Microsoft Contracts in Essex

Microsoft
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 1 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
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 6 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 18 30 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 17.14% 13.45% 16.07%
As % of the Vendors category 41.86% 44.78% 39.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 20 34
10th Percentile £196 £105 £212
25th Percentile £225 £186 £262
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £370 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.86% -17.83% -
75th Percentile £388 £527 £558
90th Percentile £489 £597 £593
East of England median daily rate £500 £434 £400
% change year-on-year +15.34% +8.38% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 2
10th Percentile £16.07 £11.61 £22.13
25th Percentile £17.92 £12.13 £25.31
Median hourly rate £21.00 £14.31 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +46.75% -54.21% +56.05%
75th Percentile £22.38 £19.17 £37.81
90th Percentile £23.20 £46.53 £41.38
East of England median hourly rate £17.70 £15.00 £13.58
% change year-on-year +18.00% +10.46% -12.39%

All Vendors
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 43 67 113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 40.95% 30.04% 40.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 40 73
10th Percentile £195 £169 £212
25th Percentile £227 £263 £277
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £477 £500
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -4.60% +2.56%
75th Percentile £400 £575 £550
90th Percentile £498 £675 £608
East of England median daily rate £527 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +5.30% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 7
10th Percentile £17.92 £12.13 £21.25
25th Percentile £21.06 £12.68 £31.67
Median hourly rate £30.00 £21.74 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +37.99% -66.81% +172.92%
75th Percentile £40.06 £64.25 £73.88
90th Percentile £41.73 £72.35 £78.50
East of England median hourly rate £21.28 £17.40 £19.81
% change year-on-year +22.30% -12.17% +1.59%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Essex

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Essex

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Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Essex over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Essex

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Essex

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Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Essex region over the 6 months to 1 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
Basildon +6 4 £375 +257.14% 74
Chelmsford +1 3 £225 - 77
Braintree +1 1 £188 -63.41% 1
Benfleet - 1 - - 1
Microsoft
East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (5.56%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (16.67%) GCP
2 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 2 (11.11%) OneDrive
4 1 (5.56%) Azure
4 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (5.56%) 4G
2 1 (5.56%) 5G
2 1 (5.56%) DHCP
2 1 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) LAN
2 1 (5.56%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (5.56%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (5.56%) VLAN
2 1 (5.56%) VoIP
2 1 (5.56%) VPN
2 1 (5.56%) WAN
2 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (16.67%) Power BI
3 2 (11.11%) Metadata
3 2 (11.11%) Power Query
3 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 2 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Automotive
2 5 (27.78%) Finance
3 3 (16.67%) Legal
4 2 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Back Office
5 1 (5.56%) General Ledger
5 1 (5.56%) Law
5 1 (5.56%) Local Government
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (16.67%) Analyst
1 3 (16.67%) Service Analyst
1 3 (16.67%) Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Developer
2 2 (11.11%) Senior
2 2 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Agile Developer
3 1 (5.56%) Agile Java Developer
3 1 (5.56%) Executive Assistant
3 1 (5.56%) GCP Developer
3 1 (5.56%) IT Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) IT Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Mac Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (5.56%) Remote Support Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (5.56%) Driving Licence
1 1 (5.56%) Freedom of Information
1 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
1 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Windows
2 6 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.56%) FreeBSD
3 1 (5.56%) Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (22.22%) Customer Service
2 4 (22.22%) ETL
2 4 (22.22%) ITSM
2 4 (22.22%) Service Delivery
3 3 (16.67%) Agile
3 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (16.67%) Service Management
4 2 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (11.11%) Critical Thinking
4 2 (11.11%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (11.11%) Data Engineering
4 2 (11.11%) Data Security
4 2 (11.11%) Machine Learning
4 2 (11.11%) Migration
4 2 (11.11%) Use Case
4 2 (11.11%) User Experience
4 2 (11.11%) User Stories
5 1 (5.56%) Document Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) SQL
2 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) A+ Certification
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.56%) DBS Check
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) AppManager
1 1 (5.56%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (5.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.56%) Adobe
2 1 (5.56%) Apple
2 1 (5.56%) Ericsson
2 1 (5.56%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) Ivanti
2 1 (5.56%) Nokia
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) VMware