Microsoft Contracts in Suffolk

Microsoft
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Suffolk 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 4 July 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
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 1 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 +12 -9
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 23 15 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Suffolk 29.87% 27.78% 9.03%
As % of the Vendors category 58.97% 62.50% 38.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 8 13
10th Percentile - £179 £131
25th Percentile £213 £199 £159
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £220 £225
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -2.22% -53.61%
75th Percentile £250 £223 £500
90th Percentile £555 £233 £708
East of England median daily rate £500 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +17.65% +6.25% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £17.79 £17.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% - -
East of England median hourly rate £17.70 £15.00 £13.58
% change year-on-year +18.00% +10.46% -12.39%

All Vendors
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 39 24 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 50.65% 44.44% 23.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 12 34
10th Percentile £179 £183 £171
25th Percentile £213 £203 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £220 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -51.11% -12.20%
75th Percentile £475 £272 £700
90th Percentile £550 £521 -
East of England median daily rate £525 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £11.25 -
Median hourly rate £17.79 £11.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +54.70% - -
75th Percentile £31.99 £17.00 -
90th Percentile £40.50 £18.62 -
East of England median hourly rate £21.28 £17.40 £19.81
% change year-on-year +22.30% -12.17% +1.59%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Suffolk

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Suffolk

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Suffolk

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Suffolk over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Suffolk

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Suffolk

Microsoft
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 4 July 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leiston -1 10 £225 +2.27% 6
Ipswich -3 10 £225 +20.00% 70
Bury St Edmunds - 1 £450 - 3
Microsoft
East of England

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Suffolk 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 10 (43.48%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) Azure
1 8 (34.78%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (17.39%) OneDrive
3 2 (8.70%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.35%) AWS
4 1 (4.35%) Azure AKS
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.35%) GCP
4 1 (4.35%) IaaS
4 1 (4.35%) PaaS
4 1 (4.35%) SaaS
4 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (47.83%) VPN
2 6 (26.09%) DNS
3 5 (21.74%) TCP/IP
4 2 (8.70%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 17 (73.91%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Public Sector
3 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Finance
4 2 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) French Language
5 1 (4.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Support Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Desktop Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Desktop Support
3 4 (17.39%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (13.04%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) Service Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) Service Desk Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) SharePoint Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) SharePoint Support
5 2 (8.70%) Administrator
5 2 (8.70%) IT Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) VMware Specialist
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365 Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) ARM Templates
1 1 (4.35%) Azure Blueprints
1 1 (4.35%) FIDO
Miscellaneous
1 9 (39.13%) Driving Licence
2 6 (26.09%) iPad
2 6 (26.09%) iPhone
2 6 (26.09%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (17.39%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (4.35%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 19 (82.61%) Windows
2 6 (26.09%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.35%) Linux
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) ITIL
2 9 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (26.09%) Antivirus Management
3 6 (26.09%) Customer Service
3 6 (26.09%) Inventory Management
3 6 (26.09%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (26.09%) Time Management
4 5 (21.74%) ITSM
5 2 (8.70%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (8.70%) Migration
6 1 (4.35%) Change Management
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Security
6 1 (4.35%) Cost Management
6 1 (4.35%) Data Privacy
6 1 (4.35%) Data Protection
6 1 (4.35%) DevOps
6 1 (4.35%) High Availability
6 1 (4.35%) PRINCE2
6 1 (4.35%) Project Governance
6 1 (4.35%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.35%) Bicep
1 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
1 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (52.17%) Security Cleared
2 9 (39.13%) SC Cleared
3 6 (26.09%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) SLA
2 2 (8.70%) GDPR
3 1 (4.35%) HIPAA
3 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.35%) NIST
3 1 (4.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (43.48%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.70%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (8.70%) vCenter Server
3 1 (4.35%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) McAfee
2 5 (21.74%) ServiceNow
3 2 (8.70%) VMware