Microsoft Contracts in Leicester

Microsoft
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leicester 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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 9 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 +2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 11 19 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicester 9.57% 18.10% 11.54%
As % of the Vendors category 16.67% 39.58% 30.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 23
10th Percentile £270 £313 £219
25th Percentile £364 £350 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year +56.67% -6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £625 £438 £474
90th Percentile £688 £547 £490
Leicestershire median daily rate £378 £360 £325
% change year-on-year +5.07% +10.77% +249.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £13.40 £13.20
Median % change year-on-year - +1.52% -
Leicestershire median hourly rate - £13.40 £13.20
% change year-on-year - +1.52% -

All Vendors
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 66 48 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester 57.39% 45.71% 38.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 41 74
10th Percentile £130 £313 £213
25th Percentile £363 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £420 £413
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +1.82% -2.94%
75th Percentile £625 £450 £500
90th Percentile £659 £550 £705
Leicestershire median daily rate £450 £388 £400
% change year-on-year +16.13% -3.13% +15.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £15.00 £13.20
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -54.87%
Leicestershire median hourly rate - £15.00 £13.20
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -54.87%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Leicester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Leicester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leicester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Leicester over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Leicester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leicester

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Leicester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester 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 2 (18.18%) Apache
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Entra ID
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
4 1 (9.09%) IaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (9.09%) OneDrive
4 1 (9.09%) Yammer
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
2 2 (18.18%) Big Data
2 2 (18.18%) Data Lake
2 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
2 2 (18.18%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) GitLab
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Azure Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Consultant
2 3 (27.27%) IAM Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Data Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (18.18%) Junior
4 1 (9.09%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 1 (9.09%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) LDAP
1 3 (27.27%) OAuth
1 3 (27.27%) OpenID
1 3 (27.27%) SailPoint
1 3 (27.27%) SAML
1 3 (27.27%) Web Services
2 2 (18.18%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Grid Computing
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Windows
2 5 (45.45%) Windows Server
3 4 (36.36%) Linux
4 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 3 (27.27%) RBAC
3 2 (18.18%) Analytics
3 2 (18.18%) API Design
3 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (18.18%) Data Acquisition
3 2 (18.18%) Data Architecture
3 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
3 2 (18.18%) Data Strategy
3 2 (18.18%) ETL
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
3 2 (18.18%) Open Source
3 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (18.18%) Task Automation
4 1 (9.09%) Data Management
4 1 (9.09%) Migration
4 1 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (9.09%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) PowerShell
2 3 (27.27%) Bash
2 3 (27.27%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) SCCM
1 4 (36.36%) SCOM
1 4 (36.36%) SCSM
2 3 (27.27%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (18.18%) Ansible
3 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Okta
2 2 (18.18%) Red Hat
2 2 (18.18%) VMware