Microsoft Contracts in Northamptonshire

Microsoft
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 3 May 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 5 1
Rank change year-on-year -10 -4 0
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 14 27 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 9.46% 12.98% 27.85%
As % of the Vendors category 24.56% 30.34% 49.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 19 60
10th Percentile £398 £166 £172
25th Percentile £440 £289 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £350
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +14.29% -24.73%
75th Percentile £525 £438 £491
90th Percentile - £514 £538
East Midlands median daily rate £418 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +4.38% +6.67% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £11.25
Median hourly rate - £14.00 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year - +12.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile - - £13.75
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.77 £14.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year +34.04% -20.00% +70.73%

All Vendors
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 57 89 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 38.51% 42.79% 56.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 63 100
10th Percentile £319 £309 £188
25th Percentile £363 £356 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £425 £350
Median % change year-on-year +5.18% +21.43% -22.22%
75th Percentile £525 £558 £500
90th Percentile £578 £622 £544
East Midlands median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 5
10th Percentile - - £12.56
25th Percentile £13.75 £10.90 £14.52
Median hourly rate £14.50 £14.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -20.99% -44.95%
75th Percentile £15.25 - £19.38
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £14.16 £14.00 £20.20
% change year-on-year +1.11% -30.69% +34.67%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Northamptonshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Northamptonshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Northamptonshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Northamptonshire

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Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 3 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
Northampton -5 14 £500 +25.00% 30
Microsoft
East Midlands

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 (14.29%) Tomcat
2 1 (7.14%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (7.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) GCP
3 3 (21.43%) Entra ID
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) HTTP
2 1 (7.14%) DHCP
2 1 (7.14%) DNS
2 1 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) PBX
2 1 (7.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Introscope
1 2 (14.29%) LoadRunner
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Consultant
2 2 (14.29%) Test Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Server Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Telephony Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Telephony Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) .NET
1 2 (14.29%) Hibernate
1 2 (14.29%) HTML
1 2 (14.29%) J2EE
1 2 (14.29%) LDAP
1 2 (14.29%) OAuth
1 2 (14.29%) OpenID
1 2 (14.29%) SAML
1 2 (14.29%) Spring
1 2 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Security Posture
2 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) AIX
1 2 (14.29%) Unix
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) CentOS
2 1 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Rocky
2 1 (7.14%) Ubuntu
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Migration
1 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (35.71%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 3 (21.43%) Agile
4 3 (21.43%) Compliance Management
4 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (21.43%) Workshop Facilitation
5 2 (14.29%) Business Development
5 2 (14.29%) Data Extraction
5 2 (14.29%) DevSecOps
5 2 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (14.29%) Performance Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Process Improvement
5 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 2 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Scrum
5 2 (14.29%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (14.29%) C
2 2 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) CBAP
1 1 (7.14%) IIBA
1 1 (7.14%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) GDPR
1 2 (14.29%) HIPAA
2 1 (7.14%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) Docker
3 1 (7.14%) Firmware
3 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (21.43%) AirWatch
2 3 (21.43%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (21.43%) SCCM
3 2 (14.29%) CA Wily
3 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 2 (14.29%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Ansible
4 1 (7.14%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) AppDynamics
1 2 (14.29%) Google
1 2 (14.29%) IBM
1 2 (14.29%) Ping Identity
1 2 (14.29%) Splunk
1 2 (14.29%) VMware
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco
2 1 (7.14%) HP
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle