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 with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 35 5
Rank change year-on-year +28 -30 +5
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 27 21 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 11.11% 5.90% 17.77%
As % of the Vendors category 24.55% 19.09% 48.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 17 55
10th Percentile £148 £137 £140
25th Percentile £174 £185 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £388 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.16% -18.42% +55.10%
75th Percentile £513 £650 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £665
North East median daily rate £213 £238 £425
% change year-on-year -10.53% -44.12% +30.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £12.05 - £15.24
25th Percentile £13.63 - £15.53
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £16.43
75th Percentile £18.75 - £16.92
90th Percentile - - £16.97
North East median hourly rate £20.77 £49.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year -57.61% +188.24% +13.33%

All Vendors
Tyne and Wear

Microsoft is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 110 110 143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 45.27% 30.90% 36.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 78 108
10th Percentile £184 £196 £144
25th Percentile £363 £321 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £555 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.41% +11.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £588 £670 £600
90th Percentile £663 £775 £700
North East median daily rate £475 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 5
10th Percentile £13.09 - £12.32
25th Percentile £13.99 - £15.04
Median hourly rate £15.75 - £17.00
75th Percentile £29.06 - £18.75
90th Percentile £60.00 - £19.44
North East median hourly rate £17.50 £49.00 £17.25
% change year-on-year -64.29% +184.06% +15.00%

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

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024. 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 +25 19 £500 -3.61% 47
Sunderland +2 7 £195 +2.63% 7
Gateshead - 1 £150 - 5
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 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.70%) CMS
2 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.70%) Site Server
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) Azure
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 2 (7.41%) GCP
3 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
3 2 (7.41%) Snowflake
4 1 (3.70%) AWS
4 1 (3.70%) Google Workspace
4 1 (3.70%) IaaS
4 1 (3.70%) Miro
4 1 (3.70%) PaaS
4 1 (3.70%) SaaS
4 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) Firewall
2 2 (7.41%) AMQP
2 2 (7.41%) DHCP
2 2 (7.41%) DMZ
2 2 (7.41%) DNS
2 2 (7.41%) Modbus
2 2 (7.41%) MQTT
2 2 (7.41%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (3.70%) NAS
3 1 (3.70%) SAN
3 1 (3.70%) SMTP
3 1 (3.70%) Unified Communications
3 1 (3.70%) VoIP
3 1 (3.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.41%) Power BI
2 2 (7.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (7.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (7.41%) Tableau
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 10 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Finance
4 2 (7.41%) Manufacturing
4 2 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Advertising
5 1 (3.70%) Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Marketing
5 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (18.52%) DBA
2 4 (14.81%) Desktop Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Senior
3 3 (11.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) IT Technician
3 3 (11.11%) SQL DBA
3 3 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) 1st Line Support
4 2 (7.41%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
4 2 (7.41%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (7.41%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Build Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Desktop Support
4 2 (7.41%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior IT Technician
4 2 (7.41%) Server Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) JSON
2 2 (7.41%) .NET
2 2 (7.41%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (7.41%) Web Services
2 2 (7.41%) XML
2 2 (7.41%) XSLT
3 1 (3.70%) GraphQL
3 1 (3.70%) LDAP
3 1 (3.70%) Middleware
3 1 (3.70%) REST
3 1 (3.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Clustering
2 3 (11.11%) NHS
2 3 (11.11%) PKI
3 2 (7.41%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.41%) IoT
4 1 (3.70%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.70%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.70%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 16 (59.26%) Windows
2 10 (37.04%) Windows Server
3 5 (18.52%) Windows 10
4 2 (7.41%) Linux
5 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (18.52%) ITIL
3 4 (14.81%) High Availability
3 4 (14.81%) Service Management
4 3 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (11.11%) Migration
4 3 (11.11%) Server Patching
4 3 (11.11%) Software Deployment
5 2 (7.41%) CRM
5 2 (7.41%) CRUD
5 2 (7.41%) Data Analysis
5 2 (7.41%) Data Encryption
5 2 (7.41%) Data Engineering
5 2 (7.41%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (7.41%) Decision-Making
5 2 (7.41%) Hardware Maintenance
5 2 (7.41%) Patch Management
5 2 (7.41%) Server Building
5 2 (7.41%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) SQL
2 7 (25.93%) PowerShell
3 2 (7.41%) C#
3 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
3 2 (7.41%) Python
4 1 (3.70%) Java
4 1 (3.70%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Degree
2 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (11.11%) MCSE
3 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 2 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (7.41%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.70%) DBS Check
5 1 (3.70%) PMP
5 1 (3.70%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (3.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (3.70%) GDPR
1 1 (3.70%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.41%) Docker
2 2 (7.41%) Hyper-V
2 2 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (7.41%) vSphere
3 1 (3.70%) BitLocker
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (3.70%) Terminal Services
3 1 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Grafana
1 2 (7.41%) SCCM
2 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.70%) vCenter Server
2 1 (3.70%) vMotion
2 1 (3.70%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Citrix
2 3 (11.11%) VMware
3 2 (7.41%) Google
3 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.70%) HP
4 1 (3.70%) Infoblox
4 1 (3.70%) mParticle
4 1 (3.70%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.70%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (3.70%) Symantec