Microsoft Contracts in Cumbria

Microsoft
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cumbria 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 25 June 2024, 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
25 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 10 12
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 41 15 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cumbria 16.47% 18.75% 10.71%
As % of the Vendors category 55.41% 45.45% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 3
10th Percentile £326 £294 £453
25th Percentile £464 £350 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £438 £575
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -23.91% +144.68%
75th Percentile £594 £508 £588
90th Percentile £621 £561 -
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £425
% change year-on-year - +11.76% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 0 6
10th Percentile - - £21.45
25th Percentile - - £27.96
Median hourly rate £10.95 - £43.36
75th Percentile £11.32 - £47.82
90th Percentile £26.39 - £49.70
North West median hourly rate £14.50 £24.27 £17.50
% change year-on-year -40.24% +38.66% -11.05%

All Vendors
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 74 33 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 29.72% 41.25% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 22 14
10th Percentile £274 £356 £413
25th Percentile £437 £416 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year +13.56% -8.16% +16.67%
75th Percentile £539 £485 £575
90th Percentile £565 £533 £588
North West median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 1 9
10th Percentile - - £22.61
25th Percentile - - £41.68
Median hourly rate £10.95 £55.85 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -80.39% +17.58% +31.94%
75th Percentile £11.35 - £57.95
90th Percentile £33.61 - £65.00
North West median hourly rate £16.06 £29.30 £21.39
% change year-on-year -45.19% +36.98% -5.98%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Cumbria

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Cumbria

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Cumbria

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Cumbria over the 6 months to 25 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Cumbria

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Cumbria

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Histogram in Cumbria

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in Cumbria over the 6 months to 25 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in Cumbria

Microsoft
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Cumbria region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
Barrow-in-Furness -5 12 £504 +0.80% 3
Whitehaven +1 7 - - 2
Egremont - 4 - -
Maryport - 4 - - 1
Carlisle - 3 £600 - 6
Workington - 3 - -
Microsoft
North West

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cumbria 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 (2.44%) IIS
1 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 30 (73.17%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (21.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (21.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (12.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (2.44%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) BGP
1 1 (2.44%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (2.44%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (2.44%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (2.44%) EIGRP
1 1 (2.44%) Firewall
1 1 (2.44%) HSRP
1 1 (2.44%) IPsec
1 1 (2.44%) NetScaler
1 1 (2.44%) OSPF
1 1 (2.44%) SNMP
1 1 (2.44%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (17.07%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.76%) Finance
3 2 (4.88%) Banking
3 2 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (4.88%) Retail
4 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 17 (41.46%) Analyst
2 13 (31.71%) Service Analyst
2 13 (31.71%) Service Desk Analyst
3 9 (21.95%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
3 9 (21.95%) IT Support
4 4 (9.76%) Coordinator
4 4 (9.76%) IT Analyst
5 3 (7.32%) Help Desk Support
5 3 (7.32%) IT Support Analyst
5 3 (7.32%) IT Support Technician
5 3 (7.32%) IT Technician
5 3 (7.32%) Project Coordinator
5 3 (7.32%) Senior
5 3 (7.32%) Support Analyst
5 3 (7.32%) Support Technician
6 2 (4.88%) Administrator
6 2 (4.88%) Help Desk Administrator
6 2 (4.88%) Project Planner
6 2 (4.88%) Senior Project Planner
7 1 (2.44%) Problem Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.88%) JSON
1 2 (4.88%) REST
2 1 (2.44%) .NET
2 1 (2.44%) .NET Framework
2 1 (2.44%) CSS
2 1 (2.44%) HTML
2 1 (2.44%) Jinja
2 1 (2.44%) Swagger
2 1 (2.44%) XHTML
2 1 (2.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.44%) Algorithms
1 1 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (2.44%) Low-Code
1 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (2.44%) Video Conferencing
1 1 (2.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (65.85%) Windows
2 26 (63.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (78.05%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (68.29%) Customer Service
2 28 (68.29%) Time Management
3 27 (65.85%) Decision-Making
4 3 (7.32%) Agile
5 2 (4.88%) Asset Management
5 2 (4.88%) Data Entry
5 2 (4.88%) Information Security
5 2 (4.88%) ITIL
5 2 (4.88%) Prototyping
5 2 (4.88%) Rapid Prototyping
5 2 (4.88%) Sprint Backlog
6 1 (2.44%) Data Analysis
6 1 (2.44%) ITSM
6 1 (2.44%) Migration
6 1 (2.44%) Quality Management
6 1 (2.44%) Service Management
6 1 (2.44%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (2.44%) TOGAF
6 1 (2.44%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.32%) Python
2 2 (4.88%) C#
3 1 (2.44%) Java
3 1 (2.44%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.44%) Perl
3 1 (2.44%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 32 (78.05%) SC Cleared
1 32 (78.05%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.76%) Degree
3 1 (2.44%) CCNA
3 1 (2.44%) CCNP
3 1 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (63.41%) Disclosure Scotland
2 9 (21.95%) SLA
3 1 (2.44%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (2.44%) Firmware
1 1 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (2.44%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (2.44%) Cisco
1 1 (2.44%) Citrix
1 1 (2.44%) IBM
1 1 (2.44%) Nintex
1 1 (2.44%) Palo Alto
1 1 (2.44%) Pega
1 1 (2.44%) SAP
1 1 (2.44%) SolarWinds