Microsoft Contracts in Barnsley

Microsoft
South Yorkshire > Barnsley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Barnsley 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 17 August 2025, 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
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 - 1
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 9 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Barnsley 33.33% - 100.00%
As % of the Vendors category 75.00% - 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £298 - -
25th Percentile £309 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.74%
75th Percentile £380 - £388
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £420 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -11.58% -5.00% +11.11%

All Vendors
Barnsley

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 Barnsley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 12 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Barnsley 44.44% 66.67% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 1
10th Percentile £299 £552 -
25th Percentile £328 £554 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £369 £558 £375
Median % change year-on-year -33.81% +48.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £380 £561 £388
90th Percentile - £564 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -13.46% -5.45% +22.22%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Barnsley

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Barnsley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Barnsley

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Barnsley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Barnsley

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Barnsley

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Barnsley 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 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (33.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (11.11%) Maple
3 1 (11.11%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 2 (22.22%) dbt
2 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Power BI
2 2 (22.22%) BigQuery
2 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (22.22%) Looker
2 2 (22.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Local Government
4 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Business Process Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Process Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Business Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Engineering Specialist
3 2 (22.22%) Report Specialist
4 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Data Centre Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Data Centre Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Asset Management
2 3 (33.33%) Analytics
2 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (33.33%) Business Process Analysis
2 3 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 3 (33.33%) IT Asset Management
2 3 (33.33%) ITIL
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
3 2 (22.22%) Data Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
3 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
3 2 (22.22%) Data Transformation
3 2 (22.22%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (22.22%) ETL
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (22.22%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 2 (22.22%) Google