Microsoft Contracts in Barrow-in-Furness

Microsoft
Cumbria > Barrow-in-Furness

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Barrow-in-Furness 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 19 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 -12 +3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 13 14 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Barrow-in-Furness 8.55% 8.43% 12.50%
As % of the Vendors category 13.83% 42.42% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £458 £439 £430
25th Percentile £459 £464 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.75% +0.80% -
75th Percentile £484 £579 £588
90th Percentile £486 £623 £610
Cumbria median daily rate £475 £515 £450
% change year-on-year -7.77% +14.44% -21.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 1
10th Percentile - £10.95 -
25th Percentile £25.26 £18.67 -
Median hourly rate £27.13 £26.39 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.79% +9.96% +1.05%
75th Percentile £28.99 £41.25 -
90th Percentile £37.63 £52.78 -
Cumbria median hourly rate £27.13 £10.95 £24.00
% change year-on-year +147.72% -54.38% +1.05%

All Vendors
Barrow-in-Furness

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 Barrow-in-Furness.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 94 33 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Barrow-in-Furness 61.84% 19.88% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 14 5
10th Percentile £390 £421 -
25th Percentile £458 £473 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £515 £426
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% +20.89% -36.89%
75th Percentile £613 £515 £475
90th Percentile £638 £547 £565
Cumbria median daily rate £525 £508 £426
% change year-on-year +3.45% +19.13% -14.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 12 1
10th Percentile - £10.95 -
25th Percentile £25.26 £22.53 -
Median hourly rate £33.86 £31.17 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.62% +29.88% +1.05%
75th Percentile £64.08 £46.25 -
90th Percentile £82.15 £52.78 -
Cumbria median hourly rate £31.76 £10.95 £24.00
% change year-on-year +190.05% -54.38% -55.35%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Barrow-in-Furness

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Barrow-in-Furness.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Barrow-in-Furness

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Barrow-in-Furness

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Barrow-in-Furness

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Barrow-in-Furness

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Barrow-in-Furness

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Barrow-in-Furness

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in Barrow-in-Furness over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in Barrow-in-Furness

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Barrow-in-Furness 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 6 (46.15%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (46.15%) Skype for Business
2 3 (23.08%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (7.69%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) Skype
2 3 (23.08%) DHCP
2 3 (23.08%) DNS
2 3 (23.08%) LAN
2 3 (23.08%) PSTN
2 3 (23.08%) SMTP
2 3 (23.08%) VLAN
2 3 (23.08%) VPN
2 3 (23.08%) WAN
2 3 (23.08%) Wi-Fi
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Analyst
2 4 (30.77%) Business Analyst
2 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) Collaboration Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Exchange Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Applications Manager
5 1 (7.69%) CAD Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Deployment Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Deployment Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) IT Support
5 1 (7.69%) IT Support Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) SCCM Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Service Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) SharePoint Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Support Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Test Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Windows Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Blackberry
1 3 (23.08%) Handset
2 1 (7.69%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Android
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
2 3 (23.08%) Windows 10
2 3 (23.08%) Windows 7
2 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (7.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Agile
1 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (30.77%) Problem Management
2 4 (30.77%) Service Management
2 4 (30.77%) TOGAF
3 3 (23.08%) Disk Encryption
3 3 (23.08%) ITSM
3 3 (23.08%) Performance Monitoring
3 3 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (15.38%) ITIL
5 1 (7.69%) CAD
5 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (7.69%) Cost Reduction
5 1 (7.69%) SFIA
5 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
1 3 (23.08%) VB
1 3 (23.08%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (92.31%) Security Cleared
2 11 (84.62%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) BitLocker
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Clearswift
1 3 (23.08%) Ribbon
1 3 (23.08%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.69%) Apple
2 1 (7.69%) Nintex