Microsoft Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

Microsoft
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 11 32
Rank change year-on-year +4 +21 -26
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 33 18 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 14.47% 8.53% 5.90%
As % of the Vendors category 29.73% 18.18% 18.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 12 14
10th Percentile £175 £173 £135
25th Percentile £216 £425 £195
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £500 £519
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -3.61% +0.92%
75th Percentile £534 £641 £650
90th Percentile £585 £650 £700
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £340 £431 £388
% change year-on-year -21.11% +11.23% -24.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £17.50 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate - £17.50 -

All Vendors
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 111 99 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 48.68% 46.92% 31.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 49 72
10th Percentile £276 £331 £201
25th Percentile £340 £400 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £568
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -11.89% +13.50%
75th Percentile £570 £638 £689
90th Percentile £625 £703 £775
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £425 £475 £560
% change year-on-year -10.53% -15.18% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
Median hourly rate £52.00 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +197.14% - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £52.00 £15.75 -
% change year-on-year +230.26% - -

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Newcastle upon Tyne

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 3 (9.09%) OpenEdge
1 3 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (3.03%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (24.24%) Azure
2 4 (12.12%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Purview
3 3 (9.09%) Power Automate
3 3 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 2 (6.06%) AWS
4 2 (6.06%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (6.06%) IaaS
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (6.06%) PaaS
4 2 (6.06%) PowerApps
4 2 (6.06%) SaaS
5 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.03%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.21%) DNS
2 2 (6.06%) DHCP
2 2 (6.06%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (6.06%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.06%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (3.03%) VPN
3 1 (3.03%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.06%) Big Data
2 2 (6.06%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.06%) MySQL
2 2 (6.06%) Redis
2 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Git
2 2 (6.06%) ERwin
2 2 (6.06%) JIRA
2 2 (6.06%) PowerDesigner
2 2 (6.06%) Visual Studio
2 2 (6.06%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (15.15%) Organisational Skills
1 5 (15.15%) Pharmaceutical
1 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Finance
3 2 (6.06%) French Language
3 2 (6.06%) Military
4 1 (3.03%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (18.18%) Consultant
1 6 (18.18%) Developer
1 6 (18.18%) Security Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Active Directory Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Support Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) IT Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) IT Security Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Senior
5 2 (6.06%) Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) C# Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Desktop Support
5 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Power Platform Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Project Consultant
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Project Consultant
5 2 (6.06%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) .NET
1 2 (6.06%) CSS
1 2 (6.06%) HTML
1 2 (6.06%) RESTful
2 1 (3.03%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 9 (27.27%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (15.15%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.06%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (6.06%) Mobile App
3 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.06%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.03%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (30.30%) Windows
2 6 (18.18%) Linux
3 2 (6.06%) Android
4 1 (3.03%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (3.03%) VMS
4 1 (3.03%) Windows 7
4 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (27.27%) Data Protection
2 7 (21.21%) Information Security
3 6 (18.18%) Agile
4 5 (15.15%) Information Security Management
4 5 (15.15%) ISMS
4 5 (15.15%) Security Management
4 5 (15.15%) Zero Trust
5 4 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (12.12%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (9.09%) CI/CD
6 3 (9.09%) Incident Management
6 3 (9.09%) ITIL
6 3 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (9.09%) Waterfall
7 2 (6.06%) Customer Service
7 2 (6.06%) Data Modelling
7 2 (6.06%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (6.06%) ITSM
7 2 (6.06%) Server Migrations
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.15%) SQL
2 2 (6.06%) C#
2 2 (6.06%) Python
3 1 (3.03%) Bash
3 1 (3.03%) Java
3 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (6.06%) AWS Certification
2 2 (6.06%) Azure Certification
2 2 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (6.06%) CISM
2 2 (6.06%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (6.06%) CRISC
2 2 (6.06%) Degree
2 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) A+ Certification
3 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.06%) QA
System Software
1 8 (24.24%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.06%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) Ansible
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (6.06%) SCCM
2 1 (3.03%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (3.03%) Grafana
2 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
2 1 (3.03%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (3.03%) Terraform
2 1 (3.03%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) VMware
2 5 (15.15%) Cisco
2 5 (15.15%) Fortinet
2 5 (15.15%) HP
2 5 (15.15%) Veeam
3 4 (12.12%) ServiceNow
4 2 (6.06%) New Relic
4 2 (6.06%) Tenable
5 1 (3.03%) Bomgar
5 1 (3.03%) Citrix
5 1 (3.03%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.03%) Oracle