Microsoft Contracts in Maidstone

Microsoft
Kent > Maidstone

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Maidstone 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 28 June 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
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 2 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 9 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Maidstone 30.00% 29.41% 8.82%
As % of the Vendors category 52.94% 38.46% 12.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 1
10th Percentile £232 £170 -
25th Percentile £333 £181 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £592 £200 £200
Median % change year-on-year +195.88% - -16.23%
75th Percentile £623 £338 -
90th Percentile - £420 -
Kent median daily rate £336 £290 £513
% change year-on-year +15.95% -43.41% +9.92%

All Vendors
Maidstone

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 Maidstone.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 17 13 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Maidstone 56.67% 76.47% 73.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 22
10th Percentile £206 £193 £181
25th Percentile £289 £329 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £333 £263
Median % change year-on-year +8.27% +26.67% -10.64%
75th Percentile £613 £336 £373
90th Percentile £623 £364 -
Kent median daily rate £361 £333 £350
% change year-on-year +8.65% -5.00% +7.69%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Maidstone

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Maidstone

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Maidstone

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Maidstone

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Daily Rate Histogram in Maidstone

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Maidstone over the 6 months to 28 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Maidstone

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Maidstone

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Maidstone

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Maidstone 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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) IaaS
3 4 (44.44%) PaaS
4 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) DHCP
1 5 (55.56%) DNS
1 5 (55.56%) Firewall
1 5 (55.56%) SAN
2 4 (44.44%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (11.11%) Internet
General
1 1 (11.11%) Banking
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) VMware Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 4 (44.44%) 3rd Line Support
2 4 (44.44%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Support
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Support Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) VMware Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Banking Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Business Process Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) SAN Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Driving Licence
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) ITIL
2 5 (55.56%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (55.56%) Security Patching
3 4 (44.44%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
4 2 (22.22%) ITSM
4 2 (22.22%) Knowledge Management
5 1 (11.11%) Business Process Mapping
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
5 1 (11.11%) Data Management
5 1 (11.11%) Information Governance
5 1 (11.11%) Service Management
5 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) A+ Certification
1 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
1 2 (22.22%) MCP
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (11.11%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Active Directory
2 5 (55.56%) DFS Replication
2 5 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (55.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) VMware
2 2 (22.22%) ServiceNow
3 1 (11.11%) IBM