Microsoft Contracts in Lancashire

Microsoft
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire requiring knowledge or experience of Microsoft products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft over the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
14 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 8 4
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +9
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 50 39 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 19.46% 16.05% 21.34%
As % of the Vendors category 43.48% 26.53% 51.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 38
10th Percentile £179 £140 £155
25th Percentile £300 £313 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £403 £463
Median % change year-on-year +24.22% -12.97% +19.35%
75th Percentile £632 £530 £738
90th Percentile £775 £629 £750
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £425
% change year-on-year - +11.76% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 14 15
10th Percentile - £25.75 £13.70
25th Percentile - £29.69 £25.60
Median hourly rate £16.06 £40.55 £41.62
Median % change year-on-year -60.39% -2.58% +220.15%
75th Percentile - £47.42 £77.38
90th Percentile £18.24 £53.24 £96.23
North West median hourly rate £14.50 £24.27 £17.50
% change year-on-year -40.24% +38.66% -11.05%

All Vendors
Lancashire

Microsoft falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 115 147 104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 44.75% 60.49% 41.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 64 70
10th Percentile £370 £236 £156
25th Percentile £413 £363 £251
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £461 £488
Median % change year-on-year +24.66% -5.38% +21.88%
75th Percentile £627 £561 £697
90th Percentile £732 £604 £752
North West median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 34 22
10th Percentile - £25.75 £14.10
25th Percentile - £29.30 £20.34
Median hourly rate £16.06 £42.33 £37.93
Median % change year-on-year -62.06% +11.60% +78.48%
75th Percentile £43.10 £47.96 £52.39
90th Percentile £46.18 £52.13 £96.21
North West median hourly rate £16.06 £29.30 £21.39
% change year-on-year -45.19% +36.98% -5.98%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Lancashire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Lancashire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Lancashire over the 6 months to 14 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Lancashire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Lancashire

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in Lancashire over the 6 months to 14 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in Lancashire

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Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
Preston +8 27 £614 +33.12% 21
Blackpool +10 2 £200 -60.00% 5
Chorley +2 1 - - 7
Lancaster 0 1 £180 -48.57% 8
Burnley - 1 - - 4
Accrington - 1 - - 2
Skelmersdale - 1 - - 2
Microsoft
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 4 (8.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.00%) GeoServer
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 22 (44.00%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (12.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (12.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
4 1 (2.00%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 20 (40.00%) Taleo
2 7 (14.00%) Azure
2 7 (14.00%) Dynamics 365
3 6 (12.00%) Power Platform
4 4 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (6.00%) AWS
6 2 (4.00%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.00%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) DHCP
1 1 (2.00%) DNS
1 1 (2.00%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.00%) Power BI
2 1 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.00%) GIS
2 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.00%) QGIS
2 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Git
2 1 (2.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 31 (62.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (6.00%) Retail
3 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.00%) Finance
4 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.00%) Marketing
4 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.00%) Public Speaking
4 1 (2.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (12.00%) Developer
1 6 (12.00%) Lead
2 5 (10.00%) Consultant
2 5 (10.00%) Power Platform Developer
3 2 (4.00%) Analyst
3 2 (4.00%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (4.00%) IAM Consultant
3 2 (4.00%) IT Support
3 2 (4.00%) IT Technician
3 2 (4.00%) Service Transition Leader
4 1 (2.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 1 (2.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (2.00%) ERP Manager
4 1 (2.00%) Functional Test Engineer
4 1 (2.00%) Hardware Technician
4 1 (2.00%) IT Assistant
4 1 (2.00%) IT Support Assistant
4 1 (2.00%) SAP Manager
4 1 (2.00%) SAP Transition Manager
4 1 (2.00%) Service Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (6.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (2.00%) .NET
2 1 (2.00%) CSS
2 1 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.00%) HTML
2 1 (2.00%) Lucene
2 1 (2.00%) OpenLayers
2 1 (2.00%) PostGIS
2 1 (2.00%) React
2 1 (2.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.00%) iPhone
2 1 (2.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.00%) Windows
2 4 (8.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.00%) Android
3 1 (2.00%) Linux
3 1 (2.00%) Windows 8
3 1 (2.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (40.00%) Data Protection
1 20 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 8 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (10.00%) DevOps
3 5 (10.00%) ERP
3 5 (10.00%) Fintech
4 4 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (8.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 4 (8.00%) Machine Learning
4 4 (8.00%) Software Engineering
4 4 (8.00%) Visualisation
5 3 (6.00%) Budget Management
5 3 (6.00%) Customer Service
5 3 (6.00%) Digital Engineering
5 3 (6.00%) GitOps
5 3 (6.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (6.00%) Programme Delivery
5 3 (6.00%) Roadmaps
5 3 (6.00%) Service Design
5 3 (6.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.00%) Python
2 1 (2.00%) Java
2 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.00%) MATLAB
2 1 (2.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 7 (14.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.00%) Degree
5 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.00%) HNC
5 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) GDPR
1 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.00%) NIST
1 1 (2.00%) QA
1 1 (2.00%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (14.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.00%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (8.00%) SAP
3 3 (6.00%) Cadence
4 1 (2.00%) Citrix
4 1 (2.00%) ESET