Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Basildon

Microsoft
Essex > Basildon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Basildon 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 December 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 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 - 8
Rank change year-on-year - - -7
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Basildon 10.00% - 11.11%
As % of the Vendors category 20.00% - 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £173
25th Percentile - - £186
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £195 - £218
Median % change year-on-year - - -48.82%
75th Percentile - - £417
90th Percentile - - £531
Essex median daily rate £230 £245 £316
% change year-on-year -6.12% -22.35% -25.76%

All Vendors
Basildon

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 Basildon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 10 2 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basildon 50.00% 22.22% 44.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £81 - £186
25th Percentile £124 - £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £195 £315 £350
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% -10.00% -17.65%
75th Percentile £323 - £494
90th Percentile £399 - £554
Essex median daily rate £375 £275 £438
% change year-on-year +36.36% -37.14% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £44.83
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £55.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.77%
75th Percentile - - £55.56
90th Percentile - - £58.22
Essex median hourly rate £17.38 £20.00 £47.75
% change year-on-year -13.13% -58.12% +127.38%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Basildon

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Basildon

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in Basildon

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Basildon

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basildon 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) AutoCAD
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Power Query
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Automotive
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Project Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Project Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality