Microsoft Purview Contracts in the North West

Microsoft Purview (formerly Azure Purview)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Microsoft Purview skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft Purview over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 128 149
Rank change year-on-year +20 +21 -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Purview 12 9 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.61% 0.33% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.88% 1.02% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 6
10th Percentile £359 - £394
25th Percentile £435 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £563 £488
Median % change year-on-year -16.89% +15.38% -
75th Percentile £500 £619 £528
90th Percentile £743 £630 £597
England median daily rate £550 £570 £600
% change year-on-year -3.51% -5.00% +45.45%

All Cloud Skills
North West

Microsoft Purview falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 639 884 1,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.47% 32.09% 37.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 640 887
10th Percentile £244 £284 £311
25th Percentile £400 £391 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £487 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
75th Percentile £558 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £638 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 65 32
10th Percentile - £13.00 £16.19
25th Percentile £26.88 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%
75th Percentile £50.66 £20.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.88 £43.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Microsoft Purview
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Microsoft Purview as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Purview in the North West

Microsoft Purview
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Purview in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Purview in the North West

Microsoft Purview
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Purview in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Purview in the North West

Microsoft Purview
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Purview within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Manchester +17 6 £500 -9.09% 16
Cheshire +3 6 £460 -26.40% 2
Microsoft Purview
England

Microsoft Purview
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 7 (58.33%) SharePoint
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 7 (58.33%) OneDrive
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 6 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 6 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 6 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 5 (41.67%) Data Protection
3 5 (41.67%) Performance Optimisation
3 5 (41.67%) Technical Architecture
3 5 (41.67%) Technical Leadership
3 5 (41.67%) Zero Trust
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (16.67%) Data Security
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) E-Discovery
4 2 (16.67%) Migration
4 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
5 1 (8.33%) Data Management
5 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) CheckPoint
2 1 (8.33%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (8.33%) CyberArk
2 1 (8.33%) Imperva
2 1 (8.33%) Thycotic
2 1 (8.33%) Zscaler