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 June 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 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 2,903 3,676 4,636
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.94% 16.14% 15.20%
As % of the Vendors category 32.93% 35.95% 37.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,803 2,618 3,221
10th Percentile £175 £168 £150
25th Percentile £261 £280 £230
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 £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 424 150 338
10th Percentile £11.02 £13.00 £10.77
25th Percentile £12.96 £15.21 £13.25
Median hourly rate £15.00 £19.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +15.15% -2.94%
75th Percentile £25.00 £33.75 £22.25
90th Percentile £56.25 £56.41 £44.78
UK median hourly rate £15.34 £22.90 £18.25
% change year-on-year -33.03% +25.48% +7.35%

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 8,817 10,226 12,397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.33% 44.89% 40.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,306 6,990 8,424
10th Percentile £208 £205 £189
25th Percentile £365 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £657
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 985 438 638
10th Percentile £12.00 £14.25 £11.29
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.71 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.77% +92.31% +8.33%
75th Percentile £59.50 £60.61 £37.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.08 £56.39
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +4.88%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 0 817 £465 +3.33% 837
North of England +3 657 £450 -5.26% 985
South West +1 512 £500 -4.76% 438
North West +2 401 £450 -5.26% 551
Midlands -3 356 £400 -5.88% 706
Scotland +3 288 £350 -13.85% 243
West Midlands -3 236 £400 -8.57% 448
East of England -1 227 £426 +0.29% 366
Yorkshire +1 217 £425 -10.53% 334
East Midlands -3 113 £400 +6.67% 258
Wales 0 74 £513 -2.38% 104
North East +9 41 £378 +45.38% 112
Northern Ireland +3 35 £575 +223.94% 59
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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
1 298 (10.27%) SharePoint
2 228 (7.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 67 (2.31%) Confluence
4 32 (1.10%) SharePoint Server
5 21 (0.72%) IIS
6 19 (0.65%) CMS
7 17 (0.59%) Apache Spark
8 12 (0.41%) Skype for Business
9 10 (0.34%) Apache
9 10 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
10 7 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 7 (0.24%) ArcGIS
10 7 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2013
11 6 (0.21%) WordPress
12 5 (0.17%) SAS
13 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2000
13 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2003
13 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
13 4 (0.14%) IBM Notes
13 4 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 593 (20.43%) Microsoft Office
2 460 (15.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 207 (7.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 85 (2.93%) Microsoft Project
4 85 (2.93%) Spreadsheet
5 35 (1.21%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.45%) Acrobat
7 10 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 9 (0.31%) CATIA
9 3 (0.10%) InfoPath
9 3 (0.10%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.069%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.034%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.034%) Autodesk Inventor
11 1 (0.034%) MicroStation
11 1 (0.034%) Revit
11 1 (0.034%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.034%) Simulink
11 1 (0.034%) SPSS
11 1 (0.034%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 57 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.62%) Teamcenter
3 13 (0.45%) Primavera
4 10 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
6 8 (0.28%) DELMIA
7 7 (0.24%) Magento
7 7 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
7 7 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
7 7 (0.24%) Shopify
8 6 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
9 5 (0.17%) Aareon QL
9 5 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
9 5 (0.17%) SmartPlant
10 4 (0.14%) iTrent
10 4 (0.14%) LabWindows
10 4 (0.14%) Maximo
11 3 (0.10%) NetSuite
11 3 (0.10%) SAP ERP
11 3 (0.10%) SAP FI-AP
Cloud Services
1 700 (24.11%) Azure
2 612 (21.08%) Microsoft 365
3 305 (10.51%) Power Platform
4 167 (5.75%) Dynamics 365
5 142 (4.89%) Entra ID
6 131 (4.51%) AWS
7 108 (3.72%) PowerApps
8 101 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
9 91 (3.13%) Power Automate
10 70 (2.41%) OneDrive
11 68 (2.34%) SaaS
12 64 (2.20%) PaaS
13 48 (1.65%) Azure Monitor
14 46 (1.58%) IaaS
15 39 (1.34%) Azure Sentinel
15 39 (1.34%) OCI
16 34 (1.17%) Azure Stack
17 30 (1.03%) GitHub
18 29 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
18 29 (1.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 196 (6.75%) Firewall
2 182 (6.27%) DNS
3 137 (4.72%) DHCP
4 100 (3.44%) VPN
5 84 (2.89%) SAN
6 82 (2.82%) TCP/IP
7 78 (2.69%) LAN
8 60 (2.07%) WAN
9 57 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
10 43 (1.48%) Wireless
11 39 (1.34%) Network Security
12 31 (1.07%) VoIP
13 30 (1.03%) BGP
13 30 (1.03%) Remote Desktop
14 28 (0.96%) VLAN
15 21 (0.72%) Intranet
15 21 (0.72%) NAS
16 20 (0.69%) Skype
17 18 (0.62%) PBX
18 16 (0.55%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (6.61%) Power BI
2 149 (5.13%) SQL Server
3 45 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
4 44 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 39 (1.34%) Data Lake
6 35 (1.21%) MySQL
7 34 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 33 (1.14%) Relational Database
9 20 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
9 20 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
10 18 (0.62%) Big Data
11 17 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
12 16 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
12 16 (0.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 16 (0.55%) Tableau
13 15 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
14 14 (0.48%) NoSQL
15 11 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
16 10 (0.34%) GIS
17 9 (0.31%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 145 (4.99%) JIRA
2 47 (1.62%) Git
3 43 (1.48%) Visual Studio
4 23 (0.79%) MSI
5 17 (0.59%) Jenkins
6 16 (0.55%) GitLab
7 11 (0.38%) Eclipse
8 10 (0.34%) Postman
8 10 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
8 10 (0.34%) SonarQube
8 10 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
9 9 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 8 (0.28%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.24%) Maven
12 6 (0.21%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.21%) InstallShield
12 6 (0.21%) Subversion
13 5 (0.17%) Checkstyle
14 4 (0.14%) Fiddler
14 4 (0.14%) NUnit
General
1 1,115 (38.41%) Social Skills
2 368 (12.68%) Finance
3 327 (11.26%) Analytical Skills
4 289 (9.96%) Public Sector
5 133 (4.58%) Organisational Skills
6 107 (3.69%) Telecoms
7 86 (2.96%) Marketing
8 85 (2.93%) Manufacturing
9 74 (2.55%) Legal
10 73 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
11 69 (2.38%) Banking
12 44 (1.52%) Retail
13 41 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
14 37 (1.27%) Military
15 34 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
16 31 (1.07%) Local Government
17 26 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 25 (0.86%) Electronics
19 22 (0.76%) Automotive
20 19 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 440 (15.16%) Analyst
2 237 (8.16%) Architect
3 207 (7.13%) Developer
4 182 (6.27%) Senior
5 162 (5.58%) Support Engineer
6 146 (5.03%) IT Support
7 145 (4.99%) Administrator
8 133 (4.58%) Lead
9 129 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 126 (4.34%) Consultant
11 105 (3.62%) Service Analyst
12 86 (2.96%) Project Manager
12 86 (2.96%) Service Desk Analyst
13 82 (2.82%) IT Engineer
14 79 (2.72%) 2nd Line Support
15 77 (2.65%) Desktop Engineer
16 72 (2.48%) Solutions Architect
17 71 (2.45%) Desktop Support
18 67 (2.31%) Support Analyst
19 51 (1.76%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (2.86%) .NET
2 38 (1.31%) Web Services
3 35 (1.21%) XML
4 33 (1.14%) .NET Framework
5 29 (1.00%) REST
6 28 (0.96%) CSS
7 27 (0.93%) HTML
8 26 (0.90%) ARM Templates
9 25 (0.86%) Elastic Stack
9 25 (0.86%) JSON
10 23 (0.79%) SailPoint
11 22 (0.76%) React
12 19 (0.65%) Kafka
13 17 (0.59%) Node.js
14 16 (0.55%) Spring
15 14 (0.48%) LDAP
15 14 (0.48%) RESTful
16 13 (0.45%) ADO
16 13 (0.45%) SAML
16 13 (0.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 150 (5.17%) Management Information System
2 112 (3.86%) PKI
3 85 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
4 78 (2.69%) Cyber Threat
5 68 (2.34%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 67 (2.31%) Cyber Defence
7 56 (1.93%) Driving Licence
8 53 (1.83%) Data Centre
9 46 (1.58%) NHS
10 39 (1.34%) Private Cloud
11 35 (1.21%) Product Ownership
12 32 (1.10%) Public Cloud
13 27 (0.93%) Onboarding
14 25 (0.86%) Security Posture
15 24 (0.83%) Video Conferencing
16 23 (0.79%) Clustering
16 23 (0.79%) Data Structures
17 22 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
17 22 (0.76%) iPhone
18 21 (0.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 937 (32.28%) Windows
2 361 (12.44%) Windows 10
3 301 (10.37%) Windows Server
4 211 (7.27%) Linux
5 110 (3.79%) Windows Server 2019
6 108 (3.72%) Windows Server 2016
7 107 (3.69%) Windows Server 2012
8 86 (2.96%) Windows 7
9 56 (1.93%) Apple iOS
10 35 (1.21%) Mac OS
11 27 (0.93%) Ubuntu
12 25 (0.86%) Android
13 21 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 17 (0.59%) Unix
14 17 (0.59%) Windows NT
14 17 (0.59%) Windows XP
15 14 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
16 13 (0.45%) Debian
17 12 (0.41%) VMS
18 10 (0.34%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 569 (19.60%) Problem-Solving
2 435 (14.98%) Customer Service
3 394 (13.57%) Agile
4 365 (12.57%) ITIL
5 257 (8.85%) Project Management
6 234 (8.06%) DevOps
7 220 (7.58%) Migration
8 218 (7.51%) Business Intelligence
9 207 (7.13%) Cybersecurity
10 201 (6.92%) Service Delivery
11 181 (6.23%) Stakeholder Management
12 175 (6.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 173 (5.96%) Incident Management
14 157 (5.41%) Decision-Making
15 155 (5.34%) Service Management
16 151 (5.20%) Analytics
17 148 (5.10%) Change Management
18 136 (4.68%) Project Delivery
19 125 (4.31%) CRM
19 125 (4.31%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 254 (8.75%) PowerShell
2 238 (8.20%) SQL
3 113 (3.89%) C#
4 111 (3.82%) Python
5 64 (2.20%) Java
6 60 (2.07%) JavaScript
7 31 (1.07%) VB
8 26 (0.90%) Bicep
9 25 (0.86%) C++
10 24 (0.83%) VBScript
11 23 (0.79%) C
11 23 (0.79%) T-SQL
12 21 (0.72%) Bash
13 19 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
14 17 (0.59%) PHP
15 16 (0.55%) TypeScript
16 15 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.28%) PL/SQL
17 8 (0.28%) Swift
18 7 (0.24%) X++
Qualifications
1 852 (29.35%) Security Cleared
2 444 (15.29%) SC Cleared
3 409 (14.09%) DV Cleared
4 368 (12.68%) Degree
5 173 (5.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 61 (2.10%) MCSE
7 55 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 48 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 43 (1.48%) APMP
9 43 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
10 40 (1.38%) Azure Certification
10 40 (1.38%) CCNA
10 40 (1.38%) MCSA
10 40 (1.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 37 (1.27%) A+ Certification
12 34 (1.17%) PMI Certification
12 34 (1.17%) PMP
13 30 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 30 (1.03%) Master's Degree
14 28 (0.96%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (5.20%) SLA
2 97 (3.34%) QA
3 92 (3.17%) PMO
4 73 (2.51%) NIST
5 56 (1.93%) NIST 800
6 47 (1.62%) Disclosure Scotland
7 35 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 33 (1.14%) GDPR
9 29 (1.00%) Government Security Classifications
10 24 (0.83%) Data Quality
11 20 (0.69%) Accessibility
12 16 (0.55%) 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%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 655 (22.56%) Active Directory
2 206 (7.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 87 (3.00%) Hyper-V
4 59 (2.03%) VMware ESXi
5 51 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
6 48 (1.65%) Virtual Desktop
7 47 (1.62%) vSphere
8 37 (1.27%) Firmware
9 31 (1.07%) VMware NSX
10 30 (1.03%) Docker
11 14 (0.48%) BitLocker
11 14 (0.48%) Microsoft App-V
11 14 (0.48%) XenApp
12 11 (0.38%) XenDesktop
13 8 (0.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 8 (0.28%) Terminal Services
14 7 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
15 6 (0.21%) VMware Server
16 3 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 3 (0.10%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 251 (8.65%) SCCM
2 189 (6.51%) Microsoft Intune
3 92 (3.17%) WSUS
4 74 (2.55%) SCOM
5 64 (2.20%) Kubernetes
6 52 (1.79%) Terraform
7 49 (1.69%) vCenter Server
8 41 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
9 35 (1.21%) Ansible
10 31 (1.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 23 (0.79%) Jamf Pro
12 18 (0.62%) Nessus
12 18 (0.62%) Sysprep
13 17 (0.59%) OPNET
14 16 (0.55%) Kibana
14 16 (0.55%) NetBackup
15 15 (0.52%) Grafana
15 15 (0.52%) Prometheus
15 15 (0.52%) WMI
16 14 (0.48%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 284 (9.78%) VMware
2 119 (4.10%) Cisco
3 110 (3.79%) ServiceNow
4 97 (3.34%) Oracle
5 88 (3.03%) SAP
6 84 (2.89%) Citrix
7 68 (2.34%) Atlassian
8 64 (2.20%) HP
9 58 (2.00%) Apple
10 56 (1.93%) Google
11 50 (1.72%) Veeam
12 44 (1.52%) Adobe
13 43 (1.48%) Dell
14 39 (1.34%) Red Hat
14 39 (1.34%) Salesforce
14 39 (1.34%) Splunk
15 27 (0.93%) Palo Alto
16 25 (0.86%) Qualys
17 23 (0.79%) CyberArk
17 23 (0.79%) Juniper