Microsoft Engineer Contracts

Microsoft Engineer
UK

The median Microsoft Engineer daily rate in the UK is £470 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 516 605 765
Rank change year-on-year +89 +160 -138
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft Engineer 60 79 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.14% 0.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.15% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 64 62
10th Percentile £255 £249 £277
25th Percentile £350 £409 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £519 £558 £588
90th Percentile £570 £612 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £461 £500 £418
% change year-on-year -7.75% +19.73% +11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £43.88
25th Percentile - - £49.69
Median hourly rate £18.00 - £59.38
75th Percentile - - £69.06
90th Percentile - - £74.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 39,484 53,902 83,447
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.62% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,682 37,660 58,636
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,662 1,503 2,044
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.76
Median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.44 £76.20 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Microsoft Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Engineer in the UK

Microsoft Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Engineer in the UK

Microsoft Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Engineer over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Engineer in the UK

Microsoft Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Engineer in the UK

Microsoft Engineer
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England +114 55 £461 -7.75% 10
UK excluding London +63 52 £461 -7.75% 8
Work from Home +124 32 £495 +1.54% 8
South West +30 24 £495 -19.90% 4
South East +17 9 £375 -
North of England +16 8 £400 -27.27% 4
North West +10 8 £400 -27.27% 2
London +89 7 £550 +22.22% 2
Midlands +31 7 £350 -33.33%
West Midlands +31 7 £350 -33.33%
Scotland +36 4 £500 -13.04%

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 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 featuring Microsoft Engineer in the job title.

1 60 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 38 (63.33%) Windows
2 38 (63.33%) Social Skills
3 30 (50.00%) Azure
4 29 (48.33%) Microsoft 365
5 27 (45.00%) SharePoint
6 24 (40.00%) ITIL
7 23 (38.33%) Firewall
7 23 (38.33%) Security Cleared
8 19 (31.67%) DV Cleared
9 18 (30.00%) SharePoint Server
9 18 (30.00%) Service Management
10 17 (28.33%) BGP
10 17 (28.33%) ITSM
10 17 (28.33%) JIRA
10 17 (28.33%) Atlassian
10 17 (28.33%) SCOM
10 17 (28.33%) Capacity Management
10 17 (28.33%) Confluence
10 17 (28.33%) Network Management
10 17 (28.33%) Private Cloud
10 17 (28.33%) Government Security Classifications
10 17 (28.33%) Security Monitoring
10 17 (28.33%) Azure Stack
11 15 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
11 15 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
12 13 (21.67%) Active Directory
12 13 (21.67%) Customer Service
13 12 (20.00%) PowerShell
14 9 (15.00%) SLA

Microsoft Engineer Skill Set
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 27 (45.00%) SharePoint
2 18 (30.00%) SharePoint Server
3 17 (28.33%) Confluence
4 15 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (15.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 30 (50.00%) Azure
2 29 (48.33%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (28.33%) Azure Stack
4 9 (15.00%) OneDrive
5 8 (13.33%) Entra ID
5 8 (13.33%) Power Platform
5 8 (13.33%) PowerApps
6 6 (10.00%) Power Automate
7 2 (3.33%) Google Workspace
7 2 (3.33%) SaaS
7 2 (3.33%) Slack
8 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.67%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.67%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.67%) IaaS
8 1 (1.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (38.33%) Firewall
2 17 (28.33%) BGP
3 6 (10.00%) Unified Communications
4 2 (3.33%) VoIP
4 2 (3.33%) VPN
5 1 (1.67%) Internet
5 1 (1.67%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.00%) Power BI
2 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (28.33%) JIRA
2 1 (1.67%) Appium
2 1 (1.67%) Selenium
General
1 38 (63.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.33%) Finance
3 5 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.67%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (1.67%) Legal
5 1 (1.67%) Local Government
5 1 (1.67%) Police
Miscellaneous
1 17 (28.33%) Private Cloud
2 6 (10.00%) Digital Signage
2 6 (10.00%) PKI
3 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.33%) Life Science
3 2 (3.33%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.67%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.67%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 38 (63.33%) Windows
2 8 (13.33%) Windows Server
3 6 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 6 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (3.33%) Linux
4 2 (3.33%) Windows 7
5 1 (1.67%) Android
5 1 (1.67%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.67%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (40.00%) ITIL
2 18 (30.00%) Service Management
3 17 (28.33%) Capacity Management
3 17 (28.33%) ITSM
3 17 (28.33%) Network Management
3 17 (28.33%) Security Monitoring
4 13 (21.67%) Customer Service
5 6 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (10.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 6 (10.00%) Service Delivery
6 3 (5.00%) Data Protection
6 3 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (5.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (5.00%) Roadmaps
7 2 (3.33%) Business Strategy
7 2 (3.33%) Customer Requirements
7 2 (3.33%) Information Security
7 2 (3.33%) Migration
7 2 (3.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.67%) C#
2 1 (1.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (38.33%) Security Cleared
2 19 (31.67%) DV Cleared
3 5 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.67%) Degree
5 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.67%) CEH
6 1 (1.67%) CISSP
6 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.67%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (28.33%) Government Security Classifications
2 9 (15.00%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (21.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.33%) Hyper-V
2 5 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (28.33%) SCOM
2 15 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (6.67%) SCCM
5 2 (3.33%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 60 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (28.33%) Atlassian
3 6 (10.00%) Oracle
4 5 (8.33%) VMware
5 3 (5.00%) Google
5 3 (5.00%) Veeam
6 1 (1.67%) CA