Microsoft Contracts in the South East

Microsoft
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 5 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 +2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 818 893 1,270
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 14.70% 15.30% 16.36%
As % of the Vendors category 30.78% 30.77% 36.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 547 599 900
10th Percentile £193 £194 £150
25th Percentile £313 £300 £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £573
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
England median daily rate £488 £500 £499
% change year-on-year -2.50% +0.20% +14.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 38 69
10th Percentile £11.71 £15.15 £10.77
25th Percentile £12.00 £18.25 £12.21
Median hourly rate £21.00 £20.47 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.59% +24.06% +5.84%
75th Percentile £50.00 £43.69 £22.25
90th Percentile £61.36 £60.48 £32.97
England median hourly rate £15.00 £22.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -31.82% +18.92% +0.34%

All Vendors
South 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,658 2,902 3,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 47.76% 49.73% 44.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,620 1,992 2,371
10th Percentile £213 £205 £189
25th Percentile £378 £370 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £610 £600
90th Percentile £688 £695 £673
England median daily rate £518 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -3.63% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 127 137
10th Percentile £12.00 £18.08 £10.77
25th Percentile £17.24 £21.97 £12.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +130.53% -2.40%
75th Percentile £61.30 £62.75 £36.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £62.15
England median hourly rate £22.50 £39.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -42.31% +85.71% -4.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the South East over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in the South East over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South East region over the 6 months to 25 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
Thames Valley +3 450 £465 -5.82% 282
Berkshire +5 333 £500 -7.83% 95
Hampshire -2 177 £600 +9.09% 200
Buckinghamshire +1 88 £449 -6.49% 106
Surrey +1 87 £425 -5.56% 94
West Sussex +6 54 £450 +125.00% 43
Kent +8 31 £378 -8.36% 70
Oxfordshire +1 29 £388 -3.13% 81
East Sussex -2 6 £505 -15.83% 43
Middlesex - 6 £275 - 1
Home Counties 0 1 £475 -26.92%
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 60 (7.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 39 (4.77%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.71%) Confluence
4 3 (0.37%) SAS
5 2 (0.24%) CMS
5 2 (0.24%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.12%) Apache
6 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.12%) Jadu
Applications
1 163 (19.93%) Microsoft Office
2 83 (10.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 41 (5.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (1.83%) Spreadsheet
5 13 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (1.10%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.98%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.24%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.12%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.12%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 11 (1.34%) Primavera
2 8 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.73%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.61%) Aareon QL
4 5 (0.61%) SmartPlant
5 4 (0.49%) LabWindows
6 3 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.24%) assyst
8 1 (0.12%) Maximo
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
8 1 (0.12%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.12%) SAP PSCD
8 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 170 (20.78%) Azure
2 136 (16.63%) Microsoft 365
3 62 (7.58%) Power Platform
4 41 (5.01%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (4.16%) Entra ID
6 31 (3.79%) Dynamics 365
7 23 (2.81%) AWS
7 23 (2.81%) PowerApps
8 22 (2.69%) Azure Monitor
9 21 (2.57%) Power Automate
10 17 (2.08%) PaaS
10 17 (2.08%) SaaS
11 14 (1.71%) Azure Storage
11 14 (1.71%) OCI
12 12 (1.47%) Azure Logic Apps
12 12 (1.47%) OneDrive
13 9 (1.10%) IaaS
14 7 (0.86%) Azure API Management
14 7 (0.86%) WhatsApp
15 6 (0.73%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 87 (10.64%) DNS
2 68 (8.31%) DHCP
3 63 (7.70%) Firewall
4 44 (5.38%) SAN
5 40 (4.89%) LAN
5 40 (4.89%) TCP/IP
6 29 (3.55%) Network Security
7 28 (3.42%) VPN
8 21 (2.57%) Wireless
9 19 (2.32%) WAN
10 16 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
11 14 (1.71%) NAS
12 12 (1.47%) VLAN
13 11 (1.34%) Remote Desktop
14 6 (0.73%) Broadband
14 6 (0.73%) SSL
15 5 (0.61%) Fibre Channel
15 5 (0.61%) iSCSI
15 5 (0.61%) VoIP
16 4 (0.49%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (4.16%) Power BI
2 29 (3.55%) SQL Server
3 12 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (1.34%) MySQL
5 9 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 8 (0.98%) Data Lake
7 7 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (0.73%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (0.61%) Big Data
9 5 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.49%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.49%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.37%) Power Query
11 3 (0.37%) SAS Enterprise Guide
12 2 (0.24%) Couchbase
12 2 (0.24%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.12%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (2.81%) JIRA
2 13 (1.59%) MSI
3 11 (1.34%) Visual Studio
4 8 (0.98%) Git
5 4 (0.49%) Subversion
6 3 (0.37%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.24%) GitLab
7 2 (0.24%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.24%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.12%) Appium
8 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.12%) Maven
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.12%) Postman
8 1 (0.12%) Rational Team Concert
8 1 (0.12%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.12%) Selenium
8 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.12%) Yeoman
General
1 281 (34.35%) Social Skills
2 71 (8.68%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (7.95%) Finance
4 47 (5.75%) Organisational Skills
4 47 (5.75%) Public Sector
5 45 (5.50%) Telecoms
6 28 (3.42%) Marketing
7 21 (2.57%) Legal
8 15 (1.83%) Retail
9 13 (1.59%) Manufacturing
10 12 (1.47%) Banking
10 12 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.10%) Military
12 7 (0.86%) Wholesale Banking
13 6 (0.73%) Automotive
13 6 (0.73%) Electronics
14 4 (0.49%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.49%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 78 (9.54%) Architect
2 69 (8.44%) Analyst
3 62 (7.58%) Developer
4 56 (6.85%) Senior
4 56 (6.85%) Support Engineer
5 48 (5.87%) Infrastructure Architect
5 48 (5.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 43 (5.26%) IT Support
7 39 (4.77%) Administrator
8 35 (4.28%) 1st Line Support
9 33 (4.03%) Lead
10 30 (3.67%) IT Technician
10 30 (3.67%) Project Manager
11 29 (3.55%) Desktop Support
12 28 (3.42%) Windows Engineer
13 25 (3.06%) Consultant
13 25 (3.06%) Desktop Engineer
14 23 (2.81%) Systems Administrator
15 22 (2.69%) Desktop Support Engineer
15 22 (2.69%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.32%) ARM Templates
2 17 (2.08%) .NET
3 11 (1.34%) Itk
4 10 (1.22%) JSON
5 8 (0.98%) XML
6 5 (0.61%) ADO
6 5 (0.61%) HTML
7 4 (0.49%) SOAP
7 4 (0.49%) XMPP
7 4 (0.49%) YAML
8 3 (0.37%) .NET Framework
8 3 (0.37%) CSS
8 3 (0.37%) Kafka
8 3 (0.37%) Middleware
8 3 (0.37%) Node.js
8 3 (0.37%) OAuth
8 3 (0.37%) OpenID
8 3 (0.37%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (0.37%) REST
8 3 (0.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 50 (6.11%) Management Information System
2 41 (5.01%) PKI
3 40 (4.89%) Driving Licence
4 25 (3.06%) Data Centre
4 25 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (2.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 17 (2.08%) Cyber Defence
6 17 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
7 11 (1.34%) Product Ownership
8 9 (1.10%) Blog
9 8 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (0.98%) Onboarding
9 8 (0.98%) Smartphone
10 6 (0.73%) Digital Signage
10 6 (0.73%) NHS
11 5 (0.61%) Cloud Native
11 5 (0.61%) Housing Association
11 5 (0.61%) Life Science
11 5 (0.61%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.49%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 342 (41.81%) Windows
2 130 (15.89%) Windows 10
3 121 (14.79%) Windows Server
4 104 (12.71%) Linux
5 69 (8.44%) Windows Server 2019
6 61 (7.46%) Windows Server 2012
7 58 (7.09%) Windows Server 2016
8 54 (6.60%) Windows 7
9 24 (2.93%) Ubuntu
10 21 (2.57%) Windows NT
11 16 (1.96%) Apple iOS
12 15 (1.83%) Debian
13 12 (1.47%) Windows XP
14 11 (1.34%) Mac OS
14 11 (1.34%) Unix
15 9 (1.10%) Windows Server 2008
16 8 (0.98%) Android
17 3 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 1 (0.12%) CentOS
18 1 (0.12%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
2 131 (16.01%) Agile
3 130 (15.89%) ITIL
4 122 (14.91%) Customer Service
5 76 (9.29%) DevOps
6 71 (8.68%) Service Delivery
7 63 (7.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 62 (7.58%) Prototyping
9 59 (7.21%) Project Management
10 51 (6.23%) Cybersecurity
11 47 (5.75%) Migration
12 46 (5.62%) Release Management
13 45 (5.50%) Stakeholder Management
14 43 (5.26%) Incident Management
14 43 (5.26%) Information Security
14 43 (5.26%) Service Management
15 41 (5.01%) Change Management
15 41 (5.01%) SIEM
16 40 (4.89%) Incident Response
17 37 (4.52%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 80 (9.78%) PowerShell
2 70 (8.56%) SQL
3 39 (4.77%) C#
4 28 (3.42%) Python
5 18 (2.20%) VB
6 15 (1.83%) Bicep
7 14 (1.71%) C
7 14 (1.71%) VBScript
8 13 (1.59%) T-SQL
9 9 (1.10%) JavaScript
10 8 (0.98%) C++
11 7 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (0.86%) Java
12 5 (0.61%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.61%) X++
13 4 (0.49%) VB.NET
14 3 (0.37%) Bash
14 3 (0.37%) PHP
15 2 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.24%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 330 (40.34%) Security Cleared
2 216 (26.41%) DV Cleared
3 130 (15.89%) SC Cleared
4 124 (15.16%) Degree
5 32 (3.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (1.96%) CCNA
6 16 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (1.83%) DBS Check
7 15 (1.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 15 (1.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 14 (1.71%) MCSE
9 12 (1.47%) CCNP
9 12 (1.47%) PMI Certification
10 11 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (1.34%) PMP
11 10 (1.22%) Azure Certification
11 10 (1.22%) MCSA
12 7 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.73%) A+ Certification
13 6 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (9.17%) SLA
2 29 (3.55%) QA
3 21 (2.57%) NIST
4 18 (2.20%) NIST 800
5 15 (1.83%) PMO
6 9 (1.10%) Accessibility
7 7 (0.86%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 5 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.49%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.37%) GDPR
10 3 (0.37%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.12%) ITGC
11 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.12%) NCSC
11 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 210 (25.67%) Active Directory
2 78 (9.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (5.26%) Firmware
4 35 (4.28%) Hyper-V
5 22 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (2.69%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (2.32%) vSphere
7 14 (1.71%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.98%) Docker
9 2 (0.24%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.24%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.24%) XenApp
10 1 (0.12%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 127 (15.53%) SCCM
2 69 (8.44%) WSUS
3 60 (7.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 31 (3.79%) SCOM
5 23 (2.81%) Kubernetes
6 21 (2.57%) Sysprep
7 19 (2.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 18 (2.20%) vCenter Server
9 14 (1.71%) Terraform
10 13 (1.59%) EMC NetWorker
10 13 (1.59%) WMI
11 12 (1.47%) Ansible
11 12 (1.47%) NetBackup
12 9 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
12 9 (1.10%) Nessus
13 4 (0.49%) Grafana
13 4 (0.49%) Red Hat Satellite
13 4 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.49%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 113 (13.81%) VMware
2 64 (7.82%) HP
3 33 (4.03%) Oracle
4 31 (3.79%) Cisco
5 27 (3.30%) Red Hat
6 21 (2.57%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.32%) Qualys
7 19 (2.32%) Veeam
8 16 (1.96%) Apple
8 16 (1.96%) Forcepoint
8 16 (1.96%) LogRhythm
8 16 (1.96%) Splunk
8 16 (1.96%) Varonis
9 13 (1.59%) Citrix
9 13 (1.59%) Dell
9 13 (1.59%) EMC
9 13 (1.59%) Palo Alto
10 12 (1.47%) 3PAR
10 12 (1.47%) Extreme Networks
10 12 (1.47%) MobileIron