Microsoft Contracts in Leicestershire

Microsoft
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leicestershire 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 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 5 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 21 33 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicestershire 13.55% 20.37% 15.33%
As % of the Vendors category 28.38% 39.29% 39.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 30 37
10th Percentile £126 £122 £94
25th Percentile £199 £250 £130
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £378 £355 £325
Median % change year-on-year +6.55% +9.23% +132.14%
75th Percentile £625 £425 £450
90th Percentile £656 £441 £489
East Midlands median daily rate £400 £375 £400
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £13.40 £13.20
Median % change year-on-year - +1.52% -
East Midlands median hourly rate £14.00 £18.75 £10.50
% change year-on-year -25.33% +78.57% +4.63%

All Vendors
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 74 84 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 47.74% 51.85% 38.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 73 87
10th Percentile £122 £212 £101
25th Percentile £268 £350 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £388 £400
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% -3.13% +15.94%
75th Percentile £625 £450 £488
90th Percentile £659 £558 £595
East Midlands median daily rate £475 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £15.00 £13.20
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -17.50%
East Midlands median hourly rate £14.00 £20.71 £16.25
% change year-on-year -32.38% +27.42% +11.26%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Leicestershire

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Leicestershire

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Leicestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Leicestershire

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Leicestershire

Microsoft
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Leicester 0 11 £600 +60.00% 30
Coalville 0 2 - -
Microsoft
East Midlands

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (9.52%) Apache
3 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) Azure
2 3 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 2 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.76%) IaaS
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.76%) OneDrive
4 1 (4.76%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) NetScaler
2 1 (4.76%) PBX
2 1 (4.76%) PSTN
2 1 (4.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.52%) Big Data
2 2 (9.52%) Data Lake
2 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
2 2 (9.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
2 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Architect
2 5 (23.81%) Analyst
2 5 (23.81%) Consultant
3 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 4 (19.05%) Service Analyst
3 4 (19.05%) Service Desk Analyst
4 3 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (14.29%) Azure Architect
4 3 (14.29%) IAM Consultant
4 3 (14.29%) Support Technician
5 2 (9.52%) 2nd Line Support Technician
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Data Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Business Intelligence Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Data Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 2 (9.52%) IT Support
5 2 (9.52%) IT Technician
5 2 (9.52%) Junior
5 2 (9.52%) Migration Specialist
5 2 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) LDAP
1 3 (14.29%) OAuth
1 3 (14.29%) OpenID
1 3 (14.29%) SailPoint
1 3 (14.29%) SAML
1 3 (14.29%) Web Services
2 2 (9.52%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
1 2 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.76%) BYOD
2 1 (4.76%) Grid Computing
2 1 (4.76%) iPad
2 1 (4.76%) iPhone
2 1 (4.76%) PDA
2 1 (4.76%) Smartphone
2 1 (4.76%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (66.67%) Windows
2 6 (28.57%) Windows 10
2 6 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 3 (14.29%) Linux
4 1 (4.76%) Apple iOS
4 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.76%) Windows 7
4 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (4.76%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (23.81%) Agile
2 5 (23.81%) Customer Service
3 4 (19.05%) Digital Strategy
4 3 (14.29%) Migration
4 3 (14.29%) RBAC
5 2 (9.52%) Analytics
5 2 (9.52%) API Design
5 2 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (9.52%) Data Acquisition
5 2 (9.52%) Data Architecture
5 2 (9.52%) Data Modelling
5 2 (9.52%) Data Strategy
5 2 (9.52%) ETL
5 2 (9.52%) Machine Learning
5 2 (9.52%) Open Source
6 1 (4.76%) Conflict Management
6 1 (4.76%) Performance Optimisation
6 1 (4.76%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (4.76%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) PowerShell
2 3 (14.29%) Bash
2 3 (14.29%) Python
2 3 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) Citrix Certification
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.76%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (52.38%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.52%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (9.52%) XenApp
2 2 (9.52%) XenDesktop
3 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) SCCM
1 3 (14.29%) SCOM
1 3 (14.29%) SCSM
1 3 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (9.52%) Ansible
3 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Okta
2 2 (9.52%) Citrix
3 1 (4.76%) Dell
3 1 (4.76%) HP
3 1 (4.76%) Intel
3 1 (4.76%) Peregrine
3 1 (4.76%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.76%) Remedy
3 1 (4.76%) VMware