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 2 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
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 14 15
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 -8
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 23 14 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 10.45% 8.09% 9.71%
As % of the Vendors category 32.39% 24.56% 21.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 14
10th Percentile - £149 £149
25th Percentile £188 £182 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £333 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -5.00% -1.48%
75th Percentile £534 £575 £539
90th Percentile £575 £646 £643
North East median daily rate £325 £475 £350
% change year-on-year -31.58% +35.71% -30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £31.33
25th Percentile - - £31.44
Median hourly rate - - £32.25
75th Percentile - - £33.31
90th Percentile - - £33.58
North East median hourly rate £53.61 £46.18 £39.34
% change year-on-year +16.09% +17.39% +139.44%

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 71 57 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 32.27% 32.95% 46.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 41 64
10th Percentile £188 £188 £313
25th Percentile £375 £354 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £545
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -17.43% +8.13%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £661
90th Percentile £633 £675 £750
North East median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £14.99 - £31.33
25th Percentile £16.84 - £31.44
Median hourly rate £19.25 - £32.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +103.34%
75th Percentile £28.47 - £33.31
90th Percentile £42.59 - £33.58
North East median hourly rate £19.25 £46.18 £39.34
% change year-on-year -58.32% +17.39% +131.41%

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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

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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 2 August 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 2 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
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 18 £340 -28.42% 57
Sunderland +4 5 £195 +8.33% 13
Microsoft
North East

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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 (21.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (13.04%) OpenEdge
3 2 (8.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (4.35%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (21.74%) Azure
3 2 (8.70%) AWS
3 2 (8.70%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (8.70%) IaaS
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Copilot
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (8.70%) PaaS
3 2 (8.70%) Power Automate
3 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
3 2 (8.70%) PowerApps
3 2 (8.70%) SaaS
4 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) DNS
2 2 (8.70%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (4.35%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.70%) MySQL
2 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Git
1 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (13.04%) Finance
1 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (4.35%) Legal
3 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Consultant
1 5 (21.74%) Desktop Engineer
1 5 (21.74%) Desktop Support
1 5 (21.74%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 5 (21.74%) Support Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 4 (17.39%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) 2nd Line Support
2 4 (17.39%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Active Directory Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Mobile Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Senior
3 3 (13.04%) Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Project Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Security Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Project Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (13.04%) Mobile App
2 2 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (8.70%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.35%) AI Agents
3 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (47.83%) Windows
2 2 (8.70%) Linux
3 1 (4.35%) Android
3 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
3 1 (4.35%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) ITIL
2 4 (17.39%) Agile
2 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (17.39%) Information Security
2 4 (17.39%) Patch Management
2 4 (17.39%) Service Management
3 3 (13.04%) Data Protection
3 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (13.04%) Waterfall
4 2 (8.70%) Customer Service
4 2 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (8.70%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (8.70%) Information Security Management
4 2 (8.70%) ISMS
4 2 (8.70%) Mentoring
4 2 (8.70%) Mobile Application Development
4 2 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (8.70%) Remediation Plan
4 2 (8.70%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (8.70%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) SQL
2 2 (8.70%) Python
3 1 (4.35%) Bash
3 1 (4.35%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Degree
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (8.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (8.70%) CISM
3 2 (8.70%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (8.70%) CRISC
4 1 (4.35%) A+ Certification
4 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.35%) CISSP
4 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.35%) MCP
4 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 10 (43.48%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.35%) Ansible
2 1 (4.35%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (4.35%) Grafana
2 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.35%) SCCM
2 1 (4.35%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Cisco
1 2 (8.70%) Fortinet
1 2 (8.70%) HP
1 2 (8.70%) Veeam
1 2 (8.70%) VMware
2 1 (4.35%) Bomgar
2 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
2 1 (4.35%) Google