Microsoft Contracts in Nottinghamshire

Microsoft
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Nottinghamshire 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 7 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 5 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 17 28 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 12.06% 18.18% 18.33%
As % of the Vendors category 25.37% 31.46% 48.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 35
10th Percentile £108 £179 £176
25th Percentile £185 £225 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £295 £445
Median % change year-on-year +65.25% -33.71% -7.53%
75th Percentile £545 £399 £538
90th Percentile £580 £505 £730
East Midlands median daily rate £418 £400 £370
% change year-on-year +4.38% +8.11% -6.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 4
10th Percentile - - £12.65
25th Percentile - £12.75 £17.38
Median hourly rate £12.92 £14.27 £23.24
Median % change year-on-year -9.46% -38.60% +139.71%
75th Percentile - £15.45 £26.48
90th Percentile - £26.50 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.77 £14.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year +34.04% -20.00% +66.67%

All Vendors
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 67 89 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 47.52% 57.79% 37.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 33 77
10th Percentile £185 £205 £216
25th Percentile £426 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £530 £650 £700
90th Percentile £547 £754 -
East Midlands median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 11 6
10th Percentile - - £14.75
25th Percentile - £12.75 £20.42
Median hourly rate £13.81 £14.27 £21.97
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% -35.03% +99.68%
75th Percentile - £15.45 £25.43
90th Percentile - £26.50 £26.48
East Midlands median hourly rate £14.16 £14.00 £20.20
% change year-on-year +1.11% -30.69% +18.82%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Nottinghamshire

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Nottinghamshire

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Nottinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Nottinghamshire over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Nottinghamshire

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Nottinghamshire

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Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 7 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
Nottingham +5 16 £475 +39.71% 58
Microsoft
East Midlands

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.88%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Exstream
1 2 (11.76%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (17.65%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) OneDrive
3 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
4 1 (5.88%) Azure API Management
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.88%) IaaS
4 1 (5.88%) PaaS
4 1 (5.88%) SaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Eclipse
1 2 (11.76%) NetBeans
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (41.18%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
3 2 (11.76%) Retail
4 1 (5.88%) Games
4 1 (5.88%) Local Government
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) Service Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) Service Desk Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Data Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Programme Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Lead
4 1 (5.88%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Retail Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Service Desk Support
4 1 (5.88%) Service Desk Support Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Support Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) POSIX
2 1 (5.88%) OAuth
2 1 (5.88%) OpenID
2 1 (5.88%) SAML
2 1 (5.88%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Data Structures
2 2 (11.76%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) Housing Association
3 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) IoT
3 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
1 3 (17.65%) Windows 10
2 2 (11.76%) Linux
3 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (23.53%) Data Mapping
3 3 (17.65%) Agile
3 3 (17.65%) Customer Service
3 3 (17.65%) DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) ITIL
3 3 (17.65%) Migration
3 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (17.65%) Unit Testing
4 2 (11.76%) Business Transformation
4 2 (11.76%) Code Quality
4 2 (11.76%) CRM
4 2 (11.76%) Data Analysis
4 2 (11.76%) Data Governance
4 2 (11.76%) Document Composition
4 2 (11.76%) Project Management
4 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
4 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
4 2 (11.76%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (11.76%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Java
2 2 (11.76%) C
2 2 (11.76%) C++
2 2 (11.76%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) Bash
3 1 (5.88%) C#
3 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
1 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) QA
2 2 (11.76%) GDPR
2 2 (11.76%) MISRA
2 2 (11.76%) MISRA C
2 2 (11.76%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (5.88%) IEC 61508
3 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) OpenText
1 2 (11.76%) QNX
1 2 (11.76%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.88%) Ab Initio