Microsoft Purview Contract Job Trends in the North West

Microsoft Purview (formerly Azure Purview)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Microsoft Purview skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 114 141
Rank change year-on-year -5 +27 -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Purview 11 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.51% 0.21% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.57% 0.70% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 3
10th Percentile £400 £476 £360
25th Percentile £409 £516 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -24.38% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £489 £646 £578
90th Percentile £526 £662 £625
England median daily rate £513 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -9.29% +2.73% +4.76%

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 700 718 1,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.53% 30.53% 35.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 526 485 757
10th Percentile £313 £300 £267
25th Percentile £381 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £525 £575 £588
90th Percentile £630 £650 £660
England median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 14 54
10th Percentile £12.82 £13.63 £15.75
25th Percentile £14.75 £18.08 £17.09
Median hourly rate £29.97 £33.50 £24.87
Median % change year-on-year -10.55% +34.73% -0.54%
75th Percentile £70.40 £55.05 £46.18
90th Percentile £76.00 £70.98 £50.25
England median hourly rate £26.30 £30.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -12.33% -9.09% +53.49%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Microsoft Purview.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Microsoft Purview

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 8 September 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 8 September 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
Cheshire -19 4 £473 -26.74%
Manchester +4 3 £600 +17.07%
Merseyside - 3 £413 - 2
Lancashire - 1 £400 -
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 5 (45.45%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (27.27%) Entra ID
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (9.09%) AWS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (9.09%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) Network Security
2 1 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Legal
3 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (9.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Architect
1 3 (27.27%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Security Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Security Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Security Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Data Loss Prevention
2 4 (36.36%) Data Governance
3 3 (27.27%) Cloud Security
3 3 (27.27%) Data Security
3 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (18.18%) Fintech
4 2 (18.18%) Information Security
4 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 2 (18.18%) Security Operations
4 2 (18.18%) Server Hardening
4 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
5 1 (9.09%) Incident Response
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (9.09%) Privileged Access Management
5 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (9.09%) Resource Allocation
5 1 (9.09%) Task Automation
5 1 (9.09%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
2 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
1 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (9.09%) QRadar
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Darktrace
2 2 (18.18%) Zscaler
3 1 (9.09%) Atlassian
3 1 (9.09%) CheckPoint
3 1 (9.09%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (9.09%) CyberArk
3 1 (9.09%) Imperva
3 1 (9.09%) Thycotic