Microsoft Contracts in Preston

Microsoft
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Preston 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 1 10 1
Rank change year-on-year +9 -9 +3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 27 18 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Preston 38.57% 18.75% 37.50%
As % of the Vendors category 50.94% 31.03% 69.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 15
10th Percentile £438 £338 £156
25th Percentile £469 £372 £156
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £614 £461 £175
Median % change year-on-year +33.12% +163.57% -50.53%
75th Percentile £713 £604 £325
90th Percentile £860 £740 £548
Lancashire median daily rate £500 £403 £463
% change year-on-year +24.22% -12.97% +19.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 10
10th Percentile - £25.75 £13.95
25th Percentile - £27.06 £26.36
Median hourly rate £16.06 £39.00 £40.56
Median % change year-on-year -58.82% -3.85% +131.77%
75th Percentile - £45.79 £50.70
90th Percentile - £53.31 £96.02
Lancashire median hourly rate £16.06 £40.55 £39.50
% change year-on-year -60.39% +2.65% +125.71%

All Vendors
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 53 58 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 75.71% 60.42% 54.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 23 21
10th Percentile £400 £321 £156
25th Percentile £475 £363 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £614 £450 £175
Median % change year-on-year +36.44% +157.14% -53.33%
75th Percentile £650 £509 £265
90th Percentile £775 £706 £488
Lancashire median daily rate £550 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +15.79% - +19.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 27 15
10th Percentile - £26.80 £15.85
25th Percentile - £29.30 £27.21
Median hourly rate £16.06 £42.16 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year -61.90% +1.93% +101.73%
75th Percentile - £47.50 £48.07
90th Percentile £44.53 £50.91 £78.68
Lancashire median hourly rate £16.06 £42.50 £37.00
% change year-on-year -62.21% +14.86% +68.18%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Preston

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Preston

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Preston

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Daily Rate Histogram in Preston

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Preston

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Preston

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Preston

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Preston 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 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 20 (74.07%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 20 (74.07%) Taleo
2 3 (11.11%) Azure
3 2 (7.41%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.70%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 21 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.70%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 4 (14.81%) Consultant
2 2 (7.41%) IAM Consultant
3 1 (3.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (3.70%) ERP Manager
3 1 (3.70%) ERP Project Manager
3 1 (3.70%) Lead
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (3.70%) Project Manager
3 1 (3.70%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) .NET
1 1 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (3.70%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Operational Technology
2 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
2 1 (3.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (74.07%) Data Protection
1 20 (74.07%) Decision-Making
2 2 (7.41%) Roadmaps
3 1 (3.70%) Analytics
3 1 (3.70%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (3.70%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (3.70%) Data Modelling
3 1 (3.70%) DevOps
3 1 (3.70%) ERP
3 1 (3.70%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (3.70%) Information Retrieval
3 1 (3.70%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (3.70%) Mentoring
3 1 (3.70%) Open Source
3 1 (3.70%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (3.70%) Privileged Identity Management
3 1 (3.70%) Product Management
3 1 (3.70%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (3.70%) Software Engineering
3 1 (3.70%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.70%) Java
1 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (74.07%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.70%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 20 (74.07%) ServiceNow
2 1 (3.70%) SAP