Microsoft Contract Job Trends in East Yorkshire

Microsoft
Yorkshire > East Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East Yorkshire 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 October 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 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 - 4
Rank change year-on-year - - -1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 9 0 15
As % of all contract jobs in East Yorkshire 30.00% - 24.19%
As % of the Vendors category 56.25% - 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 13
10th Percentile - - £140
25th Percentile £138 - £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £145 - £200
Median % change year-on-year - - -69.23%
75th Percentile £153 - £288
90th Percentile £178 - £350
Yorkshire median daily rate £438 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -8.28% -4.60% +29.03%

All Vendors
East Yorkshire

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 East Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 16 5 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Yorkshire 53.33% 55.56% 64.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 3 32
10th Percentile - £328 £145
25th Percentile £138 £397 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £178 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -66.19% +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £610
90th Percentile - - £756
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -5.09% +0.10% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £53.90 £22.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year +142.22% +1.14% +17.65%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in East Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in East Yorkshire.

Microsoft job vacancy trend in East Yorkshire

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in East Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Yorkshire citing Microsoft.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Yorkshire citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in East Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East Yorkshire citing Microsoft.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East Yorkshire citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Contract Job Locations in East Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 6 October 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
Hull - 8 £145 - 21
Bridlington - 1 £210 -
Microsoft
Yorkshire

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) Broadband
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) IT Support
1 6 (66.67%) IT Support Technician
1 6 (66.67%) IT Technician
1 6 (66.67%) Support Technician
1 6 (66.67%) Technical Support
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) HTC Vive
1 6 (66.67%) Virtual Reality
2 2 (22.22%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (22.22%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Mobile Device Management
2 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (22.22%) ISMS
2 2 (22.22%) ITIL
2 2 (22.22%) Security Operations
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) CISMP
1 2 (22.22%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune