Microsoft Contracts in Basingstoke

Microsoft
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Basingstoke 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 16 July 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
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 12 4
Rank change year-on-year +7 -8 +2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 54 56 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Basingstoke 27.84% 11.62% 22.75%
As % of the Vendors category 49.09% 25.34% 41.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 34 12
10th Percentile £463 £513 £286
25th Percentile £563 £575 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £825 £652
90th Percentile - - £688
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £582 £488
% change year-on-year -9.79% +19.38% -0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 12
10th Percentile - - £15.24
25th Percentile - - £15.50
Median hourly rate - - £16.00
75th Percentile - - £25.56
90th Percentile - - £44.88
Hampshire median hourly rate £43.00 £13.00 £20.11
% change year-on-year +230.77% -35.36% +21.88%

All Vendors
Basingstoke

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 Basingstoke.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 110 221 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke 56.70% 45.85% 54.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 133 52
10th Percentile £465 £425 £375
25th Percentile £538 £500 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £586
Median % change year-on-year - +2.48% +11.52%
75th Percentile £613 £700 £656
90th Percentile £650 £788 £724
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 15
10th Percentile - - £15.21
25th Percentile - £16.25 £15.36
Median hourly rate £21.39 £17.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.23% +9.38% -34.32%
75th Percentile - £18.75 £19.38
90th Percentile - - £44.50
Hampshire median hourly rate £33.89 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -40.92% +9.24% +162.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Basingstoke

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Basingstoke

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Basingstoke

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Daily Rate Histogram in Basingstoke

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Basingstoke over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Basingstoke

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Basingstoke

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Basingstoke

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Basingstoke 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 18 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (16.67%) SharePoint
3 8 (14.81%) Apache
4 7 (12.96%) Exchange Server 2003
4 7 (12.96%) Exchange Server 2007
4 7 (12.96%) Exchange Server 2010
4 7 (12.96%) Exchange Server 2013
4 7 (12.96%) Office Communications Server
4 7 (12.96%) SharePoint Server
4 7 (12.96%) Skype for Business
5 4 (7.41%) CMS
5 4 (7.41%) Confluence
5 4 (7.41%) Drupal
5 4 (7.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (14.81%) AWS
1 8 (14.81%) GCP
1 8 (14.81%) IaaS
1 8 (14.81%) OpenShift
1 8 (14.81%) PaaS
2 2 (3.70%) Azure
2 2 (3.70%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.85%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (27.78%) DHCP
1 15 (27.78%) DNS
1 15 (27.78%) VPN
2 14 (25.93%) Fibre Channel
2 14 (25.93%) iSCSI
3 8 (14.81%) Firewall
3 8 (14.81%) SMTP
4 7 (12.96%) DDNS
4 7 (12.96%) SAN
5 4 (7.41%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.81%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (14.81%) Big Data
1 8 (14.81%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (12.96%) SQL Server
3 4 (7.41%) MySQL
3 4 (7.41%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.70%) Metadata
5 1 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.85%) Power BI
5 1 (1.85%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 7 (12.96%) MSI
2 4 (7.41%) Bitbucket Server
2 4 (7.41%) Git
2 4 (7.41%) JIRA
2 4 (7.41%) Robot Framework
2 4 (7.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 8 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.26%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.85%) Automotive
4 1 (1.85%) Electronics
4 1 (1.85%) Finance
4 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.85%) Marketing
4 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (33.33%) Architect
2 17 (31.48%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 17 (31.48%) Infrastructure Architect
3 15 (27.78%) Support Engineer
4 14 (25.93%) VMware Architect
5 13 (24.07%) 3rd Line Support
5 13 (24.07%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 7 (12.96%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (12.96%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 7 (12.96%) Exchange Engineer
6 7 (12.96%) Exchange Support
6 7 (12.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (12.96%) Infrastructure Support
6 7 (12.96%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 7 (12.96%) Integration Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) PHP Software Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Software Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Document Controller
9 1 (1.85%) Functional Consultant
9 1 (1.85%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.41%) Ajax
1 4 (7.41%) AngularJS
1 4 (7.41%) CodeIgniter
1 4 (7.41%) CSS
1 4 (7.41%) HTML
1 4 (7.41%) jQuery
1 4 (7.41%) LAMP
1 4 (7.41%) SOAP
1 4 (7.41%) Web Services
2 2 (3.70%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 17 (31.48%) PKI
2 8 (14.81%) Clustering
2 8 (14.81%) Data Centre
3 7 (12.96%) Replication
4 4 (7.41%) Legacy Code
5 3 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 39 (72.22%) Windows
2 26 (48.15%) Windows Server
3 23 (42.59%) Linux
4 18 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
5 10 (18.52%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (7.41%) CentOS
7 4 (7.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (35.19%) Agile
2 12 (22.22%) DevOps
3 11 (20.37%) Edge Virtualization
3 11 (20.37%) Performance Analysis
4 8 (14.81%) Artificial Intelligence
4 8 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (14.81%) Machine Learning
4 8 (14.81%) Migration
4 8 (14.81%) Software Deployment
5 7 (12.96%) Architectural Design
5 7 (12.96%) Content Management
5 7 (12.96%) Enterprise Content Management
5 7 (12.96%) Enterprise Search
5 7 (12.96%) High Availability
5 7 (12.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (12.96%) ITIL
6 6 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (11.11%) Prototyping
7 5 (9.26%) Threat Analysis
Programming Languages
1 23 (42.59%) PowerShell
2 20 (37.04%) SQL
3 8 (14.81%) PHP
4 5 (9.26%) Python
5 4 (7.41%) Java
5 4 (7.41%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 44 (81.48%) Security Cleared
2 43 (79.63%) DV Cleared
3 14 (25.93%) MCSE
3 14 (25.93%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (20.37%) VCP5
4 11 (20.37%) VCP6
4 11 (20.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 8 (14.81%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.26%) NIST
System Software
1 26 (48.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (40.74%) VMware ESXi
3 20 (37.04%) Active Directory
4 14 (25.93%) NFS
4 14 (25.93%) vSphere
5 8 (14.81%) BitLocker
5 8 (14.81%) Docker
5 8 (14.81%) Hyper-V
5 8 (14.81%) Microsoft App-V
5 8 (14.81%) Terminal Services
6 7 (12.96%) Brightmail
6 7 (12.96%) ISA Server
7 2 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (25.93%) Ansible
2 8 (14.81%) Kubernetes
2 8 (14.81%) Nagios
2 8 (14.81%) Puppet
2 8 (14.81%) vCenter Server
2 8 (14.81%) vMotion
3 7 (12.96%) Microsoft Clustering
3 7 (12.96%) WMI
4 4 (7.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (51.85%) VMware
2 14 (25.93%) NetApp
2 14 (25.93%) Splunk
2 14 (25.93%) Veeam
3 8 (14.81%) Citrix
3 8 (14.81%) Google
3 8 (14.81%) HP
3 8 (14.81%) Symantec
4 4 (7.41%) Zend
5 2 (3.70%) Autodesk
5 2 (3.70%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.85%) Databricks
6 1 (1.85%) SAP