Microsoft Contracts in Hampshire

Microsoft
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 8 6 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 177 271 376
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 11.08% 19.17% 17.64%
As % of the Vendors category 24.11% 36.52% 39.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 164 221
10th Percentile £200 £190 £150
25th Percentile £451 £250 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £548 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% +21.67% +3.64%
75th Percentile £784 £636 £600
90th Percentile £825 £676 £675
South East median daily rate £470 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -1.05% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 24 46
10th Percentile £12.00 £15.59 £12.50
25th Percentile £12.63 £18.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £15.00 £19.74 £18.32
Median % change year-on-year -23.99% +7.72% +30.86%
75th Percentile £16.00 £37.88 £22.25
90th Percentile £23.95 £56.84 £23.39
South East median hourly rate £21.00 £20.47 £16.50
% change year-on-year +2.59% +24.06% -8.33%

All Vendors
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 734 742 949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 45.93% 52.48% 44.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 474 569
10th Percentile £400 £214 £245
25th Percentile £478 £413 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £675 £630 £603
90th Percentile £762 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 50 63
10th Percentile £13.05 £17.63 £12.83
25th Percentile £28.38 £18.99 £16.25
Median hourly rate £57.35 £51.00 £21.18
Median % change year-on-year +12.45% +140.79% -9.87%
75th Percentile £61.30 £62.25 £38.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.83
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year +5.56% +130.53% -2.40%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Hampshire

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Hampshire

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Hampshire

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Hampshire

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in Hampshire

Microsoft
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 27 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
Portsmouth -2 54 £583 +184.27% 27
Basingstoke -8 49 £650 +20.93% 21
Southampton -11 13 £215 -60.91% 39
Farnborough -5 12 £475 +1.06% 13
Romsey -1 8 £650 +4.00% 5
Havant -3 8 £460 -23.33% 6
Eastleigh +3 5 - - 4
Winchester -7 3 - - 16
Fareham -1 1 - - 16
Yateley - 1 - -
Hook - 1 £175 - 8
Microsoft
South East

