Microsoft Contracts in Merseyside

Microsoft
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 3 3 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 38 101 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 16.96% 29.45% 26.29%
As % of the Vendors category 38.78% 60.12% 53.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 77 61
10th Percentile £161 £274 £150
25th Percentile £213 £400 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £260 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -48.00% +25.00% +56.86%
75th Percentile £404 £688 £450
90th Percentile £485 £700 £538
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £407
% change year-on-year -5.26% +16.71% +11.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 9
10th Percentile - £15.35 £9.23
25th Percentile - £16.25 £9.92
Median hourly rate £14.50 £17.50 £11.26
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +55.49% -39.16%
75th Percentile £18.27 £18.75 £15.00
90th Percentile £18.90 £19.05 £18.75
North West median hourly rate £14.50 £26.25 £18.35
% change year-on-year -44.76% +43.05% -19.34%

All Vendors
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 98 168 180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 43.75% 48.98% 48.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 124 126
10th Percentile £161 £302 £163
25th Percentile £213 £400 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £495 £430
Median % change year-on-year -44.44% +15.12% +43.33%
75th Percentile £429 £626 £538
90th Percentile £494 £700 £644
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +13.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 6 11
10th Percentile - £15.47 £9.23
25th Percentile £14.50 £16.20 £9.92
Median hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +34.62% -29.73%
75th Percentile £18.27 £18.75 £16.50
90th Percentile £23.46 £19.00 £18.75
North West median hourly rate £16.06 £37.50 £19.25
% change year-on-year -57.17% +94.86% -30.01%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Merseyside

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Merseyside

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Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Merseyside

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Merseyside

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Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Merseyside 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
Liverpool -2 32 £225 -52.63% 42
Birkenhead -1 2 £369 -32.93% 2
Bootle -2 2 £450 -30.77% 2
Wirral - 2 £398 - 1
Microsoft
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (23.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (23.68%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (18.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 14 (36.84%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (13.16%) Azure
3 4 (10.53%) Power Platform
4 3 (7.89%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (5.26%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.26%) Mimecast
5 2 (5.26%) SaaS
6 1 (2.63%) IaaS
6 1 (2.63%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) Firewall
2 1 (2.63%) DHCP
2 1 (2.63%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.79%) SQL Server
1 6 (15.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 4 (10.53%) Power BI
3 3 (7.89%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (7.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
General
1 20 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.42%) Finance
3 6 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.89%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Banking
5 2 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Legal
6 1 (2.63%) Local Government
6 1 (2.63%) Military
6 1 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (31.58%) Analyst
2 4 (10.53%) Service Analyst
2 4 (10.53%) Service Desk Analyst
3 3 (7.89%) Data Engineer
3 3 (7.89%) Desktop Support
3 3 (7.89%) Developer
3 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (7.89%) Lead
3 3 (7.89%) SQL Developer
4 2 (5.26%) 1st Line Support
4 2 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 2 (5.26%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Incident Manager
4 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Support Analyst
4 2 (5.26%) Support Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.63%) .NET
1 1 (2.63%) .NET Framework
1 1 (2.63%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.63%) CMDB
1 1 (2.63%) Life Science
1 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 16 (42.11%) Windows
2 13 (34.21%) Windows 10
3 2 (5.26%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.63%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (31.58%) ITIL
2 8 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (18.42%) Customer Service
3 7 (18.42%) Incident Management
3 7 (18.42%) Mobile Device Management
4 6 (15.79%) Desktop Virtualisation
4 6 (15.79%) Migration
5 5 (13.16%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (7.89%) Analytics
7 3 (7.89%) Data Modelling
7 3 (7.89%) Data Reconciliation
7 3 (7.89%) Data Science
7 3 (7.89%) Database Migration
7 3 (7.89%) Database Security
7 3 (7.89%) RBAC
8 2 (5.26%) Continuous Improvement Process
8 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (5.26%) Major Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.42%) SQL
2 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (18.42%) Security Cleared
2 6 (15.79%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (13.16%) Degree
3 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (7.89%) MCP
5 2 (5.26%) MCSE
5 2 (5.26%) MOS
5 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.63%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.26%) QA
2 2 (5.26%) SLA
3 1 (2.63%) GMP
System Software
1 14 (36.84%) Active Directory
2 7 (18.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.63%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (26.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (13.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) VMware
2 6 (15.79%) Citrix
2 6 (15.79%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.26%) Bomgar
3 2 (5.26%) iManage
3 2 (5.26%) Sophos
4 1 (2.63%) Adobe
4 1 (2.63%) Apple
4 1 (2.63%) Liquidlogic
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle