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 6 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
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 6 1
Rank change year-on-year +1 -5 0
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 116 110 211
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 16.09% 12.73% 20.71%
As % of the Vendors category 36.71% 30.90% 41.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 63 171
10th Percentile £173 £155 £160
25th Percentile £250 £256 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £392 £375
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +4.40% -11.76%
75th Percentile £479 £519 £519
90th Percentile £527 £638 £705
England median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 21 7
10th Percentile £16.22 - £11.42
25th Percentile £18.41 £12.75 £12.93
Median hourly rate £24.08 £14.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.96% -30.00% +13.90%
75th Percentile £25.15 £15.00 £26.48
90th Percentile - £26.50 £27.89
England median hourly rate £22.32 £16.06 £22.00
% change year-on-year +38.95% -27.00% +25.71%

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 316 356 508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 43.83% 41.20% 49.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 218 378
10th Percentile £237 £197 £204
25th Percentile £326 £356 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £595 £613
90th Percentile £633 £638 £700
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 29 21
10th Percentile - £10.90 £13.00
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.70 £14.52
Median hourly rate £18.64 £14.00 £22.26
Median % change year-on-year +33.13% -37.11% +13.20%
75th Percentile £25.11 £15.00 £30.00
90th Percentile £25.15 £26.50 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.40 £25.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year +1.60% -23.66% +52.33%

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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 6 July 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 6 July 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
Northamptonshire -1 41 £415 +3.75% 122
Leicestershire +5 23 £250 -11.50% 146
Derbyshire +14 20 £300 +9.09% 155
Nottinghamshire -3 20 £410 +14.69% 190
Lincolnshire 0 10 £180 -71.20% 85
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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 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.72%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.86%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.86%) CICS
3 1 (0.86%) Confluence
3 1 (0.86%) SAS
3 1 (0.86%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (17.24%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (6.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.59%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Dynamics AX
1 2 (1.72%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.86%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 30 (25.86%) Azure
2 19 (16.38%) AWS
3 14 (12.07%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (11.21%) GCP
5 8 (6.90%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (6.03%) Power Platform
7 5 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (4.31%) Entra ID
7 5 (4.31%) SaaS
8 3 (2.59%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (2.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.72%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.72%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.72%) Serverless
10 1 (0.86%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.31%) Firewall
1 5 (4.31%) Remote Desktop
2 4 (3.45%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (2.59%) LAN
3 3 (2.59%) VLAN
4 2 (1.72%) Network Security
4 2 (1.72%) SAN
4 2 (1.72%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.86%) DHCP
5 1 (0.86%) DNS
5 1 (0.86%) HTTP
5 1 (0.86%) MQTT
5 1 (0.86%) PBX
5 1 (0.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.31%) Power BI
2 3 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (2.59%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.59%) Tableau
3 2 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.86%) Big Data
4 1 (0.86%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.86%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.86%) DB2
4 1 (0.86%) Metadata
4 1 (0.86%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.86%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.59%) Eclipse
2 3 (2.59%) Selenium
3 2 (1.72%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.72%) NetBeans
3 2 (1.72%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.86%) Git
4 1 (0.86%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.86%) Introscope
4 1 (0.86%) JIRA
4 1 (0.86%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.86%) Maven
4 1 (0.86%) Ranorex
4 1 (0.86%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.86%) WebDriver
General
1 46 (39.66%) Social Skills
2 17 (14.66%) Finance
3 15 (12.93%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.17%) Banking
4 6 (5.17%) Retail
5 4 (3.45%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.59%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.86%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.86%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.86%) Games
7 1 (0.86%) Law
7 1 (0.86%) Local Government
7 1 (0.86%) Police
Job Titles
1 18 (15.52%) Analyst
2 13 (11.21%) Consultant
3 11 (9.48%) Developer
4 8 (6.90%) Architect
4 8 (6.90%) Lead
5 6 (5.17%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
5 6 (5.17%) Identity Management Engineer
5 6 (5.17%) IT Support
6 5 (4.31%) IT Support Technician
6 5 (4.31%) IT Technician
6 5 (4.31%) Service Analyst
6 5 (4.31%) Service Desk Analyst
6 5 (4.31%) Support Technician
7 4 (3.45%) 1st Line Support
7 4 (3.45%) 2nd Line Support
7 4 (3.45%) Business Analyst
7 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Developer
7 4 (3.45%) Security Analyst
7 4 (3.45%) Support Engineer
7 4 (3.45%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.34%) Hibernate
1 12 (10.34%) LDAP
1 12 (10.34%) OAuth
1 12 (10.34%) OpenID
1 12 (10.34%) SAML
1 12 (10.34%) Spring
2 3 (2.59%) .NET
2 3 (2.59%) HTML
3 2 (1.72%) CSS
3 2 (1.72%) J2EE
3 2 (1.72%) POSIX
4 1 (0.86%) jQuery
4 1 (0.86%) JSON
4 1 (0.86%) Middleware
4 1 (0.86%) RESTful
4 1 (0.86%) SOAP
4 1 (0.86%) Web Services
4 1 (0.86%) WPF
4 1 (0.86%) XML
4 1 (0.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.90%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.03%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (6.03%) Security Posture
3 5 (4.31%) Smartphone
4 4 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.59%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.59%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.72%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.72%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.72%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.72%) iPhone
6 2 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.86%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.86%) IoT
7 1 (0.86%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.86%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.86%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 23 (19.83%) Windows
2 10 (8.62%) Windows 10
3 5 (4.31%) Android
3 5 (4.31%) Linux
4 4 (3.45%) Windows 7
4 4 (3.45%) Windows Vista
5 3 (2.59%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.72%) Debian
6 2 (1.72%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.72%) Unix
7 1 (0.86%) AIX
7 1 (0.86%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.86%) CentOS
7 1 (0.86%) Rocky
7 1 (0.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (18.10%) Agile
3 19 (16.38%) Customer Service
4 14 (12.07%) Identity Access Management
5 13 (11.21%) Process Improvement
6 12 (10.34%) CI/CD
6 12 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (10.34%) Migration
6 12 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (8.62%) DevOps
7 10 (8.62%) RBAC
8 9 (7.76%) Analytics
8 9 (7.76%) Containerisation
8 9 (7.76%) Project Delivery
8 9 (7.76%) Roadmaps
9 8 (6.90%) Decision-Making
9 8 (6.90%) Inventory Management
9 8 (6.90%) Scrum
9 8 (6.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (6.90%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (13.79%) Java
2 12 (10.34%) SQL
3 11 (9.48%) Python
4 7 (6.03%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.45%) Bash
6 3 (2.59%) C
6 3 (2.59%) C#
6 3 (2.59%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.72%) C++
7 2 (1.72%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.72%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.86%) Bicep
8 1 (0.86%) COBOL
8 1 (0.86%) JCL
8 1 (0.86%) VB
8 1 (0.86%) X++
Qualifications
1 12 (10.34%) Degree
2 10 (8.62%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.90%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.59%) CCENT
5 3 (2.59%) CCNA
5 3 (2.59%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.59%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (1.72%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.72%) CISM
6 2 (1.72%) CISSP
6 2 (1.72%) CRISC
6 2 (1.72%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.72%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.86%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.86%) CBAP
7 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.86%) IIBA
7 1 (0.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.07%) GDPR
2 11 (9.48%) HIPAA
2 11 (9.48%) QA
3 3 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.59%) SLA
4 2 (1.72%) GRC
4 2 (1.72%) MISRA
4 2 (1.72%) MISRA C
4 2 (1.72%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.86%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.86%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.86%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.86%) NIST
5 1 (0.86%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.86%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (14.66%) Active Directory
2 8 (6.90%) Docker
3 4 (3.45%) BitLocker
4 2 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.86%) Firmware
5 1 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (9.48%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 10 (8.62%) Kubernetes
3 8 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (5.17%) SCCM
5 3 (2.59%) AirWatch
5 3 (2.59%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (2.59%) Terraform
6 2 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.86%) Ansible
7 1 (0.86%) CA Wily
7 1 (0.86%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.86%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (9.48%) IBM
1 11 (9.48%) Ping Identity
2 5 (4.31%) Apple
2 5 (4.31%) HP
2 5 (4.31%) VMware
3 4 (3.45%) Oracle
4 3 (2.59%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.72%) Citrix
5 2 (1.72%) Databricks
5 2 (1.72%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.72%) QNX
6 1 (0.86%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.86%) Avaya
6 1 (0.86%) Cisco
6 1 (0.86%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.86%) Genesys
6 1 (0.86%) MobileIron
6 1 (0.86%) Okta
6 1 (0.86%) SAP
6 1 (0.86%) Splunk