Microsoft Copilot Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Microsoft Copilot
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Microsoft Copilot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 31 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Copilot 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 0.92% 0.55% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.38% 2.94% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 -
75th Percentile £638 £638 -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £625 £625 -

All Cloud Skills
Bedfordshire

Microsoft Copilot falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 84 34 68
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 38.53% 18.58% 33.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 23 42
10th Percentile £232 £302 £182
25th Percentile £440 £344 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £638 £560 £550
90th Percentile £650 £581 £636
East of England median daily rate £500 £420 £466
% change year-on-year +19.05% -9.92% -8.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £53.16 £35.00 -
25th Percentile £70.73 £42.50 £61.00
Median hourly rate £100.00 £55.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% -11.29% +195.24%
75th Percentile £102.75 - £63.00
90th Percentile £104.40 - -
East of England median hourly rate £25.00 £20.69 £20.00
% change year-on-year +20.86% +3.43% +29.03%

Microsoft Copilot
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Copilot within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 23 October 2025. 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
Bedford - 1 £625 - 1
Microsoft Copilot
East of England

Microsoft Copilot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (100.00%) Copilot Studio
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 2 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) API Development
1 2 (100.00%) B2B
1 2 (100.00%) B2C
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) MLOps
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Foundry
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI