.89%) Cybersecurity
10 196 (6.82%) Service Delivery
11 183 (6.37%) Stakeholder Management
12 173 (6.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 164 (5.71%) Incident Management
14 159 (5.54%) Service Management
15 156 (5.43%) Decision-Making
16 150 (5.22%) Change Management
17 145 (5.05%) Analytics
18 138 (4.81%) Project Delivery
19 120 (4.18%) Continuous Improvement
20 118 (4.11%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 252 (8.77%) PowerShell
2 238 (8.29%) SQL
3 112 (3.90%) C#
4 107 (3.73%) Python
5 61 (2.12%) Java
6 60 (2.09%) JavaScript
7 30 (1.04%) VB
8 25 (0.87%) Bicep
8 25 (0.87%) T-SQL
9 24 (0.84%) C++
10 22 (0.77%) VBScript
11 21 (0.73%) Bash
11 21 (0.73%) C
12 19 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
13 17 (0.59%) PHP
14 16 (0.56%) TypeScript
15 15 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 8 (0.28%) PL/SQL
16 8 (0.28%) Swift
17 7 (0.24%) X++
Qualifications
1 840 (29.25%) Security Cleared
2 436 (15.18%) SC Cleared
3 408 (14.21%) DV Cleared
4 362 (12.60%) Degree
5 170 (5.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 58 (2.02%) MCSE
7 54 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 47 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 46 (1.60%) APMP
10 44 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
11 41 (1.43%) CCNA
12 40 (1.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 39 (1.36%) Azure Certification
14 38 (1.32%) A+ Certification
14 38 (1.32%) MCSA
15 34 (1.18%) PMI Certification
15 34 (1.18%) PMP
16 29 (1.01%) Master's Degree
17 28 (0.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 27 (0.94%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (5.40%) SLA
2 97 (3.38%) QA
3 92 (3.20%) PMO
4 66 (2.30%) NIST
5 51 (1.78%) NIST 800
6 49 (1.71%) Disclosure Scotland
7 35 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 32 (1.11%) GDPR
9 30 (1.04%) Government Security Classifications
10 23 (0.80%) Data Quality
11 20 (0.70%) Accessibility
12 15 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.31%) JSP 440
14 7 (0.24%) NCSC
14 7 (0.24%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.21%) GMP
16 5 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 5 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 4 (0.14%) GRC
System Software
1 651 (22.67%) Active Directory
2 205 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 89 (3.10%) Hyper-V
4 62 (2.16%) VMware ESXi
5 51 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
6 47 (1.64%) vSphere
7 46 (1.60%) Virtual Desktop
8 38 (1.32%) Firmware
9 31 (1.08%) VMware NSX
10 28 (0.97%) Docker
11 14 (0.49%) XenApp
12 13 (0.45%) BitLocker
12 13 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
13 11 (0.38%) XenDesktop
14 8 (0.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 8 (0.28%) Terminal Services
15 7 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
16 6 (0.21%) VMware Server
17 4 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
18 3 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 250 (8.70%) SCCM
2 190 (6.62%) Microsoft Intune
3 90 (3.13%) WSUS
4 73 (2.54%) SCOM
5 61 (2.12%) Kubernetes
6 51 (1.78%) Terraform
6 51 (1.78%) vCenter Server
7 42 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
8 35 (1.22%) Ansible
9 31 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 23 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
11 18 (0.63%) Nessus
11 18 (0.63%) Sysprep
12 17 (0.59%) OPNET
13 16 (0.56%) NetBackup
14 15 (0.52%) Grafana
14 15 (0.52%) Prometheus
14 15 (0.52%) WMI
15 14 (0.49%) EMC NetWorker
16 12 (0.42%) Kibana
Vendors
1 282 (9.82%) VMware
2 114 (3.97%) Cisco
3 110 (3.83%) ServiceNow
4 98 (3.41%) Oracle
5 89 (3.10%) SAP
6 83 (2.89%) Citrix
7 66 (2.30%) Atlassian
7 66 (2.30%) HP
8 59 (2.05%) Apple
9 53 (1.85%) Google
10 50 (1.74%) Veeam
11 44 (1.53%) Dell
12 43 (1.50%) Adobe
13 39 (1.36%) Splunk
14 37 (1.29%) Red Hat
15 35 (1.22%) Salesforce
16 26 (0.91%) Palo Alto
17 25 (0.87%) Qualys
18 23 (0.80%) CyberArk
18 23 (0.80%) Juniper