Microsoft Contracts in Yorkshire

Microsoft
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 8 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 +5
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 228 290 384
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.60% 12.65% 14.17%
As % of the Vendors category 28.43% 31.45% 36.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 205 266
10th Percentile £163 £165 £139
25th Percentile £213 £275 £202
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £378 £475 £393
Median % change year-on-year -20.53% +21.02% -1.69%
75th Percentile £533 £575 £500
90th Percentile £614 £638 £609
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 40
10th Percentile £12.63 £18.85 £10.17
25th Percentile £12.70 £20.88 £12.97
Median hourly rate £15.00 £27.25 £16.89
Median % change year-on-year -44.95% +61.34% -3.49%
75th Percentile £15.17 £36.18 £19.28
90th Percentile £21.25 £40.56 £24.08
England median hourly rate £15.00 £22.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -31.82% +18.92% -

All Vendors
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 802 922 1,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 47.82% 40.21% 39.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 632 729
10th Percentile £250 £213 £181
25th Percentile £400 £415 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% +16.67% +2.86%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £544
90th Percentile £675 £700 £638
England median daily rate £520 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -3.26% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 10 59
10th Percentile £12.37 £15.28 £10.16
25th Percentile £13.50 £17.56 £12.00
Median hourly rate £14.63 £21.75 £16.85
Median % change year-on-year -32.76% +29.08% -3.71%
75th Percentile £15.19 £39.11 £20.50
90th Percentile £19.39 £47.13 £25.02
England median hourly rate £22.40 £39.55 £21.00
% change year-on-year -43.36% +88.33% -4.55%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 27 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
West Yorkshire +3 130 £425 -15.00% 138
South Yorkshire -5 47 £250 -50.62% 63
North Yorkshire +2 39 £375 +27.12% 49
East Yorkshire 0 4 £300 +76.47% 12
Humberside - 3 £300 - 6
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 19 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 16 (7.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.75%) WordPress
4 1 (0.44%) CMS
4 1 (0.44%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.44%) Umbraco
Applications
1 43 (18.86%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.44%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.44%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.44%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (3.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.44%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (0.44%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 51 (22.37%) Azure
2 50 (21.93%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (14.04%) Dynamics 365
4 23 (10.09%) Power Platform
5 15 (6.58%) Entra ID
6 9 (3.95%) PowerApps
7 8 (3.51%) AWS
8 7 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.19%) Akamai
9 5 (2.19%) Cloudflare
9 5 (2.19%) OCI
10 4 (1.75%) MailChimp
11 3 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.32%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (0.88%) GitHub
12 2 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (0.88%) SaaS
12 2 (0.88%) Slack
13 1 (0.44%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.58%) DNS
1 15 (6.58%) Firewall
2 13 (5.70%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (5.26%) DHCP
4 10 (4.39%) Remote Desktop
5 9 (3.95%) VPN
6 8 (3.51%) LAN
7 5 (2.19%) Internet
7 5 (2.19%) SAN
8 4 (1.75%) WAN
9 3 (1.32%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.88%) Network Security
10 2 (0.88%) VLAN
10 2 (0.88%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.44%) Fibre Channel
11 1 (0.44%) Intranet
11 1 (0.44%) PBX
11 1 (0.44%) Skype
11 1 (0.44%) SSL
11 1 (0.44%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.70%) Power BI
1 13 (5.70%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (2.19%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.32%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.88%) MySQL
6 2 (0.88%) Tableau
7 1 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.44%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.44%) GIS
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.44%) OLAP
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.44%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (0.44%) QlikView
7 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 9 (3.95%) Team Foundation Server
2 7 (3.07%) JIRA
3 6 (2.63%) Git
4 3 (1.32%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.88%) AppScan
5 2 (0.88%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.88%) GitLab
5 2 (0.88%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.88%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.44%) Dreamweaver
6 1 (0.44%) gulp
6 1 (0.44%) Maven
6 1 (0.44%) Selenium
General
1 108 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 36 (15.79%) Finance
3 20 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.02%) Manufacturing
5 13 (5.70%) Banking
6 12 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 11 (4.82%) Telecoms
8 10 (4.39%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.51%) Law
10 2 (0.88%) Legal
10 2 (0.88%) Local Government
10 2 (0.88%) Multimedia
10 2 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.88%) Retail
10 2 (0.88%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.44%) Back Office
11 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.44%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.44%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 31 (13.60%) Analyst
2 27 (11.84%) IT Support
3 20 (8.77%) Lead
4 19 (8.33%) Consultant
5 18 (7.89%) Service Desk Agent
6 15 (6.58%) Project Manager
6 15 (6.58%) Support Engineer
7 14 (6.14%) Architect
7 14 (6.14%) IT Engineer
8 13 (5.70%) Developer
9 12 (5.26%) IT Technician
10 11 (4.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (4.39%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
11 10 (4.39%) Service Analyst
11 10 (4.39%) Service Desk Analyst
11 10 (4.39%) Support Analyst
12 9 (3.95%) 2nd Line Support
12 9 (3.95%) IT Support Engineer
13 8 (3.51%) 1st Line Support
14 7 (3.07%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.75%) SailPoint
1 4 (1.75%) Spring
1 4 (1.75%) Spring Boot
2 2 (0.88%) .NET
2 2 (0.88%) AngularJS
2 2 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (0.88%) LDAP
3 1 (0.44%) Node.js
3 1 (0.44%) OAuth
3 1 (0.44%) OpenID
3 1 (0.44%) RESTful
3 1 (0.44%) SAML
3 1 (0.44%) Series 60
3 1 (0.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.77%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 18 (7.89%) Cyber Defence
3 17 (7.46%) Cyber Threat
4 16 (7.02%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.51%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.51%) NHS
6 6 (2.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 4 (1.75%) iPhone
7 4 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.88%) e-Learning
8 2 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.88%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.44%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.44%) CMDB
9 1 (0.44%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.44%) iPad
9 1 (0.44%) LIMS
9 1 (0.44%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.44%) Replication
9 1 (0.44%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 78 (34.21%) Windows
2 45 (19.74%) Windows 10
3 22 (9.65%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.95%) Windows 7
5 7 (3.07%) Android
6 4 (1.75%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.32%) Linux
8 2 (0.88%) VMS
8 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.44%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (27.19%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (21.05%) Customer Service
3 24 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
3 24 (10.53%) Project Management
4 22 (9.65%) Service Delivery
5 21 (9.21%) Agile
5 21 (9.21%) CRM
5 21 (9.21%) Migration
6 19 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
6 19 (8.33%) Information Security
6 19 (8.33%) Mentoring
7 18 (7.89%) Incident Management
7 18 (7.89%) Incident Response
8 17 (7.46%) Protective Monitoring
8 17 (7.46%) SIEM
9 16 (7.02%) Root Cause Analysis
10 15 (6.58%) Case Management
10 15 (6.58%) SOAR
10 15 (6.58%) Threat Intelligence
11 14 (6.14%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 17 (7.46%) SQL
2 6 (2.63%) Java
3 5 (2.19%) Python
4 4 (1.75%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.88%) Bash
5 2 (0.88%) C#
5 2 (0.88%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (12.72%) Security Cleared
2 19 (8.33%) DV Cleared
3 13 (5.70%) Degree
4 8 (3.51%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (1.75%) A+ Certification
6 4 (1.75%) CCNA
6 4 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.75%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.75%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (0.88%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.44%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.46%) NIST
1 17 (7.46%) NIST 800
2 14 (6.14%) QA
3 5 (2.19%) SLA
4 3 (1.32%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.44%) GDPR
5 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.44%) PMO
5 1 (0.44%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 65 (28.51%) Active Directory
2 18 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.07%) Hyper-V
3 7 (3.07%) KVM
3 7 (3.07%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (3.07%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (3.07%) VMware Workstation
4 4 (1.75%) Docker
5 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.44%) vSphere
5 1 (0.44%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 15 (6.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (3.07%) vCenter Server
3 5 (2.19%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.19%) Terraform
4 4 (1.75%) Ansible
5 3 (1.32%) Puppet
6 2 (0.88%) Grafana
6 2 (0.88%) Graylog
6 2 (0.88%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.88%) MaaS360
6 2 (0.88%) Nessus
6 2 (0.88%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.88%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.88%) WebInspect
7 1 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.44%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.44%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.44%) SCCM
7 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (8.77%) VMware
2 6 (2.63%) Citrix
2 6 (2.63%) Oracle
2 6 (2.63%) ServiceNow
3 5 (2.19%) Cisco
3 5 (2.19%) F5
3 5 (2.19%) Salesforce
4 4 (1.75%) CyberArk
4 4 (1.75%) Hootsuite
5 3 (1.32%) MEDITECH
6 2 (0.88%) Apple
6 2 (0.88%) Checkmarx
6 2 (0.88%) Databricks
6 2 (0.88%) Dell KACE
6 2 (0.88%) Google
6 2 (0.88%) NetApp
6 2 (0.88%) Splunk
6 2 (0.88%) Veeam
6 2 (0.88%) Veracode
7 1 (0.44%) Mitel