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 11 March 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
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 3 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in Fareham 5.08% 20.00% 31.25%
As % of the Vendors category 50.00% 50.00% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £455 - -
25th Percentile £519 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £544 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +8.75% -16.63% +9.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.50 -
Hampshire median hourly rate £16.50 £18.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year -10.81% +23.33% -18.92%

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 6 6 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Fareham 10.17% 40.00% 62.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 £363 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £375 £225
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +66.67% -64.00%
75th Percentile £675 £388 £238
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
Median hourly rate £22.50 £15.50 £13.05
Median % change year-on-year +45.16% +18.77% -29.46%
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.00 £59.13 £40.00
% change year-on-year -66.17% +47.81% +59.16%

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 11 March 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

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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 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Solutions Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Buyer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Buyer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
1 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (33.33%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
1 1 (33.33%) Due Diligence
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (33.33%) Microservices
1 1 (33.33%) Order Management
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (33.33%) Supplier Management
1 1 (33.33%) Supply Chain Management
1 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
1 1 (33.33%) Zachman Framework
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Ariba
1 1 (33.33%) SAP