Microsoft Contracts in Sheffield

Microsoft
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 27 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
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 27 23
Rank change year-on-year +20 -4 +3
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Microsoft 96 30 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 16.52% 7.37% 7.37%
As % of the Vendors category 31.07% 12.93% 20.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 14 23
10th Percentile £263 £295 £229
25th Percentile £343 £468 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £507 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.16% -7.82% +7.32%
75th Percentile £500 £534 £624
90th Percentile £546 £597 £695
South Yorkshire median daily rate £420 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -13.40% -3.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile - £20.20 £18.65
25th Percentile - £20.50 £18.88
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.14% +7.69% +9.09%
75th Percentile - £22.00 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £21.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.14% +7.69% +9.09%

All Vendors
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 309 232 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 53.18% 57.00% 35.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 128 84
10th Percentile £278 £400 £391
25th Percentile £360 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £593
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -11.47% +18.13%
75th Percentile £525 £596 £688
90th Percentile £600 £647 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -13.46% -5.45% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 3
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.35 £12.50
25th Percentile £17.33 £20.50 £14.75
Median hourly rate £18.36 £22.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.56% +15.79% +13.43%
75th Percentile £18.87 £41.88 £19.75
90th Percentile - - £19.90
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.36 £22.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -16.56% +15.79% +13.43%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Sheffield

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Sheffield over the 6 months to 27 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Sheffield

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Microsoft

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 12 (12.50%) Confluence
2 4 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.08%) CICS
4 1 (1.04%) CMS
4 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.04%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.04%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.04%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 16 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (13.54%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (10.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (10.42%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (4.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 23 (23.96%) Azure
2 14 (14.58%) GCP
3 13 (13.54%) AWS
3 13 (13.54%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (8.33%) Entra ID
5 7 (7.29%) Power Platform
6 4 (4.17%) Azure AKS
6 4 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.17%) GitHub
6 4 (4.17%) PowerApps
7 3 (3.13%) CloudBees
8 2 (2.08%) OneDrive
8 2 (2.08%) SaaS
8 2 (2.08%) Serverless
9 1 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.04%) Azure API Management
9 1 (1.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.04%) npm
9 1 (1.04%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.54%) Firewall
2 11 (11.46%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.08%) NAS
3 2 (2.08%) SAN
4 1 (1.04%) Broadband
4 1 (1.04%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.04%) DNS
4 1 (1.04%) FCoE
4 1 (1.04%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (1.04%) iSCSI
4 1 (1.04%) LAN
4 1 (1.04%) Multicast
4 1 (1.04%) VPN
4 1 (1.04%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.21%) Power BI
2 4 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.13%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.13%) Oracle Database
3 3 (3.13%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.13%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.08%) Data Mining
4 2 (2.08%) Power Query
5 1 (1.04%) Metadata
5 1 (1.04%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 22 (22.92%) Jenkins
2 20 (20.83%) Postman
3 19 (19.79%) JIRA
4 13 (13.54%) Git
5 9 (9.38%) SoapUI
6 6 (6.25%) GitLab
7 2 (2.08%) Liquibase
8 1 (1.04%) Babel
8 1 (1.04%) ChangeMan
8 1 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.04%) webpack
General
1 48 (50.00%) Finance
2 40 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 23 (23.96%) Banking
4 13 (13.54%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.13%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.08%) Billing
7 2 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.08%) Law
8 1 (1.04%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.04%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (27.08%) Analyst
2 11 (11.46%) Project Manager
3 10 (10.42%) Windows Engineer
4 9 (9.38%) Senior
5 8 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
5 8 (8.33%) Technical Engineer
5 8 (8.33%) Test Analyst
6 7 (7.29%) Developer
6 7 (7.29%) Planning Manager
7 6 (6.25%) Business Analyst
7 6 (6.25%) Senior Technical Engineer
7 6 (6.25%) Technical Manager
8 5 (5.21%) IT Support
8 5 (5.21%) Senior Windows Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) IT Analyst
9 4 (4.17%) IT Support Analyst
9 4 (4.17%) Lead
9 4 (4.17%) Support Analyst
10 3 (3.13%) Data Analyst
10 3 (3.13%) Project Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.13%) Hugging Face
1 3 (3.13%) Middleware
1 3 (3.13%) OpenCV
1 3 (3.13%) PyTorch
1 3 (3.13%) Regular Expression
1 3 (3.13%) REST
1 3 (3.13%) RESTful
1 3 (3.13%) SpaCy
1 3 (3.13%) TensorFlow
2 2 (2.08%) .NET
2 2 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (2.08%) FastAPI
2 2 (2.08%) JSON
3 1 (1.04%) CSS
3 1 (1.04%) HTML
3 1 (1.04%) jQuery
3 1 (1.04%) LDAP
3 1 (1.04%) SAML
3 1 (1.04%) XML
3 1 (1.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.38%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.25%) Mainframe
3 4 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.13%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.13%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.13%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.08%) IVR
6 1 (1.04%) Clustering
6 1 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.04%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.04%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.04%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.04%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.04%) Replication
6 1 (1.04%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.04%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.04%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 20 (20.83%) Windows
2 10 (10.42%) Linux
3 2 (2.08%) Android
3 2 (2.08%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.08%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.08%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.04%) MVS
4 1 (1.04%) Solaris
4 1 (1.04%) Unix
4 1 (1.04%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (37.50%) Agile
2 27 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (26.04%) DevOps
4 19 (19.79%) Stakeholder Management
5 17 (17.71%) CI/CD
6 15 (15.63%) Cybersecurity
7 14 (14.58%) Scrum
8 13 (13.54%) Configuration Management
9 12 (12.50%) Privileged Access Management
9 12 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 11 (11.46%) Data Management
10 11 (11.46%) Identity Access Management
11 10 (10.42%) Kanban
11 10 (10.42%) Software Testing
12 9 (9.38%) API Testing
12 9 (9.38%) Cloud Security
12 9 (9.38%) Data Analysis
12 9 (9.38%) Decision-Making
12 9 (9.38%) ITIL
12 9 (9.38%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (25.00%) Python
2 5 (5.21%) VB
3 4 (4.17%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.17%) Shell Script
3 4 (4.17%) SQL
4 3 (3.13%) Bash
5 2 (2.08%) Go
5 2 (2.08%) Java
6 1 (1.04%) Bicep
6 1 (1.04%) C#
6 1 (1.04%) COBOL
6 1 (1.04%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.04%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (8.33%) CISM
1 8 (8.33%) CISSP
1 8 (8.33%) ISTQB
2 4 (4.17%) Degree
3 2 (2.08%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.08%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.04%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.04%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.04%) PMP
4 1 (1.04%) RIBA
4 1 (1.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.42%) PMO
2 9 (9.38%) GDPR
3 7 (7.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (7.29%) NIST
4 6 (6.25%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.08%) QA
5 2 (2.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.04%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (14.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (9.38%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.08%) Docker
5 2 (2.08%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (2.08%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.04%) BitLocker
6 1 (1.04%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.04%) KVM
6 1 (1.04%) NFS
6 1 (1.04%) SRDF
6 1 (1.04%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.04%) vSphere
6 1 (1.04%) Xen
6 1 (1.04%) XenApp
6 1 (1.04%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 23 (23.96%) Ansible
2 12 (12.50%) Puppet
3 10 (10.42%) Microsoft Clustering
4 7 (7.29%) Kubernetes
4 7 (7.29%) SCCM
5 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (4.17%) Terraform
5 4 (4.17%) vCenter Server
6 3 (3.13%) NetBackup
7 2 (2.08%) Data Guard
7 2 (2.08%) Grafana
7 2 (2.08%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.08%) yum
8 1 (1.04%) CA Endevor
8 1 (1.04%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (1.04%) SCOM
8 1 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.04%) vRealize
Vendors
1 14 (14.58%) VMware
2 12 (12.50%) Google
3 11 (11.46%) MuleSoft
4 10 (10.42%) CyberArk
5 9 (9.38%) BeyondTrust
5 9 (9.38%) Thycotic
6 5 (5.21%) Citrix
7 4 (4.17%) Commvault
7 4 (4.17%) HP
7 4 (4.17%) Oracle
8 3 (3.13%) Red Hat
8 3 (3.13%) Veritas
9 2 (2.08%) Cisco
9 2 (2.08%) F5
9 2 (2.08%) Genesys
9 2 (2.08%) IBM
9 2 (2.08%) ServiceNow
9 2 (2.08%) Splunk
10 1 (1.04%) Pega
10 1 (1.04%) WatchGuard