Microsoft Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Microsoft
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 8 6
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 0
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 82 76 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 29.60% 15.17% 14.07%
As % of the Vendors category 50.00% 41.76% 38.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 12 49
10th Percentile £245 £233 £173
25th Percentile £296 £356 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £438 £325
Median % change year-on-year - +34.62% -3.70%
75th Percentile £625 £521 £475
90th Percentile £650 £525 £500
East of England median daily rate £438 £440 £425
% change year-on-year -0.46% +3.41% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 57 18
10th Percentile £14.84 - £12.00
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.29
Median hourly rate £15.14 £14.80 £13.58
Median % change year-on-year +2.30% +8.98% -6.34%
75th Percentile £16.85 £15.12 £13.87
90th Percentile £18.85 £16.85 £18.30
East of England median hourly rate £16.23 £14.80 £15.53
% change year-on-year +9.66% -4.67% +7.07%

All Vendors
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 164 182 216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 59.21% 36.33% 36.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 51 107
10th Percentile £296 £225 £185
25th Percentile £379 £350 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £498 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% +17.06% -
75th Percentile £550 £582 £494
90th Percentile £641 £638 £568
East of England median daily rate £504 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +0.70% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 114 60
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.16 £13.29
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.24 £14.01
Median hourly rate £15.44 £15.50 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.39% - -
75th Percentile £16.85 £21.37 £18.94
90th Percentile £21.46 £25.00 £20.56
East of England median hourly rate £19.93 £21.37 £19.81
% change year-on-year -6.76% +7.87% +25.78%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Cambridgeshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Cambridgeshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Cambridgeshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Cambridgeshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 3 May 2025. 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
Peterborough +7 48 £438 +6.06% 29
Cambridge +11 15 £296 -37.68% 56
Huntingdon - 2 £348 - 2
Wisbech - 1 £185 -
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East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 57 (69.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (68.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (13.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (28.05%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (12.20%) Azure
3 3 (3.66%) AWS
4 2 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (2.44%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (2.44%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (2.44%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (2.44%) GCP
5 1 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.22%) Cloudflare
5 1 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.22%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.22%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 21 (25.61%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (3.66%) DNS
2 3 (3.66%) Firewall
3 1 (1.22%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.22%) Power BI
2 1 (1.22%) QlikView
2 1 (1.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Hudson
2 2 (2.44%) JIRA
3 1 (1.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 31 (37.80%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.20%) German Language
3 7 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.32%) Hungarian Language
4 6 (7.32%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.66%) Finance
6 3 (3.66%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.44%) General Ledger
7 2 (2.44%) Lithuanian Language
7 2 (2.44%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.22%) Legal
8 1 (1.22%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.22%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 33 (40.24%) Analyst
2 31 (37.80%) Service Analyst
3 21 (25.61%) Service Desk Analyst
4 20 (24.39%) Technical Analyst
5 18 (21.95%) Technical Services Analyst
6 10 (12.20%) Customer Analyst
6 10 (12.20%) Customer Service Analyst
7 4 (4.88%) Consultant
7 4 (4.88%) IT Support
7 4 (4.88%) Support Officer
8 3 (3.66%) Head of IT
8 3 (3.66%) IFS Consultant
9 2 (2.44%) Business Analyst
9 2 (2.44%) Developer
9 2 (2.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (2.44%) Security Engineer
9 2 (2.44%) Senior
9 2 (2.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (2.44%) Technical Business Analyst
10 1 (1.22%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.44%) RESTful
1 2 (2.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.88%) Molecular Biology
2 2 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (2.44%) FMCG
2 2 (2.44%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.22%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Licensing
3 1 (1.22%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.22%) SCADA
3 1 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.54%) Windows
2 1 (1.22%) Windows 10
2 1 (1.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (71.95%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (62.20%) Service Delivery
3 50 (60.98%) Customer Service
3 50 (60.98%) Incident Management
3 50 (60.98%) Mathematics
4 22 (26.83%) ITIL
5 10 (12.20%) Data Management
6 6 (7.32%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (7.32%) Data Analysis
7 5 (6.10%) Agile
7 5 (6.10%) Project Management
8 4 (4.88%) Biology
8 4 (4.88%) Biomedicine
8 4 (4.88%) Collaborative Culture
8 4 (4.88%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (4.88%) DevOps
8 4 (4.88%) Migration
9 3 (3.66%) Roadmaps
9 3 (3.66%) Workshop Facilitation
9 3 (3.66%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.88%) SQL
2 2 (2.44%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.44%) Python
Qualifications
1 23 (28.05%) Microsoft Certification
2 21 (25.61%) A+ Certification
2 21 (25.61%) MCSA
3 20 (24.39%) Security Cleared
4 19 (23.17%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.44%) Degree
6 1 (1.22%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.22%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.66%) GDPR
System Software
1 24 (29.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (2.44%) Avamar
1 2 (2.44%) SCCM
1 2 (2.44%) VxRail
2 1 (1.22%) vRealize
Vendors
1 22 (26.83%) ServiceNow
2 21 (25.61%) Citrix
3 3 (3.66%) Google
3 3 (3.66%) IFS
4 2 (2.44%) Dell
4 2 (2.44%) Palo Alto
4 2 (2.44%) Splunk
4 2 (2.44%) VMware
5 1 (1.22%) Apple
5 1 (1.22%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.22%) DataCore
5 1 (1.22%) LogRhythm
5 1 (1.22%) SolarWinds