Microsoft Contracts in the East Midlands

Microsoft
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East 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 June 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 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 113 214 284
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.92% 21.49% 20.36%
As % of the Vendors category 34.24% 42.04% 46.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 174 209
10th Percentile £159 £157 £130
25th Percentile £195 £296 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £375 £400
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +17.65%
75th Percentile £569 £523 £500
90th Percentile £643 £700 £540
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 10 24
10th Percentile £12.74 £11.08 £9.49
25th Percentile £12.75 £12.82 £9.70
Median hourly rate £14.00 £17.75 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.13% +22.41% +44.49%
75th Percentile £15.51 £25.92 £20.19
90th Percentile £26.50 £26.83 £23.10
England median hourly rate £15.00 £21.50 £17.64
% change year-on-year -30.23% +21.88% +0.80%

All Vendors
East 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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 330 509 608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 40.64% 51.10% 43.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 389 436
10th Percentile £166 £205 £160
25th Percentile £325 £330 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £475 £436
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +8.88% +16.33%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £513
90th Percentile £645 £700 £598
England median daily rate £515 £531 £525
% change year-on-year -3.01% +1.14% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 21 40
10th Percentile £10.90 £12.70 £9.58
25th Percentile £12.49 £15.00 £10.45
Median hourly rate £14.00 £21.67 £17.30
Median % change year-on-year -35.39% +25.24% +18.51%
75th Percentile £15.51 £26.48 £23.56
90th Percentile £26.50 £40.25 £35.00
England median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +74.42% +7.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in the East Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East 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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Northamptonshire -6 32 £400 +21.21% 46
Nottinghamshire +3 30 £295 -33.71% 58
Leicestershire -1 20 £378 +5.07% 62
Lincolnshire +2 15 £625 -5.30% 34
Derbyshire -12 11 £200 -18.37% 53
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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 7 (6.19%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.77%) Apache
4 1 (0.88%) SAS
Applications
1 23 (20.35%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (17.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (6.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (4.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (4.42%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 34 (30.09%) Azure
2 25 (22.12%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (19.47%) Power Platform
4 10 (8.85%) SaaS
5 9 (7.96%) AWS
6 8 (7.08%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (4.42%) Entra ID
7 5 (4.42%) OCI
7 5 (4.42%) Oracle Service Cloud
8 4 (3.54%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (2.65%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (2.65%) IaaS
9 3 (2.65%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.77%) Google Workspace
10 2 (1.77%) OneDrive
10 2 (1.77%) PaaS
11 1 (0.88%) Google Analytics
11 1 (0.88%) Serverless
11 1 (0.88%) SuccessFactors
11 1 (0.88%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.96%) VPN
2 7 (6.19%) TCP/IP
3 6 (5.31%) DNS
4 5 (4.42%) SAN
5 2 (1.77%) DHCP
5 2 (1.77%) Firewall
5 2 (1.77%) NetScaler
5 2 (1.77%) Wireless
6 1 (0.88%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.88%) Network Security
6 1 (0.88%) PBX
6 1 (0.88%) PSTN
6 1 (0.88%) VLAN
6 1 (0.88%) WAN
6 1 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (14.16%) Power BI
2 15 (13.27%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.42%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (3.54%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.65%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.77%) Big Data
6 2 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.88%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.88%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.88%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.88%) Metadata
7 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (0.88%) OLAP
7 1 (0.88%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.88%) Power Query
7 1 (0.88%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 1 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (3.54%) GitLab
General
1 28 (24.78%) Social Skills
2 24 (21.24%) Finance
3 22 (19.47%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (9.73%) Legal
4 11 (9.73%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.08%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (6.19%) Marketing
7 6 (5.31%) Manufacturing
7 6 (5.31%) Telecoms
8 4 (3.54%) Electronics
8 4 (3.54%) Publishing
9 3 (2.65%) Banking
9 3 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.77%) Automotive
10 2 (1.77%) Local Government
10 2 (1.77%) Retail
11 1 (0.88%) Advertising
11 1 (0.88%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.88%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.88%) Police
Job Titles
1 25 (22.12%) Analyst
2 14 (12.39%) Architect
3 10 (8.85%) 2nd Line Support
3 10 (8.85%) IT Manager
4 9 (7.96%) Service Manager
5 8 (7.08%) Administrator
5 8 (7.08%) Delivery Manager
5 8 (7.08%) IT Services Delivery Manager
5 8 (7.08%) IT Services Manager
5 8 (7.08%) Service Delivery Manager
5 8 (7.08%) Support Engineer
6 7 (6.19%) Consultant
6 7 (6.19%) IT Engineer
7 6 (5.31%) Dynamics 365 Architect
7 6 (5.31%) Report Analyst
7 6 (5.31%) Senior
8 5 (4.42%) Data Administrator
8 5 (4.42%) Developer
8 5 (4.42%) Service Analyst
8 5 (4.42%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.65%) LDAP
1 3 (2.65%) OAuth
1 3 (2.65%) OpenID
1 3 (2.65%) SailPoint
1 3 (2.65%) SAML
1 3 (2.65%) Web Services
2 2 (1.77%) HTML
2 2 (1.77%) Middleware
2 2 (1.77%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (1.77%) XML
3 1 (0.88%) .NET
3 1 (0.88%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.88%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.88%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (0.88%) CSS
3 1 (0.88%) Flash
3 1 (0.88%) HTML5
3 1 (0.88%) JSON
3 1 (0.88%) REST
3 1 (0.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.42%) Analytical Mindset
1 5 (4.42%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.65%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.65%) iPad
4 2 (1.77%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.77%) Grid Computing
4 2 (1.77%) Smartphone
4 2 (1.77%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (1.77%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.88%) BYOD
5 1 (0.88%) Fat Client
5 1 (0.88%) iPhone
5 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.88%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.88%) PDA
5 1 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.88%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 39 (34.51%) Windows
2 16 (14.16%) Windows Server
3 13 (11.50%) Linux
4 12 (10.62%) Windows 10
5 10 (8.85%) Apple iOS
6 8 (7.08%) Windows 7
7 4 (3.54%) Debian
7 4 (3.54%) Ubuntu
8 3 (2.65%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.88%) VMS
10 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.88%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (21.24%) Customer Service
1 24 (21.24%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (16.81%) Migration
3 15 (13.27%) Agile
3 15 (13.27%) Information Security
4 14 (12.39%) Business Intelligence
4 14 (12.39%) Data Modelling
4 14 (12.39%) ITIL
5 12 (10.62%) Change Management
5 12 (10.62%) Service Management
6 11 (9.73%) Decision-Making
6 11 (9.73%) ITSM
7 10 (8.85%) Collaborative Working
7 10 (8.85%) Customer Requirements
7 10 (8.85%) Service Delivery
8 9 (7.96%) Business Analysis
8 9 (7.96%) Performance Metrics
8 9 (7.96%) Programme Management
9 8 (7.08%) People Management
9 8 (7.08%) Service Delivery Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (10.62%) SQL
2 11 (9.73%) PowerShell
3 8 (7.08%) Python
3 8 (7.08%) Swift
4 3 (2.65%) Bash
4 3 (2.65%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.77%) C#
5 2 (1.77%) X++
6 1 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.88%) R
6 1 (0.88%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.88%) VB
Qualifications
1 24 (21.24%) Security Cleared
2 23 (20.35%) SC Cleared
3 14 (12.39%) Degree
4 13 (11.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (7.08%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.54%) MCITP
6 4 (3.54%) MCTS
7 3 (2.65%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.65%) MCSE
8 2 (1.77%) APMP
8 2 (1.77%) CISSP
8 2 (1.77%) Citrix Certification
8 2 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.77%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.77%) PMP
9 1 (0.88%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.88%) CBAP
9 1 (0.88%) IIBA
9 1 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.88%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.42%) SLA
2 3 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.77%) GDPR
3 2 (1.77%) NIST
3 2 (1.77%) PMO
3 2 (1.77%) QA
4 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.88%) GRC
System Software
1 28 (24.78%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.65%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.77%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (1.77%) XenApp
4 2 (1.77%) XenDesktop
5 1 (0.88%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (7.96%) SCCM
2 6 (5.31%) SCOM
3 4 (3.54%) SCSM
3 4 (3.54%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.77%) Ansible
5 2 (1.77%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (10.62%) Oracle
1 12 (10.62%) VMware
2 11 (9.73%) Okta
3 6 (5.31%) Red Hat
3 6 (5.31%) SAP
4 5 (4.42%) Citrix
4 5 (4.42%) Google
4 5 (4.42%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.54%) Computacenter
6 2 (1.77%) Apple
6 2 (1.77%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.77%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.88%) Ariba
7 1 (0.88%) Cisco
7 1 (0.88%) Dell
7 1 (0.88%) HP
7 1 (0.88%) Hyperion
7 1 (0.88%) Intel
7 1 (0.88%) NetApp
7 1 (0.88%) Peregrine