Microsoft Contracts in Derbyshire

Microsoft
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Derbyshire 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 21 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
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 16 4
Rank change year-on-year +11 -12 +1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 16 10 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Derbyshire 15.84% 6.17% 19.57%
As % of the Vendors category 41.03% 27.78% 38.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 21
10th Percentile - £158 £107
25th Percentile £200 £160 £115
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £355 £200 £190
Median % change year-on-year +77.50% +5.26% -36.67%
75th Percentile £431 £288 £480
90th Percentile £596 £420 £638
East Midlands median daily rate £401 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +0.13% +6.67% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £15.55
25th Percentile - - £16.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 - £20.50
75th Percentile - - £25.69
90th Percentile - - £28.28
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.77 £14.00 £18.75
% change year-on-year +34.04% -25.33% +37.87%

All Vendors
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 39 36 93
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 38.61% 22.22% 50.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 25 60
10th Percentile £200 £160 £117
25th Percentile £275 £263 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £490
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +7.14% +22.50%
75th Percentile £713 £588 £619
90th Percentile £810 £690 £654
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £460 £450
% change year-on-year -2.17% +2.22% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £15.65
25th Percentile - £40.47 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.00 £41.57 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.66% +80.72% +41.54%
75th Percentile - £42.66 £24.25
90th Percentile - - £27.70
East Midlands median hourly rate £14.16 £14.00 £21.19
% change year-on-year +1.11% -33.92% +24.63%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Derbyshire

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Derbyshire

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Derbyshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Derbyshire over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Derbyshire

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Derbyshire

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Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 21 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
Derby +10 13 £410 +105.00% 16
Chesterfield -2 1 £300 - 11
Microsoft
East Midlands

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Derbyshire 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 (37.50%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.25%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Batch
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Power BI
2 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (6.25%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.25%) Selenium
1 1 (6.25%) SpecFlow
1 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
1 1 (6.25%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Aerospace
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Local Government
3 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Manager
1 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Project Manager
1 3 (18.75%) Project Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Lead
2 2 (12.50%) Test Leader
3 1 (6.25%) 1st Line Support
3 1 (6.25%) 1st/2nd Line Desktop Support
3 1 (6.25%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 1 (6.25%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 1 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Desktop Support
3 1 (6.25%) Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Telephony Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) .NET
1 1 (6.25%) CSS
1 1 (6.25%) HTML
1 1 (6.25%) JSON
1 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
1 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
1 1 (6.25%) Driving Licence
1 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
1 4 (25.00%) Windows 10
1 4 (25.00%) Windows 7
1 4 (25.00%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (25.00%) Break/Fix
2 4 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (18.75%) Budgeting
3 3 (18.75%) DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) Project Management
3 3 (18.75%) Project Planning
3 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (18.75%) Supplier Management
4 2 (12.50%) Backlog Refinement
4 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (12.50%) Data Governance
4 2 (12.50%) Migration
4 2 (12.50%) Product Backlog
4 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
4 2 (12.50%) Test Planning
4 2 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
5 1 (6.25%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 2 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) Bash
3 1 (6.25%) Bicep
3 1 (6.25%) C#
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Avaya
1 1 (6.25%) Logitech
1 1 (6.25%) OpenAI
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle
1 1 (6.25%) SAP