Microsoft Contracts in Shropshire

Microsoft
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire 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 15 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 20 20
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 +17
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 16 25 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 11.19% 19.69% 15.96%
As % of the Vendors category 25.81% 25.77% 27.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 21 91
10th Percentile £118 £160 £225
25th Percentile £138 £411 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £299 £448 £499
Median % change year-on-year -33.37% -10.22% +38.61%
75th Percentile £334 £538 £540
90th Percentile £517 £540 £595
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £14.87 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £14.00 £16.71 £16.00
% change year-on-year -16.21% +4.42% -11.11%

All Vendors
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 62 97 378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 43.36% 76.38% 57.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 74 268
10th Percentile £169 £328 £373
25th Percentile £306 £426 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £538 £499
Median % change year-on-year -33.46% +7.82% +20.24%
75th Percentile £501 £540 £550
90th Percentile £520 £573 £613
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £493 £475
% change year-on-year -8.72% +3.79% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £14.87 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.39 £20.71 £17.28
% change year-on-year -11.21% +19.82% -4.00%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Shropshire

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Shropshire

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Shropshire over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Shropshire

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Shropshire

Microsoft
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 15 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
Telford +8 14 £299 -33.56% 9
Oswestry - 1 £213 - 1
Microsoft
West Midlands

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire 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 (6.25%) CICS
1 1 (6.25%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (43.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (31.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (12.50%) OneDrive
1 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) DHCP
1 5 (31.25%) DNS
1 5 (31.25%) Fibre Channel
1 5 (31.25%) Remote Desktop
1 5 (31.25%) SAN
2 4 (25.00%) LAN
2 4 (25.00%) WAN
3 2 (12.50%) VPN
3 2 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) DB2
1 1 (6.25%) IDMS
1 1 (6.25%) MySQL
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) PVCS
1 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Administrator
2 5 (31.25%) Server Administrator
2 5 (31.25%) VMWare Administrator
3 3 (18.75%) Junior
3 3 (18.75%) PMO Administrator
4 2 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Junior Desktop Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Data Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Desktop Support Technician
5 1 (6.25%) Desktop Technician
5 1 (6.25%) Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Floorwalker
5 1 (6.25%) IBM Mainframe Developer
5 1 (6.25%) IT Floorwalker
5 1 (6.25%) IT Support
5 1 (6.25%) IT Support Technician
5 1 (6.25%) IT Technician
5 1 (6.25%) Junior PMO
5 1 (6.25%) Service Desk Support
5 1 (6.25%) Service Desk Technician
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) PKI
2 3 (18.75%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (6.25%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Windows
2 5 (31.25%) Windows Server
3 4 (25.00%) CentOS
3 4 (25.00%) Linux
3 4 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (25.00%) Ubuntu
4 2 (12.50%) Mac OS
4 2 (12.50%) Windows 10
5 1 (6.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (31.25%) Load Balancing
2 5 (31.25%) Time Management
2 5 (31.25%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 4 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (25.00%) Change Control
3 4 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 4 (25.00%) Project Management
3 4 (25.00%) Task Automation
4 3 (18.75%) Data Management
4 3 (18.75%) Process Management
4 3 (18.75%) Project Delivery
5 2 (12.50%) Agile
5 2 (12.50%) Customer Service
6 1 (6.25%) Database Security
6 1 (6.25%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (6.25%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (6.25%) Scrum
6 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Bash
1 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (12.50%) PL/SQL
3 1 (6.25%) C
3 1 (6.25%) CLIST
3 1 (6.25%) COBOL
3 1 (6.25%) REXX
3 1 (6.25%) SELCOPY
3 1 (6.25%) SQL
3 1 (6.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (12.50%) Degree
3 2 (12.50%) MCSE
4 1 (6.25%) OCP
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) PMO
2 2 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) Active Directory
2 5 (31.25%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (31.25%) VMware NSX
2 5 (31.25%) VMware Server
2 5 (31.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) vCenter Server
2 2 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) VMware
2 2 (12.50%) Apple
2 2 (12.50%) Cisco
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle
2 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.25%) IBM
3 1 (6.25%) Syncsort
3 1 (6.25%) Talend