Microsoft Contracts in Eastleigh

Microsoft
Hampshire > Eastleigh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Eastleigh 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 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 2 5
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 3 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Eastleigh 17.65% 31.25% 10.00%
As % of the Vendors category 50.00% 83.33% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £615
75th Percentile - - £623
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £506 £600 £534
% change year-on-year -15.63% +12.36% +18.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £12.38 -
Hampshire median hourly rate £19.97 £15.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +33.13% -21.05% +15.15%

All Vendors
Eastleigh

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 Eastleigh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6 6 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Eastleigh 35.29% 37.50% 30.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile - - £510
25th Percentile - - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile - - £586
90th Percentile - - £608
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £12.38 -
Hampshire median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -4.21% +14.70% +153.04%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Eastleigh

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Eastleigh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Eastleigh

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Eastleigh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Eastleigh

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Eastleigh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Eastleigh 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 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Key Vault
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Exchange Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (66.67%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Network Design
3 1 (33.33%) Proactive Management
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
1 2 (66.67%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
1 2 (66.67%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory