Microsoft Contracts in Lancashire

Microsoft
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 9 3
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +10
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 40 32 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 20.62% 13.22% 21.71%
As % of the Vendors category 43.48% 24.62% 51.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 16 29
10th Percentile £170 £140 £161
25th Percentile £189 £189 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £363 £400
Median % change year-on-year +31.03% -9.38% +31.69%
75th Percentile £619 £508 £650
90th Percentile £775 £631 £750
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £404
% change year-on-year -5.26% +17.72% +10.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 11 23
10th Percentile - £25.75 £26.44
25th Percentile - £26.63 £34.97
Median hourly rate £16.06 £37.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -57.17% -9.64% +18.57%
75th Percentile - £48.19 £45.70
90th Percentile - £53.35 £96.18
North West median hourly rate £14.50 £26.25 £19.18
% change year-on-year -44.76% +36.90% -15.71%

All Vendors
Lancashire

Microsoft is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 92 130 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 47.42% 53.72% 42.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 55 59
10th Percentile £346 £240 £169
25th Percentile £413 £372 £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile £720 £600 £594
90th Percentile £776 £663 £750
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 30 34
10th Percentile - £25.75 £17.08
25th Percentile - £29.30 £26.67
Median hourly rate £16.06 £42.50 £39.73
Median % change year-on-year -62.21% +6.98% -3.10%
75th Percentile £42.88 £49.52 £44.03
90th Percentile £46.18 £52.22 £84.83
North West median hourly rate £16.06 £37.50 £19.62
% change year-on-year -57.17% +91.11% -28.64%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Lancashire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Lancashire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Lancashire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Lancashire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Lancashire

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Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Preston +9 26 £575 +42.86% 21
Blackpool +12 2 £200 -71.43% 4
Lancaster 0 2 £180 -48.57% 4
Accrington - 1 - -
Skelmersdale - 1 - - 4
Microsoft
North West

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 5 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.50%) GeoServer
Applications
1 22 (55.00%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 20 (50.00%) Taleo
2 7 (17.50%) Azure
3 4 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.00%) AWS
4 2 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (5.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) DHCP
1 1 (2.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (2.50%) GIS
1 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.50%) Power BI
1 1 (2.50%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Git
General
1 28 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Retail
4 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Finance
5 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 4 (10.00%) Consultant
1 4 (10.00%) Lead
2 3 (7.50%) IT Technician
2 3 (7.50%) Project Manager
3 2 (5.00%) Active Directory Technician
3 2 (5.00%) Analyst
3 2 (5.00%) Deployment Manager
3 2 (5.00%) Deployment Project Manager
3 2 (5.00%) Hardware Technician
3 2 (5.00%) IAM Consultant
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Manager
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Project Manager
3 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared Project Manager
3 2 (5.00%) Service Transition Leader
4 1 (2.50%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 1 (2.50%) ERP Project Manager
4 1 (2.50%) IT Support Technician
4 1 (2.50%) SAP Manager
4 1 (2.50%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (5.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (2.50%) CSS
2 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.50%) HTML
2 1 (2.50%) Lucene
2 1 (2.50%) OpenLayers
2 1 (2.50%) PostGIS
2 1 (2.50%) React
2 1 (2.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.50%) iPhone
2 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
2 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (20.00%) Windows
2 3 (7.50%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.50%) Android
3 1 (2.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 20 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 5 (12.50%) ERP
2 5 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (10.00%) DevOps
3 4 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (7.50%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (7.50%) Budget Management
4 3 (7.50%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (7.50%) Customer Service
4 3 (7.50%) Machine Learning
4 3 (7.50%) Portfolio Management
4 3 (7.50%) PRINCE2
4 3 (7.50%) Programme Delivery
4 3 (7.50%) Service Design
4 3 (7.50%) Software Engineering
4 3 (7.50%) Transition Management
4 3 (7.50%) Visualisation
5 2 (5.00%) Data Modelling
5 2 (5.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.50%) Python
2 1 (2.50%) Java
2 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 20 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 7 (17.50%) Security Cleared
3 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) Degree
4 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) GDPR
1 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.50%) NIST
1 1 (2.50%) QA
1 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (17.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.50%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (7.50%) Cadence
2 3 (7.50%) SAP
3 1 (2.50%) Citrix
3 1 (2.50%) ESET