Microsoft Contracts in Hampshire

Microsoft
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 2 May 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 8 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 131 179 270
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 17.56% 11.09% 19.34%
As % of the Vendors category 31.72% 24.19% 36.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 107 165
10th Percentile £256 £200 £200
25th Percentile £398 £440 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £600 £543
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +10.50% +20.67%
75th Percentile £601 £781 £631
90th Percentile £675 £825 £676
South East median daily rate £494 £465 £475
% change year-on-year +6.24% -2.11% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 24
10th Percentile £16.55 £12.00 £15.59
25th Percentile £18.50 £12.63 £18.25
Median hourly rate £19.97 £15.00 £19.74
Median % change year-on-year +33.13% -23.99% +19.61%
75th Percentile £71.25 £16.00 £37.88
90th Percentile £72.75 £23.95 £56.84
South East median hourly rate £15.00 £21.00 £20.47
% change year-on-year -28.57% +2.59% +24.06%

All Vendors
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 413 740 733
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 55.36% 45.85% 52.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 354 469
10th Percentile £256 £402 £218
25th Percentile £425 £483 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +7.69%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £625
90th Percentile £675 £757 £694
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.80% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 72 51
10th Percentile £20.11 £13.15 £17.75
25th Percentile £24.66 £28.81 £19.49
Median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +10.29% +160.00%
75th Percentile £63.44 £61.48 £61.50
90th Percentile £71.25 £70.00 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £51.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -51.88% +13.89% +130.53%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Hampshire

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Hampshire

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Hampshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Hampshire

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Hampshire

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in Hampshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in Hampshire

Microsoft
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Basingstoke +9 31 £575 -11.54% 46
Farnborough +11 27 £438 -20.45% 20
Southampton +7 14 £435 +102.33% 46
Winchester +6 9 £498 +10.56% 8
Portsmouth -13 9 £375 -35.68% 26
Fareham +4 8 £263 - 10
Havant -3 4 £600 +30.43%
Eastleigh -4 3 £500 - 7
Andover - 3 £300 - 6
Fleet - 3 - - 4
Hook +6 1 £550 +214.29% 3
Lyndhurst - 1 - -
Gosport - 1 - - 7
Microsoft
South East

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 21 (16.03%) Confluence
2 17 (12.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (12.21%) SharePoint
4 4 (3.05%) Apache
4 4 (3.05%) CMS
4 4 (3.05%) Drupal
4 4 (3.05%) WordPress
5 3 (2.29%) Anypoint
5 3 (2.29%) Exchange Server 2003
5 3 (2.29%) Exchange Server 2007
5 3 (2.29%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (2.29%) Exchange Server 2013
5 3 (2.29%) Mule
5 3 (2.29%) Mule ESB
5 3 (2.29%) Office Communications Server
5 3 (2.29%) SharePoint Server
5 3 (2.29%) Skype for Business
5 3 (2.29%) Tomcat
Applications
1 26 (19.85%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (5.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (3.05%) MS Visio
4 3 (2.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.53%) SAP ECC
2 2 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.76%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.76%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.76%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.76%) SAP GTS
3 1 (0.76%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 32 (24.43%) Azure
2 28 (21.37%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (11.45%) OpenShift
4 14 (10.69%) AWS
5 11 (8.40%) Power Platform
6 9 (6.87%) GCP
7 8 (6.11%) IaaS
7 8 (6.11%) PaaS
8 7 (5.34%) SaaS
9 3 (2.29%) iPaaS
10 2 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.53%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (1.53%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.76%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.76%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 22 (16.79%) VPN
2 20 (15.27%) Firewall
3 12 (9.16%) DNS
4 11 (8.40%) DHCP
4 11 (8.40%) Internet
5 9 (6.87%) Network Security
6 8 (6.11%) SMTP
7 5 (3.82%) WebEx
8 4 (3.05%) Fibre Channel
8 4 (3.05%) iSCSI
9 3 (2.29%) DDNS
9 3 (2.29%) SAN
10 2 (1.53%) Skype
11 1 (0.76%) LAN
11 1 (0.76%) NGFW
11 1 (0.76%) SSL
11 1 (0.76%) TCP/IP
11 1 (0.76%) WAN
11 1 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.40%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (7.63%) Power BI
2 10 (7.63%) SQL Server
3 8 (6.11%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (6.11%) Big Data
4 4 (3.05%) MySQL
4 4 (3.05%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.29%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.53%) Metadata
7 1 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.76%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 21 (16.03%) JIRA
2 16 (12.21%) Visual Studio
3 4 (3.05%) Bitbucket Server
3 4 (3.05%) Git
4 3 (2.29%) MSI
General
1 38 (29.01%) Social Skills
2 31 (23.66%) Finance
3 23 (17.56%) Public Sector
4 14 (10.69%) Manufacturing
5 7 (5.34%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (4.58%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.05%) Legal
7 4 (3.05%) Marketing
7 4 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.05%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.29%) Military
9 2 (1.53%) Banking
9 2 (1.53%) Billing
9 2 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.76%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.76%) Automotive
10 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Local Government
10 1 (0.76%) Police
Job Titles
1 21 (16.03%) Developer
2 19 (14.50%) Support Engineer
3 18 (13.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 17 (12.98%) Architect
5 16 (12.21%) Delphi Developer
6 13 (9.92%) Analyst
7 12 (9.16%) Infrastructure Architect
7 12 (9.16%) Senior
8 10 (7.63%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 10 (7.63%) 3rd Line Support
8 10 (7.63%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 8 (6.11%) Service Manager
10 7 (5.34%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (5.34%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
10 7 (5.34%) Infrastructure Support
10 7 (5.34%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 7 (5.34%) IT Manager
10 7 (5.34%) IT Services Manager
10 7 (5.34%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (3.82%) Senior IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.34%) SOAP
1 7 (5.34%) Web Services
2 4 (3.05%) Ajax
2 4 (3.05%) AngularJS
2 4 (3.05%) CodeIgniter
2 4 (3.05%) CSS
2 4 (3.05%) HTML
2 4 (3.05%) jQuery
2 4 (3.05%) LAMP
3 3 (2.29%) JSON
3 3 (2.29%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (2.29%) RAML
3 3 (2.29%) RESTful
3 3 (2.29%) XML
4 1 (0.76%) .NET
4 1 (0.76%) REST
4 1 (0.76%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.87%) PKI
2 8 (6.11%) Clustering
2 8 (6.11%) Data Centre
3 7 (5.34%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (5.34%) Public Cloud
4 6 (4.58%) Video Conferencing
5 4 (3.05%) Legacy Code
6 3 (2.29%) e-Learning
6 3 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.29%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.29%) Replication
7 2 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.53%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.53%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.76%) CMDB
8 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.76%) IoT
8 1 (0.76%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.76%) SCADA
8 1 (0.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 60 (45.80%) Windows
2 25 (19.08%) Linux
3 24 (18.32%) Windows Server
4 7 (5.34%) CentOS
4 7 (5.34%) Ubuntu
4 7 (5.34%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (4.58%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (3.05%) Unix
6 4 (3.05%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (2.29%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (24.43%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (20.61%) Agile
3 18 (13.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 17 (12.98%) Root Cause Analysis
5 16 (12.21%) Functional Testing
6 15 (11.45%) DevOps
7 13 (9.92%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (8.40%) Cybersecurity
8 11 (8.40%) Migration
9 10 (7.63%) Collaborative Working
10 8 (6.11%) Analytics
10 8 (6.11%) Artificial Intelligence
10 8 (6.11%) Machine Learning
10 8 (6.11%) Software Deployment
11 7 (5.34%) Application Packaging
11 7 (5.34%) Case Management
11 7 (5.34%) Change Control
11 7 (5.34%) Change Management
11 7 (5.34%) DevSecOps
11 7 (5.34%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (20.61%) SQL
2 26 (19.85%) PowerShell
3 17 (12.98%) C#
4 16 (12.21%) Delphi
4 16 (12.21%) PL/SQL
5 7 (5.34%) Java
6 4 (3.05%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.05%) PHP
7 3 (2.29%) DataWeave
8 2 (1.53%) Bash
9 1 (0.76%) ABAP
9 1 (0.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 60 (45.80%) Security Cleared
2 28 (21.37%) DV Cleared
3 25 (19.08%) SC Cleared
4 13 (9.92%) Degree
5 6 (4.58%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (3.82%) MCSE
7 4 (3.05%) VCP5
7 4 (3.05%) VCP6
7 4 (3.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (2.29%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.29%) CISSP
8 3 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.53%) CCNA
9 2 (1.53%) CCNP
9 2 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.76%) PMP
10 1 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.29%) SLA
2 2 (1.53%) GDPR
2 2 (1.53%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.76%) GRC
3 1 (0.76%) NIST
3 1 (0.76%) PMO
System Software
1 41 (31.30%) Active Directory
2 24 (18.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (9.16%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (8.40%) vSphere
5 9 (6.87%) BitLocker
5 9 (6.87%) Hyper-V
6 8 (6.11%) Docker
6 8 (6.11%) Microsoft App-V
6 8 (6.11%) Terminal Services
7 4 (3.05%) NFS
8 3 (2.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 3 (2.29%) Brightmail
8 3 (2.29%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 17 (12.98%) Ansible
2 15 (11.45%) Kubernetes
2 15 (11.45%) vCenter Server
3 11 (8.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (7.63%) Terraform
5 8 (6.11%) Nagios
5 8 (6.11%) Puppet
5 8 (6.11%) SCCM
5 8 (6.11%) vMotion
6 7 (5.34%) Nessus
7 4 (3.05%) SCOM
8 3 (2.29%) CloudHub
8 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (2.29%) SCSM
8 3 (2.29%) WMI
9 1 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 30 (22.90%) VMware
2 16 (12.21%) Oracle
3 13 (9.92%) Citrix
4 12 (9.16%) HP
5 8 (6.11%) Google
5 8 (6.11%) Symantec
6 7 (5.34%) Red Hat
7 6 (4.58%) ServiceNow
8 5 (3.82%) Sage
9 4 (3.05%) Databricks
9 4 (3.05%) Dell
9 4 (3.05%) NetApp
9 4 (3.05%) Splunk
9 4 (3.05%) Veeam
9 4 (3.05%) Zend
10 3 (2.29%) Commvault
10 3 (2.29%) MuleSoft
10 3 (2.29%) SAP
11 2 (1.53%) Autodesk
11 2 (1.53%) Remedy