Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Microsoft
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Southampton 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 26 August 2026, 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
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 15 9
Rank change year-on-year +12 -6 -8
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 24 7 14
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 15.79% 5.38% 8.75%
As % of the Vendors category 37.50% 14.89% 24.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 12
10th Percentile £170 £266 £184
25th Percentile £178 £364 £211
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £190 £463 £325
Median % change year-on-year -59.00% +42.38% -42.22%
75th Percentile £559 £494 £367
90th Percentile £618 £504 £434
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -5.21% -4.09% +16.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £12.71 - -
75th Percentile £41.25 - -
90th Percentile £51.00 - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £21.35 £70.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -69.50% +100.00% +86.67%

All Vendors
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 64 47 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 42.11% 36.15% 35.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 30 38
10th Percentile £126 £175 £213
25th Percentile £170 £331 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +14.29% -16.67%
75th Percentile £629 £550 £600
90th Percentile £696 £626 £634
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 2
10th Percentile £12.71 - £20.13
25th Percentile £33.75 - £25.94
Median hourly rate £37.24 - £38.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +60.72%
75th Percentile - - £53.44
90th Percentile £40.45 - £60.38
Hampshire median hourly rate £38.25 £33.89 £57.35
% change year-on-year +12.88% -40.92% +9.24%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton.

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Southampton

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Southampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Southampton over the 6 months to 26 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Southampton

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Southampton

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Histogram in Southampton

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in Southampton over the 6 months to 26 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in Southampton

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (4.17%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) Azure
2 9 (37.50%) Entra ID
3 7 (29.17%) IaaS
3 7 (29.17%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.17%) AWS
4 1 (4.17%) Azure AKS
4 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.17%) Cloudflare
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) VPN
2 1 (4.17%) DHCP
2 1 (4.17%) DNS
2 1 (4.17%) Firewall
2 1 (4.17%) VLAN
2 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) GitLab
1 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.17%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.17%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Azure Engineer
1 9 (37.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 7 (29.17%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (29.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) IT Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Desktop Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Desktop Support
4 2 (8.33%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Support Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) 1st Line Support
5 1 (4.17%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (4.17%) Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Field Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Operations Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Security Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Onboarding
2 4 (16.67%) Driving Licence
3 3 (12.50%) Blackberry
3 3 (12.50%) Digital Signage
3 3 (12.50%) iPhone
4 1 (4.17%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (37.50%) Windows
2 3 (12.50%) Windows 10
3 2 (8.33%) Android
3 2 (8.33%) Apple iOS
4 1 (4.17%) Linux
4 1 (4.17%) Windows 7
4 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (20.83%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (16.67%) Asset Management
3 4 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 4 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 4 (16.67%) ITIL
4 3 (12.50%) BCP
4 3 (12.50%) Business Continuity
4 3 (12.50%) Business Continuity Planning
4 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (12.50%) Mobile Device Management
4 3 (12.50%) Time Management
4 3 (12.50%) Virtual Environments
4 3 (12.50%) Visualisation
5 2 (8.33%) Configuration Management
5 2 (8.33%) ERP
5 2 (8.33%) Runbook
5 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (4.17%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.17%) Bicep
2 1 (4.17%) Groovy
2 1 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) DBS Check
2 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.17%) CPIM
2 1 (4.17%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) SCCM
2 1 (4.17%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) Grafana
2 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Lotus
1 3 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.17%) Meraki
2 1 (4.17%) SAP
2 1 (4.17%) Siemens
2 1 (4.17%) VMware