Microsoft Contracts in Ipswich

Microsoft
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Ipswich 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 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 4 10
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 -7
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 8 7 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Ipswich 22.86% 18.42% 11.97%
As % of the Vendors category 53.33% 30.43% 43.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 14
10th Percentile - £255 £187
25th Percentile £213 £366 £245
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -59.09% +7.32% +16.48%
75th Percentile £366 £594 £738
90th Percentile £597 £620 £785
Suffolk median daily rate £225 £220 £513
% change year-on-year +2.27% -57.07% +5.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £17.79 £17.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% - -
Suffolk median hourly rate £17.79 £17.00 -
% change year-on-year +4.65% - -

All Vendors
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15 23 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 42.86% 60.53% 27.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 31
10th Percentile £161 £196 £200
25th Percentile £179 £463 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £475 £700
Median % change year-on-year -52.63% -32.14% +43.59%
75th Percentile £238 £488 -
90th Percentile £505 £559 £750
Suffolk median daily rate £225 £475 £700
% change year-on-year -52.63% -32.14% +43.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
Median hourly rate £17.79 £11.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +54.70% - -
Suffolk median hourly rate £31.99 £11.50 -
% change year-on-year +178.13% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Ipswich

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Ipswich

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Daily Rate Histogram in Ipswich

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Ipswich over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Ipswich

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Ipswich

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Ipswich 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 3 (37.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (37.50%) OneDrive
3 2 (25.00%) Azure
4 1 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) IaaS
4 1 (12.50%) PaaS
4 1 (12.50%) SaaS
4 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) 2nd Line Support
1 3 (37.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) SharePoint Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) SharePoint Support
1 3 (37.50%) Support Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Cloud Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Technology Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Driving Licence
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (12.50%) Reinsurance
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (12.50%) Agile
1 1 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
1 1 (12.50%) DevOps
1 1 (12.50%) Fintech
1 1 (12.50%) High Availability
1 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (12.50%) Insurtech
1 1 (12.50%) IT Strategy
1 1 (12.50%) Microservices
1 1 (12.50%) Migration
1 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
1 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
1 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (12.50%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bicep
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform