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 15 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 6 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 0
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 178 249 372
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 11.04% 19.08% 18.12%
As % of the Vendors category 23.83% 35.72% 41.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 153 216
10th Percentile £204 £200 £150
25th Percentile £457 £250 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +11.11% +3.64%
75th Percentile £784 £610 £600
90th Percentile £825 £676 £688
South East median daily rate £465 £460 £445
% change year-on-year +1.08% +3.37% +3.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 24 50
10th Percentile £12.00 £15.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £12.47 £16.14 £13.25
Median hourly rate £14.00 £18.50 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.32% +12.12% -17.50%
75th Percentile £16.00 £22.20 £22.25
90th Percentile £21.33 £56.84 £22.56
South East median hourly rate £20.25 £19.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year +3.85% +18.18% -17.50%

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 747 697 905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 46.34% 53.41% 44.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 443 538
10th Percentile £413 £213 £204
25th Percentile £500 £410 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +9.38% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £630 £613
90th Percentile £761 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £483
% change year-on-year - +3.63% +5.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 51 66
10th Percentile £13.05 £15.50 £13.19
25th Percentile £29.88 £18.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £57.35 £50.00 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year +14.70% +156.15% -19.57%
75th Percentile £62.00 £61.50 £30.07
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £62.15
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £19.51
% change year-on-year +5.56% +130.65% -11.32%

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 15 May 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 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in Hampshire

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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 15 May 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 0 53 £585 +185.49% 20
Basingstoke -8 50 £700 +30.23% 30
Southampton -11 14 £248 -55.00% 31
Farnborough -7 10 £575 +15.58% 18
Romsey -2 8 £650 +4.00% 3
Havant +1 7 £455 -22.55% 3
Eastleigh +3 5 - - 7
Winchester -7 5 £450 +59.29% 20
Fareham -1 2 - - 13
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 14 (7.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (7.30%) Confluence
3 8 (4.49%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.56%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 16 (8.99%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (6.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.81%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 28 (15.73%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (6.18%) Azure
3 10 (5.62%) Power Platform
4 5 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.69%) AWS
5 3 (1.69%) Entra ID
5 3 (1.69%) PowerApps
6 2 (1.12%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (1.12%) GitHub
6 2 (1.12%) 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
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.80%) DNS
2 14 (7.87%) DHCP
3 12 (6.74%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (5.62%) Wireless
5 3 (1.69%) Network Security
5 3 (1.69%) VLAN
6 2 (1.12%) Firewall
6 2 (1.12%) LAN
6 2 (1.12%) SSL
6 2 (1.12%) WAN
7 1 (0.56%) HTTP
7 1 (0.56%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.56%) MPLS
7 1 (0.56%) PBX
7 1 (0.56%) SAN
7 1 (0.56%) SNMP
7 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.56%) VoIP
7 1 (0.56%) VPLS
7 1 (0.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.12%) 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 (7.87%) JIRA
1 14 (7.87%) MSI
2 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.56%) Git
2 1 (0.56%) GitLab
2 1 (0.56%) Rational Team Concert
2 1 (0.56%) Robot Framework
2 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 60 (33.71%) Social Skills
2 16 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (6.18%) Public Sector
4 10 (5.62%) Military
5 7 (3.93%) Retail
6 6 (3.37%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.12%) Automotive
8 2 (1.12%) French Language
8 2 (1.12%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.12%) Portuguese Language
8 2 (1.12%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.56%) Electronics
9 1 (0.56%) Finance
9 1 (0.56%) Law
9 1 (0.56%) Legal
9 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (33.15%) Architect
2 48 (26.97%) Infrastructure Architect
3 22 (12.36%) IT Support
4 19 (10.67%) Integration Engineer
5 11 (6.18%) Lead
5 11 (6.18%) Support Technician
6 10 (5.62%) Test Engineer
7 9 (5.06%) Administrator
7 9 (5.06%) Consultant
7 9 (5.06%) IT Support Technician
7 9 (5.06%) IT Technician
7 9 (5.06%) Test and Integration Engineer
8 7 (3.93%) Project Manager
9 6 (3.37%) 1st Line Support
9 6 (3.37%) Analyst
9 6 (3.37%) Support Engineer
9 6 (3.37%) Technical Architect
10 5 (2.81%) IT Administrator
10 5 (2.81%) IT Engineer
10 5 (2.81%) IT Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.12%) 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 (11.80%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 17 (9.55%) Cyber Defence
2 17 (9.55%) Cyber Threat
3 14 (7.87%) PKI
4 13 (7.30%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.93%) Digital Signage
6 3 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.69%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.56%) Clustering
7 1 (0.56%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.56%) IoT
7 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.56%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 112 (62.92%) Windows
2 31 (17.42%) Windows Server
3 25 (14.04%) Windows Server 2012
4 24 (13.48%) Windows 10
5 21 (11.80%) Linux
6 10 (5.62%) Apple iOS
7 9 (5.06%) Windows 7
8 3 (1.69%) Android
9 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.56%) Unix
9 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (28.09%) Prototyping
2 44 (24.72%) Agile
3 22 (12.36%) Cybersecurity
4 20 (11.24%) Information Security
4 20 (11.24%) SIEM
5 19 (10.67%) CRM
6 18 (10.11%) Incident Response
7 17 (9.55%) Protective Monitoring
8 16 (8.99%) Incident Management
8 16 (8.99%) Mentoring
8 16 (8.99%) Use Case
9 15 (8.43%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 15 (8.43%) Patch Management
10 13 (7.30%) Case Management
10 13 (7.30%) Customer Service
10 13 (7.30%) SOAR
11 12 (6.74%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 12 (6.74%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (6.74%) Root Cause Analysis
11 12 (6.74%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 29 (16.29%) PowerShell
2 22 (12.36%) SQL
3 4 (2.25%) Python
4 2 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.56%) Go
5 1 (0.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 121 (67.98%) Security Cleared
2 71 (39.89%) DV Cleared
3 38 (21.35%) SC Cleared
4 14 (7.87%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (6.18%) MCSE
5 11 (6.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 10 (5.62%) MCSA
7 4 (2.25%) Degree
8 2 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.12%) 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 (10.11%) NIST
1 18 (10.11%) NIST 800
2 8 (4.49%) SLA
3 6 (3.37%) 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 58 (32.58%) Active Directory
2 25 (14.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.69%) BitLocker
4 2 (1.12%) Docker
4 2 (1.12%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.56%) Firmware
5 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (9.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (8.99%) SCCM
3 14 (7.87%) WMI
4 11 (6.18%) WSUS
5 5 (2.81%) Terraform
6 3 (1.69%) Ansible
7 2 (1.12%) Kubernetes
7 2 (1.12%) MOM
7 2 (1.12%) Nessus
8 1 (0.56%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.56%) Sysprep
8 1 (0.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (14.61%) VMware
2 10 (5.62%) MobileIron
3 2 (1.12%) Apple
3 2 (1.12%) Atlassian
3 2 (1.12%) Google
3 2 (1.12%) Oracle
3 2 (1.12%) Veeam
4 1 (0.56%) Aruba
4 1 (0.56%) Cisco
4 1 (0.56%) Dell
4 1 (0.56%) Freshdesk
4 1 (0.56%) SolarWinds
4 1 (0.56%) Splunk