Microsoft Contracts in the East of England

Microsoft
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 227 313 436
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 11.71% 15.97% 16.99%
As % of the Vendors category 31.66% 36.82% 39.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 224 273
10th Percentile £175 £167 £158
25th Percentile £225 £213 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £425 £375
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +13.33% +50.00%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £488
90th Percentile £700 £729 £613
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 25 66
10th Percentile £13.84 £12.40 £12.40
25th Percentile £14.16 £13.29 £13.25
Median hourly rate £14.84 £13.58 £14.75
Median % change year-on-year +9.28% -7.93% -16.19%
75th Percentile £16.85 £21.50 £19.66
90th Percentile £25.00 £47.50 £52.50
England median hourly rate £15.00 £21.50 £17.56
% change year-on-year -30.23% +22.44% +0.34%

All Vendors
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 717 850 1,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 36.98% 43.37% 43.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 537 679
10th Percentile £200 £186 £185
25th Percentile £349 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £559
90th Percentile £700 £700 £663
England median daily rate £515 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -2.83% +0.95% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 93 150
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.29 £12.75
25th Percentile £14.50 £15.25 £14.46
Median hourly rate £17.40 £19.81 £17.16
Median % change year-on-year -12.17% +15.43% +7.27%
75th Percentile £45.00 £50.00 £28.41
90th Percentile £74.25 £65.00 £55.00
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in the East of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in the East of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in the East of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 2 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
Cambridgeshire +3 95 £450 +38.46% 81
Hertfordshire -18 58 £505 +1.00% 100
Essex -4 28 £457 +1.61% 77
Bedfordshire -2 27 £375 +16.82% 35
Suffolk +10 11 £220 -32.31% 38
Norfolk -2 7 £208 +5.99% 44
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 26 (11.45%) SharePoint
2 11 (4.85%) IIS
2 11 (4.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.20%) Apache
4 4 (1.76%) Exchange Server 2000
4 4 (1.76%) Exchange Server 2003
4 4 (1.76%) Exchange Server 2007
4 4 (1.76%) Exchange Server 2010
4 4 (1.76%) Exchange Server 2013
4 4 (1.76%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.88%) Alfresco
5 2 (0.88%) Appian
5 2 (0.88%) Camunda
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.44%) Confluence
6 1 (0.44%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.44%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 100 (44.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (29.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 36 (15.86%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (4.41%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (2.64%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.88%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.44%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 4 (1.76%) Shopify
2 3 (1.32%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 3 (1.32%) SAP FI-AP
3 2 (0.88%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.44%) Lorenzo
4 1 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.44%) SAP WM
4 1 (0.44%) SystmOne
4 1 (0.44%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 32 (14.10%) Microsoft 365
2 25 (11.01%) Azure
3 9 (3.96%) Power Platform
4 6 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.32%) OCI
6 2 (0.88%) BigCommerce
6 2 (0.88%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (0.88%) GCP
6 2 (0.88%) OneDrive
6 2 (0.88%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 2 (0.88%) ShareGate
6 2 (0.88%) Stripe
7 1 (0.44%) AWS
7 1 (0.44%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.44%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.44%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.44%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.44%) Google Drive
7 1 (0.44%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.05%) Wi-Fi
2 15 (6.61%) TCP/IP
3 8 (3.52%) Firewall
3 8 (3.52%) VPN
4 6 (2.64%) Ethernet
5 5 (2.20%) Wireless
6 4 (1.76%) H.323
6 4 (1.76%) HTTP
6 4 (1.76%) Intranet
6 4 (1.76%) WAN
6 4 (1.76%) Wireshark
7 3 (1.32%) LAN
7 3 (1.32%) SMTP
7 3 (1.32%) Structured Cabling
8 2 (0.88%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.44%) DHCP
9 1 (0.44%) DNS
9 1 (0.44%) PBX
9 1 (0.44%) VLAN
9 1 (0.44%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.96%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.08%) Power BI
3 6 (2.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (1.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.32%) SAP HANA
6 2 (0.88%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.88%) MS Access
6 2 (0.88%) MySQL
6 2 (0.88%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.44%) DTS
7 1 (0.44%) EDMS
7 1 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.44%) Power Query
7 1 (0.44%) QlikView
7 1 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (4.41%) Visual Studio
2 6 (2.64%) Eclipse
3 5 (2.20%) JIRA
4 4 (1.76%) Fiddler
5 1 (0.44%) GitLab
5 1 (0.44%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.44%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.44%) MSI
5 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.44%) Subversion
General
1 98 (43.17%) Social Skills
2 26 (11.45%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (5.73%) Public Sector
4 12 (5.29%) German Language
4 12 (5.29%) Presentation Skills
5 11 (4.85%) Manufacturing
5 11 (4.85%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (4.41%) Finance
6 10 (4.41%) Telecoms
7 9 (3.96%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.64%) Hungarian Language
8 6 (2.64%) Marketing
8 6 (2.64%) Military
8 6 (2.64%) Retail
9 5 (2.20%) Automotive
9 5 (2.20%) Legal
9 5 (2.20%) Lithuanian Language
10 4 (1.76%) Dutch Language
10 4 (1.76%) Local Government
10 4 (1.76%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 55 (24.23%) Analyst
2 39 (17.18%) Service Analyst
3 26 (11.45%) Administrator
3 26 (11.45%) Service Desk Analyst
4 18 (7.93%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
5 17 (7.49%) Support Engineer
6 15 (6.61%) Developer
7 13 (5.73%) Customer Analyst
7 13 (5.73%) Customer Service Analyst
8 9 (3.96%) Desktop Engineer
8 9 (3.96%) Desktop Support
8 9 (3.96%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 8 (3.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (3.52%) IT Engineer
10 7 (3.08%) Architect
10 7 (3.08%) C# Software Engineer
10 7 (3.08%) Senior
10 7 (3.08%) Software Engineer
11 6 (2.64%) 2nd Line Support
11 6 (2.64%) Project Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.96%) .NET
2 8 (3.52%) Web Services
3 7 (3.08%) React
4 6 (2.64%) .NET Framework
4 6 (2.64%) Node.js
5 5 (2.20%) CSS
5 5 (2.20%) HTML
6 4 (1.76%) SAML
7 3 (1.32%) EDI
7 3 (1.32%) IDoc
8 2 (0.88%) Drools
8 2 (0.88%) jBPM
8 2 (0.88%) JSON
8 2 (0.88%) SPFx
8 2 (0.88%) VML
9 1 (0.44%) .NET Core
9 1 (0.44%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.44%) jQuery
9 1 (0.44%) Lightning Web Components
9 1 (0.44%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.85%) Management Information System
2 5 (2.20%) Data Centre
2 5 (2.20%) iPad
2 5 (2.20%) iPhone
2 5 (2.20%) NHS
2 5 (2.20%) Onboarding
2 5 (2.20%) PKI
2 5 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (1.76%) Graphic Design
3 4 (1.76%) IVR
4 3 (1.32%) Virtual Team
5 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (0.88%) Fat Client
5 2 (0.88%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (0.88%) Low-Code
5 2 (0.88%) Reinsurance
5 2 (0.88%) Thin Client
6 1 (0.44%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.44%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.44%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 61 (26.87%) Windows
2 25 (11.01%) Linux
3 13 (5.73%) Windows 10
4 10 (4.41%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.64%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (2.20%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.76%) Windows 2000
8 4 (1.76%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (1.32%) Windows 7
9 3 (1.32%) Windows 8
10 1 (0.44%) Android
10 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (44.93%) Problem-Solving
2 85 (37.44%) Customer Service
3 64 (28.19%) Service Delivery
4 62 (27.31%) Mathematics
5 58 (25.55%) Incident Management
6 32 (14.10%) ITIL
7 24 (10.57%) Migration
8 21 (9.25%) Agile
8 21 (9.25%) Project Management
9 12 (5.29%) PRINCE2
10 11 (4.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 10 (4.41%) DevOps
11 10 (4.41%) Software Engineering
11 10 (4.41%) Time Management
12 9 (3.96%) CI/CD
12 9 (3.96%) Computer Science
12 9 (3.96%) Project Delivery
12 9 (3.96%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (3.96%) Validation
13 8 (3.52%) Synthetic Environment
Programming Languages
1 12 (5.29%) C#
2 10 (4.41%) JavaScript
3 9 (3.96%) PowerShell
4 8 (3.52%) C++
4 8 (3.52%) Java
5 6 (2.64%) SQL
6 5 (2.20%) Python
7 4 (1.76%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.32%) ABAP
8 3 (1.32%) R
9 2 (0.88%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.44%) C
10 1 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.44%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 34 (14.98%) Security Cleared
2 27 (11.89%) Microsoft Certification
3 24 (10.57%) Degree
4 20 (8.81%) MCSA
5 18 (7.93%) SC Cleared
6 17 (7.49%) A+ Certification
7 13 (5.73%) DV Cleared
8 10 (4.41%) CCNA
8 10 (4.41%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (3.08%) MCP
10 6 (2.64%) CCNP
10 6 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (2.20%) MCSE
12 3 (1.32%) ECDL
12 3 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (1.32%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.88%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.44%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.41%) SLA
2 8 (3.52%) PMO
3 7 (3.08%) GDPR
4 3 (1.32%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.32%) QA
5 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.44%) GMP
5 1 (0.44%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.44%) PMBOK
System Software
1 58 (25.55%) Active Directory
2 10 (4.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (3.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (3.08%) SCCM
3 5 (2.20%) SCOM
4 4 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.32%) MAILsweeper
6 1 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 19 (8.37%) SAP
2 16 (7.05%) Citrix
3 14 (6.17%) ServiceNow
4 11 (4.85%) VMware
5 9 (3.96%) Cisco
5 9 (3.96%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.64%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.20%) Avaya
7 5 (2.20%) Sophos
8 4 (1.76%) Darktrace
8 4 (1.76%) F5
8 4 (1.76%) Google
8 4 (1.76%) Varonis
8 4 (1.76%) Verint
9 3 (1.32%) Apple
9 3 (1.32%) IronPort
9 3 (1.32%) McAfee
9 3 (1.32%) NetApp
9 3 (1.32%) OpenText
9 3 (1.32%) Trend Micro