Microsoft Contracts in Yorkshire

Microsoft
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 6 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
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 7 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +5
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 217 300 371
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 12.70% 13.78% 13.82%
As % of the Vendors category 26.69% 33.82% 34.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 197 267
10th Percentile £174 £157 £150
25th Percentile £216 £281 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £380
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +25.00% -5.00%
75th Percentile £537 £588 £500
90th Percentile £656 £638 £609
England median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 37
10th Percentile £12.63 £18.80 £11.40
25th Percentile £12.70 £20.75 £15.93
Median hourly rate £15.00 £22.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +25.71% -1.52%
75th Percentile £15.17 £33.75 £19.50
90th Percentile £21.25 £40.20 £25.05
England median hourly rate £15.00 £21.50 £17.53
% change year-on-year -30.23% +22.65% +1.23%

All Vendors
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 813 887 1,069
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 47.60% 40.74% 39.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 586 739
10th Percentile £250 £200 £182
25th Percentile £411 £413 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +15.56% -
75th Percentile £586 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £700 £638
England median daily rate £515 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -2.83% +0.95% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 9 51
10th Percentile £12.53 £14.80 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.50 £17.50 £12.94
Median hourly rate £14.63 £21.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.98% +22.86% -
75th Percentile £15.19 £22.51 £21.09
90th Percentile £41.88 £35.90 £25.08
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 Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 6 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
West Yorkshire +2 112 £431 -15.59% 154
South Yorkshire -2 54 £425 -15.00% 87
North Yorkshire 0 40 £466 +55.33% 54
East Yorkshire +2 3 £300 +76.47% 17
Humberside - 3 £300 - 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 14 (6.45%) SharePoint
2 13 (5.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (3.69%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.84%) WordPress
5 1 (0.46%) CMS
5 1 (0.46%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.46%) Umbraco
Applications
1 47 (21.66%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (5.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.84%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.38%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.46%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.46%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.46%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.46%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 55 (25.35%) Azure
2 47 (21.66%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (13.36%) Dynamics 365
4 26 (11.98%) Power Platform
5 15 (6.91%) AWS
6 14 (6.45%) Entra ID
7 10 (4.61%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (4.61%) PowerApps
8 9 (4.15%) GCP
9 8 (3.69%) Amazon S3
9 8 (3.69%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
9 8 (3.69%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (3.69%) Serverless
10 5 (2.30%) Akamai
10 5 (2.30%) Cloudflare
11 4 (1.84%) MailChimp
11 4 (1.84%) SaaS
12 3 (1.38%) Azure AKS
12 3 (1.38%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (1.38%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.99%) Firewall
2 8 (3.69%) VPN
3 7 (3.23%) DNS
3 7 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (2.76%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.30%) DHCP
5 5 (2.30%) Internet
5 5 (2.30%) LAN
5 5 (2.30%) Remote Desktop
6 4 (1.84%) SAN
7 3 (1.38%) Network Security
7 3 (1.38%) PBX
7 3 (1.38%) VoIP
8 2 (0.92%) IP Telephony
8 2 (0.92%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.92%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.46%) Intranet
9 1 (0.46%) SSL
9 1 (0.46%) VLAN
9 1 (0.46%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.91%) Power BI
2 11 (5.07%) Data Lake
2 11 (5.07%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.69%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (3.69%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (3.69%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (3.69%) Big Data
3 8 (3.69%) BigQuery
3 8 (3.69%) Hadoop
4 7 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (2.76%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.38%) MySQL
7 2 (0.92%) Qlik Sense
7 2 (0.92%) Tableau
8 1 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.46%) GIS
8 1 (0.46%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.46%) QlikView
8 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 15 (6.91%) Git
2 11 (5.07%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.15%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (2.76%) JIRA
5 3 (1.38%) GitLab
6 2 (0.92%) AppScan
6 2 (0.92%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.92%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.92%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.46%) Dreamweaver
7 1 (0.46%) gulp
7 1 (0.46%) Maven
7 1 (0.46%) Selenium
General
1 97 (44.70%) Social Skills
2 30 (13.82%) Finance
3 21 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.37%) Manufacturing
5 14 (6.45%) Telecoms
6 12 (5.53%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.61%) Banking
8 8 (3.69%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (3.23%) Law
10 4 (1.84%) Retail
11 2 (0.92%) German Language
11 2 (0.92%) Local Government
11 2 (0.92%) Multimedia
11 2 (0.92%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.46%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.46%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.46%) Legal
12 1 (0.46%) Marketing
12 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (14.29%) Analyst
2 29 (13.36%) IT Support
3 25 (11.52%) Architect
4 19 (8.76%) Consultant
4 19 (8.76%) Lead
5 15 (6.91%) Solutions Architect
6 14 (6.45%) Service Desk Agent
7 13 (5.99%) IT Engineer
7 13 (5.99%) Support Engineer
8 11 (5.07%) Project Manager
8 11 (5.07%) Support Analyst
9 10 (4.61%) Developer
9 10 (4.61%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
10 9 (4.15%) 2nd Line Support
10 9 (4.15%) IT Support Engineer
11 8 (3.69%) IT Technician
11 8 (3.69%) Service Analyst
11 8 (3.69%) Service Desk Analyst
12 7 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
13 6 (2.76%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.15%) Kafka
2 4 (1.84%) SailPoint
3 3 (1.38%) .NET
4 2 (0.92%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.92%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.46%) CSS
5 1 (0.46%) HTML
5 1 (0.46%) J2EE
5 1 (0.46%) Node.js
5 1 (0.46%) OAuth
5 1 (0.46%) OpenID
5 1 (0.46%) RESTful
5 1 (0.46%) SAML
5 1 (0.46%) Series 60
5 1 (0.46%) Spring
5 1 (0.46%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.46%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.60%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 20 (9.22%) Cyber Defence
2 20 (9.22%) Cyber Threat
3 18 (8.29%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.23%) NHS
5 4 (1.84%) iPhone
5 4 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.38%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.38%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.92%) BYOD
7 2 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.46%) CMDB
8 1 (0.46%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.46%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.46%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.46%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.46%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.46%) Replication
8 1 (0.46%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 69 (31.80%) Windows
2 41 (18.89%) Windows 10
3 16 (7.37%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.23%) Android
5 6 (2.76%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.84%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.84%) Linux
7 3 (1.38%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.92%) VMS
8 2 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.46%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (23.96%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (20.74%) Customer Service
3 27 (12.44%) Cybersecurity
4 24 (11.06%) DevOps
5 21 (9.68%) CRM
5 21 (9.68%) Incident Response
5 21 (9.68%) Mentoring
6 20 (9.22%) Business Intelligence
6 20 (9.22%) Incident Management
6 20 (9.22%) Information Security
6 20 (9.22%) SIEM
7 19 (8.76%) Protective Monitoring
8 18 (8.29%) Project Management
8 18 (8.29%) Service Delivery
9 17 (7.83%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 16 (7.37%) Analytics
10 16 (7.37%) Data Modelling
10 16 (7.37%) Root Cause Analysis
11 15 (6.91%) Migration
11 15 (6.91%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (11.06%) SQL
2 13 (5.99%) Python
3 11 (5.07%) Java
4 5 (2.30%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.84%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.38%) C#
7 2 (0.92%) Bash
7 2 (0.92%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 30 (13.82%) Security Cleared
2 22 (10.14%) DV Cleared
3 11 (5.07%) Degree
4 6 (2.76%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.30%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.38%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.92%) A+ Certification
7 2 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.92%) CCNA
7 2 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.92%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (0.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.46%) MCP
8 1 (0.46%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.46%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.76%) NIST
2 18 (8.29%) NIST 800
3 12 (5.53%) QA
4 4 (1.84%) SLA
5 3 (1.38%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.92%) GDPR
6 2 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.46%) GRC
7 1 (0.46%) PMO
7 1 (0.46%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 55 (25.35%) Active Directory
2 10 (4.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.30%) Docker
4 3 (1.38%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.92%) KVM
5 2 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.92%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.46%) vSphere
6 1 (0.46%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 15 (6.91%) Terraform
2 13 (5.99%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (3.23%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.84%) Ansible
5 3 (1.38%) Puppet
6 2 (0.92%) Grafana
6 2 (0.92%) Graylog
6 2 (0.92%) HP Fortify
6 2 (0.92%) Nessus
6 2 (0.92%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.92%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.92%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.92%) WebInspect
7 1 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.46%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.46%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.46%) SCCM
7 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (5.53%) Google
2 10 (4.61%) VMware
3 7 (3.23%) Cisco
4 6 (2.76%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.30%) Citrix
5 5 (2.30%) F5
5 5 (2.30%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.84%) CyberArk
6 4 (1.84%) Hootsuite
6 4 (1.84%) Oracle
7 2 (0.92%) Apple
7 2 (0.92%) Checkmarx
7 2 (0.92%) Databricks
7 2 (0.92%) Mitel
7 2 (0.92%) NetApp
7 2 (0.92%) Qualys
7 2 (0.92%) Splunk
7 2 (0.92%) Veeam
7 2 (0.92%) Veracode
8 1 (0.46%) Veritas