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50 of the UK's top Microsoft Partners share how they fared in 2021-22

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In collaboration with Incredible Results Coeo, we asked about financials, business outlook, people and culture, so you can compare yourself.

Get 2022's highlights now by clicking on the chapters below, or look back at 2021's research via blogs, video highlights or our ebook.

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Microsoft Partners in our survey forecast revenue increasing by 21%, to an average of £6.3m, against an industry prediction of ~10%

The average revenue-per-employee was 15% lower this year, at £102,000 (compared to £120,000 last year).

Winning new business from referrals remained the best method for Microsoft Partners, equating to 45%

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2022 Microsoft Partner Insights

In our second year of research, we have great qualitative and quantitative analysis, plus valuable perspective from YoY data.

Benchmarking Research

Benchmarking Research

Welcome to the 2022 edition of Law 365’s Microsoft Partner Insights. We teamed up with Incredible Results, analytics ...

Financial Review

Financial Review

What a year 2021 was! Just as 2020 brought a myriad of opportunities and threats, 2021 presented all Microsoft Partners ...

Recruitment insights

Recruitment insights

They say you can’t have a world-class business without world-class employees, and the competition in the marketplace ...

Employee retention & attrition

Employee retention & attrition

The global pandemic forced businesses to change in so many areas. But as we emerge from the other side of two of the ...

Diversity & inclusion

Diversity & inclusion

In recent years the topics of Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) have moved higher and higher up the corporate agenda, ...

People and the return to the office

People and the return to the office

In this chapter of our Microsoft Partner Insights series we dig a little deeper into how Microsoft Partners and their ...

Employee Compensation & Wage inflation

Employee Compensation & Wage inflation

This is the seventh instalment in this year’s Microsoft Partner Insights, our annual research into Microsoft Partners.

The IP Staircase

The IP Staircase

This is the eighth instalment in this year’s Microsoft Partner Insights, our annual research into Microsoft Partners.

Legal Services

Legal Services

This is the ninth instalment in this year’s Microsoft Partner Insights, our annual research into Microsoft Partners.

Business Applications and Systems

Business Applications and Systems

This is the tenth instalment in this year’s Microsoft Partner Insights, our annual research into Microsoft Partners.

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2021 Microsoft Partner Insights

The research centred on quantitative and qualitative data collected from interviews with, amongst others, members of the networking group IT Leaders.

Established in 2012, IT Leaders is a group of CEOs and shareholding leaders of predominantly Microsoft Partners for shared learning and collaboration.

IT Leaders include the full spectrum of Microsoft Partners, from managed service providers to consultancies and software developers.

1. Microsoft Partner Insights - Benchmarking research

1. Microsoft Partner Insights - Benchmarking research

This is the first chapter of our 10 part blog series, for more chapters please visit Microsoft Partners Insights.

2. Microsoft Partner Insights - Financials & Business Outlook

2. Microsoft Partner Insights - Financials & Business Outlook

This is the second chapter of our 10 part blog series, for more chapters please visit Microsoft Partners Insights.

3. Microsoft Partner Insights - People & Culture (Part 1)

3. Microsoft Partner Insights - People & Culture (Part 1)

This is the third chapter of our 10 part blog series, for more chapters please visit Microsoft Partners Insights.

4. Microsoft Partner Insights - People & Culture (Part 2)

4. Microsoft Partner Insights - People & Culture (Part 2)

This is the fourth chapter of our 10 part blog series, for more chapters please visit Microsoft Partners Insights. 9 ...

5. Microsoft Partner Insights - Compensation, Recruitment, L&D

5. Microsoft Partner Insights - Compensation, Recruitment, L&D

This is the fifth blog in the Microsoft Partner Insights series. This chapter covers the quantitative metrics and ...

6. Microsoft Partner Insights - Diversity & Inclusion

6. Microsoft Partner Insights - Diversity & Inclusion

Welcome to the sixth instalment in our Microsoft Partner Insights series. We invited over 50 of the UK’s top Microsoft ...

7. Microsoft Partner Insights - Sales & Marketing

7. Microsoft Partner Insights - Sales & Marketing

We continue the Microsoft Partner Insights blog series with a look in to the sales and marketing operations of the key ...

8. Microsoft Partner Insights - Office Space

8. Microsoft Partner Insights - Office Space

Welcome to the final three blogs released in the Microsoft Partner Insights series. For more chapters please visit ...

9. Microsoft Partner Insights - Legal Services

9. Microsoft Partner Insights - Legal Services

Welcome to the penultimate chapter in the Microsoft Partners Insights series. In this blog we delve into the topic of ...

10. Microsoft Partner Insights - Business Applications & Systems

10. Microsoft Partner Insights - Business Applications & Systems

This is final blog in the Microsoft Partner Insights series. For more chapters please visit Microsoft Partners ...

Highlights

2021 Highlights

Microsoft Partners Insights

Shaun Frohlich from Incredible Results and Kim Simmonds from Law 365 discuss the highlights of our Microsoft Partner benchmarking research.

A short 15 minute overview of the research, the people and companies involved.

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