Microsoft Contracts in Manchester

Microsoft
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 10 9 11
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 169 252 300
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 11.02% 13.28% 11.53%
As % of the Vendors category 31.65% 37.67% 37.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 179 220
10th Percentile £250 £248 £145
25th Percentile £325 £363 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -4.74% +18.75% +6.67%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £527
90th Percentile £650 £631 £626
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £404
% change year-on-year -5.26% +17.72% +10.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 6 18
10th Percentile £11.79 £12.08 £9.78
25th Percentile £12.21 £12.99 £14.25
Median hourly rate £14.27 £14.46 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.31% -3.63% -23.76%
75th Percentile £25.25 £23.34 £18.94
90th Percentile £26.50 £27.38 £22.72
North West median hourly rate £14.50 £26.25 £19.18
% change year-on-year -44.76% +36.90% -15.71%

All Vendors
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 534 669 804
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 34.83% 35.27% 30.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 477 614
10th Percentile £313 £300 £200
25th Percentile £400 £388 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £598 £588 £588
90th Percentile £703 £656 £662
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 16 26
10th Percentile £11.81 £13.31 £10.13
25th Percentile £12.51 £18.73 £14.25
Median hourly rate £17.72 £32.60 £16.87
Median % change year-on-year -45.64% +93.30% -26.67%
75th Percentile £26.50 £65.00 £20.10
90th Percentile £60.00 - £28.75
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 Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Manchester

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Manchester

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Manchester

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Manchester

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in Manchester

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Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Manchester 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
Oldham +2 5 £350 -12.50% 4
Bolton +4 3 £503 +187.14% 8
Salford +1 2 £255 -51.43% 11
Wigan -6 1 £160 +14.29% 5
Stockport - 1 - - 7
Microsoft
North West

