Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Fareham

Microsoft
Hampshire > Fareham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Fareham 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 7 October 2026, 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
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 22 9 8
As % of all contract jobs in Fareham 22.68% 23.08% 18.60%
As % of the Vendors category 59.46% 50.00% 61.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 9 2
10th Percentile - - £314
25th Percentile £263 £256 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £263 £375
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -30.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £675 £288 £422
90th Percentile - £308 £446
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £30.41
Hampshire median hourly rate £16.00 £43.75 £32.71
% change year-on-year -63.43% +33.77% +68.37%

All Vendors
Fareham

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 Fareham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 37 18 13
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Fareham 38.14% 46.15% 30.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 10 3
10th Percentile - - £328
25th Percentile £263 £256 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £263 £450
Median % change year-on-year +47.62% -41.67% +22.12%
75th Percentile £675 £288 £463
90th Percentile £700 £394 -
Hampshire median daily rate £538 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £23.07
25th Percentile - - £24.29
Median hourly rate - £22.50 £27.46
Median % change year-on-year - -18.05% -
75th Percentile - - £29.50
90th Percentile - - £30.04
Hampshire median hourly rate £37.24 £25.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +48.96% -56.41% +4.27%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Fareham

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Fareham

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in Fareham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Fareham citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Fareham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Fareham over the 6 months to 7 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Fareham

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Fareham

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Fareham citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Fareham 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 11 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (36.36%) Azure
3 1 (4.55%) Algolia
3 1 (4.55%) AWS
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Functions
3 1 (4.55%) Cloudflare
3 1 (4.55%) Commercetools
3 1 (4.55%) Contentful
3 1 (4.55%) GitHub
3 1 (4.55%) PaaS
3 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) DHCP
1 1 (4.55%) DNS
1 1 (4.55%) Firewall
1 1 (4.55%) LAN
1 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.55%) VLAN
1 1 (4.55%) VPN
1 1 (4.55%) WAN
1 1 (4.55%) Wireless
General
1 6 (27.27%) Manufacturing
2 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (59.09%) IT Support
2 11 (50.00%) IT Engineer
2 11 (50.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 11 (50.00%) Support Engineer
3 7 (31.82%) Architect
4 6 (27.27%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (9.09%) 1st/2nd Line Desktop Support
5 2 (9.09%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 2 (9.09%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
5 2 (9.09%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Desktop Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Desktop Support
5 2 (9.09%) Desktop Support Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) IT Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) IT Support Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) Terraform
2 1 (4.55%) MACH
2 1 (4.55%) Next.js
2 1 (4.55%) Node.js
2 1 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (4.55%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (13.64%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 12 (54.55%) Windows
2 10 (45.45%) Windows Server
3 9 (40.91%) Windows 10
4 2 (9.09%) Android
4 2 (9.09%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Migration
1 12 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (45.45%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (27.27%) Technology Transformation
4 3 (13.64%) ERP
4 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (13.64%) Network Design
5 2 (9.09%) ITIL
5 2 (9.09%) ITSM
5 2 (9.09%) RBAC
5 2 (9.09%) Service Delivery
5 2 (9.09%) User Experience
6 1 (4.55%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (4.55%) Event-Driven
6 1 (4.55%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 1 (4.55%) Microservices
6 1 (4.55%) Project Planning
6 1 (4.55%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
1 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (45.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (4.55%) Adyen
1 1 (4.55%) Splunk
1 1 (4.55%) VMware