Microsoft Contracts in Derby

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Derbyshire > Derby

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Derby 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 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 16 7
Rank change year-on-year +11 -9 +1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 12 10 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Derby 14.63% 6.85% 15.89%
As % of the Vendors category 42.86% 28.57% 32.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 14
10th Percentile - £158 £107
25th Percentile £200 £160 £109
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £200 £120
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% +66.32% -51.90%
75th Percentile £431 £310 £460
90th Percentile £525 £420 £613
Derbyshire median daily rate £300 £200 £245
% change year-on-year +50.00% -18.37% -30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £16.00
25th Percentile - - £17.13
Median hourly rate £23.00 - £19.50
75th Percentile - - £22.13
90th Percentile - - £23.40
Derbyshire median hourly rate £23.00 - £17.50
% change year-on-year - - -5.41%

All Vendors
Derby

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 Derby.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 28 35 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby 34.15% 23.97% 48.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 26 48
10th Percentile £200 £160 £115
25th Percentile £219 £274 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £509
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -5.74% +17.75%
75th Percentile £602 £588 £579
90th Percentile £730 £675 £650
Derbyshire median daily rate £425 £480 £478
% change year-on-year -11.46% +0.52% +19.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £15.35
25th Percentile - - £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 - £16.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.50%
75th Percentile - - £20.75
90th Percentile - - £22.85
Derbyshire median hourly rate £23.00 - £18.95
% change year-on-year - - +8.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Derby

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Derby

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Derby

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Daily Rate Histogram in Derby

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Derby over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Derby

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Derby

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Derby

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Derby 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 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
1 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Batch
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) Selenium
1 1 (8.33%) SpecFlow
1 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio
1 1 (8.33%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Aerospace
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Local Government
3 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
1 3 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Test Leader
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Telephony Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) .NET
1 1 (8.33%) JSON
1 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
1 4 (33.33%) Windows 10
1 4 (33.33%) Windows 7
1 4 (33.33%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (33.33%) Break/Fix
3 3 (25.00%) Budgeting
3 3 (25.00%) DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (25.00%) Project Management
3 3 (25.00%) Project Planning
3 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (25.00%) Supplier Management
4 2 (16.67%) Backlog Refinement
4 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (16.67%) Product Backlog
4 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 2 (16.67%) Test Planning
5 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
5 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
5 1 (8.33%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
5 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) Bash
2 1 (8.33%) Bicep
2 1 (8.33%) C#
2 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Avaya
1 1 (8.33%) Logitech
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle