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 15 May 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 7 9
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 4,772 6,606 8,895
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 13.12% 13.68% 12.66%
As % of the Vendors category 31.16% 32.65% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,152 4,837 6,289
10th Percentile £189 £204 £184
25th Percentile £327 £363 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.42%
75th Percentile £598 £626 £600
90th Percentile £700 £719 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 187 404
10th Percentile £11.07 £13.29 £10.77
25th Percentile £13.09 £16.24 £13.25
Median hourly rate £15.00 £21.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +13.51% +1.26%
75th Percentile £24.59 £43.39 £35.14
90th Percentile £52.78 £64.50 £50.93
UK median hourly rate £15.00 £22.16 £18.55
% change year-on-year -32.31% +19.46% +6.00%

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 15,315 20,235 27,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.12% 41.91% 39.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,726 13,929 18,958
10th Percentile £263 £263 £275
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +1.90% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,016 576 790
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.21 £11.99
25th Percentile £14.41 £18.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.08 £37.50 £21.40
Median % change year-on-year -41.13% +75.27% +1.88%
75th Percentile £56.31 £63.36 £47.39
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.03
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -49.41% +97.67% -3.00%

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 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in England

Microsoft
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 15 May 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 15 May 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 2,174 £500 -7.92% 1,302
South East 0 792 £465 +1.08% 855
North of England +4 646 £450 -5.26% 988
South West +1 499 £500 -4.76% 496
North West +3 390 £450 -5.26% 531
Midlands -3 337 £400 -5.88% 764
West Midlands -4 227 £400 -11.11% 468
Yorkshire +2 220 £425 -10.53% 337
East of England -2 218 £434 +2.00% 403
East Midlands -4 103 £400 +9.59% 297
North East +6 38 £378 +59.16% 126
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
1 486 (10.18%) SharePoint
2 349 (7.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 104 (2.18%) Confluence
4 62 (1.30%) CMS
5 38 (0.80%) SharePoint Server
6 34 (0.71%) IIS
7 30 (0.63%) Apache Spark
8 27 (0.57%) Skype for Business
9 20 (0.42%) Apache
10 11 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
11 10 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
12 9 (0.19%) Tomcat
13 8 (0.17%) Drupal
13 8 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2007
13 8 (0.17%) WordPress
14 7 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 6 (0.13%) Anypoint
15 6 (0.13%) ArcGIS
15 6 (0.13%) IBM Notes
15 6 (0.13%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 857 (17.96%) Microsoft Office
2 576 (12.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 284 (5.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 131 (2.75%) Microsoft Project
5 104 (2.18%) MS Visio
6 100 (2.10%) Spreadsheet
7 14 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 11 (0.23%) Photoshop
9 9 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
9 9 (0.19%) CATIA
10 8 (0.17%) Adobe Premiere
10 8 (0.17%) Chatbot
11 7 (0.15%) InDesign
12 5 (0.10%) Acrobat
13 2 (0.042%) FileZilla
13 2 (0.042%) InfoPath
13 2 (0.042%) Trello
14 1 (0.021%) Camtasia
14 1 (0.021%) PlantUML
14 1 (0.021%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 129 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 38 (0.80%) Dynamics AX
3 27 (0.57%) Dynamics GP
4 16 (0.34%) Teamcenter
5 15 (0.31%) Shopify
6 12 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 12 (0.25%) Primavera
6 12 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 11 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
8 9 (0.19%) Endur
8 9 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
8 9 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
9 8 (0.17%) DELMIA
9 8 (0.17%) Loan IQ
9 8 (0.17%) Magento
10 7 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
10 7 (0.15%) NetSuite
11 6 (0.13%) Oracle Assets
11 6 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
12 5 (0.10%) Oracle AGIS
Cloud Services
1 1,646 (34.49%) Azure
2 1,036 (21.71%) Microsoft 365
3 563 (11.80%) Power Platform
4 388 (8.13%) Azure DevOps
5 351 (7.36%) Entra ID
6 326 (6.83%) Dynamics 365
7 278 (5.83%) AWS
8 205 (4.30%) PowerApps
9 191 (4.00%) Power Automate
10 143 (3.00%) PaaS
11 138 (2.89%) SaaS
12 110 (2.31%) IaaS
13 103 (2.16%) OneDrive
14 92 (1.93%) Serverless
15 87 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
16 83 (1.74%) Azure Data Factory
16 83 (1.74%) GCP
17 75 (1.57%) Azure Service Bus
18 73 (1.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 66 (1.38%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 303 (6.35%) Firewall
2 251 (5.26%) DNS
3 166 (3.48%) DHCP
4 153 (3.21%) VPN
5 130 (2.72%) LAN
6 106 (2.22%) SAN
6 106 (2.22%) WAN
7 98 (2.05%) TCP/IP
8 89 (1.87%) Wireless
9 78 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
10 53 (1.11%) Network Security
10 53 (1.11%) VoIP
11 42 (0.88%) BGP
12 41 (0.86%) VLAN
13 36 (0.75%) NAS
13 36 (0.75%) Skype
14 35 (0.73%) Internet
15 30 (0.63%) Intranet
16 29 (0.61%) MPLS
16 29 (0.61%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 497 (10.41%) SQL Server
2 377 (7.90%) Power BI
3 143 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
4 116 (2.43%) Data Lake
5 87 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 72 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
7 69 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 63 (1.32%) NoSQL
9 62 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
10 60 (1.26%) Relational Database
11 49 (1.03%) Big Data
12 48 (1.01%) MySQL
13 36 (0.75%) Tableau
14 32 (0.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 29 (0.61%) Metadata
16 24 (0.50%) MongoDB
17 23 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
18 20 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
19 17 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
19 17 (0.36%) Redis
Development Applications
1 224 (4.69%) JIRA
2 135 (2.83%) Git
3 73 (1.53%) Visual Studio
4 61 (1.28%) Jenkins
5 47 (0.98%) GitLab
6 35 (0.73%) SpecFlow
7 33 (0.69%) Postman
8 32 (0.67%) Selenium
9 23 (0.48%) TeamCity
10 21 (0.44%) MSI
11 18 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 16 (0.34%) Maven
13 15 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
13 15 (0.31%) WebDriver
14 14 (0.29%) SonarQube
15 13 (0.27%) Bitbucket
16 12 (0.25%) Eclipse
16 12 (0.25%) Visual Studio Team System
17 11 (0.23%) Subversion
18 10 (0.21%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1,716 (35.96%) Social Skills
2 904 (18.94%) Finance
3 574 (12.03%) Analytical Skills
4 403 (8.45%) Public Sector
5 234 (4.90%) Banking
6 180 (3.77%) Marketing
7 175 (3.67%) Organisational Skills
8 170 (3.56%) Presentation Skills
9 166 (3.48%) Telecoms
10 162 (3.39%) Legal
11 138 (2.89%) Retail
12 135 (2.83%) Manufacturing
13 67 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
14 60 (1.26%) Back Office
15 59 (1.24%) Electronics
16 52 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
17 51 (1.07%) Law
18 50 (1.05%) Financial Institution
19 49 (1.03%) Local Government
20 45 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 629 (13.18%) Analyst
2 522 (10.94%) Developer
3 503 (10.54%) Architect
4 388 (8.13%) Senior
5 301 (6.31%) Consultant
6 245 (5.13%) Lead
7 244 (5.11%) Support Engineer
8 179 (3.75%) Project Manager
9 173 (3.63%) Administrator
10 171 (3.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 171 (3.58%) IT Support
11 159 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
12 144 (3.02%) Service Analyst
13 135 (2.83%) Azure Engineer
14 123 (2.58%) Senior Developer
15 120 (2.51%) IT Engineer
16 117 (2.45%) Service Desk Analyst
17 110 (2.31%) Desktop Support
18 109 (2.28%) 2nd Line Support
19 97 (2.03%) Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 330 (6.92%) .NET
2 167 (3.50%) XML
3 109 (2.28%) .NET Framework
4 107 (2.24%) .NET Core
5 100 (2.10%) HTML
6 95 (1.99%) CSS
7 84 (1.76%) Web Services
8 83 (1.74%) JSON
9 79 (1.66%) REST
10 78 (1.63%) React
11 64 (1.34%) AngularJS
12 57 (1.19%) ASP.NET
13 54 (1.13%) ARM Templates
14 45 (0.94%) Kafka
15 33 (0.69%) Node.js
16 32 (0.67%) RESTful
17 31 (0.65%) Middleware
18 29 (0.61%) PySpark
19 28 (0.59%) RabbitMQ
19 28 (0.59%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 228 (4.78%) Management Information System
2 142 (2.98%) PKI
3 131 (2.75%) Product Ownership
4 112 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
5 105 (2.20%) Data Centre
6 86 (1.80%) Cyber Threat
7 85 (1.78%) Data Structures
8 77 (1.61%) Onboarding
9 67 (1.40%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 66 (1.38%) Cyber Defence
11 60 (1.26%) NHS
11 60 (1.26%) Security Posture
12 59 (1.24%) Driving Licence
13 56 (1.17%) Video Conferencing
14 54 (1.13%) Cloud Native
15 47 (0.98%) Private Cloud
16 43 (0.90%) Public Cloud
17 40 (0.84%) Virtual Team
18 38 (0.80%) Clustering
18 38 (0.80%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1,307 (27.39%) Windows
2 463 (9.70%) Windows 10
3 425 (8.91%) Windows Server
4 326 (6.83%) Linux
5 126 (2.64%) Windows Server 2012
