Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Chatham

Microsoft
Kent > Chatham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Chatham 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 28 September 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
28 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 12 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Chatham 63.16% - -
As % of the Vendors category 75.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £256 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £344 - -
75th Percentile £448 - -
90th Percentile £480 - -
Kent median daily rate £263 £196 £518
% change year-on-year +33.76% -62.08% +72.50%

All Vendors
Chatham

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 Chatham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 16 7 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chatham 84.21% 63.64% -
Number of daily rates quoted 16 2 0
10th Percentile - £453 -
25th Percentile £256 £465 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £485 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.34% - -
75th Percentile £525 £505 -
90th Percentile £596 £517 -
Kent median daily rate £400 £308 £365
% change year-on-year +30.08% -15.75% -

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Chatham

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Chatham

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in Chatham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Chatham citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Chatham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Chatham over the 6 months to 28 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Chatham

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chatham 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 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) Entra ID
3 2 (16.67%) Asana
3 2 (16.67%) IaaS
4 1 (8.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) WebEx
2 1 (8.33%) DHCP
2 1 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) VLAN
2 1 (8.33%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 8 (66.67%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Analyst
2 6 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 6 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
2 6 (50.00%) Support Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Desktop Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Network Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Support Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Mobile Device Management
2 3 (25.00%) Change Management
3 2 (16.67%) Identity Management
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (16.67%) ITIL
3 2 (16.67%) Migration
3 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 2 (16.67%) Project Management
3 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (8.33%) BCP
4 1 (8.33%) Business Continuity
4 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (8.33%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Bicep
1 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Citrix
2 6 (50.00%) Sage
2 6 (50.00%) ServiceNow
3 3 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco
4 1 (8.33%) Dell
4 1 (8.33%) HP