Microsoft Engineer Contracts in England

Microsoft Engineer
UK > England

The median Microsoft Engineer daily rate in England is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 497 578 722
Rank change year-on-year +81 +144 -100
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft Engineer 53 58 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.12% 0.093%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.13% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 51 48
10th Percentile £225 £213 £256
25th Percentile £350 £325 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £498
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -4.52% +37.24%
75th Percentile £514 £565 £559
90th Percentile £538 £625 £633
UK median daily rate £451 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -7.44% +2.63% +26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Median hourly rate £18.00 - £78.75
UK median hourly rate £18.00 - £78.75

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,808 44,443 66,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 31,614 47,944
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,321 1,753
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Microsoft Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Engineer in England

Microsoft Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Engineer in England

Microsoft Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Engineer in England

Microsoft Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Engineer in England

Microsoft Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region 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
South West +18 21 £495 -20.80% 4
London +69 9 £425 -10.53% 5
South East +17 9 £375 - 3
West Midlands +22 7 £350 -33.33%
Midlands +17 7 £350 - 4
North of England +8 7 £426 -21.72% 3
North West +7 7 £426 -22.11% 1
Microsoft Engineer
UK

Microsoft Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Microsoft Engineer 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 across the England region featuring Microsoft Engineer in the job title.

1 53 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 34 (64.15%) Social Skills
3 33 (62.26%) Windows
4 27 (50.94%) Azure
5 25 (47.17%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (43.40%) ITIL
7 22 (41.51%) SharePoint
8 20 (37.74%) Security Cleared
9 19 (35.85%) Firewall
10 16 (30.19%) Service Management
10 16 (30.19%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (26.42%) Active Directory
11 14 (26.42%) DV Cleared
12 13 (24.53%) Atlassian
12 13 (24.53%) SCOM
12 13 (24.53%) SharePoint Server
12 13 (24.53%) JIRA
12 13 (24.53%) BGP
12 13 (24.53%) ITSM
12 13 (24.53%) Confluence
12 13 (24.53%) Network Management
12 13 (24.53%) Capacity Management
12 13 (24.53%) Private Cloud
12 13 (24.53%) Azure Stack
12 13 (24.53%) Government Security Classifications
12 13 (24.53%) Security Monitoring
12 13 (24.53%) Customer Service
13 12 (22.64%) Microsoft Exchange
14 10 (18.87%) PowerShell
15 9 (16.98%) Entra ID

Microsoft Engineer Skill Set
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 22 (41.51%) SharePoint
2 13 (24.53%) Confluence
2 13 (24.53%) SharePoint Server
3 12 (22.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (15.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 27 (50.94%) Azure
2 25 (47.17%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (24.53%) Azure Stack
4 9 (16.98%) Entra ID
5 8 (15.09%) OneDrive
5 8 (15.09%) Power Platform
5 8 (15.09%) PowerApps
6 7 (13.21%) Power Automate
7 3 (5.66%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.77%) Google Workspace
8 2 (3.77%) PaaS
8 2 (3.77%) SaaS
8 2 (3.77%) Slack
9 1 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.89%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.89%) Azure Storage
9 1 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.89%) IaaS
9 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 19 (35.85%) Firewall
2 13 (24.53%) BGP
3 6 (11.32%) Unified Communications
4 2 (3.77%) VoIP
4 2 (3.77%) VPN
5 1 (1.89%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.21%) Power BI
2 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (24.53%) JIRA
2 1 (1.89%) Appium
2 1 (1.89%) Selenium
General
1 34 (64.15%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.09%) Finance
3 6 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (3.77%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.89%) Banking
5 1 (1.89%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (1.89%) Local Government
5 1 (1.89%) Police
Miscellaneous
1 13 (24.53%) Private Cloud
2 6 (11.32%) Digital Signage
2 6 (11.32%) PKI
3 2 (3.77%) Life Science
3 2 (3.77%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.89%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.89%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 33 (62.26%) Windows
2 8 (15.09%) Windows Server
3 6 (11.32%) Windows Server 2016
3 6 (11.32%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (3.77%) Windows 7
5 1 (1.89%) Android
5 1 (1.89%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.89%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (43.40%) ITIL
2 16 (30.19%) Service Management
3 13 (24.53%) Capacity Management
3 13 (24.53%) Customer Service
3 13 (24.53%) ITSM
3 13 (24.53%) Network Management
3 13 (24.53%) Security Monitoring
4 7 (13.21%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (11.32%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 6 (11.32%) Service Delivery
6 4 (7.55%) DevOps
6 4 (7.55%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (5.66%) Incident Management
7 3 (5.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (5.66%) Mentoring
7 3 (5.66%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (3.77%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 2 (3.77%) Customer Requirements
8 2 (3.77%) Knowledge Transfer
8 2 (3.77%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 10 (18.87%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.77%) SQL
3 1 (1.89%) C#
3 1 (1.89%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 20 (37.74%) Security Cleared
2 14 (26.42%) DV Cleared
3 5 (9.43%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.55%) Degree
5 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.89%) CEH
7 1 (1.89%) CISSP
7 1 (1.89%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (24.53%) Government Security Classifications
2 8 (15.09%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (26.42%) Active Directory
2 5 (9.43%) Hyper-V
2 5 (9.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (30.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (24.53%) SCOM
3 6 (11.32%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (7.55%) SCCM
5 2 (3.77%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 53 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (24.53%) Atlassian
3 6 (11.32%) Oracle
4 5 (9.43%) VMware
5 3 (5.66%) Google
5 3 (5.66%) Veeam
6 1 (1.89%) CA