Microsoft Contracts in Sheffield

Microsoft
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 25 17 13
Rank change year-on-year -8 -4 -7
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 32 40 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 8.08% 9.28% 12.66%
As % of the Vendors category 13.62% 25.48% 33.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 32 41
10th Percentile £185 £365 £200
25th Percentile £192 £463 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.52% +16.67% +44.00%
75th Percentile £531 £638 £600
90th Percentile £591 £745 £738
South Yorkshire median daily rate £423 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -15.50% +11.11% +38.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile £14.50 - £16.00
25th Percentile £17.31 £17.50 £16.19
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +19.40% +9.30%
75th Percentile - £22.50 £18.50
90th Percentile - - £19.63
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.38 £20.00 £17.43
% change year-on-year -33.13% +14.74% +13.74%

All Vendors
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 235 157 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 59.34% 36.43% 37.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 109 124
10th Percentile £386 £400 £300
25th Percentile £430 £500 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.64% +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £575
90th Percentile £618 £700 £647
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £472
% change year-on-year -9.52% +11.35% +10.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 7
10th Percentile £17.31 £12.30 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £14.25 £16.19
Median hourly rate £31.63 £17.72 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year +78.47% +5.79% +9.30%
75th Percentile £41.88 £20.11 £18.50
90th Percentile - £21.54 £19.63
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.00 £17.72 £19.05
% change year-on-year +24.15% -6.96% +21.60%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Sheffield

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Sheffield

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Sheffield

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Sheffield

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 8 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (56.25%) Azure
2 13 (40.63%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 8 (25.00%) AWS
3 8 (25.00%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
3 8 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
3 8 (25.00%) GCP
3 8 (25.00%) Serverless
4 6 (18.75%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (9.38%) Power Platform
6 2 (6.25%) OCI
7 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.13%) OneDrive
7 1 (3.13%) Power Automate
7 1 (3.13%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (3.13%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
1 8 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 8 (25.00%) Big Data
1 8 (25.00%) BigQuery
1 8 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 8 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (3.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (25.00%) Git
1 8 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 9 (28.13%) Finance
3 7 (21.88%) Law
4 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Manufacturing
5 2 (6.25%) Banking
5 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Architect
1 10 (31.25%) Solutions Architect
2 6 (18.75%) IT Support
3 5 (15.63%) 2nd Line Support
3 5 (15.63%) Support Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Project Manager
4 4 (12.50%) Support Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
5 3 (9.38%) IT Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) IT Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) IT Support Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) IT Support Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Consultant
7 1 (3.13%) Desktop Support
7 1 (3.13%) Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.13%) e-Learning
1 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
1 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
1 1 (3.13%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (28.13%) Windows
2 8 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (31.25%) DevOps
2 9 (28.13%) Analytics
2 9 (28.13%) Customer Service
2 9 (28.13%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 8 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 8 (25.00%) Data Integration
3 8 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 8 (25.00%) ETL
3 8 (25.00%) High Availability
3 8 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 8 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 6 (18.75%) Project Management
5 5 (15.63%) CRM
6 4 (12.50%) Agile
7 3 (9.38%) ERP
7 3 (9.38%) Waterfall
8 2 (6.25%) Project Governance
8 2 (6.25%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.00%) Java
1 8 (25.00%) Python
1 8 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) Degree
2 2 (6.25%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) SLA
2 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 8 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (25.00%) Terraform
2 7 (21.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (3.13%) Ansible
3 1 (3.13%) NetBackup
3 1 (3.13%) Puppet
3 1 (3.13%) SCCM
3 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) Google
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (3.13%) Adaptive Insights
3 1 (3.13%) Cisco
3 1 (3.13%) NetApp
3 1 (3.13%) Veritas