Microsoft Contracts in London

Microsoft
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 12 13
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 2,168 3,057 4,283
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 12.40% 11.75% 11.00%
As % of the Vendors category 30.30% 29.78% 29.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,538 2,335 3,163
10th Percentile £210 £250 £263
25th Percentile £374 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +1.40% +13.16%
75th Percentile £600 £660 £642
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
England median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 40 80
10th Percentile £12.50 £16.13 £14.75
25th Percentile £14.06 £19.88 £24.39
Median hourly rate £18.80 £26.75 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.74% -39.89% +97.78%
75th Percentile £23.75 £46.33 £49.25
90th Percentile £26.50 £64.50 £51.16
England median hourly rate £15.00 £21.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% +16.67% -

All Vendors
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,156 10,265 14,722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.95% 39.45% 37.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,914 7,272 10,462
10th Percentile £300 £325 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £572 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.98% +4.05% +6.80%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £775
England median daily rate £515 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% +2.38% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 126 180
10th Percentile £13.87 £16.13 £16.95
25th Percentile £16.90 £21.00 £23.91
Median hourly rate £22.50 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% -25.71% +31.33%
75th Percentile £35.69 £53.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £59.38 £70.00 £60.63
England median hourly rate £22.08 £35.00 £21.35
% change year-on-year -36.93% +63.93% +1.67%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in London

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in London

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in London

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Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Central London +5 391 £538 +0.47% 206
West London +7 51 £400 -11.11% 82
East London +1 38 £500 +1.01% 207
South London -3 26 £250 -44.44% 45
Microsoft
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 252 (11.62%) SharePoint
2 153 (7.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 44 (2.03%) CMS
4 35 (1.61%) Confluence
5 19 (0.88%) Apache Spark
6 18 (0.83%) Skype for Business
7 16 (0.74%) IIS
8 11 (0.51%) Apache
9 7 (0.32%) Drupal
10 6 (0.28%) Anypoint
10 6 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
10 6 (0.28%) SharePoint 2013
11 4 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
12 3 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.14%) MQSeries
12 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.092%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.092%) WebLogic
13 2 (0.092%) WordPress
Applications
1 315 (14.53%) Microsoft Office
2 197 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 107 (4.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 76 (3.51%) MS Visio
5 51 (2.35%) Microsoft Project
6 18 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.37%) Photoshop
8 7 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.32%) Adobe Premiere
8 7 (0.32%) InDesign
9 6 (0.28%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.14%) Acrobat
12 2 (0.092%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.092%) FileZilla
12 2 (0.092%) Trello
13 1 (0.046%) Adobe Captivate
13 1 (0.046%) CINEMA 4D
13 1 (0.046%) Final Cut Pro
13 1 (0.046%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 84 (3.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (1.15%) Dynamics AX
2 25 (1.15%) Dynamics GP
3 11 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 10 (0.46%) Endur
5 9 (0.42%) Shopify
6 8 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.23%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.18%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.18%) Loan IQ
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle AGIS
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
9 3 (0.14%) Eikon
9 3 (0.14%) OPENHousing
9 3 (0.14%) OpenLink RightAngle
9 3 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 964 (44.46%) Azure
2 522 (24.08%) Microsoft 365
3 325 (14.99%) Power Platform
4 279 (12.87%) Azure DevOps
5 232 (10.70%) Entra ID
6 188 (8.67%) Dynamics 365
7 162 (7.47%) AWS
8 131 (6.04%) Power Automate
9 125 (5.77%) PowerApps
10 80 (3.69%) PaaS
11 68 (3.14%) Azure Service Bus
12 65 (3.00%) SaaS
13 64 (2.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 64 (2.95%) Serverless
14 62 (2.86%) IaaS
15 56 (2.58%) GCP
15 56 (2.58%) OneDrive
16 54 (2.49%) Azure Data Factory
17 52 (2.40%) GitHub
18 43 (1.98%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 111 (5.12%) Firewall
2 87 (4.01%) DNS
3 72 (3.32%) VPN
4 49 (2.26%) LAN
4 49 (2.26%) WAN
5 46 (2.12%) Wireless
6 45 (2.08%) DHCP
7 24 (1.11%) Internet
8 23 (1.06%) VoIP
8 23 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
9 22 (1.01%) SAN
10 21 (0.97%) MPLS
10 21 (0.97%) TCP/IP
11 20 (0.92%) Skype
12 18 (0.83%) SD-WAN
13 17 (0.78%) VLAN
14 16 (0.74%) NAS
15 15 (0.69%) Network Security
16 13 (0.60%) Cisco IOS
16 13 (0.60%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 347 (16.01%) SQL Server
2 227 (10.47%) Power BI
3 95 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
4 75 (3.46%) Data Lake
5 48 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
5 48 (2.21%) NoSQL
6 42 (1.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 40 (1.85%) Relational Database
8 38 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
8 38 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 33 (1.52%) Big Data
10 25 (1.15%) Metadata
10 25 (1.15%) MySQL
10 25 (1.15%) Tableau
11 21 (0.97%) MongoDB
12 16 (0.74%) Redis
12 16 (0.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 14 (0.65%) RDBMS
14 12 (0.55%) OLTP
15 11 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 90 (4.15%) JIRA
2 87 (4.01%) Git
3 42 (1.94%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.57%) SpecFlow
5 33 (1.52%) GitLab
6 32 (1.48%) Postman
6 32 (1.48%) Visual Studio
7 29 (1.34%) Selenium
8 21 (0.97%) TeamCity
9 15 (0.69%) WebDriver
10 12 (0.55%) Maven
11 10 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 10 (0.46%) Visual Studio Team System
12 7 (0.32%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.32%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.32%) Cypress.io
13 6 (0.28%) JUnit
13 6 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
14 5 (0.23%) ERwin
14 5 (0.23%) JMeter
General
1 703 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 570 (26.29%) Finance
3 290 (13.38%) Analytical Skills
4 216 (9.96%) Public Sector
5 164 (7.56%) Banking
6 105 (4.84%) Marketing
7 93 (4.29%) Legal
7 93 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
8 86 (3.97%) Retail
9 59 (2.72%) Telecoms
10 56 (2.58%) Back Office
11 51 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
12 45 (2.08%) Manufacturing
13 42 (1.94%) Financial Institution
14 34 (1.57%) Law
15 33 (1.52%) Investment Banking
16 31 (1.43%) Local Government
17 30 (1.38%) Electronics
18 29 (1.34%) General Ledger
18 29 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 345 (15.91%) Developer
2 264 (12.18%) Architect
3 262 (12.08%) Analyst
4 250 (11.53%) Senior
5 185 (8.53%) Consultant
6 115 (5.30%) Lead
7 108 (4.98%) Senior Developer
8 101 (4.66%) Support Engineer
9 96 (4.43%) Project Manager
10 82 (3.78%) Azure Engineer
11 80 (3.69%) Solutions Architect
12 60 (2.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 57 (2.63%) Data Architect
14 56 (2.58%) IT Support
15 54 (2.49%) Support Analyst
16 53 (2.44%) Azure Developer
17 51 (2.35%) IT Engineer
18 50 (2.31%) Desktop Support
19 49 (2.26%) Software Developer
20 47 (2.17%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 251 (11.58%) .NET
2 133 (6.13%) XML
3 93 (4.29%) .NET Core
4 81 (3.74%) .NET Framework
5 74 (3.41%) HTML
6 70 (3.23%) CSS
7 63 (2.91%) React
8 54 (2.49%) JSON
9 53 (2.44%) AngularJS
10 50 (2.31%) REST
11 47 (2.17%) ASP.NET
11 47 (2.17%) Web Services
12 32 (1.48%) Kafka
13 28 (1.29%) ARM Templates
14 26 (1.20%) PySpark
14 26 (1.20%) Swagger
15 25 (1.15%) RabbitMQ
16 23 (1.06%) RESTful
17 22 (1.01%) Middleware
18 21 (0.97%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 116 (5.35%) Product Ownership
2 93 (4.29%) Management Information System
3 65 (3.00%) Data Structures
4 59 (2.72%) Data Centre
5 41 (1.89%) Onboarding
6 38 (1.75%) Cloud Native
6 38 (1.75%) Security Posture
7 35 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
8 34 (1.57%) PKI
9 33 (1.52%) Video Conferencing
10 23 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
11 22 (1.01%) Smartphone
12 21 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 21 (0.97%) iPhone
13 20 (0.92%) Algorithms
13 20 (0.92%) Mobile App
13 20 (0.92%) NHS
14 19 (0.88%) Virtual Team
15 18 (0.83%) Hedge funds
15 18 (0.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 446 (20.57%) Windows
2 141 (6.50%) Windows Server
3 127 (5.86%) Linux
3 127 (5.86%) Windows 10
4 44 (2.03%) Android
5 36 (1.66%) Unix
5 36 (1.66%) Windows 7
6 29 (1.34%) Mac OS
7 25 (1.15%) Apple iOS
8 20 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
9 16 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 16 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
10 14 (0.65%) Mac OS X
11 11 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (0.32%) VMS
13 6 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
13 6 (0.28%) Solaris
13 6 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (0.18%) CentOS
14 4 (0.18%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 501 (23.11%) Agile
2 429 (19.79%) DevOps
3 352 (16.24%) Problem-Solving
4 270 (12.45%) Business Intelligence
4 270 (12.45%) Migration
5 236 (10.89%) CI/CD
6 212 (9.78%) Project Management
7 186 (8.58%) ITIL
8 177 (8.16%) Scrum
9 166 (7.66%) Customer Service
10 161 (7.43%) Analytics
11 148 (6.83%) Data Modelling
12 129 (5.95%) Project Delivery
13 128 (5.90%) Change Management
14 118 (5.44%) Computer Science
15 115 (5.30%) Stakeholder Management
16 108 (4.98%) CRM
17 104 (4.80%) Cybersecurity
18 94 (4.34%) ETL
18 94 (4.34%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 346 (15.96%) SQL
2 309 (14.25%) PowerShell
3 277 (12.78%) C#
4 156 (7.20%) Python
5 101 (4.66%) JavaScript
6 82 (3.78%) Java
7 78 (3.60%) Bicep
8 47 (2.17%) TypeScript
9 44 (2.03%) T-SQL
10 26 (1.20%) Bash
11 22 (1.01%) Shell Script
12 16 (0.74%) PL/SQL
13 12 (0.55%) Go
13 12 (0.55%) VBA
14 11 (0.51%) C++
14 11 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 11 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
14 11 (0.51%) PHP
14 11 (0.51%) Scala
15 8 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 310 (14.30%) Degree
2 186 (8.58%) Security Cleared
3 155 (7.15%) SC Cleared
4 109 (5.03%) Microsoft Certification
5 79 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 69 (3.18%) Azure Certification
7 43 (1.98%) CISSP
8 34 (1.57%) DV Cleared
9 32 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (1.20%) CISM
11 25 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
12 22 (1.01%) CCNA
13 20 (0.92%) CCNP
13 20 (0.92%) PMI Certification
14 19 (0.88%) PMP
15 16 (0.74%) AWS Certification
15 16 (0.74%) Master's Degree
16 15 (0.69%) A+ Certification
17 14 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
18 13 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (3.92%) QA
2 74 (3.41%) SLA
3 55 (2.54%) GDPR
4 44 (2.03%) Accessibility
4 44 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 43 (1.98%) PMO
6 38 (1.75%) Data Quality
7 34 (1.57%) NIST
8 18 (0.83%) PCI DSS
8 18 (0.83%) WCAG
9 15 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 14 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 8 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 7 (0.32%) COBIT
13 7 (0.32%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.28%) GAAP
14 6 (0.28%) NCSC
15 5 (0.23%) GRC
16 4 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 466 (21.49%) Active Directory
2 69 (3.18%) Docker
3 58 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (1.61%) Hyper-V
5 33 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.78%) vSphere
7 14 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (0.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 11 (0.51%) Firmware
10 5 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (0.23%) NFS
11 4 (0.18%) BitLocker
11 4 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.18%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.18%) XenApp
12 3 (0.14%) KVM
12 3 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.14%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.092%) VMware Server
14 1 (0.046%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 114 (5.26%) SCCM
2 104 (4.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 97 (4.47%) Terraform
4 95 (4.38%) Kubernetes
5 35 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
6 33 (1.52%) Ansible
7 31 (1.43%) Jamf Pro
8 20 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 19 (0.88%) Grafana
10 18 (0.83%) Prometheus
11 15 (0.69%) WSUS
12 14 (0.65%) SCOM
13 13 (0.60%) Puppet
14 12 (0.55%) Consul
15 10 (0.46%) FortiGate
15 10 (0.46%) Progress Chef
16 9 (0.42%) Netcool
17 8 (0.37%) PingFederate
17 8 (0.37%) Tivoli Storage Manager
18 7 (0.32%) Nessus
Vendors
1 157 (7.24%) Oracle
2 115 (5.30%) VMware
3 110 (5.07%) SAP
4 88 (4.06%) ServiceNow
5 81 (3.74%) Google
6 67 (3.09%) Cisco
7 65 (3.00%) Citrix
8 58 (2.68%) Databricks
9 57 (2.63%) Apple
10 54 (2.49%) Salesforce
11 48 (2.21%) Dell
12 44 (2.03%) Adobe
13 34 (1.57%) Splunk
14 28 (1.29%) HP
15 24 (1.11%) Qualys
16 23 (1.06%) Palo Alto
17 22 (1.01%) CyberArk
17 22 (1.01%) IBM
18 19 (0.88%) NetApp
19 17 (0.78%) SolarWinds