Microsoft Contracts in Yorkshire

Microsoft
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 113 229 295
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.11% 13.56% 12.80%
As % of the Vendors category 23.40% 28.24% 32.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 161 209
10th Percentile £185 £163 £165
25th Percentile £235 £213 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £380 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -20.00% +21.02%
75th Percentile £488 £538 £575
90th Percentile £575 £625 £638
England median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 4
10th Percentile £31.53 £12.63 £18.85
25th Percentile £31.62 £12.70 £20.88
Median hourly rate £33.11 £15.00 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +120.73% -44.95% +61.34%
75th Percentile £37.98 £15.17 £36.18
90th Percentile £40.09 £21.25 £40.56
England median hourly rate £19.00 £15.00 £21.75
% change year-on-year +26.67% -31.03% +17.57%

All Vendors
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 483 811 915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 47.49% 48.02% 39.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 491 628
10th Percentile £218 £258 £213
25th Percentile £350 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £483 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% -8.10% +16.67%
75th Percentile £538 £587 £600
90th Percentile £647 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 48 8
10th Percentile £18.35 £12.37 £14.33
25th Percentile £21.24 £13.50 £17.06
Median hourly rate £27.50 £14.63 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.03% -30.36% +24.63%
75th Percentile £41.50 £15.19 £36.18
90th Percentile £99.93 £19.39 £54.43
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Yorkshire

Microsoft
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 1 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
West Yorkshire -2 73 £400 -5.88% 167
South Yorkshire -6 28 £470 +88.00% 83
North Yorkshire -8 8 £210 -44.00% 44
East Yorkshire +1 1 - - 29
Microsoft
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 (16.81%) Microsoft Exchange
1 19 (16.81%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.88%) Confluence
2 1 (0.88%) SAS
Applications
1 37 (32.74%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (9.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (5.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (3.54%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.88%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.65%) SAP ERP
2 2 (1.77%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.88%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.88%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.88%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 58 (51.33%) Microsoft 365
2 35 (30.97%) Entra ID
3 30 (26.55%) Azure
4 17 (15.04%) Power Platform
5 8 (7.08%) Power Automate
6 7 (6.19%) PowerApps
7 6 (5.31%) OneDrive
8 4 (3.54%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.65%) IaaS
9 3 (2.65%) PaaS
10 2 (1.77%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.77%) AWS
10 2 (1.77%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.88%) Azure API Management
11 1 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.88%) Azure Storage
11 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.50%) VPN
2 11 (9.73%) DNS
3 9 (7.96%) Firewall
4 8 (7.08%) DHCP
5 7 (6.19%) LAN
5 7 (6.19%) VLAN
5 7 (6.19%) WAN
5 7 (6.19%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (5.31%) Network Security
7 5 (4.42%) VoIP
8 2 (1.77%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (1.77%) DKIM
8 2 (1.77%) DMARC
8 2 (1.77%) DWDM
8 2 (1.77%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.77%) VSAN
9 1 (0.88%) BGP
9 1 (0.88%) HSRP
9 1 (0.88%) MPLS
9 1 (0.88%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.62%) Power BI
2 3 (2.65%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.77%) Metadata
3 2 (1.77%) Metadata Repository
3 2 (1.77%) Qlik Sense
3 2 (1.77%) QlikView
3 2 (1.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (1.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (1.77%) Tableau
4 1 (0.88%) Data Vault
4 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.88%) DB2
4 1 (0.88%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.88%) Easytrieve
4 1 (0.88%) GIS
4 1 (0.88%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.88%) Parquet
4 1 (0.88%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 8 (7.08%) JIRA
2 6 (5.31%) Selenium
3 5 (4.42%) Git
3 5 (4.42%) IntelliJ
3 5 (4.42%) Maven
3 5 (4.42%) Postman
4 2 (1.77%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.88%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 47 (41.59%) Social Skills
2 13 (11.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 13 (11.50%) Retail
3 11 (9.73%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.85%) Finance
5 7 (6.19%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.42%) Banking
7 3 (2.65%) Local Government
8 2 (1.77%) Law
8 2 (1.77%) Legal
9 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.88%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.88%) Marketing
9 1 (0.88%) Military
9 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (16.81%) Support Manager
2 15 (13.27%) IT Support
2 15 (13.27%) Support Engineer
3 14 (12.39%) Analyst
4 10 (8.85%) Desktop Support
5 9 (7.96%) 1st Line Support
5 9 (7.96%) Desktop Engineer
5 9 (7.96%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 9 (7.96%) Developer
5 9 (7.96%) IT Manager
5 9 (7.96%) IT Support Manager
6 8 (7.08%) 1st Line Support Manager
7 7 (6.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (6.19%) IT Engineer
8 6 (5.31%) Architect
8 6 (5.31%) Tester
9 5 (4.42%) Support Assistant
10 4 (3.54%) Business Analyst
10 4 (3.54%) Project Manager
10 4 (3.54%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.65%) .NET
1 3 (2.65%) CSS
1 3 (2.65%) HTML
1 3 (2.65%) React
1 3 (2.65%) SPFx
2 2 (1.77%) LDAP
3 1 (0.88%) JSON
3 1 (0.88%) OAuth
3 1 (0.88%) OpenID
3 1 (0.88%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.88%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.39%) Smartphone
2 13 (11.50%) iPhone
3 2 (1.77%) Data Centre
3 2 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (1.77%) Driving Licence
3 2 (1.77%) NHS
4 1 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.88%) Fat Client
4 1 (0.88%) FMCG
4 1 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (0.88%) Low-Code
4 1 (0.88%) Mainframe
4 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.88%) Taxonomies
4 1 (0.88%) Thin Client
4 1 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 26 (23.01%) Windows
2 19 (16.81%) Mac OS
3 10 (8.85%) Windows 10
4 5 (4.42%) Linux
4 5 (4.42%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.65%) Unix
6 2 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.88%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.88%) VMS
7 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.88%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (29.20%) Customer Service
2 21 (18.58%) ITIL
3 19 (16.81%) ITSM
4 18 (15.93%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (14.16%) Incident Management
6 14 (12.39%) Service Management
7 13 (11.50%) Mobile Device Management
8 12 (10.62%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (8.85%) Service Delivery
10 8 (7.08%) Agile
10 8 (7.08%) ERP
10 8 (7.08%) Identity Access Management
11 7 (6.19%) Case Management
11 7 (6.19%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (6.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 7 (6.19%) Stakeholder Management
12 6 (5.31%) Collaborative Working
12 6 (5.31%) Data Modelling
12 6 (5.31%) Test Automation
13 5 (4.42%) Service Desk Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (10.62%) PowerShell
2 6 (5.31%) Java
3 5 (4.42%) Python
3 5 (4.42%) SQL
4 4 (3.54%) T-SQL
5 3 (2.65%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.65%) TypeScript
5 3 (2.65%) VBA
6 2 (1.77%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.88%) C#
7 1 (0.88%) CLIST
7 1 (0.88%) COBOL
7 1 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.88%) JCL
7 1 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.88%) REXX
Qualifications
1 12 (10.62%) Degree
2 6 (5.31%) CCNA
2 6 (5.31%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (5.31%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.42%) ACSP
3 5 (4.42%) ACTC
4 4 (3.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 4 (3.54%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.77%) CCNP
6 2 (1.77%) CISSP
6 2 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.77%) JNCIA
6 2 (1.77%) JNCIS
6 2 (1.77%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.88%) CISA
7 1 (0.88%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.88%) Dell Certification
7 1 (0.88%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.31%) QA
2 5 (4.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (2.65%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.65%) GDPR
4 3 (2.65%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.77%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.77%) SLA
6 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.88%) NIST
System Software
1 62 (54.87%) Active Directory
2 9 (7.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.54%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (2.65%) vSphere
5 2 (1.77%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.88%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (15.93%) Jamf Pro
2 14 (12.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (7.96%) SCCM
4 5 (4.42%) AppManager
5 3 (2.65%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (2.65%) vCenter Server
6 2 (1.77%) Ansible
6 2 (1.77%) Terraform
7 1 (0.88%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.88%) vRealize
Vendors
1 22 (19.47%) ServiceNow
2 19 (16.81%) Apple
3 12 (10.62%) VMware
4 7 (6.19%) Cisco
4 7 (6.19%) Citrix
5 5 (4.42%) Ivanti
5 5 (4.42%) SAP
5 5 (4.42%) Veeam
6 4 (3.54%) Meraki
7 3 (2.65%) Commvault
7 3 (2.65%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.77%) Arista
8 2 (1.77%) Infoblox
8 2 (1.77%) Liquidlogic
8 2 (1.77%) Proofpoint
8 2 (1.77%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.77%) Splunk
8 2 (1.77%) Veritas
9 1 (0.88%) Okta
9 1 (0.88%) Spiceworks