Microsoft Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Microsoft
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 5 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 +4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 87 170 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 18.20% 19.41% 17.24%
As % of the Vendors category 37.66% 44.50% 34.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 142 106
10th Percentile £170 £210 £149
25th Percentile £231 £320 £207
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £480 £434
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +10.66% -8.68%
75th Percentile £517 £550 £494
90th Percentile £550 £598 £539
South East median daily rate £470 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -1.05% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 17
10th Percentile £18.00 - £10.12
25th Percentile £22.54 £9.50 -
Median hourly rate £23.22 £10.00 £10.77
Median % change year-on-year +132.15% -7.15% -17.15%
75th Percentile £48.75 £10.50 -
90th Percentile - - £12.15
South East median hourly rate £21.00 £20.47 £16.50
% change year-on-year +2.59% +24.06% -8.33%

All Vendors
Buckinghamshire

Microsoft is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 231 382 404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 48.33% 43.61% 49.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 313 303
10th Percentile £205 £252 £200
25th Percentile £408 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -2.26%
75th Percentile £569 £550 £573
90th Percentile £668 £625 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 32
10th Percentile £18.00 - £10.37
25th Percentile £22.56 £9.50 -
Median hourly rate £24.09 £10.00 £10.77
Median % change year-on-year +140.90% -7.15% -17.03%
75th Percentile £48.75 £10.50 £12.75
90th Percentile - - £24.75
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year +5.56% +130.53% -2.40%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Buckinghamshire

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Buckinghamshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Buckinghamshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Buckinghamshire

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in Buckinghamshire

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Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes +3 76 £465 -3.13% 61
Aylesbury - 3 £273 - 10
High Wycombe -3 2 £170 -70.79% 8
Marlow +2 1 £500 +122.22% 2
Chesham - 1 - - 1
Microsoft
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 16 (18.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (10.34%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.45%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (14.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (13.79%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (8.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (4.60%) LabWindows
2 1 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (16.09%) Azure
2 11 (12.64%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (4.60%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.45%) OneDrive
5 2 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.15%) Azure API Management
6 1 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.15%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.15%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.15%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.15%) PaaS
6 1 (1.15%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (17.24%) SAN
1 15 (17.24%) TCP/IP
2 8 (9.20%) DHCP
2 8 (9.20%) DNS
3 7 (8.05%) VPN
4 4 (4.60%) RS-232
5 2 (2.30%) Firewall
5 2 (2.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.45%) Power BI
1 3 (3.45%) SAS Enterprise Guide
2 1 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.15%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.15%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.15%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (4.60%) Subversion
1 4 (4.60%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.15%) Postman
General
1 17 (19.54%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (18.39%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.90%) Finance
4 5 (5.75%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (5.75%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.30%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.15%) Automotive
6 1 (1.15%) Marketing
6 1 (1.15%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (22.99%) Developer
2 19 (21.84%) Analyst
3 15 (17.24%) Python Developer
4 9 (10.34%) Senior
5 7 (8.05%) Software Developer
6 6 (6.90%) Security Analyst
6 6 (6.90%) Support Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Active Directory Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Business Analyst
7 5 (5.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Lead
7 5 (5.75%) PMO Lead
7 5 (5.75%) Service Analyst
7 5 (5.75%) Service Desk Analyst
7 5 (5.75%) Windows Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Backend Developer
8 4 (4.60%) Windows Support Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) Insight Manager
9 3 (3.45%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.15%) .NET
1 1 (1.15%) OpenAPI
1 1 (1.15%) Swagger
1 1 (1.15%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.20%) PKI
2 7 (8.05%) Management Information System
3 5 (5.75%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.45%) Wiki
5 2 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.30%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.30%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.15%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (27.59%) Windows
2 21 (24.14%) Linux
3 15 (17.24%) Debian
3 15 (17.24%) Ubuntu
4 12 (13.79%) Windows 10
5 5 (5.75%) Windows 7
6 4 (4.60%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (37.93%) Agile
2 29 (33.33%) ITIL
3 18 (20.69%) Customer Service
4 16 (18.39%) Data Modelling
4 16 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (14.94%) Configuration Management
5 13 (14.94%) Data Engineering
5 13 (14.94%) Prototyping
5 13 (14.94%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 11 (12.64%) Matrix Organization
7 9 (10.34%) Migration
7 9 (10.34%) Problem Management
8 8 (9.20%) Incident Management
8 8 (9.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (6.90%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (6.90%) Information Security
9 6 (6.90%) Project Management
9 6 (6.90%) Release Management
9 6 (6.90%) Service Delivery
9 6 (6.90%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (17.24%) Python
2 5 (5.75%) C#
3 4 (4.60%) C
3 4 (4.60%) SQL
4 2 (2.30%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 50 (57.47%) Security Cleared
2 43 (49.43%) SC Cleared
3 30 (34.48%) DV Cleared
4 11 (12.64%) Degree
5 2 (2.30%) ISEB
5 2 (2.30%) VCAP
5 2 (2.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.15%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.90%) SLA
2 5 (5.75%) PMO
3 3 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (1.15%) Data Quality
System Software
1 18 (20.69%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.30%) BitLocker
3 2 (2.30%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (9.20%) SCCM
2 3 (3.45%) SCOM
3 2 (2.30%) Ansible
4 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 22 (25.29%) VMware
2 16 (18.39%) Red Hat
3 3 (3.45%) Ariba
3 3 (3.45%) Cisco
3 3 (3.45%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.45%) SAP
3 3 (3.45%) Splunk
4 2 (2.30%) HP
4 2 (2.30%) McAfee
4 2 (2.30%) MobileIron
5 1 (1.15%) Adobe
5 1 (1.15%) Apple
5 1 (1.15%) Computacenter
5 1 (1.15%) Oracle
5 1 (1.15%) Remedy
5 1 (1.15%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.15%) Veeam