Microsoft Developer Contracts

Microsoft Developer
UK

The median Microsoft Developer daily rate in the UK is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 543 605 794
Rank change year-on-year +62 +189 -132
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft Developer 51 92 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.17% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.18% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 71 46
10th Percentile £400 £425 £344
25th Percentile £410 £500 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £583 £540
Median % change year-on-year -7.80% +7.96% +9.37%
75th Percentile £621 £625 £638
90th Percentile £650 £676 £681
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £586 £450
% change year-on-year -10.41% +30.22% -4.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.75
Median hourly rate - - £61.50
75th Percentile - - £62.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £61.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,533 52,506 83,140
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 94.52% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,086 36,648 58,637
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £407 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,938 1,481 1,935
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.18 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.71 £65.75 £49.92
90th Percentile £74.00 £76.50 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.76% +110.00% +7.82%

Microsoft Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Microsoft Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Developer in the UK

Microsoft Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Developer in the UK

Microsoft Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Developer over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Developer in the UK

Microsoft Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Developer in the UK

Microsoft Developer
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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 +83 48 £525 -6.25% 20
London +75 32 £500 -10.63% 7
Work from Home +62 22 £513 -12.54% 8
UK excluding London +27 14 £525 -10.41% 16
South West +7 4 £575 +21.05%
South East +6 4 £513 -14.58% 3
West Midlands - 4 £500 - 4
Midlands - 4 £500 - 4
East of England - 2 - -

Microsoft Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 11 June 2024, Microsoft Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Microsoft Developer in the job title.

1 33 (64.71%) Microsoft
2 27 (52.94%) CRM
2 27 (52.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (49.02%) Azure
4 17 (33.33%) C#
5 16 (31.37%) .NET
5 16 (31.37%) SQL Server
5 16 (31.37%) Dynamics 365
5 16 (31.37%) Power Platform
6 15 (29.41%) Agile
7 14 (27.45%) DevOps
7 14 (27.45%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (25.49%) Artificial Intelligence
9 12 (23.53%) Business Transformation
9 12 (23.53%) Roadmaps
10 11 (21.57%) Strategic Roadmap
10 11 (21.57%) Data Ingestion
10 11 (21.57%) IT Strategy
10 11 (21.57%) Case Management
10 11 (21.57%) .NET Framework
10 11 (21.57%) MVC
10 11 (21.57%) ASP.NET
10 11 (21.57%) HTML
11 10 (19.61%) JavaScript
11 10 (19.61%) SQL
11 10 (19.61%) Visual Studio Team System
12 9 (17.65%) Unit Testing
12 9 (17.65%) User Stories
12 9 (17.65%) Degree
12 9 (17.65%) Power Automate

Microsoft Developer Skill Set
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 2 (3.92%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.96%) MQSeries
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 27 (52.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.92%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (3.92%) Shopify
3 1 (1.96%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 25 (49.02%) Azure
2 16 (31.37%) Dynamics 365
2 16 (31.37%) Power Platform
3 14 (27.45%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (17.65%) Power Automate
5 8 (15.69%) PowerApps
6 6 (11.76%) Azure Functions
6 6 (11.76%) Serverless
7 4 (7.84%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (7.84%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (5.88%) Azure API Management
8 3 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (5.88%) PaaS
9 2 (3.92%) Azure Batch
9 2 (3.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (3.92%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (3.92%) Azure Storage
9 2 (3.92%) OneDrive
9 2 (3.92%) SonarCloud
9 2 (3.92%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (31.37%) SQL Server
2 5 (9.80%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (9.80%) Power BI
3 2 (3.92%) Big Data
3 2 (3.92%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.92%) OLTP
3 2 (3.92%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.96%) MySQL
4 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (19.61%) Visual Studio Team System
2 8 (15.69%) Visual Studio
3 5 (9.80%) Git
4 3 (5.88%) Moq
4 3 (5.88%) NUnit
5 1 (1.96%) Postman
5 1 (1.96%) Serilog
General
1 9 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.80%) Finance
3 2 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.92%) Local Government
3 2 (3.92%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.92%) Retail
4 1 (1.96%) French Language
4 1 (1.96%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (31.37%) .NET
2 11 (21.57%) .NET Framework
2 11 (21.57%) ASP.NET
2 11 (21.57%) HTML
3 2 (3.92%) ARM Templates
3 2 (3.92%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (3.92%) CSS
3 2 (3.92%) HTML5
3 2 (3.92%) JSON
3 2 (3.92%) React
3 2 (3.92%) Web Services
3 2 (3.92%) XML
4 1 (1.96%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.96%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (1.96%) CSS3
4 1 (1.96%) Entity Framework
4 1 (1.96%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (1.96%) OpenAPI
4 1 (1.96%) Swagger
4 1 (1.96%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (52.94%) CRM
2 15 (29.41%) Agile
3 14 (27.45%) DevOps
4 13 (25.49%) Artificial Intelligence
5 12 (23.53%) Business Transformation
5 12 (23.53%) Roadmaps
6 11 (21.57%) Case Management
6 11 (21.57%) Data Ingestion
6 11 (21.57%) IT Strategy
6 11 (21.57%) MVC
6 11 (21.57%) Strategic Roadmap
7 9 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (17.65%) Unit Testing
7 9 (17.65%) User Stories
8 7 (13.73%) Use Case
9 6 (11.76%) Business Strategy
9 6 (11.76%) TDD
10 5 (9.80%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (9.80%) Process Improvement
11 4 (7.84%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (33.33%) C#
2 10 (19.61%) JavaScript
2 10 (19.61%) SQL
3 8 (15.69%) T-SQL
3 8 (15.69%) VB.NET
4 5 (9.80%) Java
5 3 (5.88%) Python
6 2 (3.92%) C
6 2 (3.92%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.96%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (17.65%) Degree
2 4 (7.84%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
Systems Management
1 2 (3.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (64.71%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.96%) Adobe
2 1 (1.96%) Virgin Media