Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Yeovil

Microsoft
Somerset > Yeovil

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yeovil 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 24 November 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
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 2 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 10 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Yeovil 22.22% 20.00% -
As % of the Vendors category 58.82% 100.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - -
75th Percentile £461 - -
90th Percentile £481 - -
Somerset median daily rate £333 £495 £220
% change year-on-year -32.83% +125.00% -56.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £58.00 - -
25th Percentile £58.75 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - -
75th Percentile £68.50 - -
90th Percentile £70.90 - -
Somerset median hourly rate £63.00 £13.00 £18.75
% change year-on-year +384.62% -30.67% -62.50%

All Vendors
Yeovil

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 Yeovil.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 17 1 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yeovil 37.78% 20.00% 15.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £225 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile £450 - -
Somerset median daily rate £425 £550 £338
% change year-on-year -22.73% +62.96% -20.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £58.00 - £46.02
25th Percentile £58.75 - £46.05
Median hourly rate £63.00 - £46.09
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.82%
75th Percentile £68.50 - £46.14
90th Percentile £70.90 - £46.16
Somerset median hourly rate £61.50 £14.50 £46.00
% change year-on-year +324.14% -68.48% -8.00%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Yeovil

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yeovil.

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Yeovil

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in Yeovil

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yeovil citing Microsoft.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yeovil citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Yeovil

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yeovil citing Microsoft.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yeovil citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yeovil by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (70.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (20.00%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
2 7 (70.00%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (60.00%) Entra ID
4 5 (50.00%) ShareGate
5 4 (40.00%) OneDrive
6 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
6 3 (30.00%) SaaS
7 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Kerberos
2 2 (20.00%) DNS
2 2 (20.00%) SMTP
3 1 (10.00%) iSCSI
3 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Metadata
1 3 (30.00%) Power BI
2 2 (20.00%) MySQL
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Technical Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Migration Manager
3 1 (10.00%) CyberArk Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Data Migration Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Data Migration Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Exchange Migration Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Server Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Server Migration Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) SharePoint Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) LDAP
1 3 (30.00%) OAuth
1 3 (30.00%) OpenID
1 3 (30.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Migration
2 6 (60.00%) Runbook
2 6 (60.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 5 (50.00%) Change Management
4 4 (40.00%) Information Architecture
5 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (30.00%) Data Analysis
5 3 (30.00%) Data Discovery
5 3 (30.00%) Data Migration
5 3 (30.00%) Data Transformation
5 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (30.00%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (30.00%) RBAC
5 3 (30.00%) Remediation Plan
5 3 (30.00%) Technical Analysis
5 3 (30.00%) Technical Discovery
5 3 (30.00%) Validation
6 2 (20.00%) API Integration
6 2 (20.00%) Privileged Access Management
6 2 (20.00%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) CCNP
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) JNCIP
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) GDPR
1 6 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (10.00%) HIPAA
2 1 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (40.00%) SCCM
2 3 (30.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (10.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (10.00%) HP ALM
3 1 (10.00%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) CyberArk
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
1 2 (20.00%) PTC
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) HP