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 14 August 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
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 10 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 -1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 245 157 294
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.18% 10.42% 14.30%
As % of the Vendors category 33.98% 23.43% 31.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 100 190
10th Percentile £235 £178 £176
25th Percentile £322 £244 £282
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £479
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -0.78% +21.20%
75th Percentile £516 £575 £600
90th Percentile £580 £700 £650
England median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 8
10th Percentile - £17.34 £17.83
25th Percentile - £19.57 £19.63
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.00 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year -10.14% -3.45% +17.57%
75th Percentile £34.46 £22.00 £22.06
90th Percentile £133.78 £25.53 £28.93
England median hourly rate £22.63 £16.23 £22.00
% change year-on-year +39.43% -26.23% +25.71%

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 721 670 939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 47.62% 44.46% 45.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 404 566
10th Percentile £263 £338 £191
25th Percentile £375 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £514 £513
Median % change year-on-year -11.24% +0.29% +13.89%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £605
90th Percentile £613 £700 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 40 11
10th Percentile £18.10 £13.50 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £14.06 £17.38
Median hourly rate £25.77 £15.09 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +70.80% -29.84% +14.97%
75th Percentile £81.25 £35.31 £22.13
90th Percentile - £41.94 £22.51
England median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -16.17% -14.29% +55.56%

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

Microsoft
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 14 August 2025.

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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Hourly Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 14 August 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 +10 119 £450 -5.26% 196
South Yorkshire +11 108 £420 -11.58% 85
East Yorkshire - 9 £145 - 39
North Yorkshire -11 6 £200 -71.43% 64
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 14 (5.71%) Confluence
2 13 (5.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (5.31%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.82%) CICS
3 2 (0.82%) CMS
4 1 (0.41%) Apache
4 1 (0.41%) SAS
4 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.41%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 43 (17.55%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (11.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (5.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (3.27%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.41%) Maple
6 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.41%) Magento
3 1 (0.41%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.41%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.41%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.41%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 67 (27.35%) Microsoft 365
2 63 (25.71%) Azure
3 52 (21.22%) Entra ID
4 29 (11.84%) Power Platform
5 21 (8.57%) AWS
6 18 (7.35%) GCP
7 14 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (5.31%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (5.31%) PowerApps
9 10 (4.08%) Power Automate
10 7 (2.86%) GitHub
11 6 (2.45%) SaaS
12 5 (2.04%) Azure AKS
12 5 (2.04%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (2.04%) Serverless
13 4 (1.63%) PaaS
14 3 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (1.22%) Azure Functions
14 3 (1.22%) CloudBees
14 3 (1.22%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (12.24%) Firewall
2 13 (5.31%) VPN
3 12 (4.90%) SD-WAN
3 12 (4.90%) TCP/IP
4 11 (4.49%) Cisco Nexus
4 11 (4.49%) Ethernet
4 11 (4.49%) WAN
5 6 (2.45%) Cisco ISE
5 6 (2.45%) Network Security
6 5 (2.04%) Wireless
7 4 (1.63%) SAN
8 3 (1.22%) Cisco Firepower
8 3 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (1.22%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.82%) Cisco Wireless
9 2 (0.82%) DNS
9 2 (0.82%) LAN
9 2 (0.82%) NAS
9 2 (0.82%) NGFW
9 2 (0.82%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.57%) Power BI
2 11 (4.49%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.45%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.04%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.63%) Power Query
5 4 (1.63%) Tableau
6 3 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.22%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.82%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.82%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.82%) Looker
8 1 (0.41%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.41%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.41%) DB2
8 1 (0.41%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.41%) Metadata
8 1 (0.41%) Parquet
8 1 (0.41%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 29 (11.84%) JIRA
2 25 (10.20%) Postman
3 23 (9.39%) Git
4 22 (8.98%) Jenkins
5 9 (3.67%) SoapUI
6 8 (3.27%) Selenium
7 6 (2.45%) GitLab
8 5 (2.04%) IntelliJ
8 5 (2.04%) Maven
9 2 (0.82%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.41%) Appium
10 1 (0.41%) Babel
10 1 (0.41%) ChangeMan
10 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.41%) JUnit
10 1 (0.41%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.41%) TestNG
10 1 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 103 (42.04%) Social Skills
2 62 (25.31%) Finance
3 26 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (8.98%) Banking
5 21 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (8.57%) Retail
6 13 (5.31%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.90%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.86%) Local Government
9 4 (1.63%) Legal
10 3 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.22%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.22%) Law
10 3 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.82%) Billing
11 2 (0.82%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.41%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 45 (18.37%) Analyst
2 29 (11.84%) Support Manager
3 24 (9.80%) IT Support
4 21 (8.57%) Senior
5 19 (7.76%) Developer
6 16 (6.53%) Network Engineer
7 13 (5.31%) 1st Line Support
7 13 (5.31%) IT Manager
8 12 (4.90%) 1st Line Support Manager
8 12 (4.90%) Business Analyst
8 12 (4.90%) IT Support Manager
9 11 (4.49%) Project Manager
9 11 (4.49%) Support Engineer
9 11 (4.49%) Windows Engineer
10 10 (4.08%) Architect
10 10 (4.08%) Lead
11 9 (3.67%) Implementation Engineer
11 9 (3.67%) Network Implementation Engineer
11 9 (3.67%) Test Analyst
12 8 (3.27%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.12%) .NET
2 4 (1.63%) .NET Core
2 4 (1.63%) ARM Templates
2 4 (1.63%) Middleware
2 4 (1.63%) RESTful
3 3 (1.22%) CSS
3 3 (1.22%) HTML
3 3 (1.22%) Hugging Face
3 3 (1.22%) JSON
3 3 (1.22%) OpenCV
3 3 (1.22%) PyTorch
3 3 (1.22%) React
3 3 (1.22%) Regular Expression
3 3 (1.22%) REST
3 3 (1.22%) SpaCy
3 3 (1.22%) TensorFlow
4 2 (0.82%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.82%) Blazor
4 2 (0.82%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.82%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.80%) Data Centre
2 19 (7.76%) iPhone
2 19 (7.76%) Smartphone
3 9 (3.67%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.27%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.86%) Mainframe
5 7 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.45%) HTC Vive
6 6 (2.45%) Virtual Reality
7 5 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.04%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.63%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.22%) CCTV
9 3 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.22%) NHS
10 2 (0.82%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.82%) IVR
10 2 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.82%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 35 (14.29%) Mac OS
2 34 (13.88%) Windows
3 12 (4.90%) Linux
4 7 (2.86%) Windows 10
5 6 (2.45%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.82%) Android
6 2 (0.82%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.82%) zOS
7 1 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.41%) MVS
7 1 (0.41%) Solaris
7 1 (0.41%) Unix
7 1 (0.41%) VMS
7 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (23.27%) Agile
2 43 (17.55%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (16.33%) Customer Service
3 40 (16.33%) DevOps
3 40 (16.33%) ITIL
4 31 (12.65%) CI/CD
5 29 (11.84%) ITSM
6 26 (10.61%) Incident Management
6 26 (10.61%) Mobile Device Management
6 26 (10.61%) Stakeholder Management
7 23 (9.39%) Service Management
8 21 (8.57%) Scrum
9 19 (7.76%) Business Intelligence
10 18 (7.35%) Analytics
10 18 (7.35%) Cybersecurity
10 18 (7.35%) Service Delivery
10 18 (7.35%) Test Automation
11 17 (6.94%) Migration
12 16 (6.53%) Software Testing
13 14 (5.71%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 37 (15.10%) Python
2 20 (8.16%) SQL
3 14 (5.71%) C#
4 12 (4.90%) PowerShell
5 10 (4.08%) Bash
6 9 (3.67%) Java
7 7 (2.86%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.04%) Bicep
8 5 (2.04%) VB
9 4 (1.63%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.82%) COBOL
10 2 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.82%) Go
11 1 (0.41%) CLIST
11 1 (0.41%) JCL
11 1 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.41%) PHP
11 1 (0.41%) REXX
11 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (6.94%) Degree
2 16 (6.53%) Security Cleared
3 15 (6.12%) SC Cleared
4 12 (4.90%) ACSP
4 12 (4.90%) ACTC
4 12 (4.90%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (3.27%) CISM
5 8 (3.27%) CISSP
5 8 (3.27%) ISTQB
6 6 (2.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 6 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.63%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.63%) CCNA
7 4 (1.63%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.82%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.82%) CISMP
9 2 (0.82%) GSEC
10 1 (0.41%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (5.31%) GDPR
2 13 (5.31%) QA
3 10 (4.08%) PMO
4 8 (3.27%) NIST
5 6 (2.45%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.04%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.82%) NCSC
7 2 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.41%) HL7
8 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 56 (22.86%) Active Directory
2 16 (6.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.45%) Docker
4 5 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.22%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.22%) vSphere
6 2 (0.82%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.82%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.82%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.82%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 2 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.41%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.41%) KVM
7 1 (0.41%) NFS
7 1 (0.41%) SRDF
7 1 (0.41%) Xen
7 1 (0.41%) XenApp
7 1 (0.41%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 34 (13.88%) Jamf Pro
2 31 (12.65%) Microsoft Intune
3 27 (11.02%) Ansible
4 15 (6.12%) Terraform
5 12 (4.90%) Puppet
5 12 (4.90%) SCCM
6 11 (4.49%) Kubernetes
7 10 (4.08%) Microsoft Clustering
8 5 (2.04%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.22%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.82%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.82%) Grafana
10 2 (0.82%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.82%) vRealize
10 2 (0.82%) yum
11 1 (0.41%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.41%) Oracle RMAN
11 1 (0.41%) SCOM
Vendors
1 41 (16.73%) ServiceNow
2 35 (14.29%) Apple
3 27 (11.02%) Cisco
4 18 (7.35%) Google
4 18 (7.35%) VMware
5 14 (5.71%) Citrix
6 12 (4.90%) MuleSoft
7 9 (3.67%) BeyondTrust
7 9 (3.67%) CyberArk
7 9 (3.67%) Thycotic
8 7 (2.86%) F5
8 7 (2.86%) SolarWinds
9 5 (2.04%) LogicMonitor
9 5 (2.04%) Meraki
9 5 (2.04%) Red Hat
9 5 (2.04%) SAP
10 4 (1.63%) Commvault
10 4 (1.63%) HP
10 4 (1.63%) Oracle
10 4 (1.63%) Veeam