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 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 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 36 5
Rank change year-on-year +25 -31 +6
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 19 18 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 9.09% 5.36% 16.62%
As % of the Vendors category 19.39% 16.98% 48.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 48
10th Percentile £136 £135 £179
25th Percentile £313 £195 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% +6.41% +56.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £683
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £423 £388 £475
% change year-on-year +9.16% -18.42% +55.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £12.05 - -
25th Percentile £13.63 - £15.04
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £15.86
75th Percentile £18.75 - £16.68
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £17.50 - £16.43
% change year-on-year - - -3.35%

All Vendors
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 98 106 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 46.89% 31.55% 34.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 76 95
10th Percentile £314 £206 £263
25th Percentile £391 £360 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £568 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.89% +13.50% +12.36%
75th Percentile £628 £678 £600
90th Percentile £687 £775 £704
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £475 £560 £500
% change year-on-year -15.18% +12.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile £13.10 - £11.86
25th Percentile £16.25 - £13.91
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £16.68
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.42%
75th Percentile £60.00 - £19.04
90th Percentile - - £19.56
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £15.75 - £17.00

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 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Newcastle upon Tyne

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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 1 (5.26%) CMS
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) Entra ID
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (10.53%) GCP
3 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.26%) AWS
4 1 (5.26%) IaaS
4 1 (5.26%) Miro
4 1 (5.26%) PaaS
4 1 (5.26%) SaaS
4 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) DHCP
1 2 (10.53%) DNS
1 2 (10.53%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (5.26%) Firewall
2 1 (5.26%) SMTP
2 1 (5.26%) Unified Communications
2 1 (5.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.53%) Power BI
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 6 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Finance
4 2 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Marketing
5 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) DBA
2 4 (21.05%) Senior
3 3 (15.79%) SQL DBA
4 2 (10.53%) Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) IT Technician
4 2 (10.53%) Senior IT Technician
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Technician
5 1 (5.26%) 1st Line Support
5 1 (5.26%) Active Directory Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Coordinator
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365 Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Programme Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Solution Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Senior PMO
5 1 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Transformation Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Transformation Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) GraphQL
1 1 (5.26%) JSON
1 1 (5.26%) LDAP
1 1 (5.26%) Middleware
1 1 (5.26%) REST
1 1 (5.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Clustering
2 3 (15.79%) NHS
3 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.26%) Low-Code
4 1 (5.26%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (52.63%) Windows
2 7 (36.84%) Windows Server
3 4 (21.05%) Windows 10
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (21.05%) High Availability
3 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (15.79%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (15.79%) Migration
3 3 (15.79%) Server Patching
3 3 (15.79%) Software Deployment
4 2 (10.53%) Customer Service
4 2 (10.53%) Data Encryption
4 2 (10.53%) Decision-Making
4 2 (10.53%) Hardware Maintenance
4 2 (10.53%) ITIL
4 2 (10.53%) Problem Management
4 2 (10.53%) Project Delivery
4 2 (10.53%) Service Management
4 2 (10.53%) Task Automation
5 1 (5.26%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (5.26%) Design Patterns
5 1 (5.26%) Event-Driven
5 1 (5.26%) Impact Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) PowerShell
1 5 (26.32%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) MCSE
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (10.53%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.26%) PMP
3 1 (5.26%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (5.26%) GDPR
1 1 (5.26%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.53%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.26%) BitLocker
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (5.26%) Terminal Services
3 1 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) SCCM
2 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.26%) vCenter Server
2 1 (5.26%) vMotion
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Citrix
2 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow
2 2 (10.53%) VMware
3 1 (5.26%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) HP
3 1 (5.26%) Infoblox
3 1 (5.26%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Symantec