Microsoft Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 4 5
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 225 438 548
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.53% 18.38% 15.48%
As % of the Vendors category 26.25% 37.28% 36.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 309 418
10th Percentile £188 £168 £150
25th Percentile £313 £335 £272
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £576 £538
90th Percentile £684 £675 £630
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 12 17
10th Percentile £10.54 £12.50 £12.38
25th Percentile £11.08 £13.90 £13.50
Median hourly rate £14.00 £16.23 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.71% +1.41% -11.11%
75th Percentile £26.50 £18.56 £20.51
90th Percentile £53.38 £23.25 £25.49
England median hourly rate £15.00 £21.75 £18.50
% change year-on-year -31.03% +17.57% +1.26%

All Vendors
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 857 1,175 1,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 43.93% 49.31% 42.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 537 740 1,054
10th Percentile £253 £213 £200
25th Percentile £350 £370 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +15.15%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £575
90th Percentile £700 £689 £675
England median daily rate £520 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -3.26% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 29 37
10th Percentile £11.07 £13.15 £12.38
25th Percentile £13.25 £15.10 £14.50
Median hourly rate £19.95 £18.50 £17.28
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% +7.06% -4.00%
75th Percentile £28.75 £52.50 £20.51
90th Percentile £55.00 £72.30 £24.25
England median hourly rate £22.50 £39.55 £21.00
% change year-on-year -43.11% +88.33% -3.45%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in the West Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Birmingham -2 100 £425 -8.11% 157
Warwickshire +1 31 £638 +21.43% 48
Coventry 0 25 £413 -2.94% 34
Worcestershire -2 14 £225 -52.63% 27
Staffordshire -6 10 £300 +71.43% 71
Shropshire +3 8 £213 -60.50% 24
Herefordshire -15 7 £538 -17.23% 12
Wednesbury 0 3 £260 -45.26%
Dudley - 3 £525 - 9
Solihull -20 2 £155 -70.48% 10
Walsall 0 1 £325 -35.64% 10
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 37 (16.44%) SharePoint
2 30 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.33%) IIS
4 2 (0.89%) WordPress
5 1 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.44%) CICS
5 1 (0.44%) CMS
5 1 (0.44%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.44%) Moodle
5 1 (0.44%) SAS
5 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
Applications
1 31 (13.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 31 (13.78%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.56%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.44%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.44%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.44%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.44%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.44%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.44%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 85 (37.78%) Azure
2 73 (32.44%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (14.22%) Power Platform
4 18 (8.00%) OneDrive
5 17 (7.56%) Dynamics 365
6 14 (6.22%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (6.22%) Entra ID
6 14 (6.22%) PowerApps
7 13 (5.78%) PaaS
8 12 (5.33%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (5.33%) Power Automate
9 10 (4.44%) SaaS
10 8 (3.56%) Azure Sentinel
11 7 (3.11%) IaaS
12 6 (2.67%) AWS
13 5 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 5 (2.22%) Serverless
14 4 (1.78%) Azure Functions
15 3 (1.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 3 (1.33%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 23 (10.22%) DNS
2 17 (7.56%) Firewall
3 13 (5.78%) VPN
4 11 (4.89%) DHCP
4 11 (4.89%) WAN
5 8 (3.56%) LAN
5 8 (3.56%) NetScaler
5 8 (3.56%) SAN
6 7 (3.11%) Internet
6 7 (3.11%) Network Security
7 6 (2.67%) TCP/IP
7 6 (2.67%) Unified Communications
8 5 (2.22%) Ethernet
8 5 (2.22%) Intranet
8 5 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (2.22%) Wireless
9 4 (1.78%) MPLS
9 4 (1.78%) VLAN
10 3 (1.33%) Fibre Channel
10 3 (1.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.67%) Power BI
2 23 (10.22%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (3.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (2.67%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.22%) Tableau
8 4 (1.78%) BusinessObjects
8 4 (1.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.33%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.89%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.89%) MS Access
10 2 (0.89%) MySQL
11 1 (0.44%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.44%) DB2
11 1 (0.44%) Power Query
11 1 (0.44%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.44%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 8 (3.56%) Git
1 8 (3.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 7 (3.11%) Visual Studio
3 5 (2.22%) JIRA
4 4 (1.78%) NUnit
5 3 (1.33%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.89%) Moq
6 2 (0.89%) Selenium
6 2 (0.89%) webpack
7 1 (0.44%) Ant
7 1 (0.44%) Gradle
7 1 (0.44%) Hudson
7 1 (0.44%) JUnit
7 1 (0.44%) Maven
7 1 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.44%) PVCS
7 1 (0.44%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 86 (38.22%) Social Skills
2 37 (16.44%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (14.67%) Finance
4 12 (5.33%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.56%) Telecoms
6 7 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.11%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.22%) Automotive
9 4 (1.78%) Advertising
9 4 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.33%) Legal
11 2 (0.89%) Cantonese Language
11 2 (0.89%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.89%) Law
11 2 (0.89%) Local Government
11 2 (0.89%) Mandarin Language
11 2 (0.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (18.22%) Analyst
2 29 (12.89%) Developer
3 19 (8.44%) Architect
4 15 (6.67%) Administrator
5 14 (6.22%) Senior
6 13 (5.78%) 2nd Line Support
6 13 (5.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (4.89%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 11 (4.89%) Project Manager
8 10 (4.44%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 9 (4.00%) Coordinator
9 9 (4.00%) Cyber Defence Analyst
9 9 (4.00%) Lead
10 8 (3.56%) Business Analyst
10 8 (3.56%) Data Engineer
10 8 (3.56%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (3.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 7 (3.11%) Desktop Engineer
11 7 (3.11%) Microsoft Engineer
11 7 (3.11%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.33%) .NET
2 6 (2.67%) Spring
3 5 (2.22%) .NET Framework
3 5 (2.22%) React
4 4 (1.78%) ADO
4 4 (1.78%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.33%) ASP.NET
5 3 (1.33%) Flask
5 3 (1.33%) LDAP
5 3 (1.33%) Pandas
6 2 (0.89%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (0.89%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.89%) Entity Framework
6 2 (0.89%) Hibernate
6 2 (0.89%) JSON
6 2 (0.89%) Next.js
6 2 (0.89%) RESTful
6 2 (0.89%) Web Services
6 2 (0.89%) XML
6 2 (0.89%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.33%) Management Information System
2 13 (5.78%) Cyber Defence
3 11 (4.89%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 9 (4.00%) Cyber Threat
4 9 (4.00%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.56%) PKI
5 8 (3.56%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.67%) Digital Signage
6 6 (2.67%) Security Operations Centre
6 6 (2.67%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.78%) Clustering
7 4 (1.78%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.33%) Fat Client
8 3 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.33%) Replication
8 3 (1.33%) Thin Client
8 3 (1.33%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.89%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 69 (30.67%) Windows
2 33 (14.67%) Windows Server
3 29 (12.89%) Windows 10
4 14 (6.22%) Windows Server 2019
5 11 (4.89%) Windows Server 2016
6 9 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (3.11%) Linux
8 6 (2.67%) Mac OS
9 3 (1.33%) Apple iOS
9 3 (1.33%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.89%) VMS
10 2 (0.89%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.44%) Android
11 1 (0.44%) CentOS
11 1 (0.44%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.44%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.44%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (12.00%) Agile
2 27 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
3 25 (11.11%) Customer Service
4 24 (10.67%) Analytics
4 24 (10.67%) DevOps
5 23 (10.22%) Cybersecurity
6 22 (9.78%) ITIL
7 20 (8.89%) Migration
8 18 (8.00%) CRM
9 17 (7.56%) Change Management
9 17 (7.56%) Computer Science
9 17 (7.56%) Data Analytics
9 17 (7.56%) SIEM
9 17 (7.56%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (6.22%) Incident Response
10 14 (6.22%) Project Management
10 14 (6.22%) Roadmaps
10 14 (6.22%) Root Cause Analysis
10 14 (6.22%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 33 (14.67%) SQL
2 29 (12.89%) PowerShell
3 11 (4.89%) C#
3 11 (4.89%) Java
4 10 (4.44%) Python
5 6 (2.67%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (1.78%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.78%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.33%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.89%) Bash
8 2 (0.89%) Bicep
8 2 (0.89%) C
8 2 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.89%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.44%) CLIST
9 1 (0.44%) Groovy
9 1 (0.44%) PHP
9 1 (0.44%) Scala
9 1 (0.44%) SELCOPY
9 1 (0.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 33 (14.67%) Security Cleared
2 32 (14.22%) Degree
3 24 (10.67%) SC Cleared
4 12 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.89%) DV Cleared
5 11 (4.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (4.00%) Azure Certification
8 8 (3.56%) CISSP
9 7 (3.11%) Master's Degree
10 6 (2.67%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (1.78%) BC Cleared
11 4 (1.78%) ISTQB
11 4 (1.78%) PMI Certification
11 4 (1.78%) PMP
12 3 (1.33%) APMP
12 3 (1.33%) ISEB
12 3 (1.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (1.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 2 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.78%) SLA
2 9 (4.00%) NIST 800
3 8 (3.56%) NIST
4 6 (2.67%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.67%) QA
5 5 (2.22%) GDPR
6 2 (0.89%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.89%) PMO
7 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.44%) GRC
7 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 50 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 14 (6.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (5.78%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (3.56%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 8 (3.56%) Hyper-V
4 8 (3.56%) XenApp
4 8 (3.56%) XenDesktop
5 5 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (2.22%) vSphere
6 4 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.89%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.44%) Docker
8 1 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.44%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 24 (10.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (8.44%) SCCM
3 14 (6.22%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (2.22%) vCenter Server
5 4 (1.78%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (1.33%) Autotask
6 3 (1.33%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (1.33%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.89%) Kibana
7 2 (0.89%) logstash
7 2 (0.89%) Terraform
8 1 (0.44%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.44%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 21 (9.33%) VMware
2 11 (4.89%) Oracle
3 9 (4.00%) Citrix
3 9 (4.00%) NetApp
3 9 (4.00%) SAP
4 6 (2.67%) Apple
4 6 (2.67%) Cisco
4 6 (2.67%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.22%) Autodesk
5 5 (2.22%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.78%) Google
7 3 (1.33%) BT
7 3 (1.33%) Datto
7 3 (1.33%) JD Edwards
7 3 (1.33%) Openreach
7 3 (1.33%) QAD
7 3 (1.33%) Sophos
8 2 (0.89%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.89%) Synology
8 2 (0.89%) Zerto