Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Bradford

Microsoft
West Yorkshire > Bradford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bradford 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 30 September 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
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 7 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 -11
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 9 8 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bradford 14.29% 17.02% 6.52%
As % of the Vendors category 31.03% 22.22% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 6
10th Percentile £262 £359 £215
25th Percentile £425 £364 £252
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £412 £494
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% -16.66% +17.91%
75th Percentile £475 £511 £650
90th Percentile £535 £642 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £517
% change year-on-year - -8.12% +29.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £21.30 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £110.65 £23.84 £21.50
% change year-on-year +364.23% +10.86% +14.97%

All Vendors
Bradford

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 Bradford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 29 36 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bradford 46.03% 76.60% 58.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 20 43
10th Percentile £235 £350 £333
25th Percentile £401 £386 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £412 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% -17.70% +8.11%
75th Percentile £594 £438 £594
90th Percentile £618 £499 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £16.16 - -
25th Percentile £17.90 - -
Median hourly rate £18.87 - £26.78
Median % change year-on-year - - +58.93%
75th Percentile £19.48 - -
90th Percentile £20.57 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £77.50 £16.35 £21.50
% change year-on-year +374.15% -23.98% +14.97%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Bradford

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Bradford

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in Bradford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bradford citing Microsoft.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bradford citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Bradford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Bradford over the 6 months to 30 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Bradford

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Bradford

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bradford citing Microsoft.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bradford citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bradford 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (11.11%) Power Automate
1 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
1 1 (11.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Ethernet
1 2 (22.22%) SD-WAN
1 2 (22.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
5 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Scrum Master
2 2 (22.22%) Deployment Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Network Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Network Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Test Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Test Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Deployment Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Platform Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Power Apps Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Procurement Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (22.22%) NHS
3 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
1 2 (22.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Test Automation
2 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (44.44%) CRM
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 3 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
3 3 (33.33%) Burndown Charts
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 3 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 3 (33.33%) ERP
3 3 (33.33%) Kanban
3 3 (33.33%) Migration
3 3 (33.33%) Planning Poker
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Scrum
3 3 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Bash
1 2 (22.22%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ansible
1 2 (22.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco
1 2 (22.22%) Juniper
1 2 (22.22%) Meraki
1 2 (22.22%) Nokia
2 1 (11.11%) SAP