6 114 (2.39%) Windows Server 2019
7 113 (2.37%) Windows 7
8 111 (2.33%) Windows Server 2016
9 70 (1.47%) Apple iOS
10 66 (1.38%) Android
11 61 (1.28%) Mac OS
12 50 (1.05%) Unix
13 33 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 32 (0.67%) Ubuntu
15 24 (0.50%) Windows Server 2008
16 20 (0.42%) Windows XP
17 19 (0.40%) Mac OS X
17 19 (0.40%) VMS
17 19 (0.40%) Windows NT
18 14 (0.29%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 879 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
2 858 (17.98%) Agile
3 664 (13.91%) DevOps
4 561 (11.76%) Customer Service
5 522 (10.94%) ITIL
6 472 (9.89%) Migration
7 444 (9.30%) Business Intelligence
8 442 (9.26%) Project Management
9 323 (6.77%) CI/CD
10 301 (6.31%) Analytics
11 289 (6.06%) Cybersecurity
12 280 (5.87%) Stakeholder Management
13 261 (5.47%) Change Management
14 257 (5.39%) Project Delivery
15 245 (5.13%) Service Delivery
16 234 (4.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 229 (4.80%) Data Modelling
18 223 (4.67%) Scrum
19 216 (4.53%) Decision-Making
20 215 (4.51%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 578 (12.11%) SQL
2 534 (11.19%) PowerShell
3 399 (8.36%) C#
4 258 (5.41%) Python
5 156 (3.27%) JavaScript
6 134 (2.81%) Java
7 101 (2.12%) Bicep
8 64 (1.34%) T-SQL
9 57 (1.19%) TypeScript
10 48 (1.01%) Bash
11 35 (0.73%) C++
12 29 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
12 29 (0.61%) VB
13 27 (0.57%) Shell Script
14 26 (0.54%) C
15 25 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 25 (0.52%) PL/SQL
15 25 (0.52%) VBScript
16 18 (0.38%) PHP
17 13 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 954 (19.99%) Security Cleared
2 634 (13.29%) Degree
3 530 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 440 (9.22%) DV Cleared
5 273 (5.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 131 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 106 (2.22%) Azure Certification
8 80 (1.68%) CISSP
9 79 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
10 76 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
11 62 (1.30%) CCNA
12 59 (1.24%) MCSE
13 55 (1.15%) APMP
14 51 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
15 49 (1.03%) MCSA
16 47 (0.98%) CCNP
17 45 (0.94%) Master's Degree
18 44 (0.92%) CISM
19 41 (0.86%) A+ Certification
19 41 (0.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 229 (4.80%) SLA
2 165 (3.46%) QA
3 120 (2.51%) PMO
4 107 (2.24%) NIST
5 87 (1.82%) GDPR
6 79 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 60 (1.26%) Data Quality
8 59 (1.24%) Accessibility
9 56 (1.17%) NIST 800
10 39 (0.82%) Government Security Classifications
11 27 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
11 27 (0.57%) PCI DSS
12 26 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
13 21 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 18 (0.38%) WCAG
15 16 (0.34%) JSP 440
16 15 (0.31%) NCSC
17 13 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
18 11 (0.23%) HIPAA
19 10 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 1,047 (21.94%) Active Directory
2 240 (5.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 105 (2.20%) Hyper-V
4 92 (1.93%) Docker
5 79 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
6 60 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
7 56 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 53 (1.11%) vSphere
9 51 (1.07%) Firmware
10 28 (0.59%) VMware NSX
11 18 (0.38%) XenApp
12 15 (0.31%) XenDesktop
13 14 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 12 (0.25%) BitLocker
14 12 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
15 9 (0.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 8 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
16 8 (0.17%) VMware Server
17 6 (0.13%) KVM
18 5 (0.10%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 320 (6.71%) SCCM
2 281 (5.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 152 (3.19%) Kubernetes
4 150 (3.14%) Terraform
5 93 (1.95%) WSUS
6 87 (1.82%) SCOM
7 71 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
8 68 (1.42%) Ansible
9 51 (1.07%) Jamf Pro
10 49 (1.03%) vCenter Server
11 47 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 29 (0.61%) Grafana
13 26 (0.54%) Prometheus
14 24 (0.50%) OPNET
15 21 (0.44%) EMC NetWorker
16 20 (0.42%) Puppet
16 20 (0.42%) Sysprep
17 19 (0.40%) Nessus
18 18 (0.38%) NetBackup
19 16 (0.34%) WMI
Vendors
1 374 (7.84%) VMware
2 244 (5.11%) Oracle
3 206 (4.32%) SAP
4 197 (4.13%) ServiceNow
5 161 (3.37%) Cisco
6 143 (3.00%) Citrix
7 135 (2.83%) Google
8 106 (2.22%) Apple
9 96 (2.01%) HP
10 89 (1.87%) Salesforce
11 83 (1.74%) Dell
12 74 (1.55%) Databricks
13 71 (1.49%) Adobe
14 66 (1.38%) Splunk
14 66 (1.38%) Veeam
15 59 (1.24%) Atlassian
16 49 (1.03%) Palo Alto
17 48 (1.01%) Red Hat
18 45 (0.94%) Qualys
19 42 (0.88%) IBM