Microsoft Contracts in Birmingham

Microsoft
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 3 5
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 99 156 199
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.92% 17.37% 15.11%
As % of the Vendors category 29.46% 39.10% 39.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 106 152
10th Percentile £190 £260 £163
25th Percentile £350 £358 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £456 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.85% +1.39% +5.88%
75th Percentile £511 £600 £559
90th Percentile £638 £681 £649
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £463 £425
% change year-on-year -8.11% +8.82% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 3
10th Percentile £11.08 £12.35 £14.50
25th Percentile £13.25 £12.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £16.98 £15.99 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% -5.97% +4.71%
75th Percentile £26.50 £20.00 £21.87
90th Percentile £55.88 £23.83 £24.49
West Midlands median hourly rate £14.00 £16.23 £15.50
% change year-on-year -13.71% +4.68% -8.82%

All Vendors
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 336 399 503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 43.86% 44.43% 38.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 234 369
10th Percentile £263 £227 £185
25th Percentile £333 £363 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £478 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.99% +0.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £600
90th Percentile £694 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +15.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 18 5
10th Percentile £11.55 £12.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.73 £16.50
Median hourly rate £26.00 £19.60 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.64% -1.99% +11.11%
75th Percentile £39.63 £51.88 -
90th Percentile £55.00 £97.50 £23.74
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.95 £18.50 £17.28
% change year-on-year +7.84% +7.06% -4.00%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Birmingham over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Birmingham

