Microsoft Contracts in Preston

Microsoft
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Preston with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 10 2
Rank change year-on-year +9 -8 +2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 26 16 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Preston 47.27% 20.51% 30.39%
As % of the Vendors category 68.42% 32.65% 59.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 11
10th Percentile £463 £333 £163
25th Percentile £466 £363 £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £403 £175
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% +130.00% -36.36%
75th Percentile £744 £530 £356
90th Percentile £881 £722 £488
Lancashire median daily rate £475 £363 £388
% change year-on-year +31.03% -6.45% +29.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 11 18
10th Percentile - £25.75 £28.78
25th Percentile - £26.63 £36.87
Median hourly rate £16.06 £37.50 £40.62
Median % change year-on-year -57.17% -7.67% +16.04%
75th Percentile - £48.19 £43.75
90th Percentile - £53.35 £61.50
Lancashire median hourly rate £16.06 £37.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year -57.17% -9.64% +18.57%

All Vendors
Preston

Microsoft is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 38 49 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 69.09% 62.82% 50.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 22
10th Percentile £450 £333 £163
25th Percentile £463 £363 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £438 £238
Median % change year-on-year +48.57% +84.21% -36.67%
75th Percentile £763 £534 £464
90th Percentile £975 £733 £488
Lancashire median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 28 27
10th Percentile - £25.75 £18.18
25th Percentile - £29.30 £31.22
Median hourly rate £16.06 £42.33 £39.73
Median % change year-on-year -62.06% +6.54% +38.19%
75th Percentile - £49.43 £44.03
90th Percentile £44.53 £52.39 £48.61
Lancashire median hourly rate £16.06 £42.50 £39.73
% change year-on-year -62.21% +6.98% -3.10%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Preston

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Preston

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Preston

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Daily Rate Histogram in Preston

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Preston over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Preston

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Preston

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Preston

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Preston 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 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (76.92%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 20 (76.92%) Taleo
2 4 (15.38%) Azure
3 2 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
General
1 21 (80.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.85%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 3 (11.54%) Consultant
1 3 (11.54%) Project Manager
2 2 (7.69%) Deployment Manager
2 2 (7.69%) Deployment Project Manager
2 2 (7.69%) IAM Consultant
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365 Manager
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365 Project Manager
2 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared Project Manager
3 1 (3.85%) ERP Manager
3 1 (3.85%) ERP Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (3.85%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Operational Technology
2 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
2 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Windows
2 1 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (76.92%) Data Protection
1 20 (76.92%) Decision-Making
2 2 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (7.69%) Stakeholder Map
3 1 (3.85%) Analytics
3 1 (3.85%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (3.85%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (3.85%) Data Modelling
3 1 (3.85%) DevOps
3 1 (3.85%) ERP
3 1 (3.85%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (3.85%) Identity Management
3 1 (3.85%) Information Retrieval
3 1 (3.85%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (3.85%) Mentoring
3 1 (3.85%) Open Source
3 1 (3.85%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (3.85%) Privileged Identity Management
3 1 (3.85%) Product Management
3 1 (3.85%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.85%) Java
Qualifications
1 20 (76.92%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.85%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 20 (76.92%) ServiceNow