Microsoft Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Microsoft
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 9 32
Rank change year-on-year +2 +23 -27
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 40 26 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 16.39% 10.70% 6.03%
As % of the Vendors category 33.61% 23.42% 19.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 19 17
10th Percentile £181 £150 £137
25th Percentile £191 £184 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £431 £388
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +11.23% -22.50%
75th Percentile £484 £525 £650
90th Percentile £575 £650 £700
North East median daily rate £350 £230 £238
% change year-on-year +52.17% -3.16% -44.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £17.50 -
North East median hourly rate £36.18 £20.77 £49.00
% change year-on-year +74.19% -57.61% +188.24%

All Vendors
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 119 111 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 48.77% 45.68% 30.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 57 77
10th Percentile £213 £188 £194
25th Percentile £328 £363 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £475 £560
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% -15.18% +12.00%
75th Percentile £538 £625 £675
90th Percentile £625 £685 £775
North East median daily rate £438 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -7.89% -9.52% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 0
Median hourly rate £52.00 £15.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +230.26% - -
North East median hourly rate £35.44 £17.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year +102.49% -64.29% +184.06%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Tyne and Wear

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Tyne and Wear

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Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Tyne and Wear

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Tyne and Wear

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Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +2 34 £345 -31.00% 69
Sunderland 0 5 £195 - 6
Microsoft
North East

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (7.50%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (2.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (22.50%) Azure
2 8 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (7.50%) AWS
4 3 (7.50%) Power Automate
4 3 (7.50%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (5.00%) IaaS
5 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (5.00%) PaaS
5 2 (5.00%) PowerApps
5 2 (5.00%) SaaS
6 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.50%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.50%) DNS
2 3 (7.50%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.00%) DHCP
3 2 (5.00%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (2.50%) VPN
4 1 (2.50%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.00%) Big Data
2 2 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.00%) MySQL
2 2 (5.00%) Redis
2 2 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Git
2 3 (7.50%) Visual Studio
2 3 (7.50%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (5.00%) ERwin
3 2 (5.00%) JIRA
3 2 (5.00%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (2.50%) git-flow
4 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (17.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
3 4 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.50%) Finance
4 3 (7.50%) French Language
5 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Military
6 1 (2.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (17.50%) Support Engineer
2 6 (15.00%) Consultant
2 6 (15.00%) Developer
2 6 (15.00%) Security Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Desktop Support
3 5 (12.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Active Directory Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
5 3 (7.50%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) 2nd Line Support
5 3 (7.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) IT Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) IT Security Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Mobile Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) .NET
1 3 (7.50%) CSS
1 3 (7.50%) HTML
1 3 (7.50%) RESTful
2 1 (2.50%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.50%) ASP.NET
2 1 (2.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (22.50%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (7.50%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (5.00%) Mobile App
4 2 (5.00%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.50%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.50%) PKI
5 1 (2.50%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 15 (37.50%) Windows
2 6 (15.00%) Linux
3 2 (5.00%) Android
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (2.50%) VMS
4 1 (2.50%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (22.50%) Data Protection
2 7 (17.50%) Agile
2 7 (17.50%) Information Security
2 7 (17.50%) ITIL
3 5 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (12.50%) Information Security Management
3 5 (12.50%) ISMS
3 5 (12.50%) Security Management
3 5 (12.50%) Service Management
3 5 (12.50%) Zero Trust
4 4 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (10.00%) Incident Management
4 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (7.50%) CI/CD
5 3 (7.50%) Decision-Making
5 3 (7.50%) ITSM
5 3 (7.50%) Mentoring
5 3 (7.50%) Patch Management
5 3 (7.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.50%) SQL
2 3 (7.50%) C#
3 2 (5.00%) Python
4 1 (2.50%) Bash
4 1 (2.50%) Java
4 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) Degree
2 3 (7.50%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (7.50%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (5.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.00%) CISM
3 2 (5.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (5.00%) CRISC
3 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) A+ Certification
4 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.50%) CCNA
4 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.50%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (7.50%) QA
System Software
1 11 (27.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) Ansible
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (5.00%) SCCM
2 1 (2.50%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (2.50%) Grafana
2 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.50%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (2.50%) Terraform
2 1 (2.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) VMware
2 6 (15.00%) Cisco
3 5 (12.50%) Fortinet
3 5 (12.50%) HP
3 5 (12.50%) Veeam
4 4 (10.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (5.00%) Citrix
5 2 (5.00%) New Relic
5 2 (5.00%) Tenable
6 1 (2.50%) Bomgar
6 1 (2.50%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.50%) Oracle
6 1 (2.50%) Workday