Microsoft Contracts

Microsoft
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 7 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
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 7 9
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 5,617 7,612 11,006
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 12.92% 13.65% 12.47%
As % of the Vendors category 30.40% 31.37% 30.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,659 5,477 7,781
10th Percentile £190 £200 £188
25th Percentile £344 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £700 £713 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £451 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +0.11% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 478 218 431
10th Percentile £11.07 £13.29 £11.25
25th Percentile £13.20 £16.05 £13.50
Median hourly rate £15.58 £23.20 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.87% +28.89% +6.87%
75th Percentile £25.00 £53.65 £35.00
90th Percentile £56.92 £66.00 £52.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.00 £19.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year -21.05% +15.15% -2.94%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,475 24,264 35,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.50% 43.51% 40.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,478 16,171 23,828
10th Percentile £268 £268 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +8.47%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,154 643 858
10th Percentile £12.25 £15.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.50 £19.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +4.88%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.50 £47.99
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £35.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -38.57% +79.49% +8.33%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the UK

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in the UK

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in the UK

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in the UK

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in the UK

Microsoft
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 7 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
England 0 4,892 £495 -1.00% 4,694
UK excluding London 0 2,930 £451 +0.11% 3,612
London +3 2,194 £500 -8.63% 1,277
Work from Home 0 1,729 £500 -4.76% 2,015
South East 0 821 £465 +3.33% 804
North of England +3 662 £450 -5.26% 964
South West +1 511 £500 -4.76% 471
North West +4 407 £475 - 540
Midlands -2 380 £405 -4.71% 691
Scotland +2 279 £350 -12.50% 271
West Midlands -1 253 £425 -3.13% 417
East of England -1 230 £434 +8.38% 360
Yorkshire +2 216 £425 -10.53% 314
East Midlands -4 119 £400 +11.11% 273
Wales +1 73 £513 - 99
North East +8 42 £378 +45.38% 121
Northern Ireland +4 37 £550 +191.39% 61

Microsoft
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:

Application Platforms
1 602 (10.72%) SharePoint
2 398 (7.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 120 (2.14%) Confluence
4 70 (1.25%) CMS
5 39 (0.69%) Apache Spark
5 39 (0.69%) IIS
6 34 (0.61%) SharePoint Server
7 27 (0.48%) Skype for Business
8 26 (0.46%) Apache
9 16 (0.28%) Drupal
10 15 (0.27%) WordPress
11 11 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 11 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
12 10 (0.18%) ArcGIS
12 10 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2010
13 9 (0.16%) Anypoint
14 8 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
14 8 (0.14%) Tomcat
15 7 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2013
15 7 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 954 (16.98%) Microsoft Office
2 686 (12.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 330 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 141 (2.51%) Microsoft Project
5 120 (2.14%) MS Visio
6 106 (1.89%) Spreadsheet
7 20 (0.36%) Acrobat
8 15 (0.27%) Chatbot
9 14 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 11 (0.20%) Photoshop
11 9 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
11 9 (0.16%) CATIA
12 7 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
12 7 (0.12%) InDesign
13 6 (0.11%) Trello
14 3 (0.053%) InfoPath
15 2 (0.036%) Adobe Captivate
15 2 (0.036%) AutoCAD
15 2 (0.036%) FileZilla
15 2 (0.036%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 184 (3.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 45 (0.80%) Dynamics AX
3 24 (0.43%) Dynamics GP
4 20 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
5 19 (0.34%) Shopify
6 17 (0.30%) Teamcenter
7 15 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 14 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
8 14 (0.25%) Primavera
9 13 (0.23%) Magento
10 12 (0.21%) Endur
11 11 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
12 10 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
13 9 (0.16%) NetSuite
13 9 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
14 8 (0.14%) DELMIA
15 6 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
15 6 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
15 6 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
15 6 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 1,907 (33.95%) Azure
2 1,231 (21.92%) Microsoft 365
3 708 (12.60%) Power Platform
4 473 (8.42%) Dynamics 365
5 423 (7.53%) Azure DevOps
5 423 (7.53%) Entra ID
6 376 (6.69%) AWS
7 273 (4.86%) PowerApps
8 252 (4.49%) Power Automate
9 158 (2.81%) PaaS
10 149 (2.65%) SaaS
11 136 (2.42%) OneDrive
12 121 (2.15%) IaaS
13 114 (2.03%) GCP
14 99 (1.76%) Serverless
15 95 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
16 94 (1.67%) GitHub
17 89 (1.58%) Azure Data Factory
18 87 (1.55%) Azure Sentinel
19 84 (1.50%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 324 (5.77%) Firewall
2 279 (4.97%) DNS
3 191 (3.40%) DHCP
4 181 (3.22%) VPN
5 129 (2.30%) LAN
6 110 (1.96%) SAN
7 108 (1.92%) WAN
8 104 (1.85%) TCP/IP
9 92 (1.64%) Wireless
10 80 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
11 65 (1.16%) Network Security
12 64 (1.14%) VoIP
13 46 (0.82%) VLAN
14 39 (0.69%) Internet
15 38 (0.68%) Intranet
15 38 (0.68%) Remote Desktop
16 37 (0.66%) NAS
16 37 (0.66%) Skype
17 36 (0.64%) BGP
18 28 (0.50%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 559 (9.95%) SQL Server
2 460 (8.19%) Power BI
3 151 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
4 129 (2.30%) Data Lake
5 95 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 84 (1.50%) Relational Database
6 84 (1.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 81 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
8 74 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
9 71 (1.26%) NoSQL
10 69 (1.23%) MySQL
11 53 (0.94%) Big Data
12 45 (0.80%) Tableau
13 34 (0.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 31 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
15 27 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
15 27 (0.48%) Metadata
15 27 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
16 26 (0.46%) RDBMS
17 24 (0.43%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 276 (4.91%) JIRA
2 160 (2.85%) Git
3 87 (1.55%) Visual Studio
4 70 (1.25%) Jenkins
5 56 (1.00%) GitLab
6 50 (0.89%) Postman
7 37 (0.66%) SpecFlow
8 36 (0.64%) Selenium
9 30 (0.53%) MSI
10 24 (0.43%) TeamCity
11 20 (0.36%) Maven
12 19 (0.34%) Cypress.io
12 19 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 19 (0.34%) Visual Studio Team System
13 18 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
14 17 (0.30%) WebDriver
15 15 (0.27%) SonarQube
16 14 (0.25%) Bitbucket
17 13 (0.23%) JMeter
17 13 (0.23%) Subversion
General
1 1,963 (34.95%) Social Skills
2 1,026 (18.27%) Finance
3 694 (12.36%) Analytical Skills
4 567 (10.09%) Public Sector
5 254 (4.52%) Banking
6 202 (3.60%) Marketing
7 195 (3.47%) Telecoms
8 183 (3.26%) Legal
9 177 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
10 168 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
11 152 (2.71%) Manufacturing
12 149 (2.65%) Retail
13 68 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
14 63 (1.12%) Local Government
15 61 (1.09%) Electronics
16 60 (1.07%) Back Office
16 60 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 56 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
18 50 (0.89%) Financial Institution
19 47 (0.84%) Law
Job Titles
1 735 (13.09%) Analyst
2 636 (11.32%) Developer
3 601 (10.70%) Architect
4 483 (8.60%) Senior
5 394 (7.01%) Consultant
6 289 (5.15%) Lead
7 256 (4.56%) Support Engineer
8 201 (3.58%) IT Support
9 200 (3.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 199 (3.54%) Project Manager
11 194 (3.45%) Administrator
12 187 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
13 140 (2.49%) Service Analyst
14 139 (2.47%) Azure Engineer
15 138 (2.46%) Senior Developer
16 131 (2.33%) IT Engineer
17 122 (2.17%) Support Analyst
18 117 (2.08%) Desktop Support
19 116 (2.07%) 2nd Line Support
20 112 (1.99%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 382 (6.80%) .NET
2 174 (3.10%) XML
3 139 (2.47%) .NET Framework
4 130 (2.31%) HTML
5 117 (2.08%) CSS
6 112 (1.99%) .NET Core
7 102 (1.82%) React
8 99 (1.76%) Web Services
9 83 (1.48%) REST
10 82 (1.46%) JSON
11 71 (1.26%) AngularJS
12 70 (1.25%) ASP.NET
13 57 (1.01%) Kafka
14 55 (0.98%) ARM Templates
15 50 (0.89%) Middleware
16 43 (0.77%) RESTful
17 41 (0.73%) Elastic Stack
18 40 (0.71%) OAuth
19 39 (0.69%) SAML
20 38 (0.68%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 274 (4.88%) Management Information System
2 156 (2.78%) Product Ownership
3 149 (2.65%) PKI
4 127 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
5 118 (2.10%) Data Centre
6 110 (1.96%) Cyber Threat
7 99 (1.76%) Data Structures
8 85 (1.51%) Security Posture
9 82 (1.46%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 80 (1.42%) Cyber Defence
11 79 (1.41%) Onboarding
12 66 (1.18%) NHS
13 64 (1.14%) Public Cloud
14 57 (1.01%) Driving Licence
15 56 (1.00%) Video Conferencing
16 55 (0.98%) Cloud Native
17 46 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
18 45 (0.80%) Clustering
19 44 (0.78%) Virtual Team
20 42 (0.75%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 1,460 (25.99%) Windows
2 490 (8.72%) Windows 10
3 475 (8.46%) Windows Server
4 369 (6.57%) Linux
5 135 (2.40%) Windows Server 2012
6 131 (2.33%) Windows Server 2016
7 124 (2.21%) Windows Server 2019
8 123 (2.19%) Windows 7
9 92 (1.64%) Apple iOS
10 77 (1.37%) Android
11 65 (1.16%) Unix
12 62 (1.10%) Mac OS
13 42 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 29 (0.52%) Ubuntu
15 25 (0.45%) Mac OS X
16 21 (0.37%) VMS
16 21 (0.37%) Windows XP
17 20 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
18 16 (0.28%) Windows NT
19 13 (0.23%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,000 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
2 975 (17.36%) Agile
3 751 (13.37%) DevOps
4 606 (10.79%) Customer Service
5 561 (9.99%) ITIL
6 553 (9.85%) Migration
7 536 (9.54%) Business Intelligence
8 510 (9.08%) Project Management
9 378 (6.73%) Analytics
10 367 (6.53%) Cybersecurity
11 356 (6.34%) CI/CD
12 328 (5.84%) Stakeholder Management
13 295 (5.25%) Change Management
14 291 (5.18%) CRM
15 287 (5.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 271 (4.82%) Project Delivery
17 261 (4.65%) Service Delivery
18 259 (4.61%) Scrum
19 252 (4.49%) Computer Science
20 247 (4.40%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 669 (11.91%) SQL
2 613 (10.91%) PowerShell
3 441 (7.85%) C#
4 299 (5.32%) Python
5 194 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 155 (2.76%) Java
7 110 (1.96%) Bicep
8 85 (1.51%) T-SQL
9 73 (1.30%) TypeScript
10 49 (0.87%) Bash
11 41 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
12 39 (0.69%) VB
13 38 (0.68%) C++
14 34 (0.61%) C
15 32 (0.57%) VBScript
16 31 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 29 (0.52%) PHP
17 29 (0.52%) Shell Script
18 26 (0.46%) PL/SQL
19 22 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,156 (20.58%) Security Cleared
2 752 (13.39%) Degree
3 692 (12.32%) SC Cleared
4 461 (8.21%) DV Cleared
5 318 (5.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 163 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 140 (2.49%) Azure Certification
8 85 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 83 (1.48%) CISSP
10 82 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
11 74 (1.32%) MCSE
12 71 (1.26%) Master's Degree
13 67 (1.19%) CCNA
14 62 (1.10%) PMP
15 61 (1.09%) PMI Certification
16 54 (0.96%) MCSA
17 53 (0.94%) APMP
17 53 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
18 51 (0.91%) A+ Certification
19 50 (0.89%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 228 (4.06%) SLA
2 211 (3.76%) QA
3 129 (2.30%) PMO
4 122 (2.17%) NIST
5 95 (1.69%) GDPR
6 79 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 72 (1.28%) Accessibility
8 71 (1.26%) NIST 800
9 67 (1.19%) Data Quality
10 46 (0.82%) Disclosure Scotland
11 34 (0.61%) PCI DSS
12 32 (0.57%) Government Security Classifications
13 30 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
14 21 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 21 (0.37%) WCAG
15 19 (0.34%) NCSC
16 17 (0.30%) HIPAA
17 13 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 12 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
19 11 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1,184 (21.08%) Active Directory
2 289 (5.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 130 (2.31%) Hyper-V
4 102 (1.82%) Docker
5 93 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
6 73 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 71 (1.26%) vSphere
8 62 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
9 55 (0.98%) Firmware
10 36 (0.64%) VMware NSX
11 24 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
12 21 (0.37%) BitLocker
13 19 (0.34%) XenApp
14 17 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
14 17 (0.30%) XenDesktop
15 14 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
16 10 (0.18%) Terminal Services
17 9 (0.16%) Citrix Hypervisor
18 8 (0.14%) VMware Server
19 6 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 383 (6.82%) SCCM
2 321 (5.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 180 (3.20%) Kubernetes
4 174 (3.10%) Terraform
5 107 (1.90%) WSUS
6 95 (1.69%) SCOM
7 82 (1.46%) Ansible
8 76 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
9 50 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 50 (0.89%) vCenter Server
10 47 (0.84%) Jamf Pro
11 36 (0.64%) Grafana
12 33 (0.59%) Prometheus
13 27 (0.48%) Kibana
13 27 (0.48%) Puppet
14 24 (0.43%) Nessus
15 21 (0.37%) logstash
16 19 (0.34%) EMC NetWorker
16 19 (0.34%) NetBackup
17 18 (0.32%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 425 (7.57%) VMware
2 300 (5.34%) Oracle
3 245 (4.36%) SAP
4 213 (3.79%) ServiceNow
5 203 (3.61%) Cisco
6 164 (2.92%) Google
7 153 (2.72%) Citrix
8 137 (2.44%) Salesforce
9 118 (2.10%) Apple
10 94 (1.67%) Dell
11 89 (1.58%) Adobe
12 88 (1.57%) HP
13 84 (1.50%) Atlassian
14 81 (1.44%) Databricks
15 74 (1.32%) Splunk
16 65 (1.16%) Veeam
17 55 (0.98%) CyberArk
18 53 (0.94%) Red Hat
19 51 (0.91%) Palo Alto
19 51 (0.91%) Qualys