Microsoft Contracts in Bristol

Microsoft
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 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
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 8 13
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 97 121 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 15.59% 10.81% 8.46%
As % of the Vendors category 33.56% 25.37% 26.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 74 66
10th Percentile £188 £191 £213
25th Percentile £209 £306 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £235 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -53.00% +5.26% +4.40%
75th Percentile £475 £565 £550
90th Percentile £599 £671 £644
South West median daily rate £425 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -15.00% -4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 22 9
10th Percentile £18.13 - £15.20
25th Percentile £18.51 £43.75 £15.40
Median hourly rate £18.87 £56.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -66.45% +7.14% +50.00%
75th Percentile £33.56 £65.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £36.38 £83.00 £66.00
South West median hourly rate £18.87 £27.52 £25.75
% change year-on-year -31.42% +6.85% -26.43%

All Vendors
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 289 477 369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 46.46% 42.63% 31.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 242 262
10th Percentile £205 £187 £287
25th Percentile £297 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -13.75% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £636
90th Percentile £650 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £511 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.62% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 129 24
10th Percentile £18.13 £36.25 £15.30
25th Percentile £18.69 £45.00 £49.75
Median hourly rate £30.25 £70.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.79% +12.00% +65.45%
75th Percentile £65.50 - £80.94
90th Percentile £68.00 £77.50 £96.00
South West median hourly rate £32.50 £56.49 £59.90
% change year-on-year -42.47% -5.69% +26.13%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Bristol

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Bristol

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Bristol over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Bristol

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Bristol

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in Bristol over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 10 (10.31%) SharePoint
2 9 (9.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.06%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 21 (21.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (14.43%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 38 (39.18%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (13.40%) Azure
3 6 (6.19%) AWS
4 5 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.09%) Akamai
5 3 (3.09%) Google Sheets
5 3 (3.09%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.06%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.06%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.03%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.03%) GCP
7 1 (1.03%) GitHub
7 1 (1.03%) iPaaS
7 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.03%) npm
7 1 (1.03%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.03%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.03%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.22%) VPN
2 4 (4.12%) Network Security
3 3 (3.09%) Firewall
4 1 (1.03%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.03%) DHCP
4 1 (1.03%) DNS
4 1 (1.03%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.03%) NetScaler
4 1 (1.03%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (2.06%) Oracle ODI
1 2 (2.06%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (2.06%) Power BI
1 2 (2.06%) Star Schema
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (9.28%) JIRA
2 2 (2.06%) DBeaver
2 2 (2.06%) Git
3 1 (1.03%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.03%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.03%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.03%) GitLab
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (1.03%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (1.03%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (1.03%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.03%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.03%) webpack
General
1 25 (25.77%) Social Skills
2 20 (20.62%) Finance
3 16 (16.49%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (16.49%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.25%) Legal
4 8 (8.25%) Manufacturing
5 7 (7.22%) Electronics
5 7 (7.22%) Marketing
5 7 (7.22%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.12%) Banking
7 3 (3.09%) Law
8 2 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.03%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.03%) Aviation
9 1 (1.03%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.03%) Italian Language
9 1 (1.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 20 (20.62%) Desktop Support
2 19 (19.59%) Analyst
3 14 (14.43%) IT Support
4 13 (13.40%) Support Analyst
5 12 (12.37%) Support Engineer
6 10 (10.31%) IT Engineer
7 9 (9.28%) Senior
8 8 (8.25%) Architect
8 8 (8.25%) Programme Controller
9 7 (7.22%) Deskside Support
9 7 (7.22%) Desktop Engineer
9 7 (7.22%) Desktop Support Engineer
10 6 (6.19%) Deskside Analyst
10 6 (6.19%) Deskside Support Analyst
10 6 (6.19%) Desktop Analyst
10 6 (6.19%) Desktop Support Analyst
10 6 (6.19%) Developer
10 6 (6.19%) Lead
10 6 (6.19%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
10 6 (6.19%) Technology Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.12%) .NET
1 4 (4.12%) .NET Core
2 3 (3.09%) SailPoint
2 3 (3.09%) Web Services
3 2 (2.06%) CSS
3 2 (2.06%) HTML
3 2 (2.06%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (1.03%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.03%) Jest
4 1 (1.03%) Kafka
4 1 (1.03%) Node.js
4 1 (1.03%) OpenID
4 1 (1.03%) React
4 1 (1.03%) RESTful
4 1 (1.03%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.22%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.09%) Driving Licence
3 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.06%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.06%) Replication
4 1 (1.03%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.03%) Clustering
4 1 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.03%) FMCG
4 1 (1.03%) PKI
4 1 (1.03%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.03%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.03%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 41 (42.27%) Windows
2 24 (24.74%) Windows 7
3 15 (15.46%) Windows 10
4 3 (3.09%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.06%) Linux
5 2 (2.06%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.03%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (26.80%) Customer Service
2 24 (24.74%) ITIL
3 22 (22.68%) Break/Fix
4 19 (19.59%) ITSM
5 16 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (14.43%) Agile
7 12 (12.37%) Project Management
8 10 (10.31%) Collaborative Working
8 10 (10.31%) Service Management
9 9 (9.28%) Budgeting and Forecasting
9 9 (9.28%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (7.22%) Case Management
10 7 (7.22%) Decision-Making
10 7 (7.22%) DevOps
10 7 (7.22%) Digital Marketing
10 7 (7.22%) Programme Management
10 7 (7.22%) Service Delivery
11 5 (5.15%) Mentoring
11 5 (5.15%) Requirements Gathering
11 5 (5.15%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.22%) SQL
2 6 (6.19%) C#
2 6 (6.19%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.12%) Python
4 3 (3.09%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.03%) C++
5 1 (1.03%) Java
5 1 (1.03%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (27.84%) Security Cleared
2 18 (18.56%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.28%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (8.25%) Degree
5 7 (7.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (4.12%) A+ Certification
7 3 (3.09%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.06%) ACCA
8 2 (2.06%) CIMA
9 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.03%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.25%) PMO
2 7 (7.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (5.15%) SLA
4 3 (3.09%) GRC
5 2 (2.06%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.03%) GAAP
6 1 (1.03%) IFRS
6 1 (1.03%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (18.56%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.06%) Docker
3 2 (2.06%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.03%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.03%) vSphere
4 1 (1.03%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 12 (12.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (5.15%) Terraform
3 2 (2.06%) SCCM
4 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (1.03%) MIIS
4 1 (1.03%) Puppet
4 1 (1.03%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (16.49%) ServiceNow
2 11 (11.34%) SAP
3 8 (8.25%) Citrix
4 7 (7.22%) VMware
5 6 (6.19%) Google
6 4 (4.12%) F5
6 4 (4.12%) Oracle
7 2 (2.06%) iManage
8 1 (1.03%) Apple
8 1 (1.03%) Aruba
8 1 (1.03%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.03%) Cisco
8 1 (1.03%) IBM
8 1 (1.03%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.03%) Ivanti
8 1 (1.03%) Qualys
8 1 (1.03%) Ruckus Wireless
8 1 (1.03%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.03%) Twitter
8 1 (1.03%) Veritas