Microsoft Contracts in Leeds

Microsoft
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 10 14
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 +11
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 84 146 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 10.65% 11.03% 9.44%
As % of the Vendors category 26.01% 28.63% 27.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 108 112
10th Percentile £226 £213 £180
25th Percentile £330 £413 £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £505 £444
Median % change year-on-year -10.89% +13.80% -4.05%
75th Percentile £550 £606 £538
90th Percentile £625 £691 £643
West Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -15.00% +17.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £13.45
25th Percentile - - £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.27 - £18.50
75th Percentile - - £20.00
90th Percentile - - £21.65
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £32.50 £16.85
% change year-on-year -53.85% +92.88% -7.39%

All Vendors
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 323 510 544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 40.94% 38.52% 34.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 373 371
10th Percentile £313 £350 £258
25th Percentile £413 £458 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +7.69% -2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £550
90th Percentile £715 £700 £645
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 4 8
10th Percentile £12.10 £17.25 £14.35
25th Percentile £12.87 £19.50 £17.13
Median hourly rate £14.63 £28.28 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.28% +41.39% -14.82%
75th Percentile £15.19 £50.67 £23.31
90th Percentile - £68.27 £27.67
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.63 £32.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year -55.00% +103.13% -15.30%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Leeds

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Leeds

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Leeds

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 8 (9.52%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.19%) CMS
3 1 (1.19%) Skype for Business
3 1 (1.19%) Umbraco
Applications
1 15 (17.86%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.19%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (1.19%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 28 (33.33%) Azure
2 21 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
3 16 (19.05%) Power Platform
4 11 (13.10%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (8.33%) Entra ID
6 6 (7.14%) AWS
6 6 (7.14%) PowerApps
7 5 (5.95%) Akamai
7 5 (5.95%) Cloudflare
8 3 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.38%) GitHub
9 2 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.19%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 1 (1.19%) Apigee
10 1 (1.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (1.19%) Google Analytics
10 1 (1.19%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.19%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.33%) Firewall
1 7 (8.33%) LAN
1 7 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (5.95%) DNS
2 5 (5.95%) Internet
2 5 (5.95%) SAN
3 4 (4.76%) DHCP
4 3 (3.57%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (2.38%) Network Security
5 2 (2.38%) VPN
5 2 (2.38%) WAN
5 2 (2.38%) Wireshark
6 1 (1.19%) Intranet
6 1 (1.19%) Skype
6 1 (1.19%) SSL
6 1 (1.19%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.10%) SQL Server
2 9 (10.71%) Power BI
3 7 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (4.76%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.57%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.38%) MySQL
7 1 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (1.19%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.19%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (1.19%) QlikView
7 1 (1.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (1.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (10.71%) Team Foundation Server
2 7 (8.33%) JIRA
3 6 (7.14%) Git
4 3 (3.57%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.38%) AppScan
5 2 (2.38%) Burp Suite
5 2 (2.38%) GitLab
5 2 (2.38%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.38%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.19%) Dreamweaver
6 1 (1.19%) gulp
6 1 (1.19%) Maven
6 1 (1.19%) Selenium
General
1 36 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.86%) Finance
3 11 (13.10%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.33%) Banking
5 6 (7.14%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.57%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.38%) Retail
8 2 (2.38%) Spanish Language
9 1 (1.19%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.19%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.19%) Local Government
9 1 (1.19%) Marketing
9 1 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.19%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (19.05%) Analyst
2 11 (13.10%) Consultant
3 10 (11.90%) Developer
4 9 (10.71%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 9 (10.71%) Project Manager
5 8 (9.52%) Architect
6 6 (7.14%) Lead
6 6 (7.14%) Senior
6 6 (7.14%) Support Engineer
7 5 (5.95%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (5.95%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 5 (5.95%) IT Engineer
7 5 (5.95%) IT Support
7 5 (5.95%) SQL BI Developer
7 5 (5.95%) SQL Developer
8 4 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 4 (4.76%) IT Support Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Security Analyst
8 4 (4.76%) Security Architect
9 3 (3.57%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.76%) SailPoint
1 4 (4.76%) Spring
1 4 (4.76%) Spring Boot
2 2 (2.38%) AngularJS
2 2 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (2.38%) LDAP
3 1 (1.19%) .NET
3 1 (1.19%) Node.js
3 1 (1.19%) OAuth
3 1 (1.19%) OpenID
3 1 (1.19%) RESTful
3 1 (1.19%) SAML
3 1 (1.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.14%) NHS
2 3 (3.57%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.38%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.19%) CMDB
4 1 (1.19%) iPad
4 1 (1.19%) iPhone
4 1 (1.19%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 19 (22.62%) Windows
2 9 (10.71%) Windows 10
2 9 (10.71%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.38%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.38%) Linux
3 2 (2.38%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.19%) Android
4 1 (1.19%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (20.24%) Customer Service
1 17 (20.24%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (14.29%) Agile
3 12 (14.29%) Project Management
3 12 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (11.90%) DevOps
5 8 (9.52%) Data Modelling
5 8 (9.52%) Migration
6 7 (8.33%) Analytics
6 7 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (8.33%) ERP
6 7 (8.33%) Project Planning
6 7 (8.33%) Workshop Facilitation
7 6 (7.14%) Customer Insight
7 6 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (7.14%) Decarbonisation
7 6 (7.14%) GAP Analysis
7 6 (7.14%) Supply Chain Management
8 5 (5.95%) RAD
Programming Languages
1 14 (16.67%) SQL
2 6 (7.14%) Java
3 5 (5.95%) Python
4 3 (3.57%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.38%) Bash
5 2 (2.38%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.19%) C#
6 1 (1.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (9.52%) SC Cleared
1 8 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.57%) Degree
2 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.71%) QA
2 3 (3.57%) SLA
3 2 (2.38%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.19%) PMO
System Software
1 18 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 10 (11.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.57%) Docker
4 2 (2.38%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.38%) KVM
4 2 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (2.38%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 4 (4.76%) Terraform
2 3 (3.57%) Ansible
2 3 (3.57%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.38%) Grafana
3 2 (2.38%) Graylog
3 2 (2.38%) HP Fortify
3 2 (2.38%) Nessus
3 2 (2.38%) Progress Chef
3 2 (2.38%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.38%) Puppet
3 2 (2.38%) vCenter Server
3 2 (2.38%) WebInspect
4 1 (1.19%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 10 (11.90%) VMware
2 5 (5.95%) F5
3 4 (4.76%) CyberArk
3 4 (4.76%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.38%) Apple
4 2 (2.38%) Checkmarx
4 2 (2.38%) Databricks
4 2 (2.38%) Google
4 2 (2.38%) Splunk
4 2 (2.38%) Veracode
5 1 (1.19%) Adobe
5 1 (1.19%) Brio
5 1 (1.19%) Citrix
5 1 (1.19%) Intel
5 1 (1.19%) Oracle
5 1 (1.19%) Salesforce