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 13 (7.34%) Confluence
1 13 (7.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (5.08%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.56%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 18 (10.17%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (5.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 27 (15.25%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (7.34%) Azure
3 9 (5.08%) Power Platform
4 5 (2.82%) AWS
4 5 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.69%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.13%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.13%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (1.13%) GitHub
6 2 (1.13%) PowerApps
6 2 (1.13%) SaaS
7 1 (0.56%) Azure Stack
7 1 (0.56%) GCP
7 1 (0.56%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.56%) IaaS
7 1 (0.56%) Miro
7 1 (0.56%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.56%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 24 (13.56%) DNS
2 15 (8.47%) DHCP
3 11 (6.21%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (5.65%) Wireless
5 3 (1.69%) Network Security
5 3 (1.69%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.69%) VLAN
6 2 (1.13%) DMZ
6 2 (1.13%) Firewall
6 2 (1.13%) LAN
6 2 (1.13%) SAN
6 2 (1.13%) SSL
6 2 (1.13%) VSAN
6 2 (1.13%) WAN
7 1 (0.56%) HTTP
7 1 (0.56%) MPLS
7 1 (0.56%) PBX
7 1 (0.56%) SNMP
7 1 (0.56%) VoIP
7 1 (0.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.69%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.56%) DB2
2 1 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (7.91%) JIRA
2 13 (7.34%) MSI
3 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.56%) Git
3 1 (0.56%) GitLab
3 1 (0.56%) Rational Team Concert
3 1 (0.56%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 60 (33.90%) Social Skills
2 16 (9.04%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (5.08%) Military
3 9 (5.08%) Public Sector
4 6 (3.39%) Retail
4 6 (3.39%) Telecoms
5 3 (1.69%) Legal
6 2 (1.13%) Automotive
6 2 (1.13%) Finance
6 2 (1.13%) French Language
6 2 (1.13%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.13%) Portuguese Language
6 2 (1.13%) Spanish Language
7 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.56%) Electronics
7 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.56%) Law
7 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (31.64%) Architect
2 47 (26.55%) Infrastructure Architect
3 24 (13.56%) IT Support
4 20 (11.30%) Integration Engineer
5 11 (6.21%) Lead
5 11 (6.21%) Support Technician
6 9 (5.08%) Administrator
6 9 (5.08%) Consultant
6 9 (5.08%) IT Support Technician
6 9 (5.08%) IT Technician
6 9 (5.08%) Test and Integration Engineer
6 9 (5.08%) Test Engineer
7 7 (3.95%) Project Manager
8 6 (3.39%) 1st Line Support
8 6 (3.39%) Support Engineer
8 6 (3.39%) Technical Architect
9 5 (2.82%) Analyst
9 5 (2.82%) IT Administrator
9 5 (2.82%) IT Systems Administrator
10 4 (2.26%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.13%) Node.js
2 1 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.56%) Flask
2 1 (0.56%) Keycloak
2 1 (0.56%) Pandas
2 1 (0.56%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (0.56%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.86%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 17 (9.60%) Cyber Defence
2 17 (9.60%) Cyber Threat
3 14 (7.91%) Management Information System
4 13 (7.34%) PKI
5 6 (3.39%) Digital Signage
6 3 (1.69%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.69%) Smartphone
7 2 (1.13%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.56%) Clustering
8 1 (0.56%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.56%) IoT
8 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.56%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 108 (61.02%) Windows
2 33 (18.64%) Windows Server
3 25 (14.12%) Windows Server 2012
4 23 (12.99%) Linux
5 20 (11.30%) Windows 10
6 9 (5.08%) Apple iOS
7 8 (4.52%) Windows 7
8 3 (1.69%) Android
9 2 (1.13%) Ubuntu
9 2 (1.13%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.56%) CentOS
10 1 (0.56%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.56%) Unix
10 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (27.68%) Prototyping
2 43 (24.29%) Agile
3 22 (12.43%) Cybersecurity
4 20 (11.30%) Information Security
4 20 (11.30%) SIEM
5 18 (10.17%) CRM
5 18 (10.17%) Incident Response
6 17 (9.60%) Mentoring
6 17 (9.60%) Protective Monitoring
7 16 (9.04%) Incident Management
7 16 (9.04%) Patch Management
7 16 (9.04%) Use Case
8 15 (8.47%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 14 (7.91%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (7.34%) Case Management
10 13 (7.34%) Customer Service
10 13 (7.34%) SOAR
11 12 (6.78%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 12 (6.78%) Root Cause Analysis
11 12 (6.78%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 24 (13.56%) PowerShell
2 20 (11.30%) SQL
3 4 (2.26%) Python
4 2 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.56%) Go
5 1 (0.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 117 (66.10%) Security Cleared
2 69 (38.98%) DV Cleared
3 34 (19.21%) SC Cleared
4 13 (7.34%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (5.65%) MCSE
5 10 (5.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 9 (5.08%) MCSA
7 6 (3.39%) Degree
8 2 (1.13%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.13%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.13%) PMP
9 1 (0.56%) CCNA
9 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.56%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.56%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.17%) NIST
1 18 (10.17%) NIST 800
2 8 (4.52%) SLA
3 6 (3.39%) PMO
4 1 (0.56%) GDPR
4 1 (0.56%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.56%) NCSC
4 1 (0.56%) QA
System Software
1 57 (32.20%) Active Directory
2 24 (13.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.69%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.13%) Docker
4 2 (1.13%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.56%) Firmware
5 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (9.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (7.34%) WMI
3 12 (6.78%) SCCM
3 12 (6.78%) WSUS
4 5 (2.82%) Terraform
5 3 (1.69%) Ansible
6 2 (1.13%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.13%) MOM
6 2 (1.13%) Nessus
6 2 (1.13%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.56%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.56%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.56%) vRealize
Vendors
1 25 (14.12%) VMware
2 10 (5.65%) MobileIron
3 2 (1.13%) Apple
3 2 (1.13%) Atlassian
3 2 (1.13%) Google
3 2 (1.13%) Oracle
3 2 (1.13%) Red Hat
3 2 (1.13%) Veeam
4 1 (0.56%) Aruba
4 1 (0.56%) Cisco
4 1 (0.56%) Citrix
4 1 (0.56%) Freshdesk
4 1 (0.56%) McAfee
4 1 (0.56%) NetApp
4 1 (0.56%) SolarWinds
4 1 (0.56%) Splunk