Microsoft Contracts in England

Microsoft
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 7 9
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 4,874 6,418 8,980
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 13.10% 13.64% 12.72%
As % of the Vendors category 31.03% 32.10% 31.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,188 4,707 6,406
10th Percentile £195 £203 £185
25th Percentile £349 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 178 388
10th Percentile £11.07 £13.25 £10.86
25th Percentile £13.26 £16.05 £13.25
Median hourly rate £15.00 £22.00 £17.53
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +25.50% +0.60%
75th Percentile £25.00 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £55.68 £60.00 £50.00
UK median hourly rate £15.58 £24.00 £17.64
% change year-on-year -35.10% +36.05% +4.07%

All Vendors
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,709 19,993 28,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.23% 42.48% 39.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,938 13,717 19,405
10th Percentile £266 £265 £276
25th Percentile £407 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.81% +0.95% +7.14%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,057 553 764
10th Percentile £12.28 £15.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.75 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.58 £37.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.79% +74.42% +7.50%
75th Percentile £58.49 £60.00 £48.08
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.74 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +7.50%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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
London +3 2,181 £500 -8.59% 1,147
South East 0 818 £465 +3.33% 812
North of England +3 662 £450 -5.26% 975
South West +1 509 £500 -4.76% 466
North West +3 409 £464 -2.37% 539
Midlands -2 380 £405 -4.71% 691
West Midlands -1 253 £425 -2.02% 430
East of England -1 230 £428 +6.88% 337
Yorkshire +2 214 £425 -10.53% 323
East Midlands -4 119 £400 +11.11% 260
North East +13 42 £378 +45.38% 127
Microsoft
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 500 (10.26%) SharePoint
2 347 (7.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 104 (2.13%) Confluence
4 62 (1.27%) CMS
5 38 (0.78%) IIS
6 34 (0.70%) Apache Spark
7 31 (0.64%) SharePoint Server
8 23 (0.47%) Apache
9 20 (0.41%) Skype for Business
10 11 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
11 10 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
12 8 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2007
12 8 (0.16%) Tomcat
13 7 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 7 (0.14%) Anypoint
13 7 (0.14%) Drupal
13 7 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
13 7 (0.14%) WordPress
14 6 (0.12%) ArcGIS
14 6 (0.12%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 838 (17.19%) Microsoft Office
2 578 (11.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 281 (5.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 126 (2.59%) Microsoft Project
5 105 (2.15%) Spreadsheet
6 98 (2.01%) MS Visio
7 14 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 11 (0.23%) Photoshop
9 9 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
9 9 (0.18%) CATIA
10 7 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
10 7 (0.14%) Chatbot
10 7 (0.14%) InDesign
11 5 (0.10%) Acrobat
12 2 (0.041%) Adobe Captivate
12 2 (0.041%) FileZilla
12 2 (0.041%) InfoPath
12 2 (0.041%) Trello
13 1 (0.021%) Autodesk Inventor
13 1 (0.021%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 144 (2.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 37 (0.76%) Dynamics AX
3 24 (0.49%) Dynamics GP
4 17 (0.35%) Shopify
5 15 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
5 15 (0.31%) Teamcenter
6 14 (0.29%) Primavera
7 13 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
8 12 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 10 (0.21%) Endur
10 9 (0.18%) NetSuite
10 9 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
11 8 (0.16%) DELMIA
11 8 (0.16%) Magento
12 7 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
13 6 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
13 6 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
13 6 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
14 5 (0.10%) Oracle AGIS
14 5 (0.10%) SmartPlant
Cloud Services
1 1,675 (34.37%) Azure
2 1,051 (21.56%) Microsoft 365
3 589 (12.08%) Power Platform
4 390 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
5 369 (7.57%) Dynamics 365
5 369 (7.57%) Entra ID
6 300 (6.16%) AWS
7 223 (4.58%) PowerApps
8 208 (4.27%) Power Automate
9 143 (2.93%) PaaS
10 135 (2.77%) SaaS
11 113 (2.32%) IaaS
12 112 (2.30%) OneDrive
13 92 (1.89%) Serverless
14 89 (1.83%) Azure Monitor
15 86 (1.76%) GCP
16 78 (1.60%) Azure Service Bus
17 76 (1.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 76 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
18 66 (1.35%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 297 (6.09%) Firewall
2 248 (5.09%) DNS
3 165 (3.39%) DHCP
4 149 (3.06%) VPN
5 115 (2.36%) LAN
6 107 (2.20%) SAN
7 97 (1.99%) WAN
8 94 (1.93%) TCP/IP
9 91 (1.87%) Wireless
10 79 (1.62%) Wi-Fi
11 57 (1.17%) VoIP
12 52 (1.07%) Network Security
13 46 (0.94%) VLAN
14 38 (0.78%) Internet
15 37 (0.76%) NAS
16 35 (0.72%) BGP
17 29 (0.59%) Intranet
18 27 (0.55%) Remote Desktop
18 27 (0.55%) Skype
19 26 (0.53%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 521 (10.69%) SQL Server
2 391 (8.02%) Power BI
3 141 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
4 122 (2.50%) Data Lake
5 89 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 80 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 73 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 67 (1.37%) NoSQL
8 67 (1.37%) Relational Database
9 62 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
10 53 (1.09%) MySQL
11 51 (1.05%) Big Data
12 32 (0.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 32 (0.66%) Tableau
13 25 (0.51%) Metadata
14 24 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
15 23 (0.47%) MongoDB
16 20 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
17 19 (0.39%) RDBMS
18 18 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 225 (4.62%) JIRA
2 143 (2.93%) Git
3 83 (1.70%) Visual Studio
4 62 (1.27%) Jenkins
5 47 (0.96%) GitLab
6 44 (0.90%) Postman
7 34 (0.70%) Selenium
7 34 (0.70%) SpecFlow
8 29 (0.59%) MSI
9 21 (0.43%) TeamCity
10 19 (0.39%) Visual Studio Team System
11 18 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 15 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
12 15 (0.31%) WebDriver
13 14 (0.29%) Maven
14 13 (0.27%) Bitbucket
14 13 (0.27%) SonarQube
15 12 (0.25%) Eclipse
15 12 (0.25%) JMeter
16 11 (0.23%) Subversion
General
1 1,708 (35.04%) Social Skills
2 898 (18.42%) Finance
3 589 (12.08%) Analytical Skills
4 436 (8.95%) Public Sector
5 227 (4.66%) Banking
6 176 (3.61%) Telecoms
7 175 (3.59%) Marketing
8 154 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
9 151 (3.10%) Legal
10 148 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
11 139 (2.85%) Retail
12 136 (2.79%) Manufacturing
13 64 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
14 59 (1.21%) Electronics
15 57 (1.17%) Back Office
16 50 (1.03%) Local Government
17 49 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
18 47 (0.96%) Financial Institution
18 47 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 41 (0.84%) Law
Job Titles
1 615 (12.62%) Analyst
2 554 (11.37%) Developer
3 535 (10.98%) Architect
4 422 (8.66%) Senior
5 322 (6.61%) Consultant
6 254 (5.21%) Lead
7 231 (4.74%) Support Engineer
8 183 (3.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 176 (3.61%) Administrator
10 169 (3.47%) IT Support
11 167 (3.43%) Project Manager
12 163 (3.34%) Solutions Architect
13 133 (2.73%) Senior Developer
14 131 (2.69%) Service Analyst
15 127 (2.61%) Azure Engineer
16 118 (2.42%) IT Engineer
17 109 (2.24%) 2nd Line Support
18 105 (2.15%) Service Desk Analyst
19 104 (2.13%) Desktop Support
20 95 (1.95%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 346 (7.10%) .NET
2 169 (3.47%) XML
3 125 (2.56%) .NET Framework
4 116 (2.38%) HTML
5 104 (2.13%) CSS
6 103 (2.11%) .NET Core
7 85 (1.74%) Web Services
8 82 (1.68%) React
9 81 (1.66%) JSON
10 73 (1.50%) REST
11 67 (1.37%) ASP.NET
12 65 (1.33%) AngularJS
13 54 (1.11%) ARM Templates
14 52 (1.07%) Kafka
15 38 (0.78%) Middleware
16 37 (0.76%) RESTful
17 33 (0.68%) Node.js
17 33 (0.68%) SailPoint
17 33 (0.68%) Swagger
18 31 (0.64%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 246 (5.05%) Management Information System
2 143 (2.93%) PKI
3 136 (2.79%) Product Ownership
4 114 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
5 104 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
6 100 (2.05%) Data Centre
7 91 (1.87%) Data Structures
8 79 (1.62%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 77 (1.58%) Cyber Defence
10 73 (1.50%) Onboarding
11 72 (1.48%) Security Posture
12 56 (1.15%) NHS
13 55 (1.13%) Driving Licence
14 54 (1.11%) Video Conferencing
15 51 (1.05%) Cloud Native
15 51 (1.05%) Public Cloud
16 42 (0.86%) Virtual Team
17 38 (0.78%) Clustering
18 37 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
18 37 (0.76%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,307 (26.82%) Windows
2 433 (8.88%) Windows 10
3 430 (8.82%) Windows Server
4 339 (6.96%) Linux
5 131 (2.69%) Windows Server 2012
6 119 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
7 118 (2.42%) Windows Server 2019
8 102 (2.09%) Windows 7
9 73 (1.50%) Apple iOS
10 67 (1.37%) Android
11 55 (1.13%) Mac OS
12 54 (1.11%) Unix
13 39 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 29 (0.59%) Ubuntu
15 20 (0.41%) VMS
15 20 (0.41%) Windows XP
16 18 (0.37%) Mac OS X
16 18 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
17 16 (0.33%) Windows NT
18 12 (0.25%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 867 (17.79%) Problem-Solving
2 862 (17.69%) Agile
3 666 (13.66%) DevOps
4 542 (11.12%) Customer Service
5 497 (10.20%) ITIL
6 487 (9.99%) Migration
7 454 (9.31%) Business Intelligence
8 433 (8.88%) Project Management
9 327 (6.71%) CI/CD
10 312 (6.40%) Analytics
11 308 (6.32%) Cybersecurity
12 277 (5.68%) Stakeholder Management
13 269 (5.52%) Change Management
14 247 (5.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 245 (5.03%) Project Delivery
16 241 (4.94%) CRM
17 232 (4.76%) Service Delivery
18 230 (4.72%) Scrum
19 220 (4.51%) Data Modelling
20 214 (4.39%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 591 (12.13%) SQL
2 553 (11.35%) PowerShell
3 407 (8.35%) C#
4 261 (5.35%) Python
5 169 (3.47%) JavaScript
6 138 (2.83%) Java
7 107 (2.20%) Bicep
8 75 (1.54%) T-SQL
9 59 (1.21%) TypeScript
10 45 (0.92%) Bash
11 39 (0.80%) VB
12 38 (0.78%) C++
13 33 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
14 32 (0.66%) VBScript
15 31 (0.64%) C
16 29 (0.59%) Shell Script
17 25 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 23 (0.47%) PL/SQL
19 21 (0.43%) VB.NET
20 19 (0.39%) PHP
Qualifications
1 993 (20.37%) Security Cleared
2 639 (13.11%) Degree
3 561 (11.51%) SC Cleared
4 430 (8.82%) DV Cleared
5 275 (5.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 130 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 113 (2.32%) Azure Certification
8 81 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
9 78 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
10 70 (1.44%) CISSP
11 65 (1.33%) CCNA
12 60 (1.23%) MCSE
13 52 (1.07%) MCSA
14 50 (1.03%) APMP
14 50 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
15 49 (1.01%) Master's Degree
16 47 (0.96%) CCNP
17 44 (0.90%) PMI Certification
17 44 (0.90%) PMP
18 43 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (4.23%) SLA
2 168 (3.45%) QA
3 115 (2.36%) NIST
4 105 (2.15%) PMO
5 88 (1.81%) GDPR
6 72 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 68 (1.40%) NIST 800
8 66 (1.35%) Accessibility
9 59 (1.21%) Data Quality
10 31 (0.64%) Government Security Classifications
11 30 (0.62%) PCI DSS
12 27 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
13 26 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
14 21 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 19 (0.39%) WCAG
16 13 (0.27%) HIPAA
16 13 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 11 (0.23%) NCSC
18 10 (0.21%) GRC
19 9 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 1,065 (21.85%) Active Directory
2 268 (5.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 115 (2.36%) Hyper-V
4 90 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
5 86 (1.76%) Docker
6 67 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 63 (1.29%) vSphere
8 57 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
9 49 (1.01%) Firmware
10 30 (0.62%) VMware NSX
11 19 (0.39%) XenApp
12 18 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
13 17 (0.35%) XenDesktop
14 15 (0.31%) BitLocker
15 14 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
16 13 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
17 9 (0.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
18 8 (0.16%) VMware Server
19 5 (0.10%) KVM
19 5 (0.10%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 322 (6.61%) SCCM
2 290 (5.95%) Microsoft Intune
3 166 (3.41%) Kubernetes
4 156 (3.20%) Terraform
5 98 (2.01%) WSUS
6 90 (1.85%) SCOM
7 71 (1.46%) Ansible
8 68 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
9 46 (0.94%) vCenter Server
10 45 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 43 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
12 30 (0.62%) Grafana
13 25 (0.51%) Prometheus
14 24 (0.49%) Kibana
15 23 (0.47%) Nessus
16 21 (0.43%) Puppet
17 19 (0.39%) EMC NetWorker
18 18 (0.37%) logstash
18 18 (0.37%) NetBackup
19 17 (0.35%) WMI
Vendors
1 397 (8.15%) VMware
2 238 (4.88%) Oracle
3 201 (4.12%) SAP
4 198 (4.06%) ServiceNow
5 162 (3.32%) Cisco
6 139 (2.85%) Google
7 135 (2.77%) Citrix
8 101 (2.07%) Apple
8 101 (2.07%) Salesforce
9 84 (1.72%) Dell
10 82 (1.68%) HP
11 72 (1.48%) Databricks
12 67 (1.37%) Adobe
13 64 (1.31%) Veeam
14 58 (1.19%) Atlassian
15 57 (1.17%) Splunk
16 51 (1.05%) Qualys
17 50 (1.03%) Palo Alto
17 50 (1.03%) Red Hat
18 47 (0.96%) CyberArk