Microsoft Contracts in the East Midlands

Microsoft
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 5 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
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 5 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 71 105 226
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.25% 13.57% 21.54%
As % of the Vendors category 31.28% 32.81% 43.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 63 184
10th Percentile £185 £151 £161
25th Percentile £246 £188 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £400 £370
Median % change year-on-year +4.38% +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £530
90th Percentile £550 £638 £690
England median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 18 11
10th Percentile £13.79 £12.75 £11.25
25th Percentile £15.09 £13.06 £13.98
Median hourly rate £18.77 £14.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.04% -20.00% +66.67%
75th Percentile £19.50 £16.04 £25.37
90th Percentile £21.60 £26.50 £26.48
England median hourly rate £18.86 £15.00 £20.97
% change year-on-year +25.73% -28.45% +13.32%

All Vendors
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 227 320 523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 42.35% 41.34% 49.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 192 396
10th Percentile £250 £163 £194
25th Percentile £358 £325 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £542 £600 £573
90th Percentile £626 £658 £690
England median daily rate £525 £520 £535
% change year-on-year +0.96% -2.80% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 25 28
10th Percentile - £10.90 £13.97
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.28 £15.63
Median hourly rate £14.16 £14.00 £20.20
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -30.69% +26.25%
75th Percentile £18.87 £14.27 £24.81
90th Percentile £22.65 £24.48 £40.25
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £38.50
% change year-on-year +20.56% -41.56% +83.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 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
Leicestershire +5 17 £250 -41.69% 56
Nottinghamshire -1 17 £488 +65.25% 64
Derbyshire +13 15 £300 +50.00% 53
Northamptonshire -9 14 £500 +25.00% 37
Lincolnshire -2 6 £180 -71.20% 47
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 5 (7.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.82%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.82%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.41%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (1.41%) Confluence
3 1 (1.41%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (22.54%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (7.04%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (4.23%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Exstream
1 2 (2.82%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.41%) Actimize
2 1 (1.41%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 17 (23.94%) Azure
2 16 (22.54%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (11.27%) AWS
4 5 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (7.04%) Power Platform
5 4 (5.63%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (5.63%) Entra ID
5 4 (5.63%) GCP
5 4 (5.63%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.41%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (1.41%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.41%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.41%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.41%) GitHub
7 1 (1.41%) IaaS
7 1 (1.41%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.41%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.63%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (4.23%) LAN
2 3 (4.23%) VLAN
3 2 (2.82%) HTTP
3 2 (2.82%) SAN
3 2 (2.82%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.41%) DHCP
4 1 (1.41%) DNS
4 1 (1.41%) Firewall
4 1 (1.41%) PBX
4 1 (1.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.63%) Power BI
1 4 (5.63%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.82%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.82%) Tableau
3 1 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.41%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Eclipse
1 2 (2.82%) Introscope
1 2 (2.82%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.82%) LoadRunner
1 2 (2.82%) NetBeans
1 2 (2.82%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.41%) JIRA
2 1 (1.41%) Selenium
2 1 (1.41%) SpecFlow
2 1 (1.41%) WebDriver
General
1 30 (42.25%) Social Skills
2 13 (18.31%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (14.08%) Finance
4 4 (5.63%) Banking
4 4 (5.63%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.82%) Local Government
5 2 (2.82%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.82%) Retail
6 1 (1.41%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.41%) Games
6 1 (1.41%) Law
6 1 (1.41%) Police
Job Titles
1 11 (15.49%) Consultant
2 10 (14.08%) Analyst
3 6 (8.45%) Lead
3 6 (8.45%) Service Analyst
3 6 (8.45%) Service Desk Analyst
4 5 (7.04%) Project Manager
5 4 (5.63%) Architect
5 4 (5.63%) Developer
5 4 (5.63%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 4 (5.63%) Infrastructure Manager
5 4 (5.63%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 4 (5.63%) IT Support
6 3 (4.23%) 2nd Line Support
6 3 (4.23%) Field Support Technician
6 3 (4.23%) IT Support Technician
6 3 (4.23%) IT Technician
6 3 (4.23%) Support Engineer
6 3 (4.23%) Support Technician
7 2 (2.82%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.82%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.63%) .NET
2 3 (4.23%) OAuth
2 3 (4.23%) OpenID
2 3 (4.23%) SAML
3 2 (2.82%) Hibernate
3 2 (2.82%) HTML
3 2 (2.82%) J2EE
3 2 (2.82%) LDAP
3 2 (2.82%) POSIX
3 2 (2.82%) Spring
3 2 (2.82%) Web Services
4 1 (1.41%) Blazor
4 1 (1.41%) JSON
4 1 (1.41%) Middleware
4 1 (1.41%) WPF
4 1 (1.41%) XML
4 1 (1.41%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.04%) Security Posture
1 5 (7.04%) Smartphone
2 4 (5.63%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.23%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.82%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.82%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.82%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.41%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.41%) Housing Association
5 1 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.41%) IoT
5 1 (1.41%) iPhone
5 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.41%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (21.13%) Windows
2 9 (12.68%) Windows 10
3 5 (7.04%) Android
3 5 (7.04%) Linux
4 4 (5.63%) Windows 7
4 4 (5.63%) Windows Vista
5 3 (4.23%) Ubuntu
5 3 (4.23%) Unix
6 2 (2.82%) AIX
6 2 (2.82%) Debian
7 1 (1.41%) CentOS
7 1 (1.41%) Rocky
7 1 (1.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (18.31%) Agile
2 13 (18.31%) Customer Service
3 12 (16.90%) Migration
4 10 (14.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 9 (12.68%) Process Improvement
5 9 (12.68%) Project Delivery
5 9 (12.68%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (8.45%) DevOps
6 6 (8.45%) Project Management
7 5 (7.04%) CI/CD
7 5 (7.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (7.04%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (7.04%) Inventory Management
7 5 (7.04%) ITIL
7 5 (7.04%) Project Planning
8 4 (5.63%) Budgeting
8 4 (5.63%) Computer Science
8 4 (5.63%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (5.63%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.27%) Python
1 8 (11.27%) SQL
2 7 (9.86%) Java
3 4 (5.63%) C
3 4 (5.63%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.23%) C#
4 3 (4.23%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.82%) Bash
5 2 (2.82%) C++
6 1 (1.41%) Bicep
6 1 (1.41%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (12.68%) Degree
2 7 (9.86%) Security Cleared
3 6 (8.45%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.23%) CCENT
4 3 (4.23%) CCNA
4 3 (4.23%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (4.23%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (2.82%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (2.82%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.41%) CBAP
6 1 (1.41%) IIBA
6 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.41%) MBA
6 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.41%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.86%) QA
2 4 (5.63%) GDPR
3 3 (4.23%) SLA
4 2 (2.82%) HIPAA
4 2 (2.82%) MISRA
4 2 (2.82%) MISRA C
4 2 (2.82%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (1.41%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.41%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.41%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 13 (18.31%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.63%) BitLocker
3 3 (4.23%) Docker
4 2 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.41%) Firmware
5 1 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (11.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (5.63%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.23%) AirWatch
3 3 (4.23%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (4.23%) SCCM
4 2 (2.82%) CA Wily
4 2 (2.82%) Terraform
4 2 (2.82%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 1 (1.41%) Ansible
5 1 (1.41%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (7.04%) VMware
2 4 (5.63%) Apple
3 2 (2.82%) AppDynamics
3 2 (2.82%) Google
3 2 (2.82%) IBM
3 2 (2.82%) OpenText
3 2 (2.82%) Oracle
3 2 (2.82%) Ping Identity
3 2 (2.82%) QNX
3 2 (2.82%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.82%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.82%) Splunk
4 1 (1.41%) Ab Initio
4 1 (1.41%) Avaya
4 1 (1.41%) Cisco
4 1 (1.41%) Citrix
4 1 (1.41%) Databricks
4 1 (1.41%) HP
4 1 (1.41%) Ivanti
4 1 (1.41%) Logitech