Microsoft Contracts in Salford

Microsoft
Manchester > Salford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Salford 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 25 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
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 - 6
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Microsoft 3 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Salford 12.50% - 17.14%
As % of the Vendors category 33.33% - 66.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £233
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £245
Median % change year-on-year - - -43.02%
75th Percentile - - £270
90th Percentile - - £453
Manchester median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +7.46%

All Vendors
Salford

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 Salford.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 9 4 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Salford 37.50% 18.18% 25.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £400 - £233
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £330 £245
Median % change year-on-year +127.27% +34.69% -42.35%
75th Percentile £825 - £270
90th Percentile - - £453
Manchester median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +0.25%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Salford

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Salford

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Daily Rate Trend in Salford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Salford citing Microsoft

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Hourly Rate Trend in Salford

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Salford citing Microsoft

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Salford 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
General
1 3 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Data Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Data Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Governance Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Veeam
1 3 (100.00%) VMware