Microsoft Contracts in Birmingham

Microsoft
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 15 May 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 95 150 193
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.91% 17.16% 14.89%
As % of the Vendors category 30.35% 38.36% 38.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 104 147
10th Percentile £190 £259 £180
25th Percentile £350 £363 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £494 £606 £572
90th Percentile £638 £688 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 2
10th Percentile £11.08 £12.35 £14.25
25th Percentile £13.25 £12.50 £14.63
Median hourly rate £16.98 £15.99 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% -0.09% -1.45%
75th Percentile £26.50 £20.00 £17.13
90th Percentile £55.88 £23.83 £17.35
West Midlands median hourly rate £14.00 £16.71 £16.00
% change year-on-year -16.21% +4.42% -11.11%

All Vendors
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 313 391 498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 42.53% 44.74% 38.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 227 359
10th Percentile £263 £257 £197
25th Percentile £350 £369 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £493 £475
% change year-on-year -8.72% +3.79% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 18 4
10th Percentile £11.55 £12.50 £14.75
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.73 £15.88
Median hourly rate £24.65 £19.60 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.75% +5.96% +2.78%
75th Percentile £33.13 £51.88 £20.00
90th Percentile £53.10 £97.50 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.39 £20.71 £17.28
% change year-on-year -11.21% +19.82% -4.00%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Birmingham over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Birmingham

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in Birmingham over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 15 (15.79%) SharePoint
2 12 (12.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.11%) IIS
3 2 (2.11%) WordPress
4 1 (1.05%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.05%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.05%) CMS
4 1 (1.05%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.05%) Moodle
Applications
1 15 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 15 (15.79%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (6.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.11%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 35 (36.84%) Azure
2 31 (32.63%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (15.79%) Power Platform
4 12 (12.63%) Dynamics 365
5 10 (10.53%) PowerApps
6 9 (9.47%) PaaS
6 9 (9.47%) Power Automate
7 8 (8.42%) Entra ID
7 8 (8.42%) OneDrive
7 8 (8.42%) SaaS
8 6 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (5.26%) AWS
9 5 (5.26%) IaaS
10 3 (3.16%) Google Workspace
11 2 (2.11%) Boomi
11 2 (2.11%) GitHub
11 2 (2.11%) Serverless
11 2 (2.11%) SuccessFactors
12 1 (1.05%) Azure Functions
12 1 (1.05%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.47%) WAN
2 8 (8.42%) VPN
3 7 (7.37%) Firewall
4 6 (6.32%) DNS
4 6 (6.32%) Unified Communications
5 5 (5.26%) LAN
6 4 (4.21%) Ethernet
6 4 (4.21%) Internet
6 4 (4.21%) MPLS
6 4 (4.21%) TCP/IP
7 3 (3.16%) ADSL
7 3 (3.16%) PSTN
7 3 (3.16%) SAN
7 3 (3.16%) VLAN
7 3 (3.16%) VoIP
7 3 (3.16%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (2.11%) DHCP
8 2 (2.11%) iSCSI
8 2 (2.11%) NAS
8 2 (2.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.68%) Power BI
1 13 (13.68%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 7 (7.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (4.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (3.16%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.11%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.11%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.05%) MySQL
6 1 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.05%) Power Query
6 1 (1.05%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.05%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (4.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (3.16%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.11%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (2.11%) webpack
4 1 (1.05%) Ant
4 1 (1.05%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.05%) Gradle
4 1 (1.05%) Hudson
4 1 (1.05%) JUnit
4 1 (1.05%) Maven
4 1 (1.05%) Selenium
4 1 (1.05%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.05%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 44 (46.32%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.89%) Finance
3 12 (12.63%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.32%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.21%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (4.21%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.16%) Legal
7 2 (2.11%) Cantonese Language
7 2 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.11%) Mandarin Language
7 2 (2.11%) Marketing
7 2 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.11%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.11%) Retail
8 1 (1.05%) Arabic Language
8 1 (1.05%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (1.05%) German Language
8 1 (1.05%) Police
Job Titles
1 18 (18.95%) Developer
2 16 (16.84%) Analyst
3 10 (10.53%) 2nd Line Support
3 10 (10.53%) Administrator
3 10 (10.53%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 9 (9.47%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 7 (7.37%) Business Analyst
5 7 (7.37%) Microsoft Engineer
6 6 (6.32%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
6 6 (6.32%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 6 (6.32%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 6 (6.32%) Java Developer
6 6 (6.32%) Senior
6 6 (6.32%) SharePoint Administrator
6 6 (6.32%) Support Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Coordinator
7 5 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Lead
8 4 (4.21%) Consultant
8 4 (4.21%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.32%) .NET
1 6 (6.32%) Spring
2 5 (5.26%) React
3 4 (4.21%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.11%) Hibernate
4 2 (2.11%) JSON
4 2 (2.11%) LAMP
4 2 (2.11%) Next.js
4 2 (2.11%) RESTful
5 1 (1.05%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.05%) Apache Sling
5 1 (1.05%) Blazor
5 1 (1.05%) CSS
5 1 (1.05%) HTML
5 1 (1.05%) SOAP
5 1 (1.05%) Web Services
5 1 (1.05%) WSDL
5 1 (1.05%) XML
5 1 (1.05%) XSD
5 1 (1.05%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.37%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (6.32%) Digital Signage
2 6 (6.32%) PKI
3 4 (4.21%) Clustering
4 3 (3.16%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.16%) Driving Licence
4 3 (3.16%) Replication
4 3 (3.16%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.11%) EPoS
5 2 (2.11%) iPad
5 2 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.05%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.05%) FMCG
6 1 (1.05%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.05%) PDA
6 1 (1.05%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.05%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 23 (24.21%) Windows
2 14 (14.74%) Windows Server
3 13 (13.68%) Windows Server 2019
4 10 (10.53%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (8.42%) Windows 10
6 6 (6.32%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (5.26%) Linux
8 3 (3.16%) Mac OS
9 2 (2.11%) Ubuntu
9 2 (2.11%) VMS
9 2 (2.11%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (1.05%) Android
10 1 (1.05%) Apple iOS
10 1 (1.05%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (18.95%) Customer Service
1 18 (18.95%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (17.89%) Agile
3 12 (12.63%) Business Intelligence
4 11 (11.58%) DevOps
5 10 (10.53%) ITIL
5 10 (10.53%) Service Delivery
5 10 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (9.47%) CRM
7 8 (8.42%) CI/CD
7 8 (8.42%) User Stories
8 7 (7.37%) Analytics
8 7 (7.37%) Decision-Making
8 7 (7.37%) Microservices
9 6 (6.32%) Change Control
9 6 (6.32%) Data Modelling
9 6 (6.32%) Identity Management
9 6 (6.32%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 6 (6.32%) Proactive Management
9 6 (6.32%) Web SSO
Programming Languages
1 19 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 15 (15.79%) SQL
3 9 (9.47%) Java
4 7 (7.37%) Python
5 5 (5.26%) C#
6 4 (4.21%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.11%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.05%) Bicep
8 1 (1.05%) C
8 1 (1.05%) C++
8 1 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.05%) Groovy
8 1 (1.05%) PHP
8 1 (1.05%) Scala
8 1 (1.05%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (13.68%) Degree
2 12 (12.63%) Security Cleared
3 8 (8.42%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (5.26%) Master's Degree
5 4 (4.21%) BC Cleared
5 4 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.21%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.16%) APMP
6 3 (3.16%) PMI Certification
6 3 (3.16%) PMP
7 2 (2.11%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (1.05%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.05%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.32%) SLA
2 5 (5.26%) GDPR
3 3 (3.16%) QA
4 2 (2.11%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.11%) PMO
5 1 (1.05%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (17.89%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.21%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.11%) Terminal Services
4 2 (2.11%) vSphere
5 1 (1.05%) Docker
5 1 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.05%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (17.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (12.63%) SCCM
2 12 (12.63%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (3.16%) Autotask
4 3 (3.16%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (3.16%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (2.11%) Terraform
6 1 (1.05%) Ansible
6 1 (1.05%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.05%) Proxmox
6 1 (1.05%) Puppet
6 1 (1.05%) Rancher
Vendors
1 10 (10.53%) VMware
2 9 (9.47%) Oracle
3 5 (5.26%) Salesforce
3 5 (5.26%) SAP
4 4 (4.21%) Apple
4 4 (4.21%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.16%) BT
5 3 (3.16%) Cisco
5 3 (3.16%) Datto
5 3 (3.16%) Google
5 3 (3.16%) Openreach
6 2 (2.11%) Aruba
6 2 (2.11%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.11%) ProCurve
6 2 (2.11%) Synology
6 2 (2.11%) Veeam
6 2 (2.11%) Zerto
7 1 (1.05%) Anaplan
7 1 (1.05%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.05%) LogicMonitor