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 8 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
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 12 13
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 +4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 2,180 3,020 4,280
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 12.42% 11.96% 10.98%
As % of the Vendors category 30.14% 29.84% 28.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,547 2,321 3,183
10th Percentile £213 £256 £263
25th Percentile £377 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £547 £535
Median % change year-on-year -8.59% +2.24% +7.00%
75th Percentile £603 £663 £642
90th Percentile £713 £750 £738
England median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 39 75
10th Percentile £12.50 £16.11 £14.75
25th Percentile £14.55 £19.06 £22.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £26.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -41.57% +169.09%
75th Percentile £23.80 £48.81 £49.25
90th Percentile £29.33 £60.90 £51.58
England median hourly rate £15.00 £22.00 £17.56
% change year-on-year -31.82% +25.28% +1.40%

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 7,233 10,119 14,839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.20% 40.09% 38.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,971 7,174 10,608
10th Percentile £310 £325 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% +2.32% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £775
England median daily rate £515 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -2.81% +0.95% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 128 165
10th Percentile £13.91 £16.10 £16.10
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.18 £23.91
Median hourly rate £23.80 £27.75 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.23% -22.92% +28.57%
75th Percentile £38.75 £53.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £69.13 £62.50
England median hourly rate £22.58 £37.25 £21.50
% change year-on-year -39.38% +73.26% +7.50%

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

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in London over the 6 months to 8 June 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

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in London over the 6 months to 8 June 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 8 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
Central London +4 386 £540 -1.37% 162
West London +11 51 £350 -20.00% 79
East London +5 38 £500 +1.01% 41
South London -6 22 £400 -11.11% 31
North London -3 1 £800 +166.67% 16
Microsoft
England

