Microsoft Licensing Contracts

Microsoft Licensing
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Microsoft Licensing in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft Licensing over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 581 680 843
Rank change year-on-year +99 +163 -115
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Licensing 3 17 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.031% 0.006%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.023% 0.092% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 2
10th Percentile £231 £313 £453
25th Percentile £259 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £513 £463
Median % change year-on-year -39.02% +10.81% +25.34%
75th Percentile £359 £535 £469
90th Percentile £384 £540 £473
UK excluding London median daily rate £225 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -47.06% -5.56% +21.95%

All Generic Skills
UK

Microsoft Licensing falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,045 18,435 29,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.87% 33.19% 33.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,307 12,697 20,403
10th Percentile £275 £310 £315
25th Percentile £413 £446 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 939 605 684
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.29
25th Percentile £15.39 £10.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%
75th Percentile £61.40 £58.75 £50.77
90th Percentile £71.88 £75.00 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.25 £22.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +60.23% +2.33% -4.44%

Microsoft Licensing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Licensing in the UK

Microsoft Licensing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Licensing in the UK

Microsoft Licensing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Licensing over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Licensing in the UK

Microsoft Licensing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Licensing in the UK

Microsoft Licensing
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Licensing within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 +72 3 £313 -39.02% 2
Work from Home +114 2 £400 -25.93%
London +76 2 £400 -25.93%
UK excluding London +21 1 £225 -47.06% 1
South West +2 1 £225 -30.77% 1

Microsoft Licensing
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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) IP Telephony
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Local Government
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) IT Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Procurement Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Android
1 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Software Licensing
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 1 (33.33%) Business Case
2 1 (33.33%) Contract Negotiation
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) DSDM
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Source to Pay
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Supplier Relationship Management
2 1 (33.33%) Time Management
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Avaya
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) MobileIron
2 1 (33.33%) VMware