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 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 12 13
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 +4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 2,172 3,048 4,229
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 12.40% 11.98% 10.94%
As % of the Vendors category 30.20% 30.06% 28.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,538 2,339 3,137
10th Percentile £213 £257 £266
25th Percentile £375 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +3.29% +8.40%
75th Percentile £603 £663 £640
90th Percentile £716 £750 £738
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 40 74
10th Percentile £12.50 £16.12 £14.75
25th Percentile £14.55 £19.28 £24.83
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.88 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.47% -35.11% +154.29%
75th Percentile £23.80 £54.44 £49.25
90th Percentile £29.33 £64.50 £58.14
England median hourly rate £15.00 £21.50 £17.64
% change year-on-year -30.23% +21.88% +0.80%

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 7,193 10,141 14,664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.08% 39.87% 37.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,941 7,189 10,469
10th Percentile £305 £325 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.87% +2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £775
England median daily rate £515 £531 £525
% change year-on-year -3.01% +1.14% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 128 166
10th Percentile £13.93 £16.10 £17.50
25th Percentile £17.20 £21.18 £23.91
Median hourly rate £23.80 £28.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -22.22% +33.33%
75th Percentile £38.75 £54.44 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £62.75
England median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +74.42% +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

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in London over the 6 months to 1 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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in London over the 6 months to 1 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 1 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 +5 384 £550 +1.29% 154
West London +8 51 £350 -22.22% 66
East London +3 38 £500 +1.01% 38
South London -5 24 £250 -45.95% 27
Microsoft
England

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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
1 255 (11.74%) SharePoint
2 148 (6.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 44 (2.03%) CMS
4 32 (1.47%) Confluence
5 19 (0.87%) Apache Spark
6 17 (0.78%) IIS
7 16 (0.74%) Skype for Business
8 12 (0.55%) Apache
9 7 (0.32%) Anypoint
9 7 (0.32%) Drupal
10 6 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
10 6 (0.28%) SharePoint 2013
11 4 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
12 3 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
12 3 (0.14%) MQSeries
12 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.092%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.092%) nginx
13 2 (0.092%) WebLogic
Applications
1 302 (13.90%) Microsoft Office
2 182 (8.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 97 (4.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 75 (3.45%) MS Visio
5 45 (2.07%) 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
9 6 (0.28%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.14%) Acrobat
12 2 (0.092%) FileZilla
12 2 (0.092%) Trello
13 1 (0.046%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.046%) Adobe Captivate
13 1 (0.046%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.046%) OmniGraffle
13 1 (0.046%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 82 (3.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 24 (1.10%) Dynamics AX
2 24 (1.10%) Dynamics GP
3 11 (0.51%) 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 4 (0.18%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle AGIS
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
9 3 (0.14%) Eikon
9 3 (0.14%) OPENHousing
9 3 (0.14%) OpenLink RightAngle
9 3 (0.14%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.14%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 978 (45.03%) Azure
2 514 (23.66%) Microsoft 365
3 320 (14.73%) Power Platform
4 282 (12.98%) Azure DevOps
5 235 (10.82%) Entra ID
6 192 (8.84%) Dynamics 365
7 168 (7.73%) AWS
8 135 (6.22%) Power Automate
9 128 (5.89%) PowerApps
10 82 (3.78%) PaaS
11 71 (3.27%) Azure Service Bus
12 65 (2.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 65 (2.99%) IaaS
13 64 (2.95%) SaaS
14 62 (2.85%) Serverless
15 57 (2.62%) GCP
16 53 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
17 52 (2.39%) OneDrive
18 50 (2.30%) GitHub
19 45 (2.07%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 111 (5.11%) Firewall
2 90 (4.14%) DNS
3 69 (3.18%) VPN
4 50 (2.30%) DHCP
4 50 (2.30%) LAN
5 48 (2.21%) WAN
6 45 (2.07%) Wireless
7 24 (1.10%) VoIP
7 24 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
8 23 (1.06%) Internet
8 23 (1.06%) SAN
9 20 (0.92%) TCP/IP
10 19 (0.87%) MPLS
10 19 (0.87%) SD-WAN
11 18 (0.83%) Skype
12 16 (0.74%) VLAN
13 15 (0.69%) NAS
13 15 (0.69%) Network Security
14 12 (0.55%) FTP
15 11 (0.51%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 359 (16.53%) SQL Server
2 224 (10.31%) Power BI
3 96 (4.42%) Data Warehouse
4 75 (3.45%) Data Lake
5 55 (2.53%) NoSQL
6 54 (2.49%) Azure SQL Database
7 43 (1.98%) Relational Database
8 42 (1.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 40 (1.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 39 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
11 33 (1.52%) Big Data
12 26 (1.20%) MySQL
13 25 (1.15%) Metadata
14 21 (0.97%) MongoDB
14 21 (0.97%) Tableau
15 17 (0.78%) Redis
16 16 (0.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 15 (0.69%) RDBMS
18 12 (0.55%) OLTP
19 11 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 89 (4.10%) JIRA
2 88 (4.05%) Git
3 41 (1.89%) Jenkins
4 36 (1.66%) Postman
5 33 (1.52%) SpecFlow
5 33 (1.52%) Visual Studio
6 31 (1.43%) GitLab
7 30 (1.38%) Selenium
8 20 (0.92%) TeamCity
9 15 (0.69%) WebDriver
10 12 (0.55%) Maven
11 10 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 9 (0.41%) Visual Studio Team System
13 8 (0.37%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.37%) JMeter
14 7 (0.32%) Bitbucket
14 7 (0.32%) Cypress.io
14 7 (0.32%) JUnit
14 7 (0.32%) LoadRunner
15 6 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 696 (32.04%) Social Skills
2 565 (26.01%) Finance
3 295 (13.58%) Analytical Skills
4 220 (10.13%) Public Sector
5 166 (7.64%) Banking
6 100 (4.60%) Marketing
7 90 (4.14%) Legal
8 89 (4.10%) Presentation Skills
9 88 (4.05%) Retail
10 61 (2.81%) Telecoms
11 54 (2.49%) Back Office
12 49 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
13 47 (2.16%) Manufacturing
14 38 (1.75%) Financial Institution
15 30 (1.38%) Electronics
15 30 (1.38%) General Ledger
15 30 (1.38%) Local Government
16 29 (1.34%) Law
17 27 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 26 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 359 (16.53%) Developer
2 265 (12.20%) Architect
3 249 (11.46%) Senior
4 248 (11.42%) Analyst
5 186 (8.56%) Consultant
6 115 (5.29%) Lead
7 110 (5.06%) Senior Developer
8 97 (4.47%) Support Engineer
9 91 (4.19%) Project Manager
10 81 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
11 77 (3.55%) Azure Engineer
12 64 (2.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 58 (2.67%) IT Support
14 54 (2.49%) Data Architect
15 53 (2.44%) Azure Developer
15 53 (2.44%) Support Analyst
16 52 (2.39%) Desktop Support
17 51 (2.35%) IT Engineer
17 51 (2.35%) Software Developer
18 45 (2.07%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 252 (11.60%) .NET
2 133 (6.12%) XML
3 93 (4.28%) .NET Core
4 82 (3.78%) .NET Framework
5 79 (3.64%) HTML
6 74 (3.41%) CSS
7 65 (2.99%) React
8 55 (2.53%) AngularJS
9 51 (2.35%) JSON
10 50 (2.30%) ASP.NET
11 49 (2.26%) REST
12 48 (2.21%) Web Services
13 36 (1.66%) Kafka
14 31 (1.43%) Swagger
15 27 (1.24%) ARM Templates
15 27 (1.24%) RabbitMQ
16 26 (1.20%) RESTful
17 24 (1.10%) PySpark
18 23 (1.06%) Middleware
19 21 (0.97%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 115 (5.29%) Product Ownership
2 91 (4.19%) Management Information System
3 68 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 60 (2.76%) Data Centre
5 43 (1.98%) Onboarding
6 39 (1.80%) Cloud Native
7 38 (1.75%) Security Posture
8 37 (1.70%) PKI
9 35 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
10 33 (1.52%) Video Conferencing
11 23 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
11 23 (1.06%) Mobile App
11 23 (1.06%) Virtual Team
12 22 (1.01%) Algorithms
13 21 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 21 (0.97%) Smartphone
14 20 (0.92%) iPhone
15 19 (0.87%) Hedge funds
15 19 (0.87%) Public Cloud
16 18 (0.83%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 452 (20.81%) Windows
2 148 (6.81%) Windows Server
3 128 (5.89%) Linux
4 120 (5.52%) Windows 10
5 42 (1.93%) Unix