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 27 (15.98%) SharePoint
2 14 (8.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (3.55%) Apache
3 6 (3.55%) IIS
3 6 (3.55%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.18%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.18%) Confluence
5 1 (0.59%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.59%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 46 (27.22%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (19.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (5.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (4.14%) MS Visio
5 5 (2.96%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (1.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 6 (3.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.18%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.59%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 63 (37.28%) Azure
2 49 (28.99%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
4 12 (7.10%) AWS
4 12 (7.10%) IaaS
4 12 (7.10%) SaaS
5 11 (6.51%) Azure Sentinel
5 11 (6.51%) Entra ID
6 9 (5.33%) PaaS
7 8 (4.73%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (4.14%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.37%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (2.37%) Google Workspace
10 3 (1.78%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.18%) GCP
11 2 (1.18%) GitHub
11 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (1.18%) Miro
11 2 (1.18%) OneDrive
12 1 (0.59%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.33%) Firewall
2 8 (4.73%) TCP/IP
3 6 (3.55%) H.323
3 6 (3.55%) HTTP
4 5 (2.96%) DNS
4 5 (2.96%) LAN
4 5 (2.96%) VPN
5 4 (2.37%) WAN
5 4 (2.37%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (1.78%) SAN
6 3 (1.78%) VLAN
6 3 (1.78%) VoIP
7 2 (1.18%) DHCP
7 2 (1.18%) Intranet
7 2 (1.18%) Wireless
8 1 (0.59%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.59%) DKIM
8 1 (0.59%) NAS
8 1 (0.59%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.73%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (2.96%) Power BI
3 3 (1.78%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.78%) GIS
4 2 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.18%) MySQL
5 1 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.59%) Big Data
5 1 (0.59%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.59%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (5.33%) JIRA
2 2 (1.18%) Git
3 1 (0.59%) GitLab
3 1 (0.59%) Hudson
3 1 (0.59%) Rational Software Modeler
General
1 54 (31.95%) Social Skills
2 25 (14.79%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (10.65%) Finance
3 18 (10.65%) Public Sector
4 10 (5.92%) Banking
4 10 (5.92%) Legal
4 10 (5.92%) Telecoms
5 6 (3.55%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.37%) Fire and Rescue
7 4 (2.37%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.37%) Marketing
8 3 (1.78%) Law
9 2 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.59%) Automotive
10 1 (0.59%) Electronics
10 1 (0.59%) French Language
10 1 (0.59%) German Language
10 1 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 31 (18.34%) Analyst
2 20 (11.83%) Architect
3 15 (8.88%) Senior
4 13 (7.69%) Developer
4 13 (7.69%) IT Support
5 12 (7.10%) Support Engineer
6 11 (6.51%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (5.92%) Business Analyst
8 9 (5.33%) Administrator
8 9 (5.33%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (5.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (4.73%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 7 (4.14%) 2nd Line Support
11 6 (3.55%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 5 (2.96%) Pega Business Analyst
12 5 (2.96%) Service Analyst
13 4 (2.37%) Project Manager
13 4 (2.37%) Security Analyst
13 4 (2.37%) Security Architect
13 4 (2.37%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.37%) RESTful
1 4 (2.37%) SailPoint
2 3 (1.78%) Node.js
3 2 (1.18%) CSS
3 2 (1.18%) HTML
3 2 (1.18%) Web Services
4 1 (0.59%) .NET
4 1 (0.59%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.59%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.59%) Hugging Face
4 1 (0.59%) LangChain
4 1 (0.59%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.59%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.59%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.10%) Management Information System
1 12 (7.10%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (3.55%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (3.55%) IVR
3 5 (2.96%) CCTV
3 5 (2.96%) Clustering
3 5 (2.96%) Video Conferencing
3 5 (2.96%) Virtual Team
4 4 (2.37%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.37%) Security Posture
4 4 (2.37%) Social Media
5 3 (1.78%) Cyberattack
5 3 (1.78%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.18%) Insider Threat
6 2 (1.18%) PKI
7 1 (0.59%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.59%) Freedom of Information Act
7 1 (0.59%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 42 (24.85%) Windows
2 19 (11.24%) Windows 10
3 15 (8.88%) Windows Server
4 14 (8.28%) Linux
5 10 (5.92%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (4.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (2.96%) Mac OS
7 5 (2.96%) VMS
8 3 (1.78%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (1.18%) Windows 7
9 2 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.59%) Android
10 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.59%) Unix
10 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (18.93%) Agile
2 24 (14.20%) ITIL
3 23 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (10.65%) DevOps
5 17 (10.06%) Change Management
6 15 (8.88%) Customer Service
6 15 (8.88%) Cybersecurity
7 12 (7.10%) Project Management
7 12 (7.10%) Service Management
8 11 (6.51%) Migration
8 11 (6.51%) Mobile Device Management
8 11 (6.51%) Roadmaps
8 11 (6.51%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (5.92%) Data Protection
9 10 (5.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 9 (5.33%) Analytics
10 9 (5.33%) Incident Response
11 8 (4.73%) CI/CD
11 8 (4.73%) Decision-Making
11 8 (4.73%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (8.28%) PowerShell
2 11 (6.51%) SQL
3 9 (5.33%) Kusto Query Language
4 5 (2.96%) Python
5 3 (1.78%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.18%) Bash
6 2 (1.18%) C#
6 2 (1.18%) Java
6 2 (1.18%) PHP
7 1 (0.59%) C
7 1 (0.59%) C++
7 1 (0.59%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 23 (13.61%) Degree
2 19 (11.24%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (5.92%) CISSP
4 9 (5.33%) CISM
4 9 (5.33%) CompTIA Security+
5 8 (4.73%) SC Cleared
5 8 (4.73%) Security Cleared
6 7 (4.14%) MCSE
7 5 (2.96%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (2.96%) PMI Certification
7 5 (2.96%) PMP
7 5 (2.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (2.37%) APMP
8 4 (2.37%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.37%) CCNA
8 4 (2.37%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.18%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.18%) MCITP
10 1 (0.59%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.10%) QA
2 9 (5.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.37%) PMO
3 4 (2.37%) SLA
4 3 (1.78%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.18%) GDPR
5 2 (1.18%) NIST
5 2 (1.18%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.59%) COREP
6 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.59%) FINREP
6 1 (0.59%) GxP
6 1 (0.59%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.59%) NCSC
System Software
1 40 (23.67%) Active Directory
2 9 (5.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.96%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.78%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.59%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.59%) Docker
5 1 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.59%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.59%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 19 (11.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (3.55%) Terraform
3 4 (2.37%) SCCM
4 3 (1.78%) Autotask
4 3 (1.78%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (1.78%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.59%) Ansible
5 1 (0.59%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.59%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.59%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.59%) VxRail
Vendors
1 13 (7.69%) VMware
2 7 (4.14%) Red Hat
3 6 (3.55%) Avaya
4 5 (2.96%) CyberArk
4 5 (2.96%) Google
4 5 (2.96%) Oracle
4 5 (2.96%) Pega
4 5 (2.96%) ServiceNow
4 5 (2.96%) Verint
5 4 (2.37%) Cisco
5 4 (2.37%) Databricks
5 4 (2.37%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.78%) Apple
6 3 (1.78%) Citrix
6 3 (1.78%) Datto
6 3 (1.78%) Dell
6 3 (1.78%) SAP
7 2 (1.18%) Adobe
7 2 (1.18%) Cognizant
7 2 (1.18%) HP