Microsoft Contracts in Dorset

Microsoft
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset 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 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 24 66 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 14.63% 30.56% 23.56%
As % of the Vendors category 41.38% 61.11% 50.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 48 30
10th Percentile - £160 £176
25th Percentile £175 £200 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £185 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -63.04% +11.11% +86.43%
75th Percentile £210 £610 £469
90th Percentile £471 £613 £550
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £425
% change year-on-year -4.76% +23.53% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 8
10th Percentile £13.00 £17.50 £35.63
25th Percentile £13.69 £18.25 £43.02
Median hourly rate £14.46 £21.00 £47.60
Median % change year-on-year -31.14% -55.88% +137.98%
75th Percentile £15.23 £56.71 £52.04
90th Percentile - £57.33 £56.33
South West median hourly rate £15.89 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -51.11% -7.14% -18.00%

All Vendors
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 58 108 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 35.37% 50.00% 46.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 69 50
10th Percentile £175 £160 £190
25th Percentile £175 £219 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £519 £610 £500
90th Percentile £630 £650 £625
South West median daily rate £508 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -3.33% +10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 16
10th Percentile - £18.55 £42.04
25th Percentile £13.69 £49.16 £45.85
Median hourly rate £46.39 £56.33 £50.49
Median % change year-on-year -17.64% +11.57% +68.28%
75th Percentile £57.33 £61.68 £56.26
90th Percentile £63.75 £63.23 £59.21
South West median hourly rate £47.50 £63.00 £46.71
% change year-on-year -24.60% +34.87% +3.80%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Dorset

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Dorset

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Dorset over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Dorset

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Dorset

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Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Bournemouth -2 15 £185 -30.97% 7
Ferndown - 7 - -
Microsoft
South West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (8.33%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 11 (45.83%) Azure
1 11 (45.83%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (4.17%) CockroachDB
1 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
General
1 7 (29.17%) Police
2 2 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (4.17%) Banking
3 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Infrastructure Technician
2 7 (29.17%) Data Technician
2 7 (29.17%) Forensic Technician
3 2 (8.33%) Administrator
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Desktop Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Desktop Support
4 1 (4.17%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking Java Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Java Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) JPA
1 1 (4.17%) REST
1 1 (4.17%) Spring
1 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (45.83%) NHS
2 7 (29.17%) Driving Licence
3 2 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.17%) iPad
4 1 (4.17%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 12 (50.00%) Windows
2 11 (45.83%) Windows Server
3 6 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (4.17%) Android
4 1 (4.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 11 (45.83%) Network Management
2 7 (29.17%) Digital Forensics
3 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (4.17%) Agile
4 1 (4.17%) Architectural Design
4 1 (4.17%) CI/CD
4 1 (4.17%) Community of Practice
4 1 (4.17%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (4.17%) Data Modelling
4 1 (4.17%) Information Architecture
4 1 (4.17%) ITIL
4 1 (4.17%) ITSM
4 1 (4.17%) Microservices
4 1 (4.17%) Operational Stability
4 1 (4.17%) SDLC
4 1 (4.17%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.17%) Java
2 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) CITP
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 11 (45.83%) Veeam
1 11 (45.83%) VMware