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 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 12 13
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 2,171 3,013 4,247
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 12.44% 11.64% 11.01%
As % of the Vendors category 30.37% 29.65% 29.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,537 2,296 3,130
10th Percentile £210 £250 £263
25th Percentile £370 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £535
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +1.87% +12.63%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £644
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +12.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 40 81
10th Percentile £12.50 £16.13 £14.75
25th Percentile £14.06 £19.28 £23.50
Median hourly rate £18.80 £25.86 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.31% -41.90% +89.77%
75th Percentile £23.75 £46.33 £49.25
90th Percentile £26.50 £64.50 £51.00
England median hourly rate £15.00 £21.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -28.57% +13.51% +1.26%

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 7,148 10,163 14,561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.95% 39.28% 37.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,901 7,207 10,344
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £573 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £669 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £775
England median daily rate £520 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -3.26% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 129 181
10th Percentile £13.86 £16.13 £17.00
25th Percentile £16.86 £21.00 £23.91
Median hourly rate £22.50 £27.00 £35.07
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -23.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile £35.38 £56.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £59.00 £70.00 £61.75
England median hourly rate £22.00 £36.00 £21.45
% change year-on-year -38.89% +67.83% +2.14%

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

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in London over the 6 months to 16 May 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

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in London over the 6 months to 16 May 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 16 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
Central London +5 392 £538 +1.18% 219
West London +6 53 £375 -16.67% 85
East London +2 40 £505 +2.02% 60
South London -1 25 £245 -45.56% 41
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
1 248 (11.42%) SharePoint
2 156 (7.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 44 (2.03%) CMS
4 36 (1.66%) Confluence
5 18 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 18 (0.83%) Skype for Business
6 16 (0.74%) IIS
7 11 (0.51%) Apache
8 7 (0.32%) Drupal
9 6 (0.28%) Anypoint
9 6 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
9 6 (0.28%) SharePoint 2013
10 4 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
11 3 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.14%) MQSeries
11 3 (0.14%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.092%) IBM Domino
12 2 (0.092%) IBM Notes
12 2 (0.092%) WebLogic
Applications
1 312 (14.37%) Microsoft Office
2 199 (9.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 110 (5.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 76 (3.50%) MS Visio
5 53 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
6 19 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.37%) Photoshop
8 7 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.32%) Adobe Premiere
8 7 (0.32%) InDesign
9 6 (0.28%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.18%) 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%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.046%) Final Cut Pro
13 1 (0.046%) OmniGraffle
13 1 (0.046%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 83 (3.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 25 (1.15%) Dynamics AX
2 25 (1.15%) Dynamics GP
3 11 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 9 (0.41%) Endur
4 9 (0.41%) Shopify
5 8 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.28%) Loan IQ
7 5 (0.23%) 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
9 3 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
9 3 (0.14%) Eikon
9 3 (0.14%) OPENHousing
9 3 (0.14%) OpenLink RightAngle
9 3 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 959 (44.17%) Azure
2 530 (24.41%) Microsoft 365
3 325 (14.97%) Power Platform
4 278 (12.81%) Azure DevOps
5 231 (10.64%) Entra ID
6 186 (8.57%) Dynamics 365
7 161 (7.42%) AWS
8 129 (5.94%) Power Automate
9 126 (5.80%) PowerApps
10 79 (3.64%) PaaS
11 66 (3.04%) Azure Service Bus
12 65 (2.99%) SaaS
12 65 (2.99%) Serverless
13 62 (2.86%) IaaS
14 61 (2.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 56 (2.58%) GCP
16 53 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
16 53 (2.44%) GitHub
17 51 (2.35%) OneDrive
18 44 (2.03%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 112 (5.16%) Firewall
2 90 (4.15%) DNS
3 71 (3.27%) VPN
4 48 (2.21%) LAN
5 46 (2.12%) DHCP
5 46 (2.12%) WAN
5 46 (2.12%) Wireless
6 23 (1.06%) VoIP
7 22 (1.01%) Internet
7 22 (1.01%) MPLS
7 22 (1.01%) SAN
7 22 (1.01%) TCP/IP
8 21 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
9 20 (0.92%) Skype
10 18 (0.83%) SD-WAN
11 17 (0.78%) VLAN
12 16 (0.74%) NAS
12 16 (0.74%) Network Security
13 13 (0.60%) Cisco IOS
13 13 (0.60%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 344 (15.85%) SQL Server
2 227 (10.46%) Power BI
3 97 (4.47%) Data Warehouse
4 75 (3.45%) Data Lake
5 48 (2.21%) NoSQL
6 46 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
7 44 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 39 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
9 38 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 37 (1.70%) Relational Database
11 32 (1.47%) Big Data
12 25 (1.15%) Metadata
12 25 (1.15%) Tableau
13 24 (1.11%) MySQL
14 21 (0.97%) MongoDB
15 16 (0.74%) Redis
15 16 (0.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 12 (0.55%) OLTP
16 12 (0.55%) RDBMS
17 11 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 92 (4.24%) JIRA
2 86 (3.96%) Git
3 42 (1.93%) Jenkins
4 35 (1.61%) GitLab
5 34 (1.57%) SpecFlow
6 32 (1.47%) Visual Studio
7 29 (1.34%) Postman
7 29 (1.34%) Selenium
8 21 (0.97%) TeamCity
9 15 (0.69%) WebDriver
10 12 (0.55%) Maven
11 10 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 10 (0.46%) Visual Studio Team System
12 8 (0.37%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.32%) Cucumber
14 6 (0.28%) Cypress.io
14 6 (0.28%) JUnit
14 6 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
15 5 (0.23%) ERwin
15 5 (0.23%) JMeter
General
1 713 (32.84%) Social Skills
2 577 (26.58%) Finance
3 291 (13.40%) Analytical Skills
4 216 (9.95%) Public Sector
5 169 (7.78%) Banking
6 106 (4.88%) Marketing
7 97 (4.47%) Legal
8 94 (4.33%) Presentation Skills
9 86 (3.96%) Retail
10 58 (2.67%) Telecoms
11 57 (2.63%) Back Office
12 54 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
13 46 (2.12%) Manufacturing
14 43 (1.98%) Financial Institution
15 36 (1.66%) Investment Banking
16 34 (1.57%) Law
16 34 (1.57%) Local Government
17 31 (1.43%) Electronics
18 29 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
18 29 (1.34%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 342 (15.75%) Developer
2 267 (12.30%) Architect
3 264 (12.16%) Analyst
4 246 (11.33%) Senior
5 182 (8.38%) Consultant
6 114 (5.25%) Lead
7 104 (4.79%) Senior Developer
8 102 (4.70%) Support Engineer
9 100 (4.61%) Project Manager
10 82 (3.78%) Azure Engineer
11 80 (3.68%) Solutions Architect
12 59 (2.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 57 (2.63%) Data Architect
14 56 (2.58%) IT Support
15 54 (2.49%) Support Analyst
16 52 (2.40%) Azure Developer
17 50 (2.30%) Desktop Support
18 49 (2.26%) IT Engineer
18 49 (2.26%) Software Developer
19 47 (2.16%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 251 (11.56%) .NET
2 132 (6.08%) XML
3 94 (4.33%) .NET Core
4 81 (3.73%) .NET Framework
5 73 (3.36%) HTML
6 69 (3.18%) CSS
7 61 (2.81%) React
8 54 (2.49%) JSON
9 53 (2.44%) AngularJS
10 50 (2.30%) REST
11 47 (2.16%) ASP.NET
12 46 (2.12%) Web Services
13 32 (1.47%) Kafka
14 28 (1.29%) ARM Templates
15 26 (1.20%) PySpark
16 25 (1.15%) RabbitMQ
17 24 (1.11%) Swagger
18 23 (1.06%) RESTful
19 22 (1.01%) Middleware
20 21 (0.97%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 116 (5.34%) Product Ownership
2 87 (4.01%) Management Information System
3 65 (2.99%) Data Structures
4 60 (2.76%) Data Centre
5 42 (1.93%) Onboarding
6 39 (1.80%) Cloud Native
7 36 (1.66%) Security Posture
8 35 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
9 34 (1.57%) PKI
10 33 (1.52%) Video Conferencing
11 24 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
12 22 (1.01%) Smartphone
13 21 (0.97%) iPhone
14 20 (0.92%) Algorithms
14 20 (0.92%) Mobile App
14 20 (0.92%) NHS
15 19 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 19 (0.88%) Virtual Team
16 18 (0.83%) Hedge funds
16 18 (0.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 446 (20.54%) Windows
2 139 (6.40%) Windows Server
3 129 (5.94%) Windows 10
4 125 (5.76%) Linux
5 45 (2.07%) Android
6 37 (1.70%) Unix
6 37 (1.70%) Windows 7
7 28 (1.29%) Mac OS
8 25 (1.15%) Apple iOS
9 19 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
10 16 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 15 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
12 14 (0.64%) Mac OS X
13 11 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
14 7 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
15 6 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
15 6 (0.28%) Solaris
15 6 (0.28%) VMS
16 4 (0.18%) Ubuntu
16 4 (0.18%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 500 (23.03%) Agile
2 428 (19.71%) DevOps
3 356 (16.40%) Problem-Solving
4 271 (12.48%) Migration
5 269 (12.39%) Business Intelligence
6 232 (10.69%) CI/CD
7 212 (9.77%) Project Management
8 187 (8.61%) ITIL
9 178 (8.20%) Scrum
10 170 (7.83%) Customer Service
11 162 (7.46%) Analytics
12 146 (6.73%) Data Modelling
13 134 (6.17%) Project Delivery
14 132 (6.08%) Change Management
15 117 (5.39%) Stakeholder Management
16 115 (5.30%) Computer Science
17 106 (4.88%) CRM
18 105 (4.84%) Cybersecurity
19 94 (4.33%) ETL
19 94 (4.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 338 (15.57%) SQL
2 312 (14.37%) PowerShell
3 277 (12.76%) C#
4 151 (6.96%) Python
5 98 (4.51%) JavaScript
6 82 (3.78%) Java
7 77 (3.55%) Bicep
8 46 (2.12%) TypeScript
9 43 (1.98%) T-SQL
10 26 (1.20%) Bash
11 23 (1.06%) Shell Script
12 15 (0.69%) PL/SQL
13 12 (0.55%) Go
14 11 (0.51%) C++
14 11 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 11 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
15 10 (0.46%) PHP
15 10 (0.46%) Scala
15 10 (0.46%) VBA
16 8 (0.37%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 307 (14.14%) Degree
2 185 (8.52%) Security Cleared
3 154 (7.09%) SC Cleared
4 106 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 79 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 66 (3.04%) Azure Certification
7 44 (2.03%) CISSP
8 34 (1.57%) DV Cleared
9 33 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
10 25 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
11 24 (1.11%) CISM
12 22 (1.01%) CCNA
13 20 (0.92%) CCNP
14 19 (0.88%) PMI Certification
15 18 (0.83%) PMP
16 17 (0.78%) AWS Certification
17 16 (0.74%) Master's Degree
18 15 (0.69%) A+ Certification
19 14 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
20 13 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (3.87%) QA
2 75 (3.45%) SLA
3 53 (2.44%) GDPR
4 46 (2.12%) PMO
5 42 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 41 (1.89%) Accessibility
7 39 (1.80%) Data Quality
8 36 (1.66%) NIST
9 17 (0.78%) WCAG
10 16 (0.74%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 14 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 8 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 7 (0.32%) NCSC
16 6 (0.28%) GAAP
16 6 (0.28%) GRC
16 6 (0.28%) HIPAA
17 5 (0.23%) COBIT
18 4 (0.18%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 467 (21.51%) Active Directory
2 68 (3.13%) Docker
3 59 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (1.61%) Hyper-V
5 31 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.78%) vSphere
7 15 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (0.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 11 (0.51%) Firmware
10 6 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
11 5 (0.23%) NFS
12 4 (0.18%) BitLocker
12 4 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.18%) VMware NSX
12 4 (0.18%) XenApp
12 4 (0.18%) XenDesktop
13 3 (0.14%) KVM
13 3 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
14 2 (0.092%) VMware Server
15 1 (0.046%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 112 (5.16%) SCCM
2 102 (4.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 97 (4.47%) Terraform
4 95 (4.38%) Kubernetes
5 33 (1.52%) Ansible
5 33 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
6 30 (1.38%) Jamf Pro
7 20 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 19 (0.88%) Grafana
9 18 (0.83%) Prometheus
10 15 (0.69%) WSUS
11 14 (0.64%) SCOM
12 13 (0.60%) Puppet
13 12 (0.55%) Consul
14 10 (0.46%) FortiGate
14 10 (0.46%) Progress Chef
15 9 (0.41%) Netcool
16 8 (0.37%) PingFederate
16 8 (0.37%) Tivoli Storage Manager
17 7 (0.32%) Nessus
Vendors
1 157 (7.23%) Oracle
2 116 (5.34%) VMware
3 112 (5.16%) SAP
4 86 (3.96%) ServiceNow
5 80 (3.68%) Google
6 69 (3.18%) Citrix
7 68 (3.13%) Cisco
8 58 (2.67%) Apple
8 58 (2.67%) Databricks
9 53 (2.44%) Salesforce
10 48 (2.21%) Dell
11 42 (1.93%) Adobe
12 34 (1.57%) Splunk
13 28 (1.29%) HP
14 23 (1.06%) IBM
14 23 (1.06%) Qualys
15 22 (1.01%) CyberArk
16 21 (0.97%) Palo Alto
17 19 (0.88%) NetApp
18 17 (0.78%) SolarWinds