Microsoft Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 2 4
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 337 667 817
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.22% 19.52% 16.26%
As % of the Vendors category 28.18% 38.67% 38.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 496 605
10th Percentile £166 £163 £144
25th Percentile £255 £308 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £439 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.58% +3.24% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £546 £520
90th Percentile £650 £675 £625
England median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 23 45
10th Percentile £10.89 £12.10 £8.82
25th Percentile £12.75 £13.53 £9.74
Median hourly rate £14.00 £16.48 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.05% +17.71% +9.93%
75th Percentile £21.63 £21.88 £20.00
90th Percentile £40.07 £26.03 £23.55
England median hourly rate £15.00 £21.22 £18.43
% change year-on-year -29.31% +15.17% +0.85%

All Vendors
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,196 1,725 2,131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 43.38% 50.48% 42.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 747 1,155 1,473
10th Percentile £213 £209 £185
25th Percentile £350 £352 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £550
90th Percentile £700 £675 £650
England median daily rate £519 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -3.53% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 57 87
10th Percentile £10.92 £13.07 £9.55
25th Percentile £12.75 £15.25 £12.38
Median hourly rate £15.61 £20.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.98% +17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £26.50 £30.00 £22.13
90th Percentile £43.70 £65.40 £32.90
England median hourly rate £22.50 £39.55 £21.00
% change year-on-year -43.11% +88.33% -3.45%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the Midlands over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in the Midlands over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 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
West Midlands -4 225 £425 -5.56% 424
East Midlands -4 105 £400 +6.67% 274
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 44 (13.06%) SharePoint
2 35 (10.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.89%) IIS
4 2 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.59%) WordPress
5 1 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.30%) CICS
5 1 (0.30%) CMS
5 1 (0.30%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.30%) Moodle
5 1 (0.30%) SAS
5 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 52 (15.43%) Microsoft Office
2 48 (14.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (4.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (2.67%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (2.37%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.30%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (2.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.48%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.59%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.30%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.30%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.30%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.30%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 118 (35.01%) Azure
2 95 (28.19%) Microsoft 365
3 57 (16.91%) Power Platform
4 26 (7.72%) Dynamics 365
5 20 (5.93%) OneDrive
5 20 (5.93%) SaaS
6 18 (5.34%) Entra ID
7 16 (4.75%) PowerApps
8 15 (4.45%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (4.45%) PaaS
8 15 (4.45%) Power Automate
9 14 (4.15%) AWS
10 13 (3.86%) Azure Sentinel
11 12 (3.56%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (2.97%) IaaS
13 6 (1.78%) Serverless
14 5 (1.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 5 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (1.48%) Azure Functions
14 5 (1.48%) Oracle Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 29 (8.61%) DNS
2 22 (6.53%) VPN
3 18 (5.34%) Firewall
4 14 (4.15%) TCP/IP
5 13 (3.86%) DHCP
5 13 (3.86%) SAN
5 13 (3.86%) WAN
6 10 (2.97%) LAN
6 10 (2.97%) NetScaler
7 8 (2.37%) Network Security
8 7 (2.08%) Internet
8 7 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (2.08%) Wireless
9 6 (1.78%) Unified Communications
10 5 (1.48%) Ethernet
10 5 (1.48%) Intranet
11 4 (1.19%) Fibre Channel
11 4 (1.19%) MPLS
11 4 (1.19%) PSTN
11 4 (1.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (12.17%) Power BI
2 36 (10.68%) SQL Server
3 12 (3.56%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (2.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (2.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (1.78%) Data Lake
6 6 (1.78%) NoSQL
6 6 (1.78%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.78%) Tableau
7 5 (1.48%) BusinessObjects
7 5 (1.48%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (1.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (0.89%) Big Data
10 2 (0.59%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.59%) MS Access
10 2 (0.59%) MySQL
10 2 (0.59%) Power Query
11 1 (0.30%) DB2
Development Applications
1 8 (2.37%) Git
1 8 (2.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 7 (2.08%) Visual Studio
3 4 (1.19%) JIRA
3 4 (1.19%) NUnit
4 3 (0.89%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.59%) Moq
5 2 (0.59%) Selenium
5 2 (0.59%) webpack
6 1 (0.30%) Ant
6 1 (0.30%) Gradle
6 1 (0.30%) Hudson
6 1 (0.30%) JUnit
6 1 (0.30%) Maven
6 1 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.30%) PVCS
6 1 (0.30%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 111 (32.94%) Social Skills
2 59 (17.51%) Finance
3 58 (17.21%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (6.23%) Public Sector
5 15 (4.45%) Manufacturing
5 15 (4.45%) Organisational Skills
6 14 (4.15%) Legal
7 13 (3.86%) Telecoms
8 9 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.37%) Marketing
10 7 (2.08%) Automotive
10 7 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.48%) Advertising
12 4 (1.19%) Electronics
12 4 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.19%) Publishing
12 4 (1.19%) Retail
13 3 (0.89%) Banking
13 3 (0.89%) Local Government
14 2 (0.59%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 65 (19.29%) Analyst
2 36 (10.68%) Developer
3 32 (9.50%) Architect
4 23 (6.82%) 2nd Line Support
4 23 (6.82%) Administrator
5 19 (5.64%) Senior
6 16 (4.75%) Consultant
7 14 (4.15%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 14 (4.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (4.15%) Support Engineer
8 12 (3.56%) IT Manager
8 12 (3.56%) Project Manager
9 11 (3.26%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 11 (3.26%) IT Engineer
9 11 (3.26%) Service Analyst
9 11 (3.26%) Service Desk Analyst
9 11 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (2.97%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 10 (2.97%) Lead
10 10 (2.97%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.86%) .NET
2 6 (1.78%) .NET Framework
2 6 (1.78%) LDAP
2 6 (1.78%) Spring
3 5 (1.48%) React
3 5 (1.48%) Web Services
4 4 (1.19%) ADO
4 4 (1.19%) AngularJS
4 4 (1.19%) SailPoint
4 4 (1.19%) SAML
4 4 (1.19%) XML
5 3 (0.89%) ASP.NET
5 3 (0.89%) Flask
5 3 (0.89%) JSON
5 3 (0.89%) OAuth
5 3 (0.89%) OpenID
5 3 (0.89%) Pandas
5 3 (0.89%) SAP Fiori
6 2 (0.59%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.59%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.42%) Management Information System
2 13 (3.86%) Cyber Defence
3 12 (3.56%) Cyber Threat
3 12 (3.56%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (3.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 9 (2.67%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.08%) Driving Licence
6 7 (2.08%) PKI
7 6 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (1.78%) Digital Signage
7 6 (1.78%) Security Operations Centre
7 6 (1.78%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.48%) Clustering
8 5 (1.48%) iPad
8 5 (1.48%) Replication
8 5 (1.48%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.19%) Fat Client
9 4 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.19%) Thin Client
10 3 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 106 (31.45%) Windows
2 45 (13.35%) Windows Server
3 43 (12.76%) Windows 10
4 17 (5.04%) Linux
5 16 (4.75%) Windows Server 2019
6 13 (3.86%) Apple iOS
7 12 (3.56%) Windows Server 2016
8 10 (2.97%) Windows Server 2012
9 9 (2.67%) Windows 7
10 8 (2.37%) Ubuntu
11 6 (1.78%) Mac OS
12 5 (1.48%) Debian
13 4 (1.19%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.89%) VMS
15 1 (0.30%) CentOS
15 1 (0.30%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2003
15 1 (0.30%) Windows XP
15 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (18.69%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (15.13%) Customer Service
3 42 (12.46%) Agile
3 42 (12.46%) Business Intelligence
4 37 (10.98%) ITIL
4 37 (10.98%) Migration
5 31 (9.20%) Change Management
6 30 (8.90%) Analytics
7 26 (7.72%) Cybersecurity
8 25 (7.42%) Data Modelling
8 25 (7.42%) DevOps
9 24 (7.12%) Service Delivery
10 23 (6.82%) Stakeholder Management
11 22 (6.53%) Decision-Making
11 22 (6.53%) Information Security
12 21 (6.23%) CRM
13 19 (5.64%) Business Analysis
13 19 (5.64%) Data Analytics
14 18 (5.34%) Mentoring
14 18 (5.34%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (13.35%) SQL
2 36 (10.68%) PowerShell
3 19 (5.64%) Python
4 13 (3.86%) C#
5 11 (3.26%) Java
6 8 (2.37%) Swift
7 7 (2.08%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.78%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (1.48%) Bash
9 5 (1.48%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.89%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.59%) ABAP
12 2 (0.59%) Bicep
12 2 (0.59%) C
12 2 (0.59%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.59%) X++
13 1 (0.30%) CLIST
13 1 (0.30%) R
13 1 (0.30%) SELCOPY
Qualifications
1 58 (17.21%) Security Cleared
2 48 (14.24%) SC Cleared
3 43 (12.76%) Degree
4 24 (7.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 20 (5.93%) DV Cleared
6 13 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.56%) Azure Certification
8 11 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (2.67%) CISSP
10 7 (2.08%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.78%) CompTIA Security+
11 6 (1.78%) PMI Certification
11 6 (1.78%) PMP
12 5 (1.48%) APMP
12 5 (1.48%) MCSE
13 4 (1.19%) BC Cleared
13 4 (1.19%) ISEB
13 4 (1.19%) ISTQB
13 4 (1.19%) MCITP
13 4 (1.19%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.34%) SLA
2 9 (2.67%) NIST
2 9 (2.67%) NIST 800
3 8 (2.37%) QA
4 7 (2.08%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.78%) GDPR
6 4 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.19%) PMO
7 2 (0.59%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.59%) GRC
8 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 79 (23.44%) Active Directory
2 15 (4.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (4.15%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (2.97%) XenApp
4 10 (2.97%) XenDesktop
5 8 (2.37%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (2.37%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.78%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (1.48%) vSphere
8 4 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.59%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.59%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.30%) Docker
10 1 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.30%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 26 (7.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (6.82%) SCCM
3 18 (5.34%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (1.78%) vCenter Server
5 5 (1.48%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (0.89%) Autotask
6 3 (0.89%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (0.89%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (0.89%) Terraform
7 2 (0.59%) Kibana
7 2 (0.59%) logstash
8 1 (0.30%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.30%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.30%) VxRail
Vendors
1 29 (8.61%) VMware
2 25 (7.42%) Oracle
3 18 (5.34%) SAP
4 12 (3.56%) Okta
5 11 (3.26%) Citrix
6 10 (2.97%) NetApp
6 10 (2.97%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.67%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.37%) Apple
8 8 (2.37%) Google
9 7 (2.08%) Cisco
10 5 (1.48%) Autodesk
10 5 (1.48%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.19%) Computacenter
12 3 (0.89%) BT
12 3 (0.89%) Datto
12 3 (0.89%) JD Edwards
12 3 (0.89%) Openreach
12 3 (0.89%) QAD
12 3 (0.89%) Sophos