Microsoft Contracts in England

Microsoft
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 5 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
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 7 9
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 4,846 6,442 8,986
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 13.11% 13.72% 12.73%
As % of the Vendors category 31.10% 32.36% 31.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,181 4,722 6,409
10th Percentile £195 £204 £185
25th Percentile £344 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £627 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £498 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 442 180 392
10th Percentile £11.07 £13.14 £10.77
25th Percentile £13.25 £15.50 £13.25
Median hourly rate £15.00 £21.50 £17.56
Median % change year-on-year -30.23% +22.44% +1.40%
75th Percentile £25.00 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £55.10 £60.00 £49.98
UK median hourly rate £15.58 £22.90 £17.82
% change year-on-year -31.99% +28.51% +5.13%

All Vendors
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,581 19,906 28,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.17% 42.39% 39.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,884 13,669 19,355
10th Percentile £263 £265 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.81% +0.95% +7.69%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +8.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,051 548 769
10th Percentile £12.27 £14.70 £12.21
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.58 £37.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.79% +74.42% +7.50%
75th Percentile £58.00 £60.84 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.98 £62.60
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 England

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in England over the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in England

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in England.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in England over the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the England region over the 6 months to 5 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
London +3 2,178 £500 -8.59% 1,192
South East -1 812 £465 +3.33% 801
North of England +4 657 £450 -5.26% 969
South West +1 509 £500 -4.76% 477
North West +3 404 £451 -5.00% 534
Midlands -2 368 £400 -5.88% 706
West Midlands -2 243 £400 -9.86% 434
East of England -1 226 £434 +2.00% 350
Yorkshire +1 215 £425 -10.53% 330
East Midlands -3 118 £400 +11.11% 271
North East +7 41 £431 +65.77% 116
Microsoft
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 497 (10.26%) SharePoint
2 349 (7.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 104 (2.15%) Confluence
4 62 (1.28%) CMS
5 38 (0.78%) IIS
6 34 (0.70%) Apache Spark
7 32 (0.66%) SharePoint Server
8 23 (0.47%) Apache
9 21 (0.43%) Skype for Business
10 11 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
11 10 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
12 8 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2007
12 8 (0.17%) Tomcat
13 7 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 7 (0.14%) Anypoint
13 7 (0.14%) Drupal
13 7 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
13 7 (0.14%) WordPress
14 6 (0.12%) ArcGIS
14 6 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 831 (17.15%) Microsoft Office
2 573 (11.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 280 (5.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 125 (2.58%) Microsoft Project
5 103 (2.13%) Spreadsheet
6 99 (2.04%) MS Visio
7 14 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 11 (0.23%) Photoshop
9 9 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
9 9 (0.19%) CATIA
10 8 (0.17%) Chatbot
11 7 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
11 7 (0.14%) InDesign
12 5 (0.10%) Acrobat
13 2 (0.041%) Adobe Captivate
13 2 (0.041%) FileZilla
13 2 (0.041%) InfoPath
13 2 (0.041%) Trello
14 1 (0.021%) Autodesk Inventor
14 1 (0.021%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 142 (2.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 37 (0.76%) Dynamics AX
3 24 (0.50%) Dynamics GP
4 16 (0.33%) Shopify
4 16 (0.33%) Teamcenter
5 15 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
6 14 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
7 13 (0.27%) Primavera
8 12 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 11 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
10 10 (0.21%) Endur
11 9 (0.19%) NetSuite
11 9 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
12 8 (0.17%) DELMIA
12 8 (0.17%) Magento
13 7 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
14 6 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
14 6 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
15 5 (0.10%) Aareon QL
15 5 (0.10%) SmartPlant
Cloud Services
1 1,663 (34.32%) Azure
2 1,048 (21.63%) Microsoft 365
3 583 (12.03%) Power Platform
4 394 (8.13%) Azure DevOps
5 369 (7.61%) Entra ID
6 364 (7.51%) Dynamics 365
7 295 (6.09%) AWS
8 218 (4.50%) PowerApps
9 205 (4.23%) Power Automate
10 147 (3.03%) PaaS
11 132 (2.72%) SaaS
12 114 (2.35%) IaaS
13 111 (2.29%) OneDrive
14 91 (1.88%) Azure Monitor
14 91 (1.88%) Serverless
15 86 (1.77%) GCP
16 79 (1.63%) Azure Service Bus
17 77 (1.59%) Azure Data Factory
18 76 (1.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 67 (1.38%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 300 (6.19%) Firewall
2 249 (5.14%) DNS
3 168 (3.47%) DHCP
4 148 (3.05%) VPN
5 120 (2.48%) LAN
6 107 (2.21%) SAN
7 101 (2.08%) WAN
8 97 (2.00%) TCP/IP
9 91 (1.88%) Wireless
10 80 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
11 55 (1.13%) Network Security
11 55 (1.13%) VoIP
12 44 (0.91%) VLAN
13 37 (0.76%) Internet
13 37 (0.76%) NAS
14 36 (0.74%) BGP
15 30 (0.62%) Skype
16 28 (0.58%) Intranet
16 28 (0.58%) Remote Desktop
17 26 (0.54%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 519 (10.71%) SQL Server
2 388 (8.01%) Power BI
3 141 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
4 122 (2.52%) Data Lake
5 89 (1.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 76 (1.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 75 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
8 67 (1.38%) NoSQL
9 65 (1.34%) Relational Database
10 62 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
11 52 (1.07%) Big Data
11 52 (1.07%) MySQL
12 32 (0.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 32 (0.66%) Tableau
13 25 (0.52%) Metadata
14 24 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
15 23 (0.47%) MongoDB
16 20 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
17 19 (0.39%) RDBMS
18 18 (0.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 222 (4.58%) JIRA
2 143 (2.95%) Git
3 82 (1.69%) Visual Studio
4 61 (1.26%) Jenkins
5 47 (0.97%) GitLab
6 43 (0.89%) Postman
7 34 (0.70%) SpecFlow
8 33 (0.68%) Selenium
9 29 (0.60%) MSI
10 21 (0.43%) TeamCity
11 18 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 17 (0.35%) Visual Studio Team System
13 15 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
13 15 (0.31%) WebDriver
14 14 (0.29%) Maven
15 13 (0.27%) Bitbucket
15 13 (0.27%) SonarQube
16 12 (0.25%) Eclipse
16 12 (0.25%) JMeter
17 11 (0.23%) Subversion
General
1 1,703 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 894 (18.45%) Finance
3 586 (12.09%) Analytical Skills
4 429 (8.85%) Public Sector
5 229 (4.73%) Banking
6 173 (3.57%) Marketing
7 172 (3.55%) Telecoms
8 157 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
9 151 (3.12%) Legal
10 149 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
11 138 (2.85%) Retail
12 133 (2.74%) Manufacturing
13 64 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
14 58 (1.20%) Back Office
15 56 (1.16%) Electronics
16 49 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
16 49 (1.01%) Local Government
17 48 (0.99%) Financial Institution
18 45 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 41 (0.85%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 614 (12.67%) Analyst
2 554 (11.43%) Developer
3 526 (10.85%) Architect
4 421 (8.69%) Senior
5 319 (6.58%) Consultant
6 251 (5.18%) Lead
7 232 (4.79%) Support Engineer
8 185 (3.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 176 (3.63%) Administrator
10 171 (3.53%) IT Support
11 169 (3.49%) Project Manager
12 157 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
13 133 (2.74%) Senior Developer
14 132 (2.72%) Service Analyst
15 129 (2.66%) Azure Engineer
16 117 (2.41%) IT Engineer
17 110 (2.27%) 2nd Line Support
18 106 (2.19%) Desktop Support
18 106 (2.19%) Service Desk Analyst
19 96 (1.98%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 339 (7.00%) .NET
2 165 (3.40%) XML
3 122 (2.52%) .NET Framework
4 111 (2.29%) HTML
5 106 (2.19%) .NET Core
6 101 (2.08%) CSS
7 86 (1.77%) Web Services
8 84 (1.73%) React
9 78 (1.61%) JSON
10 73 (1.51%) REST
11 67 (1.38%) AngularJS
12 64 (1.32%) ASP.NET
13 54 (1.11%) ARM Templates
14 51 (1.05%) Kafka
15 36 (0.74%) RESTful
16 34 (0.70%) Middleware
16 34 (0.70%) Swagger
17 33 (0.68%) Node.js
17 33 (0.68%) SailPoint
18 31 (0.64%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 242 (4.99%) Management Information System
2 145 (2.99%) PKI
3 135 (2.79%) Product Ownership
4 114 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
5 99 (2.04%) Data Centre
6 97 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
7 90 (1.86%) Data Structures
8 77 (1.59%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 76 (1.57%) Cyber Defence
10 73 (1.51%) Onboarding
11 67 (1.38%) Security Posture
12 57 (1.18%) Driving Licence
12 57 (1.18%) NHS
13 55 (1.13%) Video Conferencing
14 52 (1.07%) Cloud Native
15 46 (0.95%) Public Cloud
16 43 (0.89%) Virtual Team
17 37 (0.76%) Clustering
17 37 (0.76%) Private Cloud
18 36 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1,306 (26.95%) Windows
2 439 (9.06%) Windows 10
3 432 (8.91%) Windows Server
4 337 (6.95%) Linux
5 132 (2.72%) Windows Server 2012
6 119 (2.46%) Windows Server 2016
6 119 (2.46%) Windows Server 2019
7 104 (2.15%) Windows 7
8 69 (1.42%) Apple iOS
9 60 (1.24%) Android
10 55 (1.13%) Unix
11 54 (1.11%) Mac OS
12 39 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 29 (0.60%) Ubuntu
14 20 (0.41%) VMS
14 20 (0.41%) Windows XP
15 19 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
16 18 (0.37%) Mac OS X
17 16 (0.33%) Windows NT
18 12 (0.25%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 867 (17.89%) Agile
2 863 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
3 673 (13.89%) DevOps
4 540 (11.14%) Customer Service
5 502 (10.36%) ITIL
6 485 (10.01%) Migration
7 450 (9.29%) Business Intelligence
8 434 (8.96%) Project Management
9 328 (6.77%) CI/CD
10 313 (6.46%) Analytics
11 299 (6.17%) Cybersecurity
12 276 (5.70%) Stakeholder Management
13 263 (5.43%) Change Management
14 249 (5.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 246 (5.08%) Project Delivery
16 237 (4.89%) CRM
17 228 (4.70%) Scrum
17 228 (4.70%) Service Delivery
18 220 (4.54%) Data Modelling
19 209 (4.31%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 590 (12.17%) SQL
2 551 (11.37%) PowerShell
3 406 (8.38%) C#
4 266 (5.49%) Python
5 167 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 138 (2.85%) Java
7 107 (2.21%) Bicep
8 75 (1.55%) T-SQL
9 60 (1.24%) TypeScript
10 45 (0.93%) Bash
11 39 (0.80%) VB
12 38 (0.78%) C++
13 33 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
14 32 (0.66%) VBScript
15 31 (0.64%) C
16 29 (0.60%) Shell Script
17 25 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 24 (0.50%) PL/SQL
19 19 (0.39%) PHP
19 19 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 989 (20.41%) Security Cleared
2 630 (13.00%) Degree
3 556 (11.47%) SC Cleared
4 433 (8.94%) DV Cleared
5 274 (5.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 130 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 112 (2.31%) Azure Certification
8 78 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
9 77 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
10 71 (1.47%) CISSP
11 65 (1.34%) CCNA
12 60 (1.24%) MCSE
13 53 (1.09%) APMP
14 52 (1.07%) MCSA
15 50 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
16 49 (1.01%) Master's Degree
17 47 (0.97%) CCNP
18 43 (0.89%) PMI Certification
18 43 (0.89%) PMP
18 43 (0.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 211 (4.35%) SLA
2 167 (3.45%) QA
3 110 (2.27%) NIST
4 106 (2.19%) PMO
5 86 (1.77%) GDPR
6 74 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 67 (1.38%) Accessibility
7 67 (1.38%) NIST 800
8 59 (1.22%) Data Quality
9 32 (0.66%) Government Security Classifications
10 30 (0.62%) PCI DSS
11 27 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
12 26 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
13 21 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 20 (0.41%) WCAG
15 13 (0.27%) HIPAA
15 13 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 11 (0.23%) NCSC
17 10 (0.21%) GRC
18 9 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 1,063 (21.94%) Active Directory
2 266 (5.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 114 (2.35%) Hyper-V
4 90 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
5 86 (1.77%) Docker
6 69 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
7 64 (1.32%) vSphere
8 57 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
9 50 (1.03%) Firmware
10 30 (0.62%) VMware NSX
11 20 (0.41%) XenApp
12 18 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
13 17 (0.35%) XenDesktop
14 15 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
15 14 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
16 13 (0.27%) BitLocker
17 9 (0.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
18 8 (0.17%) VMware Server
19 5 (0.10%) KVM
19 5 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 319 (6.58%) SCCM
2 287 (5.92%) Microsoft Intune
3 167 (3.45%) Kubernetes
4 154 (3.18%) Terraform
5 97 (2.00%) WSUS
6 93 (1.92%) SCOM
7 71 (1.47%) Ansible
8 67 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
9 48 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 46 (0.95%) vCenter Server
11 43 (0.89%) Jamf Pro
12 30 (0.62%) Grafana
13 25 (0.52%) Prometheus
14 23 (0.47%) Nessus
15 22 (0.45%) Kibana
16 21 (0.43%) Puppet
17 19 (0.39%) EMC NetWorker
17 19 (0.39%) NetBackup
18 17 (0.35%) OPNET
18 17 (0.35%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 391 (8.07%) VMware
2 238 (4.91%) Oracle
3 199 (4.11%) SAP
4 192 (3.96%) ServiceNow
5 163 (3.36%) Cisco
6 141 (2.91%) Google
7 136 (2.81%) Citrix
8 97 (2.00%) Apple
9 95 (1.96%) Salesforce
10 86 (1.77%) HP
11 84 (1.73%) Dell
12 72 (1.49%) Databricks
13 67 (1.38%) Adobe
14 64 (1.32%) Veeam
15 59 (1.22%) Atlassian
16 58 (1.20%) Splunk
17 51 (1.05%) Qualys
18 50 (1.03%) Palo Alto
18 50 (1.03%) Red Hat
19 47 (0.97%) CyberArk