Microsoft Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 4 4 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 2,842 3,734 4,598
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.01% 16.23% 15.12%
As % of the Vendors category 32.88% 36.41% 37.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,788 2,677 3,178
10th Percentile £175 £170 £150
25th Percentile £260 £300 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £455 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +7.06% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £675 £675 £619
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 416 157 337
10th Percentile £11.00 £13.15 £10.62
25th Percentile £12.86 £15.25 £13.20
Median hourly rate £15.00 £19.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +15.15% -5.71%
75th Percentile £25.00 £33.75 £22.40
90th Percentile £55.06 £57.33 £45.03
UK median hourly rate £15.00 £22.41 £18.55
% change year-on-year -33.07% +20.81% +6.00%

All Vendors
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,644 10,255 12,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.60% 44.58% 40.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,201 7,046 8,257
10th Percentile £208 £205 £188
25th Percentile £363 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +7.53% +8.90%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 457 645
10th Percentile £11.84 £14.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.77% +97.37% +2.70%
75th Percentile £58.59 £62.00 £36.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £57.11
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £41.98 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.78% +95.24% -2.27%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
South East -1 798 £465 +1.08% 829
North of England +4 646 £450 -5.26% 971
South West +1 497 £500 -4.76% 488
North West +3 390 £450 -5.26% 516
Midlands -3 338 £400 -5.88% 757
Scotland +4 293 £350 -15.66% 235
West Midlands -4 227 £410 -8.89% 464
Yorkshire +2 219 £425 -10.53% 338
East of England -2 219 £434 +2.00% 395
East Midlands -4 104 £400 +9.59% 294
Wales 0 73 £513 -2.38% 120
North East +8 39 £431 +81.47% 123
Northern Ireland +4 31 £575 +238.24% 61
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UK

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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
1 289 (10.17%) SharePoint
2 217 (7.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 72 (2.53%) Confluence
4 37 (1.30%) SharePoint Server
5 19 (0.67%) CMS
6 18 (0.63%) IIS
7 15 (0.53%) Apache Spark
7 15 (0.53%) Skype for Business
8 10 (0.35%) Apache
8 10 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
9 7 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 6 (0.21%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.21%) WordPress
11 5 (0.18%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2000
12 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2003
12 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
12 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
12 4 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2013
12 4 (0.14%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 597 (21.01%) Microsoft Office
2 450 (15.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 201 (7.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 89 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
5 82 (2.89%) Spreadsheet
6 37 (1.30%) MS Visio
7 13 (0.46%) Acrobat
8 10 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 9 (0.32%) CATIA
10 3 (0.11%) InfoPath
10 3 (0.11%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.070%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.035%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.035%) PlantUML
12 1 (0.035%) Siemens NX
12 1 (0.035%) Simulink
12 1 (0.035%) SPSS
12 1 (0.035%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 55 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.63%) Teamcenter
3 13 (0.46%) Primavera
4 9 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.28%) DELMIA
6 7 (0.25%) Magento
6 7 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
6 7 (0.25%) Shopify
7 6 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
7 6 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
7 6 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
8 5 (0.18%) Aareon QL
8 5 (0.18%) SmartPlant
9 4 (0.14%) iTrent
9 4 (0.14%) LabWindows
9 4 (0.14%) Maximo
10 3 (0.11%) OpenText VIM for SAP
10 3 (0.11%) SAP FI-AP
10 3 (0.11%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 691 (24.31%) Azure
2 575 (20.23%) Microsoft 365
3 284 (9.99%) Power Platform
4 158 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
5 132 (4.64%) Entra ID
6 123 (4.33%) AWS
7 101 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
8 95 (3.34%) PowerApps
9 81 (2.85%) Power Automate
10 73 (2.57%) SaaS
11 63 (2.22%) OneDrive
11 63 (2.22%) PaaS
12 44 (1.55%) Azure Monitor
12 44 (1.55%) IaaS
13 43 (1.51%) Azure Stack
14 40 (1.41%) OCI
15 36 (1.27%) Azure Sentinel
16 32 (1.13%) Azure Data Factory
17 30 (1.06%) GitHub
18 28 (0.99%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 198 (6.97%) Firewall
2 184 (6.47%) DNS
3 137 (4.82%) DHCP
4 96 (3.38%) VPN
5 83 (2.92%) LAN
5 83 (2.92%) SAN
5 83 (2.92%) TCP/IP
6 60 (2.11%) WAN
7 57 (2.01%) Wi-Fi
8 41 (1.44%) Wireless
9 39 (1.37%) Network Security
10 36 (1.27%) BGP
11 33 (1.16%) Remote Desktop
12 29 (1.02%) VoIP
13 25 (0.88%) VLAN
14 22 (0.77%) Skype
15 20 (0.70%) Intranet
16 19 (0.67%) NAS
17 17 (0.60%) HTTP
18 16 (0.56%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (6.26%) Power BI
2 150 (5.28%) SQL Server
3 45 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
3 45 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 35 (1.23%) Data Lake
5 34 (1.20%) MySQL
6 33 (1.16%) Relational Database
7 32 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 20 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
8 20 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
9 19 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (0.60%) Big Data
10 17 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
11 16 (0.56%) NoSQL
12 15 (0.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 15 (0.53%) Tableau
13 13 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (0.35%) BusinessObjects
15 7 (0.25%) GIS
15 7 (0.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 152 (5.35%) JIRA
2 46 (1.62%) Git
3 42 (1.48%) Visual Studio
4 17 (0.60%) Jenkins
5 16 (0.56%) MSI
6 14 (0.49%) GitLab
7 11 (0.39%) Eclipse
7 11 (0.39%) SonarQube
8 10 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
8 10 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 10 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
9 9 (0.32%) Postman
10 8 (0.28%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.28%) Maven
11 6 (0.21%) Subversion
12 5 (0.18%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.18%) Checkstyle
13 4 (0.14%) Burp Suite
13 4 (0.14%) Fiddler
13 4 (0.14%) NUnit
General
1 1,099 (38.67%) Social Skills
2 364 (12.81%) Finance
3 317 (11.15%) Analytical Skills
4 275 (9.68%) Public Sector
5 146 (5.14%) Organisational Skills
6 104 (3.66%) Telecoms
7 88 (3.10%) Manufacturing
8 81 (2.85%) Marketing
9 76 (2.67%) Legal
9 76 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
10 72 (2.53%) Banking
11 43 (1.51%) Retail
12 42 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
13 35 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
14 33 (1.16%) Military
15 26 (0.91%) Electronics
15 26 (0.91%) Local Government
16 24 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 18 (0.63%) Automotive
18 17 (0.60%) Police
Job Titles
1 450 (15.83%) Analyst
2 223 (7.85%) Architect
3 194 (6.83%) Developer
4 164 (5.77%) Senior
5 160 (5.63%) Support Engineer
6 143 (5.03%) IT Support
7 140 (4.93%) Administrator
8 131 (4.61%) Lead
9 128 (4.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 115 (4.05%) Consultant
11 111 (3.91%) Service Analyst
12 94 (3.31%) Project Manager
13 92 (3.24%) Service Desk Analyst
14 83 (2.92%) IT Engineer
15 79 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
16 76 (2.67%) Desktop Engineer
17 75 (2.64%) 2nd Line Support
17 75 (2.64%) Desktop Support
18 66 (2.32%) Support Analyst
19 54 (1.90%) 1st Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (2.78%) .NET
2 39 (1.37%) XML
3 36 (1.27%) Web Services
4 29 (1.02%) .NET Framework
4 29 (1.02%) REST
5 27 (0.95%) JSON
6 26 (0.91%) CSS
7 25 (0.88%) ARM Templates
8 24 (0.84%) HTML
9 21 (0.74%) SailPoint
10 20 (0.70%) React
11 18 (0.63%) Node.js
12 16 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
13 15 (0.53%) Kafka
14 14 (0.49%) Spring
15 13 (0.46%) SAML
16 11 (0.39%) .NET Core
16 11 (0.39%) ADO
16 11 (0.39%) Itk
16 11 (0.39%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 145 (5.10%) Management Information System
2 110 (3.87%) PKI
3 82 (2.89%) Self-Motivation
4 69 (2.43%) Cyber Threat
5 62 (2.18%) Driving Licence
6 59 (2.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 57 (2.01%) Cyber Defence
8 53 (1.86%) Data Centre
9 49 (1.72%) NHS
10 47 (1.65%) Private Cloud
11 31 (1.09%) Public Cloud
12 30 (1.06%) Product Ownership
13 29 (1.02%) Onboarding
14 25 (0.88%) Clustering
14 25 (0.88%) Security Posture
14 25 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
15 22 (0.77%) Data Structures
15 22 (0.77%) iPhone
15 22 (0.77%) Virtual Team
16 19 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 930 (32.72%) Windows
2 367 (12.91%) Windows 10
3 304 (10.70%) Windows Server
4 204 (7.18%) Linux
5 107 (3.76%) Windows Server 2012
5 107 (3.76%) Windows Server 2019
6 102 (3.59%) Windows Server 2016
7 89 (3.13%) Windows 7
8 57 (2.01%) Apple iOS
9 39 (1.37%) Mac OS
10 28 (0.99%) Android
10 28 (0.99%) Ubuntu
11 19 (0.67%) Windows NT
12 18 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 17 (0.60%) Unix
13 17 (0.60%) Windows Server 2008
13 17 (0.60%) Windows XP
14 14 (0.49%) Debian
15 12 (0.42%) VMS
16 11 (0.39%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 556 (19.56%) Problem-Solving
2 439 (15.45%) Customer Service
3 399 (14.04%) Agile
4 370 (13.02%) ITIL
5 261 (9.18%) Project Management
6 227 (7.99%) DevOps
7 216 (7.60%) Migration
8 207 (7.28%) Service Delivery
9 205 (7.21%) Business Intelligence
10 199 (7.00%) Cybersecurity
11 178 (6.26%) Stakeholder Management
12 172 (6.05%) Service Management
13 171 (6.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 156 (5.49%) Decision-Making
15 155 (5.45%) Incident Management
16 142 (5.00%) Analytics
17 140 (4.93%) Project Delivery
18 139 (4.89%) Change Management
19 124 (4.36%) Continuous Improvement
20 113 (3.98%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 243 (8.55%) SQL
2 238 (8.37%) PowerShell
3 113 (3.98%) C#
4 102 (3.59%) Python
5 60 (2.11%) Java
6 58 (2.04%) JavaScript
7 26 (0.91%) T-SQL
7 26 (0.91%) VB
8 24 (0.84%) C++
9 22 (0.77%) Bicep
10 21 (0.74%) Bash
11 20 (0.70%) C
12 19 (0.67%) VBScript
13 17 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
13 17 (0.60%) PHP
14 14 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 13 (0.46%) TypeScript
16 9 (0.32%) PL/SQL
17 8 (0.28%) Swift
18 7 (0.25%) X++
Qualifications
1 829 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 425 (14.95%) SC Cleared
3 419 (14.74%) DV Cleared
4 364 (12.81%) Degree
5 178 (6.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 60 (2.11%) MCSE
7 54 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 47 (1.65%) APMP
8 47 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 43 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
10 40 (1.41%) CCNA
10 40 (1.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 39 (1.37%) MCSA
12 38 (1.34%) Azure Certification
13 37 (1.30%) A+ Certification
14 34 (1.20%) PMI Certification
14 34 (1.20%) PMP
15 30 (1.06%) MCP
16 28 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
16 28 (0.99%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (5.74%) SLA
2 94 (3.31%) PMO
2 94 (3.31%) QA
3 62 (2.18%) NIST
4 47 (1.65%) Disclosure Scotland
5 46 (1.62%) NIST 800
6 35 (1.23%) Government Security Classifications
6 35 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (1.13%) GDPR
8 23 (0.81%) Data Quality
9 21 (0.74%) Accessibility
10 16 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
10 16 (0.56%) JSP 440
11 9 (0.32%) NCSC
12 6 (0.21%) GMP
12 6 (0.21%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 5 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 4 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 638 (22.45%) Active Directory
2 195 (6.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 84 (2.96%) Hyper-V
4 63 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
5 45 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
6 41 (1.44%) vSphere
7 40 (1.41%) Firmware
8 39 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
9 30 (1.06%) Docker
9 30 (1.06%) VMware NSX
10 15 (0.53%) BitLocker
11 14 (0.49%) XenApp
12 11 (0.39%) XenDesktop
13 9 (0.32%) Terminal Services
13 9 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
14 8 (0.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 8 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
15 6 (0.21%) VMware Server
16 4 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 4 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 245 (8.62%) SCCM
2 179 (6.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 85 (2.99%) WSUS
4 74 (2.60%) SCOM
5 55 (1.94%) Kubernetes
6 52 (1.83%) vCenter Server
7 50 (1.76%) Terraform
8 42 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
9 35 (1.23%) Ansible
10 32 (1.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 23 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
11 23 (0.81%) OPNET
12 20 (0.70%) Sysprep
13 16 (0.56%) NetBackup
14 15 (0.53%) EMC NetWorker
15 14 (0.49%) WMI
16 13 (0.46%) Grafana
16 13 (0.46%) Nessus
16 13 (0.46%) Prometheus
17 9 (0.32%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 277 (9.75%) VMware
2 113 (3.98%) ServiceNow
3 110 (3.87%) Cisco
4 101 (3.55%) Oracle
5 90 (3.17%) SAP
6 84 (2.96%) Citrix
7 73 (2.57%) Atlassian
8 72 (2.53%) HP
9 58 (2.04%) Apple
10 51 (1.79%) Veeam
11 50 (1.76%) Google
12 45 (1.58%) Dell
13 43 (1.51%) Adobe
14 39 (1.37%) Red Hat
15 38 (1.34%) Splunk
16 35 (1.23%) Salesforce
17 26 (0.91%) Palo Alto
18 23 (0.81%) Juniper
19 22 (0.77%) CyberArk
20 20 (0.70%) Varonis