Microsoft
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
1 257 (11.79%) SharePoint
2 147 (6.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 43 (1.97%) CMS
4 38 (1.74%) Confluence
5 19 (0.87%) Apache Spark
6 17 (0.78%) IIS
7 13 (0.60%) Apache
7 13 (0.60%) Skype for Business
8 7 (0.32%) Anypoint
8 7 (0.32%) Drupal
9 6 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
9 6 (0.28%) SharePoint 2013
10 4 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
10 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.18%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.14%) MQSeries
11 3 (0.14%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.092%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 304 (13.94%) Microsoft Office
2 179 (8.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 97 (4.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 77 (3.53%) MS Visio
5 46 (2.11%) Microsoft Project
6 17 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.37%) Photoshop
8 7 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.32%) InDesign
9 6 (0.28%) Adobe Premiere
10 5 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 5 (0.23%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.14%) Acrobat
12 2 (0.092%) Adobe Captivate
12 2 (0.092%) FileZilla
12 2 (0.092%) Trello
13 1 (0.046%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.046%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.046%) OmniGraffle
13 1 (0.046%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 87 (3.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (1.10%) Dynamics AX
2 24 (1.10%) Dynamics GP
3 11 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 10 (0.46%) Endur
5 9 (0.41%) Shopify
6 8 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.28%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.23%) Oracle Assets
8 5 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.18%) Aladdin
9 4 (0.18%) Oracle AGIS
9 4 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 4 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
10 3 (0.14%) Eikon
10 3 (0.14%) OPENHousing
10 3 (0.14%) OpenLink RightAngle
10 3 (0.14%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.14%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 998 (45.78%) Azure
2 517 (23.72%) Microsoft 365
3 320 (14.68%) Power Platform
4 289 (13.26%) Azure DevOps
5 243 (11.15%) Entra ID
6 197 (9.04%) Dynamics 365
7 167 (7.66%) AWS
8 137 (6.28%) Power Automate
9 129 (5.92%) PowerApps
10 82 (3.76%) PaaS
11 72 (3.30%) Azure Service Bus
12 67 (3.07%) IaaS
13 65 (2.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 64 (2.94%) SaaS
15 62 (2.84%) Serverless
16 56 (2.57%) GCP
17 55 (2.52%) OneDrive
18 51 (2.34%) Azure Data Factory
18 51 (2.34%) GitHub
19 45 (2.06%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 106 (4.86%) Firewall
2 88 (4.04%) DNS
3 66 (3.03%) VPN
4 48 (2.20%) DHCP
5 44 (2.02%) LAN
5 44 (2.02%) Wireless
6 42 (1.93%) WAN
7 25 (1.15%) VoIP
8 24 (1.10%) Internet
9 23 (1.06%) SAN
10 22 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
11 19 (0.87%) MPLS
12 18 (0.83%) TCP/IP
13 16 (0.73%) SD-WAN
13 16 (0.73%) VLAN
14 15 (0.69%) NAS
15 14 (0.64%) Skype
16 11 (0.50%) FTP
16 11 (0.50%) Intranet
16 11 (0.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 368 (16.88%) SQL Server
2 225 (10.32%) Power BI
3 94 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
4 76 (3.49%) Data Lake
5 55 (2.52%) NoSQL
6 52 (2.39%) Azure SQL Database
7 44 (2.02%) Relational Database
8 43 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 40 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
9 40 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 33 (1.51%) Big Data
11 25 (1.15%) MySQL
12 22 (1.01%) Metadata
13 21 (0.96%) MongoDB
13 21 (0.96%) Tableau
14 17 (0.78%) Redis
15 16 (0.73%) RDBMS
15 16 (0.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 11 (0.50%) OLTP
16 11 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 98 (4.50%) JIRA
2 92 (4.22%) Git
3 42 (1.93%) Visual Studio
4 41 (1.88%) Jenkins
5 36 (1.65%) Postman
6 34 (1.56%) SpecFlow
7 31 (1.42%) GitLab
7 31 (1.42%) Selenium
8 20 (0.92%) TeamCity
9 17 (0.78%) Visual Studio Team System
10 15 (0.69%) WebDriver
11 12 (0.55%) Maven
12 10 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 9 (0.41%) JMeter
14 8 (0.37%) Cucumber
15 7 (0.32%) Bitbucket
15 7 (0.32%) Cypress.io
15 7 (0.32%) JUnit
15 7 (0.32%) LoadRunner
16 6 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 694 (31.83%) Social Skills
2 560 (25.69%) Finance
3 292 (13.39%) Analytical Skills
4 223 (10.23%) Public Sector
5 165 (7.57%) Banking
6 95 (4.36%) Marketing
7 92 (4.22%) Legal
8 86 (3.94%) Retail
9 84 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
10 65 (2.98%) Telecoms
11 55 (2.52%) Back Office
12 49 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
13 48 (2.20%) Manufacturing
14 37 (1.70%) Financial Institution
15 31 (1.42%) Electronics
16 29 (1.33%) General Ledger
16 29 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 29 (1.33%) Law
16 29 (1.33%) Local Government
17 26 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 369 (16.93%) Developer
2 269 (12.34%) Architect
3 257 (11.79%) Senior
4 248 (11.38%) Analyst
5 181 (8.30%) Consultant
6 117 (5.37%) Lead
7 116 (5.32%) Senior Developer
8 92 (4.22%) Support Engineer
9 90 (4.13%) Project Manager
10 80 (3.67%) Solutions Architect
11 77 (3.53%) Azure Engineer
12 66 (3.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 53 (2.43%) Data Architect
13 53 (2.43%) IT Support
14 52 (2.39%) Azure Developer
15 51 (2.34%) Desktop Support
15 51 (2.34%) Software Developer
15 51 (2.34%) Support Analyst
16 49 (2.25%) IT Engineer
17 46 (2.11%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 265 (12.16%) .NET
2 133 (6.10%) XML
3 93 (4.27%) .NET Core
4 89 (4.08%) .NET Framework
5 86 (3.94%) HTML
