Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Bournemouth

Microsoft
Dorset > Bournemouth

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bournemouth 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 9 November 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
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 9 7
Rank change year-on-year +8 -2 -3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 13 4 11
As % of all contract jobs in Bournemouth 29.55% 8.33% 13.41%
As % of the Vendors category 86.67% 26.67% 68.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 9
10th Percentile £203 - £167
25th Percentile £253 £450 £317
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £310 £500 £363
Median % change year-on-year -38.00% +37.93% -12.12%
75th Percentile £463 £550 £450
90th Percentile £519 - £500
Dorset median daily rate £350 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -30.00% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £18.36
25th Percentile - - £18.49
Median hourly rate - - £18.84
75th Percentile - - £19.05
90th Percentile - - £19.09
Dorset median hourly rate £20.00 - £46.74
% change year-on-year - - +317.77%

All Vendors
Bournemouth

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 Bournemouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15 15 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bournemouth 34.09% 31.25% 19.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 12
10th Percentile £203 £306 £160
25th Percentile £253 £377 £202
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £310 £450 £347
Median % change year-on-year -31.11% +29.78% -14.65%
75th Percentile £463 £550 £403
90th Percentile £519 £700 £495
Dorset median daily rate £500 £500 £506
% change year-on-year - -1.23% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £17.66
25th Percentile - - £17.89
Median hourly rate - - £18.56
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.62%
75th Percentile - - £18.98
90th Percentile - - £19.06
Dorset median hourly rate £20.00 - £56.49
% change year-on-year - - +162.74%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Bournemouth

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Bournemouth

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in Bournemouth

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bournemouth citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Bournemouth

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Bournemouth over the 6 months to 9 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Bournemouth

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Bournemouth

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bournemouth citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bournemouth 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
2 2 (15.38%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) OneDrive
2 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
2 2 (15.38%) Serverless
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) Google Workspace
3 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Firewall
2 2 (15.38%) DHCP
2 2 (15.38%) DNS
2 2 (15.38%) LAN
2 2 (15.38%) VLAN
2 2 (15.38%) VoIP
2 2 (15.38%) VPN
2 2 (15.38%) WAN
2 2 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Power BI
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
General
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Mobile Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (15.38%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (15.38%) IT Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) IT Support
3 2 (15.38%) IT Support Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Java Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Power BI Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Support Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Migration Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (15.38%) REST
2 2 (15.38%) Spring
2 2 (15.38%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Onboarding
2 3 (23.08%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (23.08%) Mobile App
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
3 2 (15.38%) Driving Licence
4 1 (7.69%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Android
1 4 (30.77%) Apple iOS
2 3 (23.08%) Windows
3 2 (15.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Mobile Device Management
2 3 (23.08%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (23.08%) Critical Thinking
2 3 (23.08%) Data Management
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (23.08%) Load Balancing
3 2 (15.38%) Agile
3 2 (15.38%) Analytics
3 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
3 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
3 2 (15.38%) Customer Service
3 2 (15.38%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) ITSM
3 2 (15.38%) Microservices
3 2 (15.38%) Migration
3 2 (15.38%) Service Delivery
3 2 (15.38%) Visualisation
4 1 (7.69%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) Perl
2 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
2 3 (23.08%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
1 2 (15.38%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (15.38%) AppManager
2 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Ivanti
1 2 (15.38%) VMware
2 1 (7.69%) Google