Microsoft Contracts in Birmingham

Microsoft
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 1 May 2025, 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 6 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 +2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 84 101 155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.09% 13.07% 17.15%
As % of the Vendors category 34.29% 30.42% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 72 106
10th Percentile £165 £190 £260
25th Percentile £276 £350 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £427 £425 £456
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -6.85% +1.39%
75th Percentile £534 £503 £600
90th Percentile £614 £638 £681
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £425 £456
% change year-on-year -5.88% -6.85% +7.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 8
10th Percentile £29.37 £11.08 £12.35
25th Percentile £29.92 £13.25 £12.50
Median hourly rate £30.45 £16.98 £15.99
Median % change year-on-year +79.38% +6.19% -5.97%
75th Percentile £38.16 £26.50 £20.00
90th Percentile £51.64 £55.88 £23.83
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.00 £14.00 £16.23
% change year-on-year +42.86% -13.71% +1.41%

All Vendors
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 245 332 403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 46.93% 42.95% 44.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 219 236
10th Percentile £160 £262 £229
25th Percentile £353 £330 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +20.59% -10.53% -
75th Percentile £613 £575 £608
90th Percentile £691 £692 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £479 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +6.33% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 23 18
10th Percentile £20.15 £11.55 £12.50
25th Percentile £25.13 £14.00 £13.73
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.00 £19.60
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +32.64% -1.99%
75th Percentile £30.68 £39.63 £51.88
90th Percentile £42.66 £55.00 £97.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.51 £19.95 £18.50
% change year-on-year -7.22% +7.84% +7.06%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Birmingham

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 10 (11.90%) SharePoint
2 6 (7.14%) IIS
2 6 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.19%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.38%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 41 (48.81%) Azure
2 31 (36.90%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (20.24%) Entra ID
4 15 (17.86%) Power Platform
5 11 (13.10%) Power Automate
6 10 (11.90%) PowerApps
7 8 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (5.95%) AWS
9 5 (5.95%) GCP
9 5 (5.95%) OneDrive
10 3 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (2.38%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (2.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (2.38%) IaaS
11 2 (2.38%) PaaS
11 2 (2.38%) SaaS
11 2 (2.38%) SuccessFactors
12 1 (1.19%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.19%) DHCP
1 1 (1.19%) DNS
1 1 (1.19%) Network Security
1 1 (1.19%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (1.19%) VLAN
1 1 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.14%) Data Lake
2 6 (7.14%) Power BI
3 2 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.38%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.38%) Power Query
3 2 (2.38%) Tableau
4 1 (1.19%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.19%) Big Data
4 1 (1.19%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.19%) GIS
4 1 (1.19%) Metadata
4 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (1.19%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (3.57%) JIRA
2 1 (1.19%) LoadRunner
2 1 (1.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 48 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 25 (29.76%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (10.71%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.95%) Retail
5 4 (4.76%) Legal
5 4 (4.76%) Manufacturing
5 4 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.38%) Finance
6 2 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Advertising
7 1 (1.19%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Military
Job Titles
1 20 (23.81%) Analyst
2 12 (14.29%) Architect
3 7 (8.33%) Developer
4 6 (7.14%) Business Analyst
4 6 (7.14%) Consultant
4 6 (7.14%) Service Analyst
4 6 (7.14%) Service Desk Analyst
4 6 (7.14%) Support Analyst
4 6 (7.14%) Support Engineer
5 5 (5.95%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (5.95%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 5 (5.95%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (4.76%) 1st Line Support
6 4 (4.76%) 2nd Line Support
6 4 (4.76%) Desktop Support
6 4 (4.76%) IT Analyst
6 4 (4.76%) Junior
6 4 (4.76%) Junior Solutions Architect
6 4 (4.76%) Security Analyst
6 4 (4.76%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.90%) Middleware
2 6 (7.14%) HTML
3 4 (4.76%) .NET
4 2 (2.38%) Software Packaging
4 2 (2.38%) Web Services
5 1 (1.19%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.19%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (1.19%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (1.19%) Kafka
5 1 (1.19%) LDAP
5 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (1.19%) NumPy
5 1 (1.19%) OAuth
5 1 (1.19%) Pandas
5 1 (1.19%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (2.38%) Driving Licence
2 2 (2.38%) Replication
2 2 (2.38%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.19%) IoT
3 1 (1.19%) NHS
3 1 (1.19%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.19%) PKI
3 1 (1.19%) PMI
3 1 (1.19%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (23.81%) Windows
2 11 (13.10%) Windows 10
3 6 (7.14%) Android
4 2 (2.38%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.38%) Mac OS X
5 1 (1.19%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (36.90%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (20.24%) Customer Service
2 17 (20.24%) ITIL
3 16 (19.05%) Agile
3 16 (19.05%) DevOps
3 16 (19.05%) Migration
4 9 (10.71%) CI/CD
4 9 (10.71%) Incident Management
5 7 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (8.33%) Data Integration
5 7 (8.33%) Data Migration
5 7 (8.33%) ERP
5 7 (8.33%) Service Management
6 6 (7.14%) Asset Management
6 6 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (7.14%) ETL
6 6 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
6 6 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
6 6 (7.14%) TOGAF
7 5 (5.95%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 13 (15.48%) PowerShell
1 13 (15.48%) SQL
2 7 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 4 (4.76%) C#
4 3 (3.57%) Python
5 2 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.38%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (2.38%) VB
5 2 (2.38%) VBA
6 1 (1.19%) ANSI SQL
6 1 (1.19%) Perl
6 1 (1.19%) R
6 1 (1.19%) Scala
6 1 (1.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (13.10%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (5.95%) Degree
3 5 (5.95%) DV Cleared
3 5 (5.95%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (2.38%) A+ Certification
5 2 (2.38%) MCP
5 2 (2.38%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (1.19%) CISSP
6 1 (1.19%) CITP
6 1 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.19%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.19%) GIAC
6 1 (1.19%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.19%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (2.38%) GDPR
2 2 (2.38%) SLA
3 1 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.19%) NIST
3 1 (1.19%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.19%) PMO
3 1 (1.19%) QA
System Software
1 26 (30.95%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (4.76%) SCCM
3 3 (3.57%) Grafana
4 2 (2.38%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (7.14%) ServiceNow
2 4 (4.76%) SAP
3 3 (3.57%) Informatica
4 2 (2.38%) Dell
4 2 (2.38%) Fujitsu
4 2 (2.38%) Google
4 2 (2.38%) HP
4 2 (2.38%) UiPath
4 2 (2.38%) Varonis
5 1 (1.19%) Alibaba
5 1 (1.19%) Apple
5 1 (1.19%) Ariba
5 1 (1.19%) Blue Prism
5 1 (1.19%) Cisco
5 1 (1.19%) Databricks
5 1 (1.19%) Juniper
5 1 (1.19%) Micro Focus
5 1 (1.19%) Oracle
5 1 (1.19%) Snow
5 1 (1.19%) Splunk