Microsoft Contracts in the North East

Microsoft
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 4 22 4
Rank change year-on-year +18 -18 +5
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 44 38 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 13.02% 8.96% 19.37%
As % of the Vendors category 30.77% 25.50% 49.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 30 78
10th Percentile £150 £138 £126
25th Percentile £163 £190 £147
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £213 £238 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -44.12% +30.77%
75th Percentile £497 £494 £550
90th Percentile £644 £655 £629
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 7
10th Percentile £14.15 - £14.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £48.50 £14.52
Median hourly rate £20.77 £49.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.61% +188.24% +13.33%
75th Percentile - £49.50 £36.13
90th Percentile £30.93 - £52.15
England median hourly rate £15.00 £22.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -31.82% +18.92% -

All Vendors
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 143 149 200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 42.31% 35.14% 39.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 106 148
10th Percentile £163 £200 £135
25th Percentile £335 £264 £184
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% +2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £645 £550
90th Percentile £675 £775 £641
England median daily rate £520 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -3.26% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 10
10th Percentile £11.18 - £13.65
25th Percentile £12.72 £48.50 £14.26
Median hourly rate £17.50 £49.00 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year -64.29% +184.06% +15.00%
75th Percentile £20.77 £49.50 £21.85
90th Percentile £54.47 - £50.35
England median hourly rate £22.40 £39.55 £21.00
% change year-on-year -43.36% +88.33% -4.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the North East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in the North East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in the North East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in the North East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North East

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

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in the North East

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the North East 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
Tyne and Wear +25 27 £423 +9.16% 70
Durham 0 9 £175 -26.32% 18
Northumberland +1 7 - - 6
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.27%) CMS
2 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.27%) Site Server
Applications
1 6 (13.64%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (11.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (2.27%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 15 (34.09%) Azure
2 8 (18.18%) AWS
3 7 (15.91%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (11.36%) Power Platform
5 3 (6.82%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.55%) GCP
6 2 (4.55%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.27%) Google Analytics
7 1 (2.27%) Google Workspace
7 1 (2.27%) IaaS
7 1 (2.27%) Miro
7 1 (2.27%) PaaS
7 1 (2.27%) SaaS
7 1 (2.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.09%) Firewall
2 2 (4.55%) AMQP
2 2 (4.55%) DHCP
2 2 (4.55%) DMZ
2 2 (4.55%) DNS
2 2 (4.55%) Modbus
2 2 (4.55%) MQTT
2 2 (4.55%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (2.27%) NAS
3 1 (2.27%) SAN
3 1 (2.27%) SMTP
3 1 (2.27%) Unified Communications
3 1 (2.27%) VoIP
3 1 (2.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.36%) Power BI
2 4 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (4.55%) Tableau
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 7 (15.91%) Git
2 1 (2.27%) JIRA
General
1 18 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (9.09%) Finance
4 2 (4.55%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.27%) Advertising
5 1 (2.27%) Banking
5 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Marketing
5 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (18.18%) Support Engineer
2 7 (15.91%) Lead
3 6 (13.64%) IT Support
4 5 (11.36%) DBA
4 5 (11.36%) IT Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) IT Support Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Analyst
5 4 (9.09%) Desktop Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Senior
6 3 (6.82%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Business Analyst
6 3 (6.82%) IT Technician
6 3 (6.82%) SQL DBA
7 2 (4.55%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Desktop Support
7 2 (4.55%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Server Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Windows Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.91%) PyTorch
1 7 (15.91%) TensorFlow
2 5 (11.36%) .NET
3 3 (6.82%) JSON
4 2 (4.55%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (4.55%) Web Services
4 2 (4.55%) XML
4 2 (4.55%) XSLT
5 1 (2.27%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.27%) LDAP
5 1 (2.27%) Middleware
5 1 (2.27%) REST
5 1 (2.27%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.64%) Onboarding
2 4 (9.09%) Clustering
3 3 (6.82%) NHS
3 3 (6.82%) PKI
4 2 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.55%) IoT
5 1 (2.27%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.27%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.27%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 16 (36.36%) Windows
2 10 (22.73%) Windows Server
3 5 (11.36%) Windows 10
4 2 (4.55%) Linux
5 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (22.73%) Visualisation
2 8 (18.18%) DevOps
2 8 (18.18%) Machine Learning
3 7 (15.91%) Artificial Intelligence
3 7 (15.91%) Digital Engineering
3 7 (15.91%) GitOps
3 7 (15.91%) Software Engineering
3 7 (15.91%) Systems Engineering
4 6 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (11.36%) Data Analysis
5 5 (11.36%) ITIL
6 4 (9.09%) High Availability
6 4 (9.09%) Service Management
7 3 (6.82%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (6.82%) Migration
7 3 (6.82%) Server Patching
7 3 (6.82%) Software Deployment
8 2 (4.55%) Reverse Engineering
8 2 (4.55%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (29.55%) Python
2 9 (20.45%) SQL
3 7 (15.91%) PowerShell
4 5 (11.36%) C#
5 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.27%) Java
6 1 (2.27%) R
6 1 (2.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 11 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (18.18%) Degree
2 8 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (6.82%) HNC
4 3 (6.82%) MCSE
5 2 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.55%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.27%) DBS Check
6 1 (2.27%) PMP
6 1 (2.27%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (2.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) PMO
2 1 (2.27%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (20.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.55%) Docker
2 2 (4.55%) Hyper-V
2 2 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.55%) vSphere
3 1 (2.27%) BitLocker
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (2.27%) Terminal Services
3 1 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (15.91%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.55%) Grafana
2 2 (4.55%) SCCM
3 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.27%) vCenter Server
3 1 (2.27%) vMotion
3 1 (2.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (9.09%) Citrix
2 3 (6.82%) Google
2 3 (6.82%) VMware
3 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.27%) Databricks
4 1 (2.27%) HP
4 1 (2.27%) Infoblox
4 1 (2.27%) mParticle
4 1 (2.27%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) Symantec