Senior Microsoft Developer Contracts

Senior Microsoft Developer
UK

The median Senior Microsoft Developer daily rate in the UK is £410 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 557 689 846
Rank change year-on-year +132 +157 -138
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Microsoft Developer 10 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.009% 0.001%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.009% 0.001%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 1
10th Percentile £400 £461 -
25th Percentile - £478 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £513 £400
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +28.13% -8.05%
75th Percentile - £519 £425
90th Percentile £650 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £400
% change year-on-year - - +8.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,897 53,039 83,562
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.82% 94.59% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,852 37,038 58,857
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,824 1,465 1,978
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.15 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.98% +115.00% +5.26%

Senior Microsoft Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Microsoft Developer in the UK

Senior Microsoft Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Microsoft Developer in the UK

Senior Microsoft Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Microsoft Developer over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Microsoft Developer in the UK

Senior Microsoft Developer
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Microsoft Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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
England +99 9 £410 -20.00% 8
London +91 9 £410 -20.00% 4
Work from Home +117 3 £400 -21.95% 1

Senior Microsoft Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, Senior 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 featuring Senior Microsoft Developer in the job title.

1 9 (90.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (90.00%) CRM
2 8 (80.00%) Azure
3 7 (70.00%) Case Management
3 7 (70.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 7 (70.00%) Business Transformation
3 7 (70.00%) Agile
3 7 (70.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 7 (70.00%) Roadmaps
3 7 (70.00%) Data Ingestion
3 7 (70.00%) IT Strategy
4 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (20.00%) .NET
5 2 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
6 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
6 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
6 1 (10.00%) C#
6 1 (10.00%) HTML
6 1 (10.00%) Java
6 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (10.00%) SQL
6 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
6 1 (10.00%) VB.NET
6 1 (10.00%) MVC
6 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (10.00%) User Stories
6 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (10.00%) DevOps
6 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework

Senior Microsoft Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 9 (90.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) CRM
2 7 (70.00%) Agile
2 7 (70.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (70.00%) Business Transformation
2 7 (70.00%) Case Management
2 7 (70.00%) Data Ingestion
2 7 (70.00%) IT Strategy
2 7 (70.00%) Roadmaps
2 7 (70.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (10.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Insurtech
3 1 (10.00%) MVC
3 1 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Use Case
3 1 (10.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) C#
1 1 (10.00%) Java
1 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
1 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (10.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft