The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 4 June 2020 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Microsoft Corporation.
| Microsoft |
|
|
6 months to
4 Jun 2020 |
Same period 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
| Rank |
18 |
29 |
22 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+11 |
-7 |
-2 |
| Contract jobs citing Microsoft |
47 |
79 |
90 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex |
9.02% |
9.58% |
12.80% |
| As % of the Vendors category |
24.23% |
18.12% |
23.81% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
26 |
47 |
60 |
| Median daily rate |
£350 |
£350 |
£450 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
- |
-22.22% |
- |
| 10th Percentile |
£128 |
£116 |
£135 |
| 90th Percentile |
£538 |
£510 |
£528 |
| East of England median daily rate |
£400 |
£395 |
£350 |
| % change year-on-year |
+1.27% |
+12.86% |
-6.67% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
0 |
1 |
6 |
| Median hourly rate |
- |
£16.50 |
£16.50 |
| East of England median hourly rate |
£17.10 |
£15.75 |
£15.25 |
| % change year-on-year |
+8.57% |
+3.28% |
+1.67% |
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 Essex.
| All Vendors Essex |
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services |
194 |
436 |
378 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex |
37.24% |
52.85% |
53.77% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
106 |
261 |
267 |
| Median daily rate |
£438 |
£455 |
£500 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
-3.85% |
-9.00% |
+14.94% |
| 10th Percentile |
£175 |
£288 |
£260 |
| 90th Percentile |
£557 |
£560 |
£600 |
| East of England median daily rate |
£410 |
£450 |
£425 |
| % change year-on-year |
-8.89% |
+5.88% |
+6.25% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
11 |
3 |
16 |
| Median hourly rate |
£21.57 |
£12.50 |
£31.75 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+72.56% |
-60.63% |
-5.93% |
| 10th Percentile |
£19.50 |
£12.25 |
£15.38 |
| 90th Percentile |
£59.75 |
£16.35 |
£49.25 |
| Median hourly rate |
£19.38 |
£17.50 |
£16.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
+10.71% |
+9.38% |
-8.57% |