6 41 (1.89%) Android
7 35 (1.61%) Windows 7
8 27 (1.24%) Apple iOS
9 26 (1.20%) Mac OS
10 22 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
11 17 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
12 16 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 13 (0.60%) Mac OS X
14 11 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
15 8 (0.37%) VMS
16 6 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
17 5 (0.23%) CentOS
17 5 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
17 5 (0.23%) Solaris
18 4 (0.18%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 509 (23.43%) Agile
2 429 (19.75%) DevOps
3 347 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
4 273 (12.57%) Migration
5 267 (12.29%) Business Intelligence
6 232 (10.68%) CI/CD
7 206 (9.48%) Project Management
8 185 (8.52%) ITIL
9 180 (8.29%) Scrum
10 163 (7.50%) Customer Service
11 160 (7.37%) Analytics
12 143 (6.58%) Data Modelling
13 126 (5.80%) Change Management
14 121 (5.57%) Project Delivery
15 120 (5.52%) Computer Science
16 113 (5.20%) Stakeholder Management
17 109 (5.02%) Cybersecurity
18 103 (4.74%) CRM
19 101 (4.65%) TDD
20 98 (4.51%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 352 (16.21%) SQL
2 314 (14.46%) PowerShell
3 276 (12.71%) C#
4 151 (6.95%) Python
5 101 (4.65%) JavaScript
6 85 (3.91%) Java
7 79 (3.64%) Bicep
8 48 (2.21%) T-SQL
8 48 (2.21%) TypeScript
9 25 (1.15%) Shell Script
10 23 (1.06%) Bash
11 16 (0.74%) PL/SQL
12 15 (0.69%) Go
13 13 (0.60%) C++
14 12 (0.55%) PHP
14 12 (0.55%) VBA
15 11 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 11 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
15 11 (0.51%) Scala
16 8 (0.37%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 304 (14.00%) Degree
2 192 (8.84%) Security Cleared
3 162 (7.46%) SC Cleared
4 111 (5.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 78 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 73 (3.36%) Azure Certification
7 39 (1.80%) CISSP
8 33 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
9 31 (1.43%) DV Cleared
10 25 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (1.10%) CCNA
12 23 (1.06%) CISM
13 20 (0.92%) CCNP
13 20 (0.92%) PMI Certification
14 19 (0.87%) AWS Certification
14 19 (0.87%) PMP
15 18 (0.83%) Master's Degree
16 14 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
17 12 (0.55%) A+ Certification
17 12 (0.55%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (3.73%) QA
2 73 (3.36%) SLA
3 52 (2.39%) GDPR
4 48 (2.21%) Accessibility
5 42 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 38 (1.75%) Data Quality
7 35 (1.61%) PMO
8 31 (1.43%) NIST
9 19 (0.87%) PCI DSS
10 18 (0.83%) WCAG
11 14 (0.64%) 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%) COBIT
16 6 (0.28%) GAAP
17 5 (0.23%) NCSC
18 4 (0.18%) GRC
18 4 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 473 (21.78%) Active Directory
2 66 (3.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 65 (2.99%) Docker
4 40 (1.84%) Hyper-V
5 35 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (1.01%) vSphere
7 16 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (0.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 11 (0.51%) Firmware
10 9 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
10 9 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.28%) XenApp
11 6 (0.28%) XenDesktop
12 5 (0.23%) BitLocker
12 5 (0.23%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.18%) NFS
14 3 (0.14%) KVM
14 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
15 2 (0.092%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 116 (5.34%) SCCM
2 104 (4.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 102 (4.70%) Kubernetes
4 101 (4.65%) Terraform
5 36 (1.66%) Ansible
6 29 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (1.15%) Jamf Pro
8 19 (0.87%) Grafana
9 18 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 17 (0.78%) SCOM
11 16 (0.74%) Prometheus
12 14 (0.64%) Puppet
12 14 (0.64%) WSUS
13 12 (0.55%) Consul
14 11 (0.51%) Progress Chef
15 10 (0.46%) FortiGate
16 8 (0.37%) Netcool
16 8 (0.37%) PingFederate
17 7 (0.32%) Tivoli Storage Manager
18 6 (0.28%) Nessus
Vendors
1 155 (7.14%) Oracle
2 121 (5.57%) VMware
3 106 (4.88%) SAP
4 86 (3.96%) ServiceNow
5 83 (3.82%) Google
6 71 (3.27%) Cisco
7 64 (2.95%) Citrix
8 55 (2.53%) Databricks
9 54 (2.49%) Apple
10 53 (2.44%) Salesforce
11 50 (2.30%) Dell
12 40 (1.84%) Adobe
13 29 (1.34%) Splunk
14 28 (1.29%) HP
15 25 (1.15%) CyberArk
16 24 (1.10%) Qualys
17 23 (1.06%) NetApp
17 23 (1.06%) Palo Alto
18 20 (0.92%) IBM
19 18 (0.83%) CA