Microsoft Contracts in Luton

Microsoft
Bedfordshire > Luton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Luton 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 23 14 11
Rank change year-on-year -9 -3 +18
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 4 15 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Luton 4.08% 9.87% 14.29%
As % of the Vendors category 5.71% 15.31% 27.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 12
10th Percentile - £369 £215
25th Percentile - £397 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £386
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +26.30% -
75th Percentile - £500 £509
90th Percentile - £525 £594
Bedfordshire median daily rate £525 £375 £322
% change year-on-year +40.00% +16.46% -14.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £18.00 -
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £29.89 £18.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +66.06% -18.18% -33.33%

All Vendors
Luton

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 Luton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 70 98 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Luton 71.43% 64.47% 51.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 63 44
10th Percentile £500 £423 £281
25th Percentile £525 £513 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +22.22% -16.47%
75th Percentile £697 £625 £600
90th Percentile £700 £750 -
Bedfordshire median daily rate £600 £525 £450
% change year-on-year +14.29% +16.67% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 12 0
10th Percentile £60.23 £15.50 -
25th Percentile £60.56 £17.38 -
Median hourly rate £74.75 £21.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +247.67% - -
75th Percentile £88.00 £21.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £45.39 £21.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +111.12% -2.27% -54.87%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Luton

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Luton

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Luton

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Luton

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Luton

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Luton

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Luton 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 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 2 (50.00%) AWS KMS
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SSL
1 2 (50.00%) X.509
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Rational DOORS
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Data Governance Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Principal Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (50.00%) PKI
2 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) VxWorks
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (50.00%) Key Management
1 2 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Contract Negotiation
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (25.00%) Requirements Management
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Software Licensing
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) GDPR
2 2 (50.00%) FIPS 140-2
2 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (50.00%) NIST
2 2 (50.00%) NIST 800
2 2 (50.00%) SOC 2
3 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (25.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Wind River