Microsoft Contracts in West Yorkshire

Microsoft
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 5 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 -1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 74 129 191
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 13.38% 13.08% 11.82%
As % of the Vendors category 28.68% 30.07% 30.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 95 128
10th Percentile £186 £178 £211
25th Percentile £235 £313 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -15.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £600
90th Percentile £580 £625 £679
Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £380 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% -20.00% +21.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 1
10th Percentile £31.53 - -
25th Percentile £31.62 - £31.25
Median hourly rate £33.11 £15.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +120.73% -53.85% +92.88%
75th Percentile £37.98 £15.13 £33.75
90th Percentile £40.09 £16.72 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £33.11 £15.00 £27.25
% change year-on-year +120.73% -44.95% +61.34%

All Vendors
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 258 429 626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 46.65% 43.51% 38.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 264 432
10th Percentile £243 £300 £313
25th Percentile £350 £404 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £627
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £484 £525
% change year-on-year -7.07% -7.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 23 3
10th Percentile £30.43 £12.53 £18.85
25th Percentile £31.76 £13.87 £23.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £14.63 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +180.34% -55.00% +103.13%
75th Percentile £98.56 £15.19 £56.88
90th Percentile £102.00 - £70.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £14.63 £21.00
% change year-on-year +88.03% -30.36% +24.63%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in West Yorkshire

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in West Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in West Yorkshire

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in West Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 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
Leeds -6 59 £400 -11.11% 126
Bradford +6 5 £185 - 19
Calderdale 0 2 £375 -
Wakefield +2 1 - - 19
Huddersfield -1 1 £525 +320.00% 2
Halifax - 1 £188 - 2
Microsoft
Yorkshire

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 17 (22.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (16.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 31 (41.89%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (10.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (5.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (4.05%) SAP ERP
2 2 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.35%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.35%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.35%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 39 (52.70%) Microsoft 365
2 30 (40.54%) Entra ID
3 20 (27.03%) Azure
4 10 (13.51%) Power Platform
5 5 (6.76%) OneDrive
6 4 (5.41%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (5.41%) Power Automate
7 3 (4.05%) IaaS
7 3 (4.05%) PaaS
7 3 (4.05%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.70%) AWS
8 2 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.35%) Azure API Management
9 1 (1.35%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.35%) Figma
9 1 (1.35%) SaaS
9 1 (1.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (13.51%) VPN
2 6 (8.11%) DNS
2 6 (8.11%) Firewall
2 6 (8.11%) VLAN
2 6 (8.11%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (6.76%) DHCP
3 5 (6.76%) LAN
3 5 (6.76%) VoIP
3 5 (6.76%) WAN
4 4 (5.41%) Network Security
5 2 (2.70%) DKIM
5 2 (2.70%) DMARC
6 1 (1.35%) IMAP
6 1 (1.35%) Internet
6 1 (1.35%) Intranet
6 1 (1.35%) Kerberos
6 1 (1.35%) POP3
6 1 (1.35%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.81%) Power BI
2 4 (5.41%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.70%) Metadata
3 2 (2.70%) Metadata Repository
3 2 (2.70%) Qlik Sense
3 2 (2.70%) QlikView
3 2 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (2.70%) Tableau
4 1 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.35%) Data Vault
4 1 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.35%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.35%) GIS
4 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.35%) Parquet
4 1 (1.35%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Git
1 1 (1.35%) IntelliJ
1 1 (1.35%) JIRA
1 1 (1.35%) Maven
1 1 (1.35%) Postman
1 1 (1.35%) Selenium
General
1 37 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 13 (17.57%) Retail
3 5 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.41%) Finance
4 4 (5.41%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.05%) Local Government
6 2 (2.70%) Law
6 2 (2.70%) Legal
7 1 (1.35%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.35%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.35%) Marketing
7 1 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (25.68%) Support Manager
2 12 (16.22%) Support Engineer
3 9 (12.16%) 1st Line Support
3 9 (12.16%) IT Manager
3 9 (12.16%) IT Support
3 9 (12.16%) IT Support Manager
4 8 (10.81%) 1st Line Support Manager
4 8 (10.81%) Desktop Engineer
4 8 (10.81%) Desktop Support
4 8 (10.81%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 7 (9.46%) Analyst
6 5 (6.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (6.76%) Support Assistant
7 4 (5.41%) Architect
7 4 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Developer
7 4 (5.41%) Senior
8 3 (4.05%) Active Directory Technician
8 3 (4.05%) Hardware Technician
8 3 (4.05%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.05%) .NET
2 2 (2.70%) LDAP
3 1 (1.35%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.35%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.35%) JSON
3 1 (1.35%) OAuth
3 1 (1.35%) OpenID
3 1 (1.35%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.57%) iPhone
1 13 (17.57%) Smartphone
2 2 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (2.70%) NHS
3 1 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.35%) CCTV
3 1 (1.35%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.35%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.35%) e-Learning
3 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.35%) Fat Client
3 1 (1.35%) FMCG
3 1 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.35%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.35%) Thin Client
3 1 (1.35%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (24.32%) Mac OS
2 17 (22.97%) Windows
3 7 (9.46%) Windows 10
4 3 (4.05%) Linux
4 3 (4.05%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.35%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (1.35%) Unix
6 1 (1.35%) VMS
6 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (40.54%) Customer Service
2 18 (24.32%) ITIL
3 17 (22.97%) ITSM
4 14 (18.92%) Incident Management
4 14 (18.92%) Service Management
5 13 (17.57%) Mobile Device Management
6 10 (13.51%) Service Delivery
7 8 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (9.46%) Case Management
8 7 (9.46%) Identity Access Management
8 7 (9.46%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (8.11%) Data Modelling
10 5 (6.76%) Analytics
10 5 (6.76%) Data Protection
10 5 (6.76%) ERP
10 5 (6.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 5 (6.76%) Security Patching
10 5 (6.76%) Service Desk Management
11 4 (5.41%) Collaborative Working
11 4 (5.41%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 6 (8.11%) PowerShell
1 6 (8.11%) SQL
2 4 (5.41%) T-SQL
3 3 (4.05%) VBA
4 2 (2.70%) C#
4 2 (2.70%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.35%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (12.16%) Degree
2 5 (6.76%) ACSP
2 5 (6.76%) ACTC
3 4 (5.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 3 (4.05%) CCNA
4 3 (4.05%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.70%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.35%) CISSP
6 1 (1.35%) MBA
6 1 (1.35%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.05%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (4.05%) SOC 2
3 2 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.70%) GDPR
4 1 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.35%) NIST
4 1 (1.35%) QA
System Software
1 49 (66.22%) Active Directory
2 7 (9.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.05%) vSphere
4 2 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (2.70%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.35%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 18 (24.32%) Jamf Pro
2 12 (16.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (10.81%) SCCM
4 5 (6.76%) AppManager
5 3 (4.05%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.35%) Terraform
6 1 (1.35%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.35%) vRealize
Vendors
1 22 (29.73%) ServiceNow
2 18 (24.32%) Apple
3 10 (13.51%) VMware
4 5 (6.76%) Citrix
4 5 (6.76%) Ivanti
4 5 (6.76%) SAP
4 5 (6.76%) Veeam
5 4 (5.41%) Cisco
5 4 (5.41%) Meraki
6 3 (4.05%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.70%) Liquidlogic
7 2 (2.70%) Proofpoint
7 2 (2.70%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.35%) Ariba
8 1 (1.35%) ESRI
8 1 (1.35%) Splunk
8 1 (1.35%) Workday