Microsoft Contracts in Watford

Microsoft
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Watford 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 14 3 16
Rank change year-on-year -11 +13 -4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 7 32 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Watford 6.03% 21.77% 9.71%
As % of the Vendors category 14.58% 52.46% 23.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 28 14
10th Percentile £416 £183 £350
25th Percentile £432 £413 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £506 £413
Median % change year-on-year -7.65% +22.73% +11.31%
75th Percentile £507 £788 £519
90th Percentile £525 £884 £638
Hertfordshire median daily rate £470 £525 £378
% change year-on-year -10.48% +39.07% +4.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.25 £16.50 -
Median hourly rate £14.50 £19.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.68% - -
75th Percentile £14.75 £21.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £14.50 £35.00 £12.46
% change year-on-year -58.57% +180.90% -33.15%

All Vendors
Watford

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 Watford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 48 61 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Watford 41.38% 41.50% 41.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 44 45
10th Percentile £278 £186 £182
25th Percentile £325 £292 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £488 £428
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +13.90% +0.71%
75th Percentile £513 £788 £575
90th Percentile £675 £805 £645
Hertfordshire median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -3.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 3
10th Percentile - £19.20 -
25th Percentile £14.25 £21.00 -
Median hourly rate £14.50 £22.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.09% -37.14% +27.27%
75th Percentile £14.75 £23.00 £42.00
90th Percentile - - £46.20
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.69% +225.00% -39.39%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Watford

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Watford

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Watford

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Watford

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Watford

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Watford 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 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
1 1 (14.29%) Mendix
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) BigCommerce
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 1 (14.29%) DTS
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Retail
3 2 (28.57%) Marketing
4 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Desktop Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Desktop Support
1 2 (28.57%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Integration Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Server Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Windows 10
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Asset Management
1 2 (28.57%) B2B
1 2 (28.57%) Customer Acquisition
1 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
1 2 (28.57%) Logistics
1 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Agile
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (14.29%) Data Entry
2 1 (14.29%) Data Transformation
2 1 (14.29%) Domain Models
2 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
2 1 (14.29%) ETL
2 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GxP
1 1 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) SAP
2 2 (28.57%) Adobe
2 2 (28.57%) Apple
2 2 (28.57%) CheckPoint
2 2 (28.57%) Salesforce
2 2 (28.57%) Sitecore
2 2 (28.57%) Sophos
3 1 (14.29%) Databricks
3 1 (14.29%) VMware