Microsoft Contracts in the South West

Microsoft
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring knowledge or experience of Microsoft products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 6 9
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 +2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 508 571 500
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 15.49% 16.90% 13.71%
As % of the Vendors category 37.52% 43.72% 36.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 439 336
10th Percentile £180 £205 £173
25th Percentile £319 £400 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +23.53% -
75th Percentile £594 £613 £531
90th Percentile £700 £700 £588
England median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 20 27
10th Percentile £12.50 £15.39 £14.25
25th Percentile £13.69 £18.63 £17.75
Median hourly rate £16.00 £41.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.21% +17.86% -18.00%
75th Percentile £51.25 £55.27 £43.42
90th Percentile £65.00 £58.10 £52.80
England median hourly rate £15.00 £22.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -31.82% +25.71% +0.86%

All Vendors
South West

Microsoft falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,354 1,306 1,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 41.29% 38.66% 37.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 862 970 970
10th Percentile £205 £263 £214
25th Percentile £413 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £486
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +7.97% +8.06%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £594
90th Percentile £713 £716 £675
England median daily rate £517 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -2.45% +0.95% +6.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 67 56
10th Percentile £13.91 £17.50 £15.13
25th Percentile £36.25 £49.34 £35.00
Median hourly rate £51.00 £60.00 £44.82
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +33.87% -9.45%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £56.00
90th Percentile £74.94 £85.25 £64.09
England median hourly rate £23.22 £36.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -35.51% +67.44% +7.50%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the South West over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in the South West over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 11 June 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
Wiltshire -1 205 £501 -9.00% 80
Bristol +6 119 £500 +11.11% 123
Gloucestershire -1 72 £500 +8.11% 69
Somerset +6 35 £474 +2.43% 76
Devon +1 32 £488 +21.88% 54
Dorset 0 28 £185 -63.49% 42
Cornwall -5 2 £225 -41.56% 9
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 67 (13.19%) SharePoint
2 43 (8.46%) Confluence
3 38 (7.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 28 (5.51%) SharePoint Server
5 12 (2.36%) CMS
6 10 (1.97%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.59%) IIS
7 3 (0.59%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.39%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (0.39%) Mendix
8 2 (0.39%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 90 (17.72%) Microsoft Office
2 61 (12.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 35 (6.89%) Microsoft Project
4 34 (6.69%) Spreadsheet
5 18 (3.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (1.38%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.20%) CATIA
7 1 (0.20%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.38%) Magento
3 4 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.59%) Shopify
5 2 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.20%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 147 (28.94%) Azure
2 91 (17.91%) Microsoft 365
3 50 (9.84%) Power Platform
4 28 (5.51%) Azure Stack
5 24 (4.72%) AWS
6 22 (4.33%) Dynamics 365
6 22 (4.33%) PaaS
7 19 (3.74%) PowerApps
8 18 (3.54%) Entra ID
8 18 (3.54%) Power Automate
9 14 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (2.76%) SaaS
10 12 (2.36%) OneDrive
11 8 (1.57%) IaaS
11 8 (1.57%) OpenShift
12 7 (1.38%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (1.38%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 6 (1.18%) Azure Monitor
14 4 (0.79%) AWS CloudTrail
14 4 (0.79%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 50 (9.84%) Firewall
2 27 (5.31%) BGP
3 18 (3.54%) DNS
4 15 (2.95%) SAN
5 14 (2.76%) DHCP
6 13 (2.56%) LAN
6 13 (2.56%) VoIP
7 12 (2.36%) PBX
8 11 (2.17%) WAN
9 8 (1.57%) Skype
9 8 (1.57%) TCP/IP
10 7 (1.38%) FTP
10 7 (1.38%) VPN
11 6 (1.18%) Wireless
12 5 (0.98%) Ethernet
12 5 (0.98%) HTTP
12 5 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.79%) Remote Desktop
13 4 (0.79%) SD-WAN
14 3 (0.59%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.53%) Power BI
2 17 (3.35%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (0.98%) SQLite
5 4 (0.79%) Biml
5 4 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.59%) GIS
7 2 (0.39%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.20%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.20%) Metadata
8 1 (0.20%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.20%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.20%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.20%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 70 (13.78%) JIRA
2 9 (1.77%) Rational DOORS
3 8 (1.57%) Visual Studio
4 5 (0.98%) Checkstyle
4 5 (0.98%) Eclipse
4 5 (0.98%) Git
4 5 (0.98%) SonarQube
5 4 (0.79%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.79%) Postman
6 1 (0.20%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.20%) MSI
General
1 273 (53.74%) Social Skills
2 81 (15.94%) Finance
3 57 (11.22%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (9.45%) Public Sector
5 34 (6.69%) Presentation Skills
5 34 (6.69%) Telecoms
6 25 (4.92%) Manufacturing
7 23 (4.53%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (2.95%) Marketing
8 15 (2.95%) Military
9 12 (2.36%) Police
10 11 (2.17%) Electronics
11 10 (1.97%) Banking
11 10 (1.97%) Legal
12 9 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.38%) Digital Economy
13 7 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.38%) Retail
14 4 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.59%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 62 (12.20%) Architect
2 60 (11.81%) Analyst
3 48 (9.45%) Lead
4 33 (6.50%) Consultant
5 30 (5.91%) Developer
6 27 (5.31%) Solutions Architect
7 24 (4.72%) Project Leader
8 21 (4.13%) Microsoft Engineer
9 15 (2.95%) Network Engineer
9 15 (2.95%) Support Engineer
10 14 (2.76%) Desktop Engineer
11 13 (2.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 13 (2.56%) Power Platform Developer
11 13 (2.56%) Senior
11 13 (2.56%) Service Analyst
12 12 (2.36%) Author
12 12 (2.36%) Technical Author
13 11 (2.17%) Desktop Support
13 11 (2.17%) Infrastructure Technician
13 11 (2.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.35%) .NET
1 17 (3.35%) XML
2 13 (2.56%) REST
3 10 (1.97%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (1.77%) .NET Framework
5 8 (1.57%) Web Services
6 5 (0.98%) .NET Core
6 5 (0.98%) CSS
6 5 (0.98%) JSON
6 5 (0.98%) Node.js
7 4 (0.79%) ModSecurity
7 4 (0.79%) SailPoint
8 3 (0.59%) ASP.NET
8 3 (0.59%) LDAP
8 3 (0.59%) VML
9 2 (0.39%) 802.1X
9 2 (0.39%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.39%) HTML
9 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Graph
9 2 (0.39%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 54 (10.63%) Management Information System
2 50 (9.84%) Cyber Threat
3 47 (9.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 45 (8.86%) Cyber Defence
5 36 (7.09%) Private Cloud
6 33 (6.50%) PKI
7 13 (2.56%) Security Posture
8 11 (2.17%) NHS
8 11 (2.17%) Replication
9 10 (1.97%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.97%) Video Conferencing
10 9 (1.77%) Blackberry
11 8 (1.57%) Driving Licence
12 7 (1.38%) Security Operations Centre
13 6 (1.18%) CMDB
13 6 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
14 5 (0.98%) Clustering
14 5 (0.98%) Low-Code
15 4 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 145 (28.54%) Windows
2 52 (10.24%) Windows Server
3 33 (6.50%) Windows 10
4 29 (5.71%) Linux
5 21 (4.13%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (1.18%) Windows 7
7 4 (0.79%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.79%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.59%) Android
8 3 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.39%) CentOS
9 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.20%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (17.32%) Agile
2 79 (15.55%) ITIL
2 79 (15.55%) Problem-Solving
3 63 (12.40%) Project Management
4 59 (11.61%) Cybersecurity
5 58 (11.42%) SIEM
6 52 (10.24%) Incident Response
7 49 (9.65%) CRM
8 48 (9.45%) SOAR
9 47 (9.25%) Service Management
10 46 (9.06%) Data Management
10 46 (9.06%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 46 (9.06%) Project Delivery
11 45 (8.86%) Incident Management
12 44 (8.66%) Case Management
12 44 (8.66%) Information Security
13 43 (8.46%) Protective Monitoring
13 43 (8.46%) Root Cause Analysis
13 43 (8.46%) Use Case
14 42 (8.27%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 33 (6.50%) SQL
2 31 (6.10%) PowerShell
3 21 (4.13%) C#
4 11 (2.17%) JavaScript
5 10 (1.97%) Python
6 6 (1.18%) Kusto Query Language
6 6 (1.18%) Search Processing Language
7 5 (0.98%) C++
8 3 (0.59%) Bash
8 3 (0.59%) Java
9 2 (0.39%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.20%) ABAP
10 1 (0.20%) Bicep
10 1 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.20%) Julia
10 1 (0.20%) Perl
10 1 (0.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 246 (48.43%) Security Cleared
2 145 (28.54%) DV Cleared
3 91 (17.91%) SC Cleared
4 52 (10.24%) Degree
5 43 (8.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 25 (4.92%) APMP
7 15 (2.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 14 (2.76%) MCSE
9 10 (1.97%) Master's Degree
10 9 (1.77%) HND
10 9 (1.77%) MCSA
11 8 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (1.57%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (1.38%) CITP
12 7 (1.38%) MCP
13 6 (1.18%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.59%) CCNP
15 3 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (9.84%) NIST
2 44 (8.66%) NIST 800
3 37 (7.28%) PMO
4 27 (5.31%) Government Security Classifications
5 14 (2.76%) QA
6 9 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.38%) GDPR
7 7 (1.38%) JSP 440
8 6 (1.18%) SLA
9 4 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.79%) GMP
9 4 (0.79%) NCSC
10 3 (0.59%) ISA99
11 1 (0.20%) Data Quality
System Software
1 73 (14.37%) Active Directory
2 35 (6.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (3.35%) VMware ESXi
3 17 (3.35%) VMware NSX
4 10 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (1.77%) Hyper-V
6 8 (1.57%) vSphere
7 6 (1.18%) Docker
8 4 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.20%) Citrix Presentation Server
10 1 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.20%) VMware Server
10 1 (0.20%) XenApp
10 1 (0.20%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 26 (5.12%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (3.94%) SCOM
3 19 (3.74%) SCCM
4 13 (2.56%) OPNET
4 13 (2.56%) vCenter Server
5 10 (1.97%) Ansible
5 10 (1.97%) Kubernetes
6 9 (1.77%) Kibana
6 9 (1.77%) logstash
7 7 (1.38%) Terraform
8 5 (0.98%) WSUS
9 4 (0.79%) PowerCLI
9 4 (0.79%) Trend Micro Deep Security
10 3 (0.59%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.39%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Clustering
11 2 (0.39%) SCDPM
11 2 (0.39%) SCOrch
11 2 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (10.63%) VMware
2 40 (7.87%) Atlassian
3 26 (5.12%) Cisco
4 19 (3.74%) Veeam
5 18 (3.54%) SAP
6 14 (2.76%) Citrix
6 14 (2.76%) Google
7 13 (2.56%) Sitecore
8 11 (2.17%) Splunk
8 11 (2.17%) Tanium
9 10 (1.97%) Avaya
10 9 (1.77%) CheckPoint
10 9 (1.77%) Ericsson
10 9 (1.77%) IBM
10 9 (1.77%) Juniper
10 9 (1.77%) Nokia
10 9 (1.77%) Ribbon
11 8 (1.57%) Adobe
11 8 (1.57%) CyberArk
11 8 (1.57%) Dell