Microsoft Contracts in Cheltenham

Microsoft
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham 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 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 19 12
Rank change year-on-year +9 -7 +5
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 30 18 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 16.04% 10.91% 12.40%
As % of the Vendors category 56.60% 26.09% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 16
10th Percentile £161 £126 £136
25th Percentile £176 £171 £178
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £300 £305
Median % change year-on-year +35.83% -1.64% -22.29%
75th Percentile £647 £425 £448
90th Percentile £664 £495 £594
Gloucestershire median daily rate £475 £425 £375
% change year-on-year +11.76% +13.33% -18.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.50 - -
Median hourly rate £16.00 - -
75th Percentile £16.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £16.00 £32.50 £15.74
% change year-on-year -50.77% +106.48% -25.05%

All Vendors
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 53 69 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 28.34% 41.82% 37.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 42 37
10th Percentile £287 £219 £174
25th Percentile £438 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £488
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +28.21% +5.12%
75th Percentile £656 £700 £569
90th Percentile £735 £723 £652
Gloucestershire median daily rate £513 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +2.50% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £26.40 - -
25th Percentile £42.75 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £81.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.58% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 £94.50 -
90th Percentile £74.00 - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £15.74
% change year-on-year +3.85% +312.96% -66.10%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Cheltenham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Cheltenham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cheltenham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Cheltenham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Cheltenham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 24 (80.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 24 (80.00%) Microsoft Office
1 24 (80.00%) Microsoft Project
1 24 (80.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.00%) Azure
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.33%) OneDrive
3 1 (3.33%) Power Automate
3 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) DNS
Development Applications
1 24 (80.00%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
General
1 27 (90.00%) Social Skills
2 24 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (80.00%) Finance
2 24 (80.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 24 (80.00%) Lead
1 24 (80.00%) Project Leader
2 2 (6.67%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (6.67%) Analyst
2 2 (6.67%) Service Analyst
2 2 (6.67%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (3.33%) Architect
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Architect
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (3.33%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (3.33%) Consultant
3 1 (3.33%) Deskside Engineer
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) ADO
1 1 (3.33%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Windows
2 1 (3.33%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (86.67%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (83.33%) Agile
3 24 (80.00%) Commercial Awareness
3 24 (80.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 24 (80.00%) Data Management
3 24 (80.00%) PRINCE2
3 24 (80.00%) Project Delivery
3 24 (80.00%) Project Management
3 24 (80.00%) Project Planning
3 24 (80.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 24 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 24 (80.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 3 (10.00%) Customer Service
5 2 (6.67%) Customer-Centric Approach
5 2 (6.67%) Customer-Centricity
5 2 (6.67%) ITIL
6 1 (3.33%) CI/CD
6 1 (3.33%) DevOps
6 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (3.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.67%) Python
2 1 (3.33%) Bicep
2 1 (3.33%) C#
2 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 27 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 26 (86.67%) DV Cleared
3 24 (80.00%) APMP
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Certification
4 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (80.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Grafana
1 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (3.33%) Terraform