Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Lincoln

Microsoft
Lincolnshire > Lincoln

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lincoln 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 8 September 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
8 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 7 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 1 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lincoln 5.56% 7.14% 16.13%
As % of the Vendors category 14.29% 33.33% 29.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £413
25th Percentile £503 - £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £825 £850
Median % change year-on-year -38.79% -2.94% +539.10%
75th Percentile £508 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Lincolnshire median daily rate £505 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -19.20% -3.85% +147.62%

All Vendors
Lincoln

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 Lincoln.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7 3 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lincoln 38.89% 21.43% 54.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 13
10th Percentile - - £315
25th Percentile £503 - £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £825 £350
Median % change year-on-year -38.79% +135.71% -36.36%
75th Percentile £508 - £738
90th Percentile - - £850
Lincolnshire median daily rate £351 £625 £375
% change year-on-year -43.84% +66.67% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £18.62 - -
25th Percentile £18.78 - -
Median hourly rate £18.87 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Lincolnshire median hourly rate £18.87 £33.44 -
% change year-on-year -43.57% - -

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Lincoln

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Lincoln

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in Lincoln

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lincoln citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Lincoln

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lincoln citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lincoln 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
General
1 1 (100.00%) Agriculture
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Express.js
1 1 (100.00%) MERN Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Critical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Micro Frontends
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Product Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks