Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Abingdon

Microsoft
Oxfordshire > Abingdon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Abingdon requiring knowledge or experience of Microsoft products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft over the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 3 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Abingdon 9.52% 12.50% -
As % of the Vendors category 50.00% 50.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £414 - -
25th Percentile £423 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 - -
75th Percentile £485 - -
90th Percentile £498 - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £275 £313 £375
% change year-on-year -12.00% -16.67% -6.25%

All Vendors
Abingdon

Microsoft falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Abingdon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Abingdon 19.05% 25.00% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £414 - -
25th Percentile £423 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £475 £140
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +239.29% -37.78%
75th Percentile £485 £488 -
90th Percentile £498 - -
Oxfordshire median daily rate £425 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £23.41 - -
25th Percentile £28.05 - -
Median hourly rate £36.41 - -
75th Percentile £45.39 - -
90th Percentile £50.41 - -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £26.97 £25.30 £17.50
% change year-on-year +6.60% +44.57% -27.08%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Abingdon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Abingdon.

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Abingdon

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in Abingdon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Abingdon citing Microsoft.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Abingdon citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Abingdon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Abingdon citing Microsoft.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Abingdon citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Abingdon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Runbook
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform