Microsoft Copilot Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Microsoft Copilot
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Microsoft Copilot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Copilot 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.30% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.84% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 - -
North West median daily rate £450 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - -
Median hourly rate £19.00 - -
75th Percentile £19.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £19.00 - -

All Cloud Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 237 132 145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 36.13% 29.27% 36.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 88 104
10th Percentile £272 £331 £216
25th Percentile £358 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £487 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.66% +2.47% +8.26%
75th Percentile £492 £575 £525
90th Percentile £577 £638 £582
North West median daily rate £448 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.79% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 8
10th Percentile - £21.05 £17.37
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.83 £17.72
Median hourly rate £18.87 £24.18 £22.81
Median % change year-on-year -21.96% +6.03% +8.05%
75th Percentile £25.31 £64.17 £33.50
90th Percentile £59.08 £82.50 £47.00
North West median hourly rate £40.00 £31.00 £23.61
% change year-on-year +29.03% +31.30% -22.35%

Microsoft Copilot
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Copilot relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Microsoft Copilot job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Microsoft Copilot
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Warrington - 1 - - 1
Microsoft Copilot
North West

Microsoft Copilot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Coordinator
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) AI Transformation
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 1 (50.00%) Data Security
1 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (50.00%) LLM
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike