Microsoft Engineer Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Engineer
England > South West

The median Microsoft Engineer daily rate in the South West is £495 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 166 163
Rank change year-on-year +43 -3 -29
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft Engineer 24 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.75% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 0.12% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 4 5
10th Percentile £180 £316 £282
25th Percentile £460 £483 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £618 £325
Median % change year-on-year -19.90% +90.15% -10.34%
75th Percentile £520 £652 £350
90th Percentile £525 £681 £403
England median daily rate £461 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -7.75% +5.26% +26.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the South West with a recognized job title 2,970 3,336 3,561
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.37% 92.51% 95.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,890 2,501 2,549
10th Percentile £210 £263 £225
25th Percentile £389 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% +5.00% +8.84%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £714 £661
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 400 265 206
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.04 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £50.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +39.78% +9.41%
75th Percentile £71.25 £75.00 £63.60
90th Percentile £77.50 £84.50 £69.49
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%

Microsoft Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Microsoft Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Engineer in the South West

Microsoft Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Engineer in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Engineer in the South West

Microsoft Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Engineer in the South West

Microsoft Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Engineer in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Engineer in the South West

Microsoft Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wiltshire +28 22 £493 -22.56% 3
Dorset - 2 £513 - 1
Microsoft Engineer
England

Microsoft Engineer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Microsoft Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South West region featuring Microsoft Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 22 (91.67%) Social Skills
3 17 (70.83%) ITIL
3 17 (70.83%) Windows
3 17 (70.83%) SharePoint
3 17 (70.83%) BGP
3 17 (70.83%) Service Management
3 17 (70.83%) Firewall
3 17 (70.83%) ITSM
3 17 (70.83%) SharePoint Server
3 17 (70.83%) JIRA
3 17 (70.83%) Atlassian
3 17 (70.83%) SCOM
3 17 (70.83%) DV Cleared
3 17 (70.83%) Security Cleared
3 17 (70.83%) Azure
3 17 (70.83%) Confluence
3 17 (70.83%) Network Management
3 17 (70.83%) Capacity Management
3 17 (70.83%) Private Cloud
3 17 (70.83%) Government Security Classifications
3 17 (70.83%) Security Monitoring
3 17 (70.83%) Azure Stack
4 7 (29.17%) Finance
5 5 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (8.33%) SCOrch
6 2 (8.33%) PowerShell

Microsoft Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 17 (70.83%) Confluence
1 17 (70.83%) SharePoint
1 17 (70.83%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 17 (70.83%) Azure
1 17 (70.83%) Azure Stack
2 5 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (70.83%) BGP
1 17 (70.83%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 17 (70.83%) JIRA
General
1 22 (91.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 17 (70.83%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (70.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) Capacity Management
1 17 (70.83%) ITIL
1 17 (70.83%) ITSM
1 17 (70.83%) Network Management
1 17 (70.83%) Security Monitoring
1 17 (70.83%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (70.83%) DV Cleared
1 17 (70.83%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (70.83%) Government Security Classifications
Systems Management
1 17 (70.83%) SCOM
2 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (8.33%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 24 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (70.83%) Atlassian