Microsoft Contracts in North Yorkshire

Microsoft
Yorkshire > North Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in North Yorkshire 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 2 August 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
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 3 2
Rank change year-on-year -12 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 6 31 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in North Yorkshire 6.98% 22.30% 30.49%
As % of the Vendors category 18.75% 50.00% 59.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 18 31
10th Percentile £180 £125 £120
25th Percentile £186 £178 £166
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £525 £290
Median % change year-on-year -61.90% +81.03% +16.00%
75th Percentile £400 £850 £413
90th Percentile - - £465
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +22.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £17.98
25th Percentile - - £20.56
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
75th Percentile - - £27.63
90th Percentile - - £37.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £21.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -10.14% -2.33% +14.97%

All Vendors
North Yorkshire

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 North Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 32 62 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in North Yorkshire 37.21% 44.60% 51.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 35 57
10th Percentile £185 £178 £131
25th Percentile £214 £206 £165
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £290
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +72.41% +5.45%
75th Percentile £522 £715 £450
90th Percentile £578 £850 £479
Yorkshire median daily rate £464 £506 £510
% change year-on-year -8.30% -0.78% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 5
10th Percentile - £12.75 £18.55
25th Percentile £18.51 - -
Median hourly rate £19.76 £13.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.33% -38.64% +17.33%
75th Percentile £23.32 £35.25 £22.51
90th Percentile £27.50 £42.50 £35.70
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £14.63 £20.00
% change year-on-year +45.23% -26.88% +6.95%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in North Yorkshire

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in North Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in North Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in North Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in North Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in North Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in North Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in North Yorkshire over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in North Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in North Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in North Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in North Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in North Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the North Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
York -3 3 £400 +116.22% 24
Middlesbrough -3 2 £200 +2.56% 15
Microsoft
Yorkshire

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in North Yorkshire 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 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) BGP
2 1 (16.67%) EIGRP
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) HSRP
2 1 (16.67%) MPLS
2 1 (16.67%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (16.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support
3 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support Technician
3 1 (16.67%) Desktop Technician
3 1 (16.67%) IT Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) IT Support
3 1 (16.67%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Junior
3 1 (16.67%) Junior Cisco Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Junior Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Junior Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Support Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Support Technician
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Mac OS
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Agile
1 2 (33.33%) BPMN
1 2 (33.33%) Business Analysis
1 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 2 (33.33%) Kanban
1 2 (33.33%) Scrum
1 2 (33.33%) UML
1 2 (33.33%) Use Case
1 2 (33.33%) User Stories
1 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
1 2 (33.33%) Wireframes
2 1 (16.67%) ITSM
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) RBAC
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) CCNA
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) DBS Check
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Apple
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco
1 1 (16.67%) CloudEndure
1 1 (16.67%) Spiceworks