Microsoft Contracts in Oxford

Microsoft
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxford 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 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +7
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 14 23 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxford 13.59% 17.83% 20.41%
As % of the Vendors category 30.43% 31.51% 48.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 23 27
10th Percentile £128 £171 £152
25th Percentile £363 £300 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -27.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £506 £450 £575
90th Percentile £560 £528 £585
Oxfordshire median daily rate £375 £400 £350
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £16.00 - -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £17.50 - -

All Vendors
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 46 73 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 44.66% 56.59% 42.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 49 43
10th Percentile £194 £235 £155
25th Percentile £413 £300 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -18.18% +25.00%
75th Percentile £525 £500 £575
90th Percentile £595 £687 £706
Oxfordshire median daily rate £450 £444 £500
% change year-on-year +1.41% -11.25% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 6
10th Percentile £19.01 - -
25th Percentile £23.52 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £26.03 £18.08 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.97% -11.80% -6.34%
75th Percentile £27.15 £24.02 £21.00
90th Percentile £29.16 £26.75 -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £17.50 £24.50 £20.50
% change year-on-year -28.57% +19.51% -6.34%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Oxford

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Oxford

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Daily Rate Histogram in Oxford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Oxford over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Oxford

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxford

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Oxford

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxford 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 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
1 3 (21.43%) Dynamics 365
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory Technician
1 2 (14.29%) Architect
1 2 (14.29%) Hardware Technician
1 2 (14.29%) IT Technician
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Engineer
1 2 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
1 2 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
1 2 (14.29%) Tester
2 1 (7.14%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
2 1 (7.14%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Desktop Support Technician
2 1 (7.14%) Desktop Technician
2 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365 Trainer
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
2 1 (7.14%) Migration Consultant
2 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Life Science
1 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Android
2 2 (14.29%) Apple iOS
3 1 (7.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (21.43%) Change Management
1 3 (21.43%) Time Management
2 2 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (14.29%) Agile
2 2 (14.29%) DevOps
2 2 (14.29%) Functional Testing
2 2 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (14.29%) Logistics
2 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
2 2 (14.29%) Scrum
2 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
2 2 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (7.14%) Asset Management
3 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science
3 1 (7.14%) Customer Service
3 1 (7.14%) E-Commerce
3 1 (7.14%) Migration
3 1 (7.14%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.14%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Apple
2 1 (7.14%) Citrix
2 1 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) VMware
2 1 (7.14%) Workday