Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Fleet

Microsoft
Hampshire > Fleet

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Fleet 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 February 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
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Fleet 20.51% - -
As % of the Vendors category 47.06% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £351 - -
25th Percentile £399 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 - -
75th Percentile £447 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £538 £500 £583
% change year-on-year +7.50% -14.16% +10.95%

All Vendors
Fleet

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 Fleet.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 17 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Fleet 43.59% 57.14% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 0 0
10th Percentile £355 - -
25th Percentile £411 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 - -
75th Percentile £508 - -
90th Percentile £538 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Fleet

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Fleet

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in Fleet

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Fleet citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Fleet

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Fleet citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Fleet 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
3 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
3 3 (37.50%) GCP
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DHCP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (12.50%) Consultant
1 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Consultant
1 1 (12.50%) Database Specialist
1 1 (12.50%) Lead
1 1 (12.50%) Product Manager
1 1 (12.50%) Product Owner
1 1 (12.50%) Project Leader
1 1 (12.50%) Security Consultant
1 1 (12.50%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) LDAP
1 1 (12.50%) OAuth
1 1 (12.50%) OpenID
1 1 (12.50%) SailPoint
1 1 (12.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Replication
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (12.50%) Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Mac OS
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 4 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (37.50%) Regulatory Change
3 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
3 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
3 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (37.50%) Zero Trust
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) Business Strategy
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (25.00%) Fintech
4 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 2 (25.00%) Product Vision
4 2 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (37.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (12.50%) CEH
2 1 (12.50%) CISM
2 1 (12.50%) CISSP
2 1 (12.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
2 1 (12.50%) OCP
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) GDPR
2 5 (62.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (37.50%) NIST
4 1 (12.50%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
4 1 (12.50%) PSD2
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (25.00%) SCCM
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Citrix
1 2 (25.00%) CyberArk
1 2 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle