Microsoft Graph Contracts

Microsoft Graph API
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Microsoft Graph skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft Graph over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 546 645 777
Rank change year-on-year +99 +132 -87
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Graph 29 37 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.067% 0.066% 0.070%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.32% 0.29% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 31 41
10th Percentile £381 £350 £419
25th Percentile £531 £450 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £500 £440
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% +13.64% -3.30%
75th Percentile £775 £676 £575
90th Percentile - £738 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £363 £500 £480
% change year-on-year -27.50% +4.17% +4.35%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Microsoft Graph is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,058 12,870 23,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.04% 22.96% 26.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,281 9,398 17,328
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 147 222
10th Percentile £21.89 £30.45 £25.05
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.55 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.25
% change year-on-year -25.49% +17.65% +22.78%

Microsoft Graph
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Graph in the UK

Microsoft Graph
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Graph in the UK

Microsoft Graph
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Graph over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Graph in the UK

Microsoft Graph
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Graph within the UK 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
England +85 27 £700 +40.00% 7
London +108 24 £700 +37.25% 1
Work from Home +107 8 £700 +47.37% 7
UK excluding London +24 4 £363 -27.50% 3
West Midlands - 2 - -
Midlands - 2 - -
Scotland +35 1 £350 -41.67%
South West - 1 £375 - 2

Microsoft Graph
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 8 (27.59%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.45%) Mendix
Business Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (100.00%) Azure
2 18 (62.07%) Entra ID
3 16 (55.17%) Power Platform
4 13 (44.83%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (44.83%) PowerApps
5 10 (34.48%) Power Automate
6 8 (27.59%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (24.14%) Azure Key Vault
7 7 (24.14%) IaaS
7 7 (24.14%) PaaS
8 6 (20.69%) Azure Functions
8 6 (20.69%) Serverless
9 4 (13.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (10.34%) OneDrive
11 2 (6.90%) Apigee
11 2 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (6.90%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (6.90%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (41.38%) Power BI
2 2 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Git
1 3 (10.34%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.45%) Postman
2 1 (3.45%) Selenium
General
1 10 (34.48%) Finance
2 7 (24.14%) Financial Institution
3 3 (10.34%) Banking
3 3 (10.34%) Legal
4 2 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.90%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (48.28%) Architect
2 11 (37.93%) Developer
3 8 (27.59%) Technical Architect
4 7 (24.14%) Platform Architect
4 7 (24.14%) Power Platform Architect
5 5 (17.24%) Azure Architect
5 5 (17.24%) Systems Architect
6 4 (13.79%) SharePoint Developer
7 3 (10.34%) Senior
8 2 (6.90%) .NET Developer
8 2 (6.90%) Applications Developer
8 2 (6.90%) C# Developer
8 2 (6.90%) Power Apps Developer
8 2 (6.90%) Senior Applications Developer
8 2 (6.90%) Senior Developer
8 2 (6.90%) Senior Power Apps Developer
8 2 (6.90%) Senior SQL Developer
8 2 (6.90%) Senior SQL Server Developer
8 2 (6.90%) SQL Developer
8 2 (6.90%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (51.72%) REST
2 10 (34.48%) .NET
3 8 (27.59%) OAuth
4 7 (24.14%) AngularJS
4 7 (24.14%) JSON
4 7 (24.14%) OpenID
4 7 (24.14%) SAML
4 7 (24.14%) XML
5 4 (13.79%) CSS
5 4 (13.79%) React
6 3 (10.34%) HTML5 Canvas
6 3 (10.34%) jQuery
7 2 (6.90%) Node.js
7 2 (6.90%) YAML
8 1 (3.45%) .NET Framework
8 1 (3.45%) Jest
8 1 (3.45%) Redux
8 1 (3.45%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.45%) Low-Code
2 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Linux
1 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (31.03%) CI/CD
3 7 (24.14%) B2C
3 7 (24.14%) CRM
3 7 (24.14%) Network Virtualisation
3 7 (24.14%) XML Parsing
4 6 (20.69%) Migration
5 5 (17.24%) Agile
6 4 (13.79%) Computer Science
6 4 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (10.34%) Data Loss Prevention
7 3 (10.34%) DevOps
7 3 (10.34%) ITIL
7 3 (10.34%) PRINCE2
7 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (10.34%) Project Management
7 3 (10.34%) Runbook
8 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (6.90%) Observability
8 2 (6.90%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 16 (55.17%) PowerShell
2 11 (37.93%) JavaScript
3 5 (17.24%) C#
4 3 (10.34%) SQL
4 3 (10.34%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Degree
2 4 (13.79%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
2 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
3 3 (10.34%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) QA
System Software
1 11 (37.93%) Active Directory
2 7 (24.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) PingFederate
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (6.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (58.62%) Microsoft
2 7 (24.14%) MuleSoft
3 3 (10.34%) Proofpoint
3 3 (10.34%) Symantec