Microsoft Contracts in Derby

Microsoft
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 17 July 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
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 17 4
Rank change year-on-year +12 -13 +4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 17 10 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Derby 18.48% 6.33% 21.50%
As % of the Vendors category 36.96% 18.52% 37.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 16
10th Percentile - £158 £111
25th Percentile £200 £160 £116
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £355 £275 £350
Median % change year-on-year +29.09% -21.43% +19.15%
75th Percentile £441 £388 £497
90th Percentile £621 £480 £594
Derbyshire median daily rate £250 £313 £338
% change year-on-year -20.00% -7.41% +35.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £23.22 - -
25th Percentile £23.54 - -
Median hourly rate £24.08 - -
75th Percentile £24.61 - -
90th Percentile £24.94 - -
Derbyshire median hourly rate £24.08 - £30.00
% change year-on-year - - +52.56%

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 46 54 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby 50.00% 34.18% 57.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 38 45
10th Percentile £200 £232 £119
25th Percentile £405 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £619
90th Percentile £740 £628 £683
Derbyshire median daily rate £612 £575 £515
% change year-on-year +6.43% +11.65% +28.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £23.82 - -
25th Percentile £25.04 £40.47 -
Median hourly rate £25.08 £41.57 -
Median % change year-on-year -39.67% - -
75th Percentile £25.15 £42.66 -
90th Percentile £42.31 - -
Derbyshire median hourly rate £25.08 £41.57 £26.50
% change year-on-year -39.67% +56.85% +38.87%

Microsoft
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 17 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Derby

Microsoft
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 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
3 2 (11.76%) SaaS
4 1 (5.88%) AWS
4 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Batch
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (11.76%) Power BI
2 1 (5.88%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.88%) Selenium
1 1 (5.88%) SpecFlow
1 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
1 1 (5.88%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.88%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Local Government
3 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (11.76%) Developer
1 2 (11.76%) IT Support
1 2 (11.76%) IT Support Technician
1 2 (11.76%) IT Technician
1 2 (11.76%) Lead
1 2 (11.76%) Support Technician
1 2 (11.76%) Test Leader
1 2 (11.76%) Web Developer
2 1 (5.88%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (5.88%) Junior IT Support
2 1 (5.88%) Junior IT Technician
2 1 (5.88%) Junior Support Technician
2 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (5.88%) Senior
2 1 (5.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (5.88%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (5.88%) Telephony Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) CSS
1 2 (11.76%) HTML
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) JSON
2 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Windows
2 4 (23.53%) Windows 10
2 4 (23.53%) Windows 7
2 4 (23.53%) Windows Vista
3 1 (5.88%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Break/Fix
2 3 (17.65%) DevOps
2 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (11.76%) Agile
3 2 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (11.76%) Backlog Refinement
3 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (11.76%) Data Governance
3 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (11.76%) Product Backlog
3 2 (11.76%) Project Management
3 2 (11.76%) SDLC
3 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (11.76%) Test Automation
3 2 (11.76%) Test Planning
3 2 (11.76%) Web Development
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (5.88%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) SQL
2 3 (17.65%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.88%) Bash
4 1 (5.88%) Bicep
4 1 (5.88%) C#
4 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) A+ Certification
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.88%) SCCM
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) OpenAI
2 1 (5.88%) Apple
2 1 (5.88%) Avaya
2 1 (5.88%) Logitech
2 1 (5.88%) Okta
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) SAP