Microsoft Contracts in the South East

Microsoft
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 5 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 817 859 1,255
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 14.51% 15.23% 16.39%
As % of the Vendors category 30.68% 30.21% 36.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 530 571 879
10th Percentile £200 £185 £150
25th Percentile £350 £263 £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £561
90th Percentile £675 £676 £650
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 37 74
10th Percentile £11.71 £14.00 £10.77
25th Percentile £12.00 £15.50 £12.31
Median hourly rate £23.22 £19.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.18% +15.15% -10.27%
75th Percentile £58.49 £28.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £61.05 £23.52
England median hourly rate £15.00 £21.50 £17.82
% change year-on-year -30.23% +20.65% +1.83%

All Vendors
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,663 2,843 3,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 47.28% 50.39% 44.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,588 1,940 2,341
10th Percentile £225 £205 £198
25th Percentile £400 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +5.98%
75th Percentile £608 £601 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £515 £533 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +1.45% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 129 138
10th Percentile £12.00 £15.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £17.06 £19.50 £13.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +130.53% -11.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.00 £42.84
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.75 £58.81
England median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +74.42% +7.50%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Microsoft as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the South East over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in the South East over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 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
Thames Valley +4 432 £465 -2.11% 334
Berkshire +3 319 £500 -4.76% 144
Hampshire -2 194 £600 +41.18% 169
Surrey 0 96 £415 +3.75% 99
Buckinghamshire +2 83 £449 -2.14% 112
West Sussex +4 48 £450 +80.00% 29
Kent +4 31 £378 -37.00% 91
Oxfordshire +1 30 £369 +11.74% 79
East Sussex -7 6 £488 -2.50% 38
Middlesex - 6 £275 - 4
Home Counties 0 1 £475 -26.92%
Microsoft
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 64 (7.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 35 (4.28%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.59%) Confluence
4 3 (0.37%) IIS
4 3 (0.37%) SAS
5 2 (0.24%) Apache
5 2 (0.24%) CMS
5 2 (0.24%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.12%) Jadu
6 1 (0.12%) nginx
6 1 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 146 (17.87%) Microsoft Office
2 85 (10.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 43 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (1.84%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.98%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 6 (0.73%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.24%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.12%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.12%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 13 (1.59%) Primavera
2 11 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.73%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.61%) Aareon QL
4 5 (0.61%) SmartPlant
5 4 (0.49%) LabWindows
5 4 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.12%) Maximo
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.12%) Relativity
7 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.12%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.12%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 166 (20.32%) Azure
2 138 (16.89%) Microsoft 365
3 68 (8.32%) Power Platform
4 39 (4.77%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (4.53%) Entra ID
6 32 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
7 29 (3.55%) PowerApps
8 26 (3.18%) Azure Monitor
9 25 (3.06%) AWS
10 21 (2.57%) Power Automate
11 20 (2.45%) Azure Storage
12 16 (1.96%) OCI
13 15 (1.84%) PaaS
13 15 (1.84%) SaaS
14 11 (1.35%) Azure Logic Apps
14 11 (1.35%) OneDrive
15 10 (1.22%) IaaS
16 7 (0.86%) Azure Sentinel
17 6 (0.73%) Azure API Management
17 6 (0.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 83 (10.16%) DNS
2 73 (8.94%) Firewall
3 70 (8.57%) DHCP
4 40 (4.90%) SAN
5 31 (3.79%) LAN
6 30 (3.67%) TCP/IP
7 25 (3.06%) VPN
8 24 (2.94%) Network Security
9 23 (2.82%) Wireless
10 18 (2.20%) Wi-Fi
11 17 (2.08%) WAN
12 16 (1.96%) VLAN
13 14 (1.71%) NAS
14 6 (0.73%) Fibre Channel
15 5 (0.61%) Broadband
15 5 (0.61%) iSCSI
15 5 (0.61%) SSL
15 5 (0.61%) VoIP
16 4 (0.49%) Remote Desktop
16 4 (0.49%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (4.65%) Power BI
2 29 (3.55%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (1.35%) Data Lake
4 11 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (1.22%) MySQL
5 10 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (0.73%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (0.61%) Big Data
10 4 (0.49%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.49%) Power Query
11 3 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.37%) SAS Enterprise Guide
12 2 (0.24%) Couchbase
12 2 (0.24%) NoSQL
13 1 (0.12%) HDInsight
13 1 (0.12%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 23 (2.82%) JIRA
2 19 (2.33%) MSI
3 11 (1.35%) Visual Studio
4 8 (0.98%) Git
5 4 (0.49%) InstallShield
5 4 (0.49%) Subversion
6 3 (0.37%) GitLab
7 2 (0.24%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.12%) Appium
8 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.12%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.12%) NUnit
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.12%) Rational Team Concert
8 1 (0.12%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.12%) Selenium
8 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.12%) Yeoman
General
1 269 (32.93%) Social Skills
2 75 (9.18%) Finance
3 73 (8.94%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (7.34%) Public Sector
5 43 (5.26%) Telecoms
6 33 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
7 32 (3.92%) Marketing
8 16 (1.96%) Legal
8 16 (1.96%) Retail
9 14 (1.71%) Manufacturing
10 13 (1.59%) Military
11 11 (1.35%) Banking
12 10 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (0.86%) Electronics
14 7 (0.86%) Wholesale Banking
15 6 (0.73%) Automotive
16 5 (0.61%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 4 (0.49%) Environmental Health
Job Titles
1 76 (9.30%) Analyst
2 75 (9.18%) Architect
3 74 (9.06%) Senior
4 57 (6.98%) Support Engineer
5 55 (6.73%) Developer
6 52 (6.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 48 (5.88%) Infrastructure Architect
8 43 (5.26%) Administrator
9 40 (4.90%) IT Support
10 34 (4.16%) Lead
10 34 (4.16%) Project Manager
11 28 (3.43%) Systems Administrator
12 26 (3.18%) 1st Line Support
12 26 (3.18%) Consultant
13 25 (3.06%) Desktop Support
14 23 (2.82%) Active Directory Support
14 23 (2.82%) IT Technician
14 23 (2.82%) Windows Engineer
15 22 (2.69%) Desktop Engineer
16 19 (2.33%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.82%) ARM Templates
2 15 (1.84%) .NET
3 11 (1.35%) Itk
4 9 (1.10%) ADO
5 8 (0.98%) JSON
6 7 (0.86%) Kafka
7 6 (0.73%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (0.73%) XML
8 5 (0.61%) HTML
8 5 (0.61%) YAML
9 4 (0.49%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (0.49%) Web Services
9 4 (0.49%) XMPP
10 3 (0.37%) .NET Framework
10 3 (0.37%) CSS
10 3 (0.37%) LDAP
10 3 (0.37%) Middleware
11 2 (0.24%) Flash
11 2 (0.24%) SOAP
11 2 (0.24%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 53 (6.49%) Management Information System
2 49 (6.00%) PKI
3 33 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
4 30 (3.67%) Driving Licence
5 26 (3.18%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 26 (3.18%) Data Centre
6 21 (2.57%) Cyber Defence
7 20 (2.45%) Cyber Threat
8 16 (1.96%) Product Ownership
9 9 (1.10%) Blog
9 9 (1.10%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.10%) Smartphone
10 7 (0.86%) Cloud Native
10 7 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (0.86%) Digital Signage
11 6 (0.73%) Life Science
12 5 (0.61%) Housing Association
12 5 (0.61%) NHS
12 5 (0.61%) PMI
12 5 (0.61%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 330 (40.39%) Windows
2 119 (14.57%) Windows Server
3 114 (13.95%) Windows 10
4 103 (12.61%) Linux
5 72 (8.81%) Windows Server 2019
6 67 (8.20%) Windows Server 2016
7 62 (7.59%) Windows Server 2012
8 44 (5.39%) Windows 7
9 17 (2.08%) Ubuntu
9 17 (2.08%) Windows NT
10 15 (1.84%) Apple iOS
11 14 (1.71%) Windows XP
12 10 (1.22%) Unix
13 9 (1.10%) Debian
13 9 (1.10%) Mac OS
14 6 (0.73%) Windows Server 2008
15 5 (0.61%) Android
15 5 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (16.65%) Agile
2 128 (15.67%) Problem-Solving
3 124 (15.18%) ITIL
4 108 (13.22%) Customer Service
5 84 (10.28%) DevOps
6 67 (8.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 67 (8.20%) Project Management
7 59 (7.22%) Prototyping
8 56 (6.85%) Cybersecurity
8 56 (6.85%) Service Delivery
9 52 (6.36%) Service Management
10 51 (6.24%) Incident Management
11 50 (6.12%) Release Management
12 49 (6.00%) Incident Response
13 47 (5.75%) Change Management
14 46 (5.63%) Information Security
14 46 (5.63%) Stakeholder Management
15 45 (5.51%) SIEM
16 43 (5.26%) Migration
17 42 (5.14%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 103 (12.61%) PowerShell
2 63 (7.71%) SQL
3 44 (5.39%) C#
4 26 (3.18%) Python
4 26 (3.18%) VB
5 24 (2.94%) VBScript
6 21 (2.57%) Bicep
7 18 (2.20%) C
8 13 (1.59%) T-SQL
9 12 (1.47%) Java
10 10 (1.22%) C++
11 9 (1.10%) JavaScript
12 8 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.61%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.61%) X++
14 4 (0.49%) PHP
14 4 (0.49%) VB.NET
15 3 (0.37%) Bash
15 3 (0.37%) Ruby
16 2 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 349 (42.72%) Security Cleared
2 225 (27.54%) DV Cleared
3 140 (17.14%) SC Cleared
4 124 (15.18%) Degree
5 30 (3.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (2.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 18 (2.20%) CCNA
7 18 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
8 16 (1.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 15 (1.84%) MCSE
10 14 (1.71%) CCNP
11 12 (1.47%) DBS Check
12 11 (1.35%) Azure Certification
12 11 (1.35%) PMI Certification
13 10 (1.22%) MCSA
14 9 (1.10%) APMP
14 9 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
14 9 (1.10%) PMP
15 6 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (7.71%) SLA
2 30 (3.67%) QA
3 26 (3.18%) NIST
4 23 (2.82%) NIST 800
5 15 (1.84%) PMO
6 8 (0.98%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.61%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 5 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.61%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.49%) GDPR
9 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.37%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.24%) GxP
11 1 (0.12%) ITGC
System Software
1 206 (25.21%) Active Directory
2 87 (10.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (4.90%) Hyper-V
4 35 (4.28%) Firmware
5 30 (3.67%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (3.06%) VMware ESXi
7 23 (2.82%) vSphere
8 21 (2.57%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.73%) Docker
10 5 (0.61%) BitLocker
10 5 (0.61%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.24%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.24%) XenApp
12 1 (0.12%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 123 (15.06%) SCCM
2 77 (9.42%) WSUS
3 63 (7.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 39 (4.77%) SCOM
5 32 (3.92%) Kubernetes
6 25 (3.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 20 (2.45%) vCenter Server
8 18 (2.20%) Sysprep
9 15 (1.84%) WMI
10 14 (1.71%) EMC NetWorker
10 14 (1.71%) Nessus
10 14 (1.71%) NetBackup
11 12 (1.47%) Terraform
12 11 (1.35%) Ansible
13 9 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
14 8 (0.98%) Kibana
15 6 (0.73%) Grafana
16 5 (0.61%) Istio
16 5 (0.61%) Prometheus
16 5 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 116 (14.20%) VMware
2 49 (6.00%) HP
3 33 (4.04%) Oracle
4 32 (3.92%) Cisco
5 23 (2.82%) Qualys
6 21 (2.57%) Veeam
7 20 (2.45%) Apple
8 19 (2.33%) Dell
8 19 (2.33%) Red Hat
9 17 (2.08%) SAP
10 16 (1.96%) Forcepoint
10 16 (1.96%) LogRhythm
10 16 (1.96%) ServiceNow
10 16 (1.96%) Varonis
11 15 (1.84%) EMC
11 15 (1.84%) Palo Alto
12 14 (1.71%) 3PAR
12 14 (1.71%) Extreme Networks
12 14 (1.71%) Juniper
12 14 (1.71%) Symantec