Microsoft Contracts in Cambridge

Microsoft
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge 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 May 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 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 17 9
Rank change year-on-year +12 -8 +9
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 15 15 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 13.16% 7.73% 9.18%
As % of the Vendors category 26.79% 30.00% 30.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 20
10th Percentile - £197 £150
25th Percentile - £317 £178
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £296 £475 £238
Median % change year-on-year -37.68% +99.58% -40.50%
75th Percentile £525 £504 £380
90th Percentile £625 £525 £450
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £438 £438 £325
% change year-on-year - +34.62% -1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
Median hourly rate - £25.00 £17.47
Median % change year-on-year - +43.10% -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £15.14 £14.80 £13.58
% change year-on-year +2.30% +8.98% -6.34%

All Vendors
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 56 50 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 49.12% 25.77% 30.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 33 54
10th Percentile £296 £227 £180
25th Percentile £313 £350 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £495 £406
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +21.85% -9.72%
75th Percentile £550 £540 £523
90th Percentile £625 £648 £600
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £450 £498 £425
% change year-on-year -9.55% +17.06% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 7
10th Percentile - £15.50 £16.38
25th Percentile - £22.63 £17.49
Median hourly rate £60.00 £25.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +140.00% +42.86% -79.41%
75th Percentile £62.50 - £17.72
90th Percentile £64.00 £36.63 £34.13
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.23 £15.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year +4.71% - -

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Cambridge

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Cambridge

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Cambridge

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Cambridge

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (40.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) AWS
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (6.67%) Cloudflare
2 1 (6.67%) GCP
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) DNS
2 2 (13.33%) Firewall
3 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (6.67%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Hudson
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 6 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (40.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) General Ledger
4 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Consultant
1 3 (20.00%) IFS Consultant
2 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Senior
2 2 (13.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Coordinator
3 1 (6.67%) HR Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) IT Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Project Coordinator
3 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Licensing
1 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (40.00%) Data Analysis
2 6 (40.00%) Data Management
3 3 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 3 (20.00%) Zero Trust
4 2 (13.33%) Agile
4 2 (13.33%) Asset Management
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Waterfall
5 1 (6.67%) Case Management
5 1 (6.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (6.67%) Data Enrichment
5 1 (6.67%) IT Asset Management
5 1 (6.67%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (6.67%) Security Operations
5 1 (6.67%) SIEM
5 1 (6.67%) Software Asset Management
5 1 (6.67%) Software Licensing
5 1 (6.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Avamar
1 2 (13.33%) VxRail
2 1 (6.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) IFS
2 2 (13.33%) Dell
2 2 (13.33%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) Atlassian
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) LogRhythm
3 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.67%) SolarWinds
3 1 (6.67%) Splunk