Microsoft Contracts in Colchester

Microsoft
Essex > Colchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Colchester 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 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 2 4
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 4 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Colchester 17.39% 30.00% 17.65%
As % of the Vendors category 33.33% 40.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile £310 £330 -
25th Percentile £400 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £150
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% +200.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile - £625 -
90th Percentile - £640 -
Essex median daily rate £475 £293 £402
% change year-on-year +62.18% -27.10% +214.16%

All Vendors
Colchester

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 Colchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 12 15 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Colchester 52.17% 75.00% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 2
10th Percentile £338 £345 -
25th Percentile £403 £396 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £500 £150
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +233.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile £550 £552 -
90th Percentile £610 £618 -
Essex median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +28.38%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Colchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Colchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Colchester

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Colchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Colchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Colchester over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Colchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Colchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Colchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Colchester 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 3 (75.00%) IIS
1 3 (75.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (75.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Fiddler
General
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Administrator
1 3 (75.00%) SharePoint Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
1 3 (75.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (75.00%) SAML
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Commercial Awareness
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) SCOM
1 3 (75.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) F5
2 1 (25.00%) VMware