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 26 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
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 5 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 +3 -5
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Microsoft 23 20 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 14.02% 14.71% 11.87%
As % of the Vendors category 34.33% 28.17% 33.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 17
10th Percentile £118 £200 £204
25th Percentile £201 £273 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £358 £475
Median % change year-on-year +22.03% -24.74% +5.56%
75th Percentile £511 £388 £500
90th Percentile £561 - £630
East Midlands median daily rate £355 £391 £375
% change year-on-year -9.21% +4.27% -9.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 4
10th Percentile £23.39 - £10.76
25th Percentile - £12.75 £10.77
Median hourly rate £25.15 £13.91 £11.97
Median % change year-on-year +80.87% +16.21% +22.84%
75th Percentile - £15.03 £14.87
90th Percentile - £16.48 £17.95
East Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £15.05 £12.50
% change year-on-year +67.11% +20.45% -29.72%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 67 71 77
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 40.85% 52.21% 35.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 36 53
10th Percentile £193 £234 £202
25th Percentile £410 £311 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +2.63% -
75th Percentile £550 £502 £650
90th Percentile £674 £542 £705
East Midlands median daily rate £413 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -15.38% +2.63% +4.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 12 10
10th Percentile - - £10.77
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £14.87
Median hourly rate £16.35 £13.91 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.58% -80.14% +618.69%
75th Percentile £25.15 £15.03 £88.75
90th Percentile - £16.48 £93.75
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.94 £15.10 £20.00
% change year-on-year +25.40% -24.50% +8.11%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Microsoft.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Nottinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Nottinghamshire over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Nottinghamshire

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Microsoft.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Microsoft

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DemandTrendContract 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 26 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Nottingham +5 23 £436 +16.33% 48
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 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (26.09%) Azure
2 3 (13.04%) AWS
2 3 (13.04%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (13.04%) Entra ID
3 2 (8.70%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (4.35%) Cloudflare
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Ranorex
1 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 9 (39.13%) Retail
2 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Finance
3 2 (8.70%) Manufacturing
3 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Games
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Support Engineer
1 5 (21.74%) Technical Engineer
1 5 (21.74%) Technical Support
1 5 (21.74%) Technical Support Engineer
1 5 (21.74%) Windows Engineer
1 5 (21.74%) Windows Support Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) 1st Line Support
3 2 (8.70%) 1st Line Support Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Consultant
3 2 (8.70%) Help Desk Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Help Desk Support
3 2 (8.70%) Help Desk Support Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (8.70%) QA Tester
3 2 (8.70%) Security Manager
3 2 (8.70%) Senior QA Tester
3 2 (8.70%) Senior Tester
3 2 (8.70%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) Loki
1 1 (4.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Data Structures
1 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
1 2 (8.70%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.35%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 9 (39.13%) Windows
2 1 (4.35%) Android
2 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (17.39%) Customer Service
2 3 (13.04%) Active Listening
2 3 (13.04%) Identity Management
2 3 (13.04%) Incident Response
2 3 (13.04%) Migration
2 3 (13.04%) Patch Management
2 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (8.70%) Data Governance
3 2 (8.70%) Data Integration
3 2 (8.70%) Data Mapping
3 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (8.70%) Manual Testing
3 2 (8.70%) Security Operations
3 2 (8.70%) SIEM
3 2 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (8.70%) Test Automation
3 2 (8.70%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (8.70%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (8.70%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
1 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.70%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (8.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (8.70%) QA
3 1 (4.35%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) HP
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) CyberArk
3 1 (4.35%) Genesys
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.35%) Samsung