Microsoft Contracts in the East of England

Microsoft
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 3 4
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 218 327 414
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 11.55% 16.68% 16.21%
As % of the Vendors category 30.92% 38.34% 38.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 229 259
10th Percentile £175 £171 £155
25th Percentile £225 £223 £221
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £425 £375
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +13.33% +36.36%
75th Percentile £562 £575 £488
90th Percentile £701 £719 £610
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 32 63
10th Percentile £13.61 £12.71 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.16 £13.29 £13.25
Median hourly rate £14.80 £15.53 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +7.07% -17.61%
75th Percentile £16.85 £22.88 £19.56
90th Percentile £25.00 £63.50 £28.41
England median hourly rate £15.00 £21.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -28.57% +13.51% +1.26%

All Vendors
East of England

Microsoft is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 705 853 1,071
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 37.36% 43.52% 41.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 525 647
10th Percentile £200 £186 £185
25th Percentile £350 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £550
90th Percentile £701 £700 £663
England median daily rate £519 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -2.94% +1.90% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 227 108 140
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.29 £12.75
25th Percentile £14.48 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £19.81 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.14% +23.81% -5.60%
75th Percentile £45.00 £49.25 £25.13
90th Percentile £72.10 £65.23 £55.00
England median hourly rate £22.08 £37.50 £21.40
% change year-on-year -41.13% +75.27% +1.88%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the East of England over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in the East of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in the East of England over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 15 May 2024. 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
Cambridgeshire +2 86 £438 +25.00% 98
Hertfordshire -17 59 £540 +8.00% 119
Bedfordshire -3 29 £375 +16.46% 37
Essex -5 25 £457 +42.89% 69
Suffolk +6 11 £220 -57.07% 41
Norfolk -2 6 £208 +8.05% 42
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 25 (11.47%) SharePoint
2 11 (5.05%) IIS
2 11 (5.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.29%) Apache
4 4 (1.83%) Exchange Server 2000
4 4 (1.83%) Exchange Server 2003
4 4 (1.83%) Exchange Server 2007
4 4 (1.83%) Exchange Server 2010
4 4 (1.83%) Exchange Server 2013
4 4 (1.83%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.92%) Alfresco
5 2 (0.92%) Appian
5 2 (0.92%) Camunda
6 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.46%) Confluence
6 1 (0.46%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.46%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 90 (41.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (27.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 37 (16.97%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (4.59%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.92%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.46%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 3 (1.38%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 3 (1.38%) SAP FI-AP
1 3 (1.38%) Shopify
2 1 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.46%) SAP WM
2 1 (0.46%) SystmOne
2 1 (0.46%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 32 (14.68%) Microsoft 365
2 27 (12.39%) Azure
3 9 (4.13%) Power Platform
4 7 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.38%) OCI
6 2 (0.92%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (0.92%) BigCommerce
6 2 (0.92%) GCP
6 2 (0.92%) OneDrive
6 2 (0.92%) PowerApps
6 2 (0.92%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 2 (0.92%) ShareGate
7 1 (0.46%) AWS
7 1 (0.46%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.46%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.46%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.46%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.46%) Google Drive
7 1 (0.46%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.46%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.34%) Wi-Fi
2 15 (6.88%) TCP/IP
3 8 (3.67%) VPN
4 7 (3.21%) Firewall
5 6 (2.75%) Ethernet
6 5 (2.29%) Wireless
7 4 (1.83%) H.323
7 4 (1.83%) HTTP
7 4 (1.83%) Intranet
7 4 (1.83%) WAN
7 4 (1.83%) Wireshark
8 3 (1.38%) LAN
8 3 (1.38%) SMTP
8 3 (1.38%) Structured Cabling
9 2 (0.92%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.92%) VLAN
9 2 (0.92%) VoIP
10 1 (0.46%) DHCP
10 1 (0.46%) DNS
10 1 (0.46%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.05%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.75%) Power BI
3 5 (2.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (1.38%) SAP HANA
4 3 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.92%) MariaDB
5 2 (0.92%) MySQL
5 2 (0.92%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.46%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.46%) DTS
6 1 (0.46%) EDMS
6 1 (0.46%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.46%) MS Access
6 1 (0.46%) Power Query
6 1 (0.46%) QlikView
6 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (4.13%) Visual Studio
2 6 (2.75%) Eclipse
3 4 (1.83%) Fiddler
3 4 (1.83%) JIRA
4 1 (0.46%) GitLab
4 1 (0.46%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (0.46%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.46%) MSI
4 1 (0.46%) Subversion
General
1 90 (41.28%) Social Skills
2 26 (11.93%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (5.96%) Organisational Skills
4 12 (5.50%) Presentation Skills
5 11 (5.05%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.59%) German Language
6 10 (4.59%) Manufacturing
7 9 (4.13%) Influencing Skills
7 9 (4.13%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.21%) Finance
8 7 (3.21%) Retail
9 6 (2.75%) Marketing
9 6 (2.75%) Military
10 5 (2.29%) Legal
11 4 (1.83%) Automotive
11 4 (1.83%) Hungarian Language
11 4 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.38%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.38%) Lithuanian Language
12 3 (1.38%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 55 (25.23%) Analyst
2 40 (18.35%) Service Analyst
3 27 (12.39%) Service Desk Analyst
4 26 (11.93%) Administrator
5 18 (8.26%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
6 17 (7.80%) Support Engineer
7 13 (5.96%) Customer Analyst
7 13 (5.96%) Customer Service Analyst
7 13 (5.96%) Developer
8 9 (4.13%) Desktop Engineer
8 9 (4.13%) Desktop Support
8 9 (4.13%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 8 (3.67%) IT Engineer
9 8 (3.67%) Senior
10 7 (3.21%) Architect
10 7 (3.21%) C# Software Engineer
10 7 (3.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (3.21%) IT Support
10 7 (3.21%) Software Engineer
11 6 (2.75%) Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.67%) .NET
1 8 (3.67%) Web Services
2 7 (3.21%) React
3 6 (2.75%) Node.js
4 5 (2.29%) .NET Framework
4 5 (2.29%) CSS
4 5 (2.29%) HTML
5 4 (1.83%) SAML
6 3 (1.38%) EDI
6 3 (1.38%) IDoc
7 2 (0.92%) Drools
7 2 (0.92%) jBPM
7 2 (0.92%) JSON
7 2 (0.92%) SPFx
7 2 (0.92%) VML
8 1 (0.46%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.46%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.46%) jQuery
8 1 (0.46%) Lightning Web Components
8 1 (0.46%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.59%) Management Information System
2 6 (2.75%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.29%) Data Centre
3 5 (2.29%) iPad
3 5 (2.29%) iPhone
3 5 (2.29%) NHS
3 5 (2.29%) PKI
3 5 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (1.83%) Graphic Design
4 4 (1.83%) IVR
5 3 (1.38%) Virtual Team
6 2 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.92%) Fat Client
6 2 (0.92%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (0.92%) Low-Code
6 2 (0.92%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.92%) Reinsurance
6 2 (0.92%) Thin Client
7 1 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 65 (29.82%) Windows
2 25 (11.47%) Linux
3 14 (6.42%) Windows 10
4 12 (5.50%) Windows Server
5 9 (4.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (3.21%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (2.75%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.83%) Windows 2000
8 4 (1.83%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (1.38%) Windows 7
9 3 (1.38%) Windows 8
10 1 (0.46%) Android
10 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (43.12%) Problem-Solving
2 79 (36.24%) Customer Service
3 57 (26.15%) Service Delivery
4 54 (24.77%) Mathematics
5 51 (23.39%) Incident Management
6 33 (15.14%) ITIL
7 24 (11.01%) Migration
8 21 (9.63%) Agile
9 19 (8.72%) Project Management
10 11 (5.05%) DevOps
10 11 (5.05%) PRINCE2
11 10 (4.59%) CI/CD
11 10 (4.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 10 (4.59%) Software Engineering
11 10 (4.59%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (4.59%) Time Management
12 9 (4.13%) Change Management
12 9 (4.13%) Computer Science
12 9 (4.13%) Logistics
13 8 (3.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (5.96%) C#
2 10 (4.59%) JavaScript
3 9 (4.13%) PowerShell
4 8 (3.67%) C++
4 8 (3.67%) Java
5 6 (2.75%) SQL
6 4 (1.83%) Python
6 4 (1.83%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.38%) ABAP
8 2 (0.92%) R
9 1 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (16.06%) Security Cleared
2 27 (12.39%) Microsoft Certification
3 23 (10.55%) Degree
4 20 (9.17%) MCSA
5 19 (8.72%) SC Cleared
6 17 (7.80%) A+ Certification
7 14 (6.42%) DV Cleared
8 10 (4.59%) CCNA
8 10 (4.59%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (3.67%) MCP
10 6 (2.75%) CCNP
10 6 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (2.29%) MCSE
12 3 (1.38%) ECDL
12 3 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (1.38%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.92%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.46%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.05%) SLA
2 7 (3.21%) GDPR
2 7 (3.21%) PMO
3 2 (0.92%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.92%) QA
4 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.46%) GMP
4 1 (0.46%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 60 (27.52%) Active Directory
2 11 (5.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.46%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (4.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (3.21%) SCCM
3 5 (2.29%) SCOM
4 4 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.38%) MAILsweeper
6 1 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 21 (9.63%) SAP
2 17 (7.80%) Citrix
3 14 (6.42%) ServiceNow
4 12 (5.50%) VMware
5 10 (4.59%) Cisco
5 10 (4.59%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.75%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.29%) Avaya
7 5 (2.29%) Sophos
8 4 (1.83%) Darktrace
8 4 (1.83%) F5
8 4 (1.83%) Google
8 4 (1.83%) NetApp
8 4 (1.83%) Varonis
8 4 (1.83%) Verint
9 3 (1.38%) Apple
9 3 (1.38%) Ariba
9 3 (1.38%) IronPort
9 3 (1.38%) OpenText
9 3 (1.38%) Trend Micro