Microsoft Contracts in Northampton

Microsoft
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northampton 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 14 November 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
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 12 9
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 -3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 21 13 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 11.93% 12.50% 15.98%
As % of the Vendors category 38.18% 19.40% 42.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 28
10th Percentile £375 £173 £144
25th Percentile £394 £189 £176
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £345 £490
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% -29.59% -6.67%
75th Percentile £450 £491 £500
90th Percentile £493 £496 £572
Northamptonshire median daily rate £450 £425 £480
% change year-on-year +5.88% -11.46% +18.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.00
Median hourly rate - - £18.00
75th Percentile - - £19.00
90th Percentile - - -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate - £11.83 £18.00
% change year-on-year - -34.28% -25.25%

All Vendors
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 55 67 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 31.25% 64.42% 37.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 52 64
10th Percentile £327 £402 £168
25th Percentile £356 £445 £241
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £489 £455
Median % change year-on-year -18.20% +7.47% +3.41%
75th Percentile £500 £534 £505
90th Percentile £620 £564 £560
Northamptonshire median daily rate £425 £489 £484
% change year-on-year -13.09% +0.98% +19.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.00
Median hourly rate - - £18.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.25%
75th Percentile - - £19.00
90th Percentile - - -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate - £11.83 £17.86
% change year-on-year - -33.76% -25.83%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Northampton

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Northampton

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Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Northampton over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Northampton

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northampton

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Northampton

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (9.52%) Confluence
3 1 (4.76%) SAS
3 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (52.38%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (9.52%) AWS
2 2 (9.52%) Azure
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.76%) GCP
3 1 (4.76%) Power Automate
3 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.76%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) DHCP
1 4 (19.05%) DNS
2 1 (4.76%) SAN
2 1 (4.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.76%) Power BI
2 1 (4.76%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
General
1 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Finance
2 3 (14.29%) Local Government
2 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Analyst
1 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) DBA
2 4 (19.05%) Designer
2 4 (19.05%) IT Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) IT Support
2 4 (19.05%) IT Support Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) SQL DBA
2 4 (19.05%) Support Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) IT Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Administrator
5 1 (4.76%) Agile Project Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Data Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Database Designer
5 1 (4.76%) IT Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (47.62%) Windows
1 10 (47.62%) Windows Server
2 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
2 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
2 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (9.52%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Migration
2 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (19.05%) Customer-Centricity
4 4 (19.05%) Data Modelling
4 4 (19.05%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (19.05%) High Availability
4 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
4 4 (19.05%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (19.05%) Project Management
5 3 (14.29%) Agile
6 2 (9.52%) Budgeting
6 2 (9.52%) Budgeting and Forecasting
6 2 (9.52%) Data Management
6 2 (9.52%) Project Delivery
6 2 (9.52%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (9.52%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 2 (9.52%) Waterfall
7 1 (4.76%) Regulatory Change
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) PowerShell
2 4 (19.05%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) Degree
2 4 (19.05%) MCITP
2 4 (19.05%) MCTS
2 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) GRC
2 1 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (47.62%) Active Directory
2 6 (28.57%) Virtual Desktop
2 6 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) SCOM
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) VMware
2 5 (23.81%) SolarWinds
3 4 (19.05%) Citrix
4 1 (4.76%) Google