Microsoft Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 29 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
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 6 5
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 654 820 1,050
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 13.91% 14.78% 14.76%
As % of the Vendors category 33.42% 36.36% 38.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 561 703
10th Percentile £167 £180 £150
25th Percentile £263 £319 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £407
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +16.71% +1.95%
75th Percentile £550 £564 £525
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.45% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 35 111
10th Percentile £10.95 £14.84 £10.20
25th Percentile £11.09 £17.06 £13.02
Median hourly rate £15.00 £26.00 £17.36
Median % change year-on-year -42.31% +49.77% +0.06%
75th Percentile £18.03 £41.00 £23.57
90th Percentile £26.45 £47.17 £44.69
England median hourly rate £15.00 £21.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year -30.23% +19.44% +2.56%

All Vendors
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,957 2,255 2,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 41.61% 40.65% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,151 1,501 1,851
10th Percentile £250 £228 £177
25th Percentile £400 £388 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +7.53% +6.90%
75th Percentile £586 £588 £550
90th Percentile £650 £688 £650
England median daily rate £518 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -3.27% +1.90% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 73 173
10th Percentile £10.95 £15.73 £10.20
25th Percentile £12.53 £20.22 £14.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £30.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +62.16% -1.10%
75th Percentile £25.25 £44.50 £36.75
90th Percentile £45.88 £52.13 £75.00
England median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +74.42% +4.88%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the North of England over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in the North of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in the North of England over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the North of England region over the 6 months to 29 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
North West +1 397 £450 -5.26% 578
Yorkshire +2 218 £425 -10.53% 359
North East +9 41 £378 +45.38% 134
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 55 (8.41%) SharePoint
2 41 (6.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.38%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.61%) IBM Notes
4 4 (0.61%) WordPress
5 3 (0.46%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.46%) Confluence
5 3 (0.46%) IIS
6 2 (0.31%) CMS
6 2 (0.31%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.15%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.15%) Site Server
7 1 (0.15%) Smallworld
7 1 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 188 (28.75%) Microsoft Office
2 81 (12.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (4.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (2.29%) Spreadsheet
5 14 (2.14%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (1.22%) CATIA
6 8 (1.22%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.15%) Autodesk Inventor
8 1 (0.15%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.15%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 12 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.38%) Teamcenter
3 8 (1.22%) DELMIA
4 3 (0.46%) Maximo
5 2 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.31%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Payroll
6 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.15%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.15%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 162 (24.77%) Azure
2 144 (22.02%) Microsoft 365
3 56 (8.56%) Power Platform
4 51 (7.80%) Dynamics 365
5 44 (6.73%) Entra ID
6 36 (5.50%) AWS
7 22 (3.36%) SaaS
8 20 (3.06%) Taleo
9 19 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (2.45%) IaaS
11 14 (2.14%) Azure Sentinel
11 14 (2.14%) PowerApps
12 13 (1.99%) Azure Data Factory
12 13 (1.99%) PaaS
13 11 (1.68%) GCP
14 9 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
14 9 (1.38%) OneDrive
14 9 (1.38%) Serverless
15 8 (1.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 7 (1.07%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 34 (5.20%) Firewall
2 23 (3.52%) DNS
3 15 (2.29%) DHCP
4 13 (1.99%) VPN
5 12 (1.83%) LAN
5 12 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (1.53%) SAN
7 9 (1.38%) TCP/IP
8 8 (1.22%) WAN
9 7 (1.07%) VoIP
10 6 (0.92%) Internet
10 6 (0.92%) Network Security
11 5 (0.76%) Remote Desktop
11 5 (0.76%) VLAN
11 5 (0.76%) WAAS
12 3 (0.46%) Intranet
12 3 (0.46%) PBX
12 3 (0.46%) Unified Communications
13 2 (0.31%) IP Telephony
13 2 (0.31%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (6.42%) SQL Server
2 41 (6.27%) Power BI
3 17 (2.60%) Data Lake
4 16 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (2.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 9 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 8 (1.22%) Big Data
7 7 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (1.07%) BigQuery
7 7 (1.07%) Hadoop
7 7 (1.07%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (0.92%) GIS
9 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 4 (0.61%) MySQL
9 4 (0.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (0.46%) Tableau
11 2 (0.31%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 25 (3.82%) Git
2 16 (2.45%) JIRA
3 10 (1.53%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.38%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (0.61%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.46%) GitLab
7 2 (0.31%) AdminStudio
7 2 (0.31%) AppScan
7 2 (0.31%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.31%) InstallShield
7 2 (0.31%) MSI
7 2 (0.31%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.15%) Dreamweaver
8 1 (0.15%) gulp
8 1 (0.15%) Hudson
8 1 (0.15%) Maven
8 1 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.15%) Selenium
General
1 248 (37.92%) Social Skills
2 76 (11.62%) Finance
3 56 (8.56%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (7.34%) Public Sector
5 27 (4.13%) Banking
6 23 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
7 22 (3.36%) Manufacturing
8 18 (2.75%) Telecoms
9 14 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (1.53%) Retail
11 9 (1.38%) Legal
11 9 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.07%) Law
13 7 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.76%) Marketing
15 4 (0.61%) Automotive
15 4 (0.61%) Fire and Rescue
15 4 (0.61%) Local Government
16 3 (0.46%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 92 (14.07%) Analyst
2 58 (8.87%) IT Support
3 56 (8.56%) Architect
4 44 (6.73%) Lead
5 38 (5.81%) Developer
6 37 (5.66%) Support Engineer
7 33 (5.05%) Senior
8 32 (4.89%) Consultant
9 30 (4.59%) IT Engineer
10 28 (4.28%) Solutions Architect
11 27 (4.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 27 (4.13%) Service Analyst
11 27 (4.13%) Service Desk Analyst
12 24 (3.67%) Project Manager
13 23 (3.52%) 2nd Line Support
14 22 (3.36%) Administrator
14 22 (3.36%) Azure Engineer
15 18 (2.75%) Support Analyst
16 16 (2.45%) IT Technician
16 16 (2.45%) Service Desk Agent
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (2.29%) .NET
2 9 (1.38%) SailPoint
3 8 (1.22%) Kafka
3 8 (1.22%) PyTorch
3 8 (1.22%) TensorFlow
4 7 (1.07%) CSS
4 7 (1.07%) HTML
4 7 (1.07%) JSON
5 6 (0.92%) .NET Framework
5 6 (0.92%) REST
6 5 (0.76%) RESTful
6 5 (0.76%) Web Services
7 3 (0.46%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (0.46%) Node.js
7 3 (0.46%) Spring
7 3 (0.46%) Spring Boot
7 3 (0.46%) XHTML
8 2 (0.31%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.31%) PySpark
8 2 (0.31%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 28 (4.28%) Management Information System
2 23 (3.52%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 23 (3.52%) Cyber Threat
3 20 (3.06%) Cyber Defence
3 20 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (2.29%) NHS
5 9 (1.38%) Clustering
5 9 (1.38%) PKI
5 9 (1.38%) Virtual Team
6 7 (1.07%) Onboarding
7 6 (0.92%) Data Centre
7 6 (0.92%) Driving Licence
7 6 (0.92%) Video Conferencing
8 5 (0.76%) CCTV
8 5 (0.76%) iPhone
8 5 (0.76%) Low-Code
8 5 (0.76%) Public Cloud
8 5 (0.76%) Security Posture
8 5 (0.76%) Social Media
9 3 (0.46%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 196 (29.97%) Windows
2 118 (18.04%) Windows 10
3 42 (6.42%) Windows Server
4 14 (2.14%) Apple iOS
4 14 (2.14%) Linux
5 13 (1.99%) Windows Server 2012
6 11 (1.68%) Mac OS
6 11 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
7 9 (1.38%) Android
8 8 (1.22%) VMS
8 8 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (1.07%) Windows 7
10 3 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.15%) Unix
11 1 (0.15%) Windows 8
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.15%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (19.11%) Problem-Solving
2 120 (18.35%) Customer Service
3 74 (11.31%) Decision-Making
4 59 (9.02%) Agile
5 57 (8.72%) DevOps
6 52 (7.95%) Migration
7 50 (7.65%) Cybersecurity
8 48 (7.34%) Business Intelligence
9 44 (6.73%) ITIL
10 43 (6.57%) Project Management
11 42 (6.42%) Time Management
12 37 (5.66%) Stakeholder Management
13 36 (5.50%) Analytics
14 33 (5.05%) Mentoring
15 31 (4.74%) Incident Response
16 30 (4.59%) Information Security
17 29 (4.43%) Incident Management
18 28 (4.28%) CRM
18 28 (4.28%) Data Protection
18 28 (4.28%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (9.63%) SQL
2 39 (5.96%) PowerShell
2 39 (5.96%) Python
3 18 (2.75%) Java
4 17 (2.60%) C#
5 14 (2.14%) JavaScript
6 9 (1.38%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (0.76%) Bash
8 3 (0.46%) VB
9 2 (0.31%) Bicep
9 2 (0.31%) C
9 2 (0.31%) PHP
9 2 (0.31%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.15%) C++
10 1 (0.15%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.15%) Fortran
10 1 (0.15%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.15%) Perl
10 1 (0.15%) R
10 1 (0.15%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 114 (17.43%) Security Cleared
2 78 (11.93%) SC Cleared
3 68 (10.40%) Degree
4 33 (5.05%) Microsoft Certification
5 27 (4.13%) DV Cleared
6 25 (3.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (2.60%) CISSP
8 14 (2.14%) CISM
9 12 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (1.83%) MCSE
10 9 (1.38%) CCNA
10 9 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.38%) CompTIA Security+
10 9 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
11 8 (1.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 6 (0.92%) CISA
12 6 (0.92%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.92%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.92%) MBA
12 6 (0.92%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (6.12%) SLA
2 27 (4.13%) Disclosure Scotland
3 24 (3.67%) QA
4 23 (3.52%) NIST
5 18 (2.75%) NIST 800
6 14 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.07%) PMO
8 6 (0.92%) Accessibility
8 6 (0.92%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.76%) GDPR
10 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.31%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.15%) GMP
11 1 (0.15%) GRC
11 1 (0.15%) GxP
11 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.15%) NCSC
11 1 (0.15%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 157 (24.01%) Active Directory
2 38 (5.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (2.91%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.92%) Docker
4 6 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.46%) BitLocker
6 3 (0.46%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.46%) VMware Workstation
6 3 (0.46%) vSphere
7 2 (0.31%) Firmware
7 2 (0.31%) KVM
8 1 (0.15%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.15%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 56 (8.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (4.43%) SCCM
3 21 (3.21%) Terraform
4 16 (2.45%) Kubernetes
5 9 (1.38%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 7 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.92%) Ansible
8 4 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.61%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.46%) Autotask
9 3 (0.46%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (0.46%) Grafana
9 3 (0.46%) Nessus
9 3 (0.46%) Puppet
10 2 (0.31%) CA Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.31%) Graylog
10 2 (0.31%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.31%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.31%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.31%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 58 (8.87%) ServiceNow
2 48 (7.34%) VMware
3 20 (3.06%) Citrix
4 19 (2.91%) Google
5 15 (2.29%) Apple
5 15 (2.29%) Cisco
5 15 (2.29%) SAP
6 11 (1.68%) CyberArk
7 10 (1.53%) Oracle
7 10 (1.53%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.22%) Siemens
9 7 (1.07%) Databricks
9 7 (1.07%) Veeam
10 6 (0.92%) CA
11 5 (0.76%) Adobe
11 5 (0.76%) F5
12 4 (0.61%) Dell
12 4 (0.61%) Facebook
12 4 (0.61%) Hootsuite
12 4 (0.61%) HP