6 74 (3.39%) CSS
7 66 (3.03%) React
8 59 (2.71%) ASP.NET
9 54 (2.48%) AngularJS
10 52 (2.39%) JSON
11 51 (2.34%) REST
12 46 (2.11%) Web Services
13 35 (1.61%) Kafka
14 31 (1.42%) Swagger
15 28 (1.28%) RESTful
16 27 (1.24%) ARM Templates
16 27 (1.24%) Middleware
16 27 (1.24%) RabbitMQ
17 23 (1.06%) PySpark
18 21 (0.96%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 113 (5.18%) Product Ownership
2 93 (4.27%) Management Information System
3 70 (3.21%) Data Structures
4 59 (2.71%) Data Centre
5 43 (1.97%) Onboarding
6 41 (1.88%) Security Posture
7 39 (1.79%) Cloud Native
8 34 (1.56%) PKI
8 34 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
9 32 (1.47%) Video Conferencing
10 24 (1.10%) Algorithms
11 23 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
11 23 (1.06%) Mobile App
12 22 (1.01%) Virtual Team
13 20 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 19 (0.87%) Public Cloud
15 18 (0.83%) Hedge funds
15 18 (0.83%) iPhone
15 18 (0.83%) NHS
15 18 (0.83%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 450 (20.64%) Windows
2 147 (6.74%) Windows Server
3 132 (6.06%) Linux
4 117 (5.37%) Windows 10
5 43 (1.97%) Unix
6 41 (1.88%) Android
7 36 (1.65%) Windows 7
8 26 (1.19%) Mac OS
9 25 (1.15%) Apple iOS
10 22 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
11 18 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
12 17 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 13 (0.60%) Mac OS X
14 12 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
15 8 (0.37%) VMS
16 6 (0.28%) Solaris
16 6 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
17 5 (0.23%) CentOS
17 5 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
18 4 (0.18%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 510 (23.39%) Agile
2 433 (19.86%) DevOps
3 341 (15.64%) Problem-Solving
4 271 (12.43%) Migration
5 263 (12.06%) Business Intelligence
6 237 (10.87%) CI/CD
7 202 (9.27%) Project Management
8 184 (8.44%) Scrum
9 179 (8.21%) ITIL
10 161 (7.39%) Analytics
11 156 (7.16%) Customer Service
12 137 (6.28%) Data Modelling
13 123 (5.64%) Change Management
14 122 (5.60%) Project Delivery
15 119 (5.46%) Computer Science
16 110 (5.05%) Stakeholder Management
17 108 (4.95%) CRM
17 108 (4.95%) Cybersecurity
18 103 (4.72%) Test Automation
19 102 (4.68%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 358 (16.42%) SQL
2 313 (14.36%) PowerShell
3 287 (13.17%) C#
4 149 (6.83%) Python
5 105 (4.82%) JavaScript
6 83 (3.81%) Java
7 79 (3.62%) Bicep
8 56 (2.57%) T-SQL
9 47 (2.16%) TypeScript
10 25 (1.15%) Shell Script
11 23 (1.06%) Bash
12 16 (0.73%) VB.NET
13 15 (0.69%) Go
13 15 (0.69%) PL/SQL
14 13 (0.60%) C++
15 12 (0.55%) PHP
15 12 (0.55%) VBA
16 11 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 11 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
16 11 (0.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 303 (13.90%) Degree
2 195 (8.94%) Security Cleared
3 165 (7.57%) SC Cleared
4 111 (5.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 77 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 74 (3.39%) Azure Certification
7 38 (1.74%) CISSP
8 33 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
9 32 (1.47%) DV Cleared
10 24 (1.10%) CCNA
10 24 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
11 22 (1.01%) CISM
12 20 (0.92%) AWS Certification
12 20 (0.92%) PMI Certification
12 20 (0.92%) PMP
13 19 (0.87%) CCNP
14 18 (0.83%) Master's Degree
15 14 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
16 12 (0.55%) A+ Certification
16 12 (0.55%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (3.72%) QA
2 71 (3.26%) SLA
3 51 (2.34%) GDPR
4 49 (2.25%) Accessibility
5 40 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 36 (1.65%) Data Quality
7 34 (1.56%) PMO
8 30 (1.38%) NIST
9 19 (0.87%) PCI DSS
10 18 (0.83%) WCAG
11 15 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 13 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 8 (0.37%) HIPAA
15 7 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.28%) GAAP
16 6 (0.28%) NCSC
17 5 (0.23%) COBIT
17 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
18 4 (0.18%) GRC
System Software
1 476 (21.83%) Active Directory
2 68 (3.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 63 (2.89%) Docker
4 38 (1.74%) Hyper-V
5 36 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (1.01%) vSphere
7 16 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.64%) Firmware
9 12 (0.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 9 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
11 8 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
12 6 (0.28%) XenApp
12 6 (0.28%) XenDesktop
13 5 (0.23%) BitLocker
13 5 (0.23%) VMware NSX
14 4 (0.18%) NFS
15 3 (0.14%) KVM
16 2 (0.092%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.092%) VMware ESXi
16 2 (0.092%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 113 (5.18%) SCCM
2 110 (5.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 102 (4.68%) Terraform
4 100 (4.59%) Kubernetes
5 37 (1.70%) Ansible
6 32 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (1.06%) Jamf Pro
8 19 (0.87%) Grafana
9 17 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 16 (0.73%) Prometheus
10 16 (0.73%) SCOM
11 14 (0.64%) Puppet
11 14 (0.64%) WSUS
12 12 (0.55%) Consul
13 11 (0.50%) Progress Chef
14 10 (0.46%) FortiGate
15 8 (0.37%) Netcool
15 8 (0.37%) PingFederate
16 7 (0.32%) Tivoli Storage Manager
17 6 (0.28%) Nessus
Vendors
1 156 (7.16%) Oracle
2 123 (5.64%) VMware
3 107 (4.91%) SAP
4 86 (3.94%) ServiceNow
5 78 (3.58%) Google
6 68 (3.12%) Cisco
7 62 (2.84%) Citrix
8 54 (2.48%) Databricks
9 53 (2.43%) Salesforce
10 50 (2.29%) Dell
11 49 (2.25%) Apple
12 41 (1.88%) Adobe
13 28 (1.28%) HP
14 27 (1.24%) CyberArk
15 26 (1.19%) Splunk
16 24 (1.10%) NetApp
16 24 (1.10%) Qualys
17 22 (1.01%) Palo Alto
18 21 (0.96%) IBM
19 20 (0.92%) CA