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in Birmingham over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 17 (17.17%) SharePoint
2 12 (12.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.02%) IIS
3 2 (2.02%) WordPress
4 1 (1.01%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.01%) CMS
4 1 (1.01%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.01%) Moodle
Applications
1 18 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (12.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (4.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.02%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (4.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.01%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 37 (37.37%) Azure
2 34 (34.34%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (13.13%) Power Platform
4 9 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
4 9 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 9 (9.09%) PaaS
4 9 (9.09%) PowerApps
5 8 (8.08%) OneDrive
5 8 (8.08%) Power Automate
5 8 (8.08%) SaaS
6 5 (5.05%) AWS
6 5 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (5.05%) IaaS
7 3 (3.03%) Google Workspace
8 2 (2.02%) Serverless
9 1 (1.01%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.01%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.01%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.01%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.01%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.10%) WAN
2 9 (9.09%) VPN
3 8 (8.08%) Firewall
4 7 (7.07%) DNS
5 6 (6.06%) LAN
5 6 (6.06%) Unified Communications
6 4 (4.04%) Ethernet
6 4 (4.04%) Internet
6 4 (4.04%) MPLS
6 4 (4.04%) TCP/IP
7 3 (3.03%) ADSL
7 3 (3.03%) DHCP
7 3 (3.03%) PSTN
7 3 (3.03%) SAN
7 3 (3.03%) VLAN
7 3 (3.03%) VoIP
7 3 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (2.02%) iSCSI
8 2 (2.02%) NAS
8 2 (2.02%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.13%) SQL Server
2 9 (9.09%) Power BI
3 7 (7.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (7.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (4.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (3.03%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.02%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.02%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.01%) MySQL
7 1 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.01%) Power Query
7 1 (1.01%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.01%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (4.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (3.03%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.02%) webpack
4 1 (1.01%) Ant
4 1 (1.01%) Gradle
4 1 (1.01%) Hudson
4 1 (1.01%) JIRA
4 1 (1.01%) JUnit
4 1 (1.01%) Maven
4 1 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.01%) Selenium
4 1 (1.01%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.01%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 45 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.14%) Finance
3 8 (8.08%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (5.05%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.04%) Legal
7 3 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.02%) Cantonese Language
8 2 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.02%) Mandarin Language
8 2 (2.02%) Retail
9 1 (1.01%) Arabic Language
9 1 (1.01%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (1.01%) German Language
9 1 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.01%) Local Government
9 1 (1.01%) Police
Job Titles
1 18 (18.18%) Developer
2 15 (15.15%) Analyst
3 10 (10.10%) 2nd Line Support
3 10 (10.10%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 9 (9.09%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 9 (9.09%) Administrator
4 9 (9.09%) Senior
5 7 (7.07%) Business Analyst
5 7 (7.07%) Microsoft Engineer
6 6 (6.06%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
6 6 (6.06%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 6 (6.06%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 6 (6.06%) Coordinator
6 6 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (6.06%) Java Developer
6 6 (6.06%) SharePoint Administrator
6 6 (6.06%) Support Engineer
7 5 (5.05%) Lead
8 4 (4.04%) Azure Administrator
8 4 (4.04%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.06%) Spring
2 5 (5.05%) .NET
2 5 (5.05%) React
3 4 (4.04%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.02%) Hibernate
4 2 (2.02%) JSON
4 2 (2.02%) LAMP
4 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (2.02%) Next.js
4 2 (2.02%) REST
4 2 (2.02%) RESTful
5 1 (1.01%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.01%) Blazor
5 1 (1.01%) LDAP
5 1 (1.01%) SOAP
5 1 (1.01%) Web Services
5 1 (1.01%) WSDL
5 1 (1.01%) XML
5 1 (1.01%) XSD
5 1 (1.01%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.07%) PKI
1 7 (7.07%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (6.06%) Digital Signage
3 4 (4.04%) Clustering
4 3 (3.03%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.03%) Driving Licence
4 3 (3.03%) Replication
4 3 (3.03%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.02%) EPoS
5 2 (2.02%) iPad
5 2 (2.02%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.02%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.01%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.01%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.01%) FMCG
6 1 (1.01%) Housing Association
6 1 (1.01%) PDA
6 1 (1.01%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.01%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.01%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 23 (23.23%) Windows
2 14 (14.14%) Windows Server
3 13 (13.13%) Windows Server 2019
4 10 (10.10%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (8.08%) Windows 10
6 6 (6.06%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (5.05%) Linux
8 3 (3.03%) Mac OS
9 2 (2.02%) Ubuntu
9 2 (2.02%) VMS
9 2 (2.02%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (1.01%) Android
10 1 (1.01%) Apple iOS
10 1 (1.01%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (18.18%) Agile
1 18 (18.18%) Customer Service
2 17 (17.17%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (14.14%) ITIL
4 11 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (10.10%) DevOps
5 10 (10.10%) Service Delivery
5 10 (10.10%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (8.08%) User Stories
7 7 (7.07%) Business Analysis
7 7 (7.07%) CI/CD
7 7 (7.07%) CRM
7 7 (7.07%) Microservices
8 6 (6.06%) Change Control
8 6 (6.06%) Identity Management
8 6 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (6.06%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 6 (6.06%) Proactive Management
8 6 (6.06%) TDD
8 6 (6.06%) Web SSO
Programming Languages
1 19 (19.19%) PowerShell
2 16 (16.16%) SQL
3 9 (9.09%) Java
4 5 (5.05%) C#
4 5 (5.05%) Python
5 4 (4.04%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.02%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.01%) Bicep
7 1 (1.01%) C
7 1 (1.01%) C++
7 1 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.01%) Groovy
7 1 (1.01%) PHP
7 1 (1.01%) Scala
7 1 (1.01%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (13.13%) Degree
2 12 (12.12%) Security Cleared
3 8 (8.08%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.05%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (4.04%) BC Cleared
5 4 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.04%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.04%) Master's Degree
6 3 (3.03%) APMP
6 3 (3.03%) PMI Certification
6 3 (3.03%) PMP
6 3 (3.03%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (2.02%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.01%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.01%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.06%) SLA
2 3 (3.03%) QA
3 2 (2.02%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.02%) GDPR
3 2 (2.02%) PMO
System Software
1 18 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.05%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.02%) Terminal Services
4 2 (2.02%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (2.02%) vSphere
5 1 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.01%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (21.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (12.12%) SCCM
2 12 (12.12%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (3.03%) Autotask
4 3 (3.03%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (3.03%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (1.01%) Proxmox
5 1 (1.01%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (10.10%) VMware
2 9 (9.09%) Oracle
3 4 (4.04%) Apple
3 4 (4.04%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.03%) BT
4 3 (3.03%) Cisco
4 3 (3.03%) Datto
4 3 (3.03%) Google
4 3 (3.03%) Openreach
4 3 (3.03%) SAP
4 3 (3.03%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.02%) Aruba
5 2 (2.02%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.02%) ProCurve
5 2 (2.02%) Synology
5 2 (2.02%) Veeam
5 2 (2.02%) Zerto
6 1 (1.01%) Commvault
6 1 (1.01%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.01%) Sophos