Microsoft Contracts in South Yorkshire

Microsoft
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 23 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
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 19 17
Rank change year-on-year +11 -2 0
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Microsoft 111 44 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 17.26% 9.61% 9.05%
As % of the Vendors category 32.65% 17.12% 24.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 28 28
10th Percentile £267 £210 £176
25th Percentile £343 £244 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.68% -4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £518 £507 £605
90th Percentile £575 £552 £683
Yorkshire median daily rate £438 £475 £491
% change year-on-year -7.89% -3.31% +31.00%
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
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £21.00 £21.75
% change year-on-year -10.14% -3.45% +17.57%

All Vendors
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 340 257 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 52.88% 56.11% 36.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 150 92
10th Percentile £278 £380 £197
25th Percentile £360 £463 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% -3.26% +16.22%
75th Percentile £527 £583 £656
90th Percentile £608 £638 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £507 £510
% change year-on-year -11.24% -0.59% +13.33%
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% +6.29%
75th Percentile £18.87 £41.88 £19.75
90th Percentile - - £19.90
Yorkshire median hourly rate £30.29 £15.17 £21.50
% change year-on-year +99.67% -29.44% +14.97%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in South Yorkshire

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Microsoft.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in South Yorkshire

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Microsoft.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Microsoft

Microsoft
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 23 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield +15 95 £420 -17.16% 50
Barnsley - 8 £365 - 5
Doncaster -2 1 £450 +62.16% 11
Microsoft
Yorkshire

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (10.81%) Confluence
2 5 (4.50%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.80%) CICS
4 1 (0.90%) CMS
4 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.90%) SAS
4 1 (0.90%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.90%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.90%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 21 (18.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (11.71%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (9.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (8.11%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (6.31%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.90%) Maple
6 1 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 24 (21.62%) Azure
2 16 (14.41%) GCP
3 15 (13.51%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (11.71%) AWS
5 10 (9.01%) Power Platform
6 8 (7.21%) Entra ID
7 4 (3.60%) Azure AKS
7 4 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.60%) GitHub
7 4 (3.60%) PowerApps
8 3 (2.70%) CloudBees
9 2 (1.80%) dbt
9 2 (1.80%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.80%) SaaS
9 2 (1.80%) Serverless
10 1 (0.90%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.90%) npm
10 1 (0.90%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.90%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 14 (12.61%) Firewall
2 11 (9.91%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.70%) SAN
4 2 (1.80%) NAS
4 2 (1.80%) VPN
5 1 (0.90%) Broadband
5 1 (0.90%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.90%) DNS
5 1 (0.90%) FCoE
5 1 (0.90%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.90%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.90%) LAN
5 1 (0.90%) Multicast
5 1 (0.90%) WAN
5 1 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.21%) Power BI
2 4 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.70%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.70%) Oracle Database
3 3 (2.70%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.70%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.80%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.80%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.80%) Looker
4 2 (1.80%) Power Query
4 2 (1.80%) Tableau
5 1 (0.90%) DB2
5 1 (0.90%) Easytrieve
5 1 (0.90%) Metadata
5 1 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 24 (21.62%) JIRA
1 24 (21.62%) Postman
2 22 (19.82%) Jenkins
3 19 (17.12%) Git
4 9 (8.11%) SoapUI
5 6 (5.41%) GitLab
6 5 (4.50%) Selenium
7 4 (3.60%) IntelliJ
7 4 (3.60%) Maven
8 2 (1.80%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.90%) Babel
9 1 (0.90%) ChangeMan
9 1 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.90%) webpack
General
1 53 (47.75%) Finance
2 43 (38.74%) Social Skills
3 23 (20.72%) Banking
4 15 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (10.81%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.70%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.80%) Billing
7 2 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.80%) Law
7 2 (1.80%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.90%) Local Government
8 1 (0.90%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (28.83%) Analyst
2 11 (9.91%) Project Manager
3 10 (9.01%) Windows Engineer
4 9 (8.11%) Senior
5 8 (7.21%) Automation Engineer
5 8 (7.21%) Business Analyst
5 8 (7.21%) Technical Engineer
5 8 (7.21%) Test Analyst
6 7 (6.31%) Developer
7 6 (5.41%) Planning Manager
7 6 (5.41%) Senior Technical Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) IT Support
8 5 (4.50%) Lead
8 5 (4.50%) Senior Windows Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) Technical Manager
8 5 (4.50%) Tester
9 4 (3.60%) IT Analyst
9 4 (3.60%) IT Support Analyst
9 4 (3.60%) Support Analyst
10 3 (2.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.70%) Hugging Face
1 3 (2.70%) Middleware
1 3 (2.70%) OpenCV
1 3 (2.70%) PyTorch
1 3 (2.70%) Regular Expression
1 3 (2.70%) REST
1 3 (2.70%) RESTful
1 3 (2.70%) SpaCy
1 3 (2.70%) TensorFlow
2 2 (1.80%) .NET
2 2 (1.80%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (1.80%) FastAPI
2 2 (1.80%) JSON
3 1 (0.90%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (0.90%) CSS
3 1 (0.90%) HTML
3 1 (0.90%) LDAP
3 1 (0.90%) React
3 1 (0.90%) Redux
3 1 (0.90%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.01%) Data Centre
2 7 (6.31%) Mainframe
3 3 (2.70%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.70%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.70%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.70%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.80%) IVR
4 2 (1.80%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.90%) CCTV
5 1 (0.90%) Clustering
5 1 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.90%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (0.90%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.90%) Replication
5 1 (0.90%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.90%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 20 (18.02%) Windows
2 10 (9.01%) Linux
3 2 (1.80%) Android
3 2 (1.80%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.80%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.80%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.80%) zOS
4 1 (0.90%) MVS
4 1 (0.90%) Solaris
4 1 (0.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (35.14%) Agile
2 29 (26.13%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (22.52%) DevOps
4 22 (19.82%) Stakeholder Management
5 17 (15.32%) CI/CD
6 15 (13.51%) Cybersecurity
6 15 (13.51%) Scrum
7 13 (11.71%) API Testing
7 13 (11.71%) Configuration Management
8 12 (10.81%) Decision-Making
8 12 (10.81%) ITIL
8 12 (10.81%) Privileged Access Management
9 11 (9.91%) Data Analysis
9 11 (9.91%) Data Management
9 11 (9.91%) Identity Access Management
9 11 (9.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 10 (9.01%) Business Case
10 10 (9.01%) Kanban
10 10 (9.01%) Software Testing
11 9 (8.11%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (23.42%) Python
2 8 (7.21%) SQL
3 7 (6.31%) Java
4 5 (4.50%) VB
5 4 (3.60%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.60%) Shell Script
6 3 (2.70%) Bash
7 2 (1.80%) COBOL
7 2 (1.80%) Go
8 1 (0.90%) Bicep
8 1 (0.90%) C#
8 1 (0.90%) CLIST
8 1 (0.90%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.90%) JCL
8 1 (0.90%) REXX
8 1 (0.90%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (7.21%) CISM
1 8 (7.21%) CISSP
1 8 (7.21%) ISTQB
2 4 (3.60%) Degree
3 2 (1.80%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (1.80%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.80%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.90%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.90%) PMP
4 1 (0.90%) RIBA
4 1 (0.90%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.01%) PMO
2 9 (8.11%) GDPR
3 7 (6.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (6.31%) NIST
3 7 (6.31%) QA
4 6 (5.41%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.80%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.90%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (12.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (8.11%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.60%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.80%) Docker
5 2 (1.80%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (1.80%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.90%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.90%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.90%) KVM
6 1 (0.90%) NFS
6 1 (0.90%) SRDF
6 1 (0.90%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.90%) vSphere
6 1 (0.90%) Xen
6 1 (0.90%) XenApp
6 1 (0.90%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 23 (20.72%) Ansible
2 12 (10.81%) Puppet
3 10 (9.01%) Microsoft Clustering
4 7 (6.31%) Kubernetes
4 7 (6.31%) SCCM
5 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (3.60%) Terraform
5 4 (3.60%) vCenter Server
6 3 (2.70%) NetBackup
7 2 (1.80%) Data Guard
7 2 (1.80%) Grafana
7 2 (1.80%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.80%) yum
8 1 (0.90%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.90%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.90%) SCOM
8 1 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.90%) vRealize
Vendors
1 14 (12.61%) Google
1 14 (12.61%) VMware
2 11 (9.91%) MuleSoft
3 10 (9.01%) CyberArk
4 9 (8.11%) BeyondTrust
4 9 (8.11%) Thycotic
5 5 (4.50%) Citrix
5 5 (4.50%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.60%) Commvault
6 4 (3.60%) HP
6 4 (3.60%) Oracle
7 3 (2.70%) Cisco
7 3 (2.70%) IBM
7 3 (2.70%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.70%) Veritas
8 2 (1.80%) F5
8 2 (1.80%) Genesys
8 2 (1.80%) Splunk
9 1 (0.90%) Alibaba
9 1 (0.90%) AppDynamics