Microsoft Contracts in Leicestershire

Microsoft
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leicestershire 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 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
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 6 6
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 18 21 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicestershire 17.65% 13.55% 20.61%
As % of the Vendors category 33.96% 28.38% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 16 31
10th Percentile £234 £126 £122
25th Percentile - £199 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £378 £360
Median % change year-on-year -33.91% +5.07% +10.77%
75th Percentile - £625 £438
90th Percentile £257 £656 £470
East Midlands median daily rate £401 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +0.13% +6.67% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - £12.70
Median hourly rate £19.00 - £13.40
75th Percentile £19.50 - £14.10
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.77 £14.00 £18.75
% change year-on-year +34.04% -25.33% +37.87%

All Vendors
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 53 74 85
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 51.96% 47.74% 51.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 51 74
10th Percentile - £122 £214
25th Percentile £250 £268 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £450 £389
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% +15.76% -2.81%
75th Percentile £594 £625 £450
90th Percentile £650 £659 £557
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £460 £450
% change year-on-year -2.17% +2.22% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £13.16
25th Percentile £18.50 - £13.85
Median hourly rate £19.00 - £15.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.64%
75th Percentile £19.50 - £19.38
90th Percentile - - £22.00
East Midlands median hourly rate £14.16 £14.00 £21.19
% change year-on-year +1.11% -33.92% +24.63%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Leicestershire

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Leicestershire

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Leicestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Leicestershire

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Leicestershire

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Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 21 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
Leicester +6 14 £250 -58.33% 24
Loughborough - 1 £150 - 6
Microsoft
East Midlands

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 2 (11.11%) Azure
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (5.56%) OneDrive
4 1 (5.56%) PowerApps
4 1 (5.56%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) LAN
1 3 (16.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Power BI
1 2 (11.11%) Tableau
2 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Law
3 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Consultant
1 4 (22.22%) IT Support
2 3 (16.67%) Field Support Technician
2 3 (16.67%) IT Support Technician
2 3 (16.67%) IT Technician
2 3 (16.67%) Support Technician
3 2 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (5.56%) Build Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.56%) C# Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Data Analytics Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Data Scientist
4 1 (5.56%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Lead
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Build Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) .NET
1 1 (5.56%) Blazor
1 1 (5.56%) Middleware
1 1 (5.56%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Smartphone
2 3 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Android
2 3 (16.67%) Windows
3 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Process Improvement
2 7 (38.89%) Customer Service
3 5 (27.78%) Inventory Management
4 4 (22.22%) Agile
4 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 4 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (22.22%) Operations Management
5 2 (11.11%) Analytics
5 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (11.11%) Data Analytics
6 1 (5.56%) Data Development
6 1 (5.56%) Data Pipeline
6 1 (5.56%) Data Science
6 1 (5.56%) ETL Development
6 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (5.56%) Machine Learning
6 1 (5.56%) Predictive Analytics
6 1 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (5.56%) Refactoring
6 1 (5.56%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) SQL
2 2 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) C#
3 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
3 1 (5.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 3 (16.67%) CCENT
2 3 (16.67%) CCNA
2 3 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (16.67%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
1 4 (22.22%) BitLocker
2 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Apple
2 1 (5.56%) Databricks
2 1 (5.56%) VMware