Microsoft Contracts in Portsmouth

Microsoft
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Portsmouth 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 5 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
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 5 4
Rank change year-on-year -14 -1 +5
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 9 52 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Portsmouth 7.44% 17.87% 19.49%
As % of the Vendors category 12.68% 33.55% 31.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 23 34
10th Percentile £223 - £190
25th Percentile £313 £519 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £583 £205
Median % change year-on-year -35.68% +184.27% -54.42%
75th Percentile £556 £693 £610
90th Percentile £637 £850 £676
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £24.31
25th Percentile - £29.25 £27.86
Median hourly rate - £31.50 £36.27
Median % change year-on-year - -13.14% +119.79%
75th Percentile - £33.75 £45.56
90th Percentile - - £49.64
Hampshire median hourly rate £19.97 £14.00 £18.75
% change year-on-year +42.64% -25.33% +13.64%

All Vendors
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 71 155 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 58.68% 53.26% 62.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 63 95
10th Percentile £200 £480 £201
25th Percentile £247 £520 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £580 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.61% +22.11% +5.56%
75th Percentile £613 £663 £583
90th Percentile £636 £833 £676
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 49 7
10th Percentile £24.66 - £36.15
25th Percentile £30.00 £53.40 £49.19
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% +3.33% +27.05%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.50 £58.75
90th Percentile £64.75 £72.00 £63.76
Hampshire median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -4.21% +14.70% +153.04%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Portsmouth

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Portsmouth

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Daily Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Portsmouth

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Portsmouth

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 (22.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Internet
1 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Aerospace
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Desktop Support
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Desktop Support Technician
2 1 (11.11%) Desktop Technician
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Security Architect
2 1 (11.11%) IT Support
2 1 (11.11%) Project Officer
2 1 (11.11%) Project Support Officer
2 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Service Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) SharePoint Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Support Officer
2 1 (11.11%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Driving Licence
1 1 (11.11%) IoT
1 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
1 1 (11.11%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (22.22%) Project Management
2 1 (11.11%) Analytics
2 1 (11.11%) Change Advisory Board
2 1 (11.11%) Customer Experience
2 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (11.11%) Data Analytics
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
2 1 (11.11%) Data Security
2 1 (11.11%) Edge Computing
2 1 (11.11%) Mathematics
2 1 (11.11%) Migration
2 1 (11.11%) Patch Management
2 1 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
2 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
2 1 (11.11%) Security Architecture
2 1 (11.11%) Software Licensing
2 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (11.11%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) C#
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (11.11%) BitLocker
3 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) SCCM
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Dell
2 1 (11.11%) HP