Microsoft Contract Job Trends 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 4 September 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
4 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 4 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 6 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Eastleigh 40.00% 12.50% 16.67%
As % of the Vendors category 66.67% 50.00% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £341 - £421
25th Percentile - - £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £508
75th Percentile - - £567
90th Percentile - - £600
Hampshire median daily rate £530 £550 £473
% change year-on-year -3.64% +16.40% -5.50%

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 9 2 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Eastleigh 60.00% 25.00% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 4
10th Percentile £436 - £430
25th Percentile - - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile - - £568
90th Percentile - - £601
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -

Microsoft
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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Daily Rate Trend in Eastleigh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Eastleigh citing Microsoft.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Eastleigh citing Microsoft

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Daily Rate Histogram in Eastleigh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Eastleigh over the 6 months to 4 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Eastleigh

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Hourly Rate Trend in Eastleigh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Eastleigh citing Microsoft.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Eastleigh citing Microsoft

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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 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Exchange Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) IT Support
3 1 (16.67%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) High Availability
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Migration
3 3 (50.00%) Validation
4 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 2 (33.33%) SIEM
5 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 1 (16.67%) Network Design
5 1 (16.67%) Proactive Management
5 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
5 1 (16.67%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
1 2 (33.33%) HIPAA
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM