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 19 June 2024, 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
19 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 19 17
Rank change year-on-year -9 -2 -10
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 35 35 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 8.41% 8.39% 11.97%
As % of the Vendors category 14.00% 22.88% 31.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 27 39
10th Percentile £185 £363 £210
25th Percentile £222 £440 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% +2.56% +62.50%
75th Percentile £534 £616 £608
90th Percentile £595 £700 £738
South Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% +38.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 7
10th Percentile £14.99 - £16.00
25th Percentile £18.53 £17.50 £16.19
Median hourly rate £21.50 £20.00 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +19.40% +6.94%
75th Percentile £22.00 £22.50 £18.50
90th Percentile - - £19.63
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.00 £20.00 £17.43
% change year-on-year -30.00% +14.74% +11.28%

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 250 153 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 60.10% 36.69% 38.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 103 127
10th Percentile £400 £400 £300
25th Percentile £449 £500 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% +10.00% +15.94%
75th Percentile £577 £650 £569
90th Percentile £622 £700 £643
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £467
% change year-on-year -4.76% +12.54% +6.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 7
10th Percentile £17.35 £12.30 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £14.25 £16.19
Median hourly rate £22.00 £17.72 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year +24.15% +5.79% +6.94%
75th Percentile £41.88 £20.11 £18.50
90th Percentile - £21.54 £19.63
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.00 £17.72 £19.05
% change year-on-year +24.15% -6.96% +19.03%

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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Sheffield

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Sheffield over the 6 months to 19 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Sheffield

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Sheffield

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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 9 (25.71%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (51.43%) Azure
2 12 (34.29%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (28.57%) AWS
3 10 (28.57%) GCP
4 9 (25.71%) Amazon S3
4 9 (25.71%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
4 9 (25.71%) Cloud Computing
4 9 (25.71%) Serverless
5 6 (17.14%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (11.43%) Power Platform
7 2 (5.71%) OCI
8 1 (2.86%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.86%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (2.86%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.71%) Amazon Athena
1 9 (25.71%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (25.71%) Amazon Redshift
1 9 (25.71%) Big Data
1 9 (25.71%) BigQuery
1 9 (25.71%) Data Lake
1 9 (25.71%) Hadoop
2 2 (5.71%) Power BI
3 1 (2.86%) MySQL
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.86%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (25.71%) Git
1 9 (25.71%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.86%) Finance
3 7 (20.00%) Law
4 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.57%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.71%) Banking
6 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) Architect
1 12 (34.29%) Solutions Architect
2 7 (20.00%) IT Support
3 5 (14.29%) Support Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) 2nd Line Support
4 4 (11.43%) Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) IT Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Project Manager
4 4 (11.43%) Support Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
5 3 (8.57%) IT Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) IT Support Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Consultant
6 2 (5.71%) Lead
7 1 (2.86%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Agile Delivery Lead
7 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
7 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365 Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.71%) Kafka
2 1 (2.86%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.86%) CSS
2 1 (2.86%) HTML
2 1 (2.86%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.86%) Clustering
1 1 (2.86%) e-Learning
1 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
1 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
1 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
1 1 (2.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (28.57%) Windows
2 8 (22.86%) Windows 10
3 2 (5.71%) Linux
4 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.86%) Unix
4 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (34.29%) DevOps
2 11 (31.43%) Disaster Recovery
3 10 (28.57%) Analytics
3 10 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 9 (25.71%) Containerisation
4 9 (25.71%) Customer Service
4 9 (25.71%) Data Governance
4 9 (25.71%) Data Integration
4 9 (25.71%) ETL
4 9 (25.71%) High Availability
4 9 (25.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (25.71%) Technical Leadership
4 9 (25.71%) Translating Business Requirements
5 6 (17.14%) Project Management
6 5 (14.29%) CRM
7 4 (11.43%) Agile
8 3 (8.57%) ERP
8 3 (8.57%) Waterfall
9 2 (5.71%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (5.71%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 11 (31.43%) SQL
2 9 (25.71%) Java
2 9 (25.71%) Python
3 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) Degree
2 2 (5.71%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.86%) CCNA
3 1 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.86%) MCSE
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certified Master
3 1 (2.86%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.86%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.86%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (25.71%) Terraform
2 5 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (5.71%) SCCM
4 1 (2.86%) Ansible
4 1 (2.86%) NetBackup
4 1 (2.86%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (28.57%) Google
2 2 (5.71%) Oracle
3 1 (2.86%) Adaptive Insights
3 1 (2.86%) Cisco
3 1 (2.86%) NetApp
3 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.86%) Veritas
3 1 (2.86%) VMware