Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Norfolk

Microsoft
East of England > Norfolk

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Norfolk 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 18 October 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
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 7 6
Rank change year-on-year -8 -1 +7
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 12 6 6
As % of all contract jobs in Norfolk 9.23% 9.52% 11.32%
As % of the Vendors category 30.00% 25.00% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 6
10th Percentile - - £129
25th Percentile £126 - £161
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £157 £370 £190
Median % change year-on-year -57.50% +94.74% +4.11%
75th Percentile £191 - £202
90th Percentile £196 - £295
East of England median daily rate £500 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £21.18 - -
25th Percentile £21.81 - -
Median hourly rate £22.88 - -
75th Percentile £23.94 - -
90th Percentile £24.58 - -
East of England median hourly rate £19.10 £16.23 £21.00
% change year-on-year +17.65% -22.71% +2.94%

All Vendors
Norfolk

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 Norfolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 40 24 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Norfolk 30.77% 38.10% 32.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 10 15
10th Percentile - £282 £155
25th Percentile £171 £385 £159
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £175
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +178.57% -25.53%
75th Percentile £519 £538 £295
90th Percentile £550 £539 £475
East of England median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £20.75 £20.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% +37.93% -34.83%
75th Percentile £22.88 - -
90th Percentile £24.15 £20.34 -
East of England median hourly rate £20.75 £16.23 £44.50
% change year-on-year +27.85% -63.53% +102.27%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Norfolk

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Norfolk.

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Norfolk

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in Norfolk

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Norfolk citing Microsoft.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Norfolk citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Norfolk

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Norfolk citing Microsoft.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Norfolk citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Contract Job Locations in Norfolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Norfolk region over the 6 months to 18 October 2025. 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
Norwich -8 11 £157 -57.50% 21
Microsoft
East of England

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Norfolk by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (8.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) LAN
1 7 (58.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (16.67%) RS-232
2 2 (16.67%) X.400
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) Oracle Database
1 7 (58.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
General
1 9 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Analyst
1 9 (75.00%) Support Analyst
1 9 (75.00%) Technical Analyst
1 9 (75.00%) Technical Support
1 9 (75.00%) Technical Support Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Deployment Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Support
3 1 (8.33%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Deployment Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) NHS
2 1 (8.33%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (16.67%) AIX
4 2 (16.67%) Windows 7
4 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (41.67%) Capacity Planning
2 5 (41.67%) Security Patching
3 2 (16.67%) Migration
3 2 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (8.33%) Customer Service
4 1 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (8.33%) ITIL
4 1 (8.33%) ITSM
4 1 (8.33%) User Experience
4 1 (8.33%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (50.00%) Degree
2 6 (50.00%) HNC
2 6 (50.00%) HND
2 6 (50.00%) MCP
2 6 (50.00%) MCSE
3 1 (8.33%) BC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Citrix
1 7 (58.33%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) IBM
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow