Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Harrogate

Microsoft
North Yorkshire > Harrogate

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Harrogate 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 21 November 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
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 - 1
Rank change year-on-year - - +1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 2 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Harrogate 12.50% - 41.67%
As % of the Vendors category 25.00% - 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North Yorkshire median daily rate £413 £220 £325
% change year-on-year +87.50% -32.31% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
North Yorkshire median hourly rate £31.86 £10.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +203.43% -52.27% +2.33%

All Vendors
Harrogate

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 Harrogate.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8 0 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Harrogate 50.00% - 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £516 - -
25th Percentile £606 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +74.27%
75th Percentile £619 - £538
90th Percentile £659 - -
North Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £275 £380
% change year-on-year +77.27% -27.63% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
North Yorkshire median hourly rate £31.86 £40.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -20.35% +81.82% +9.32%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Harrogate

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Harrogate

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Daily Rate Trend in Harrogate

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Harrogate citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Harrogate

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Harrogate citing Microsoft

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Harrogate 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Acrobat
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 1st Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) Coordinator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CMDB
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Meraki
1 1 (50.00%) Veeam