Microsoft Contracts in Oxfordshire

Microsoft
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 3 3 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +6
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 28 37 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 12.84% 16.37% 21.69%
As % of the Vendors category 34.15% 35.24% 49.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 34 49
10th Percentile - £175 £150
25th Percentile £128 £263 £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £365 £337
Median % change year-on-year +2.74% +8.31% -25.11%
75th Percentile £475 £450 £575
90th Percentile £506 £523 £660
South East median daily rate £465 £460 £445
% change year-on-year +1.08% +3.37% +3.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £16.05 - -
25th Percentile £16.13 - -
Median hourly rate £17.50 - -
75th Percentile £18.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £20.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year +12.50% +21.21% -17.50%

All Vendors
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 82 105 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 37.61% 46.46% 44.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 68 90
10th Percentile £128 £194 £154
25th Percentile £325 £300 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £506 £525 £575
90th Percentile £555 £647 £678
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £484
% change year-on-year - +3.36% +5.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 10
10th Percentile £16.11 - £19.08
25th Percentile £16.25 £18.08 £20.00
Median hourly rate £18.36 £25.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.55% +19.05% -4.05%
75th Percentile £26.03 £32.30 -
90th Percentile £36.83 - £48.75
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year +5.56% +130.77% -11.36%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Oxfordshire

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Oxfordshire

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Oxfordshire

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Oxfordshire

Microsoft
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 16 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
Oxford 0 12 £425 +6.25% 17
Bicester - 2 £369 - 4
Microsoft
South East

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Aareon QL
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) Azure
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
1 6 (21.43%) Power Platform
2 4 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (10.71%) AWS
3 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (10.71%) SaaS
4 2 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (7.14%) Google Workspace
4 2 (7.14%) IaaS
4 2 (7.14%) PaaS
5 1 (3.57%) GCP
5 1 (3.57%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) Firewall
1 3 (10.71%) VPN
2 2 (7.14%) DNS
2 2 (7.14%) LAN
2 2 (7.14%) WAN
2 2 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Law
4 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (21.43%) Active Directory Technician
1 6 (21.43%) Hardware Technician
1 6 (21.43%) IT Technician
2 5 (17.86%) Developer
3 3 (10.71%) Support Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) 1st Line Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) 1st Line Support
4 2 (7.14%) 1st Line Support Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) First Line Help Desk Support
4 2 (7.14%) Help Desk Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Help Desk Support
4 2 (7.14%) Help Desk Support Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) IT Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) IT Support
4 2 (7.14%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Housing Association
2 2 (7.14%) Life Science
2 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.57%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (10.71%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.57%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (17.86%) Workflow
2 4 (14.29%) Customer Service
3 3 (10.71%) Agile
3 3 (10.71%) Change Management
3 3 (10.71%) DevOps
3 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (7.14%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (7.14%) Functional Testing
4 2 (7.14%) Information Security
4 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (7.14%) Logistics
4 2 (7.14%) Mentoring
4 2 (7.14%) Scrum
4 2 (7.14%) Server Management
4 2 (7.14%) Test Automation
4 2 (7.14%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (3.57%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.86%) SQL
2 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Degree
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (7.14%) A+ Certification
2 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 11 (39.29%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.57%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) SCCM
2 1 (3.57%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Aareon
2 4 (14.29%) VMware
3 3 (10.71%) Cisco
3 3 (10.71%) Google
4 2 (7.14%) Aruba
4 2 (7.14%) Meraki
5 1 (3.57%) Citrix
5 1 (3.57%) HP
5 1 (3.57%) Sophos
5 1 (3.57%) Workday