Microsoft Contracts in South Yorkshire

Microsoft
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 11 6
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 0
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 55 55 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 12.06% 10.58% 14.45%
As % of the Vendors category 19.86% 29.26% 37.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 46 60
10th Percentile £185 £150 £153
25th Percentile £208 £363 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -19.52% +23.53% +30.77%
75th Percentile £507 £638 £480
90th Percentile £537 £700 £576
Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £475 £390
% change year-on-year -10.53% +21.79% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 9
10th Percentile £12.63 - £14.70
25th Percentile £12.64 £17.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £13.38 £20.00 £17.36
Median % change year-on-year -33.13% +15.21% +8.50%
75th Percentile £20.13 £22.50 £19.50
90th Percentile £22.00 - £24.40
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £22.00 £16.89
% change year-on-year -31.82% +30.25% -6.92%

All Vendors
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 277 188 198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 60.75% 36.15% 38.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 142 161
10th Percentile £243 £191 £300
25th Percentile £411 £463 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +22.22% +5.88%
75th Percentile £554 £638 £538
90th Percentile £622 £700 £600
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 15
10th Percentile £12.63 £12.30 £13.60
25th Percentile £12.70 £14.25 £16.19
Median hourly rate £22.00 £17.72 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.15% -6.74% +10.08%
75th Percentile £41.88 £20.11 £22.69
90th Percentile £45.00 £21.54 £24.55
Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.63 £20.00 £16.89
% change year-on-year -26.88% +18.41% -8.80%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in South Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in South Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in South Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in South Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 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
Sheffield -8 33 £496 -9.82% 61
Doncaster 0 15 £230 +35.29% 24
Rotherham -1 3 - - 5
Barnsley -9 3 £383 - 8
Microsoft
Yorkshire

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 7 (12.73%) Apache Spark
2 6 (10.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (16.36%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (3.64%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 25 (45.45%) Microsoft 365
2 24 (43.64%) Azure
3 7 (12.73%) Amazon S3
3 7 (12.73%) AWS
3 7 (12.73%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
3 7 (12.73%) Cloud Computing
3 7 (12.73%) Entra ID
3 7 (12.73%) GCP
3 7 (12.73%) Serverless
4 6 (10.91%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (9.09%) Power Platform
6 4 (7.27%) OCI
7 2 (3.64%) OneDrive
7 2 (3.64%) Slack
8 1 (1.82%) IaaS
8 1 (1.82%) PaaS
8 1 (1.82%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.82%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.45%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (1.82%) DHCP
2 1 (1.82%) DNS
2 1 (1.82%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (1.82%) VLAN
2 1 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.73%) Amazon Athena
1 7 (12.73%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (12.73%) Amazon Redshift
1 7 (12.73%) Big Data
1 7 (12.73%) BigQuery
1 7 (12.73%) Data Lake
1 7 (12.73%) Hadoop
2 3 (5.45%) Power BI
3 1 (1.82%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.82%) OLAP
3 1 (1.82%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.82%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (12.73%) Git
1 7 (12.73%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (43.64%) Social Skills
2 12 (21.82%) Finance
3 7 (12.73%) Law
4 4 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.27%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.45%) Banking
5 3 (5.45%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Local Government
7 1 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (21.82%) Architect
2 9 (16.36%) Solutions Architect
3 8 (14.55%) Analyst
3 8 (14.55%) Support Analyst
4 7 (12.73%) 2nd Line Support
4 7 (12.73%) IT Support
5 6 (10.91%) Support Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Consultant
7 4 (7.27%) IT Analyst
7 4 (7.27%) IT Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) IT Support Analyst
7 4 (7.27%) Project Manager
8 3 (5.45%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
8 3 (5.45%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Developer
8 3 (5.45%) Dynamics 365 Project Manager
8 3 (5.45%) Exchange Architect
8 3 (5.45%) IT Support Engineer
9 2 (3.64%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.73%) Kafka
2 1 (1.82%) Series 60
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.64%) e-Learning
1 2 (3.64%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.82%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.82%) NHS
2 1 (1.82%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.82%) Replication
2 1 (1.82%) Smartphone
2 1 (1.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 22 (40.00%) Windows
2 18 (32.73%) Windows 10
3 4 (7.27%) Windows Server
3 4 (7.27%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (5.45%) Android
5 2 (3.64%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.82%) Linux
6 1 (1.82%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (18.18%) Analytics
1 10 (18.18%) Customer Service
1 10 (18.18%) DevOps
2 9 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (14.55%) Data Modelling
3 8 (14.55%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (14.55%) ETL
4 7 (12.73%) Containerisation
4 7 (12.73%) Data Governance
4 7 (12.73%) Data Integration
4 7 (12.73%) High Availability
4 7 (12.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (12.73%) Project Management
4 7 (12.73%) Technical Leadership
4 7 (12.73%) Translating Business Requirements
5 6 (10.91%) Agile
5 6 (10.91%) Mobile Device Management
6 5 (9.09%) CRM
7 4 (7.27%) ITSM
7 4 (7.27%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.36%) SQL
2 7 (12.73%) Java
2 7 (12.73%) Python
3 1 (1.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (9.09%) Degree
2 2 (3.64%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.82%) A+ Certification
3 1 (1.82%) CCNA
3 1 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.82%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (1.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.64%) QA
1 2 (3.64%) SLA
2 1 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.82%) Data Quality
System Software
1 20 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.82%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.82%) KVM
2 1 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.82%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 14 (25.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (12.73%) Terraform
3 1 (1.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.82%) Ansible
3 1 (1.82%) NetBackup
3 1 (1.82%) Puppet
3 1 (1.82%) SCCM
3 1 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.82%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (12.73%) Google
2 4 (7.27%) Oracle
3 1 (1.82%) Adaptive Insights
3 1 (1.82%) Cisco
3 1 (1.82%) NetApp
3 1 (1.82%) Samsung
3 1 (1.82%) Veritas
3 1 (1.82%) VMware