Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Chesterfield

Microsoft
Derbyshire > Chesterfield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Chesterfield 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 22 December 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
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 3 1
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 2 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Chesterfield 18.18% 16.67% 27.27%
As % of the Vendors category 25.00% 33.33% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £134 £121 £350
Median % change year-on-year +10.74% -65.43% -
Derbyshire median daily rate £443 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +4.12% -5.56% +75.27%

All Vendors
Chesterfield

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 Chesterfield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8 3 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chesterfield 72.73% 50.00% 54.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile - £144 -
25th Percentile £125 £178 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £132 £236 £350
Median % change year-on-year -43.95% -32.71% -17.65%
75th Percentile £315 £293 £488
90th Percentile £375 £327 £570
Derbyshire median daily rate £500 £425 £488
% change year-on-year +17.65% -12.82% +12.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.25
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +57.14%
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - -
Derbyshire median hourly rate £18.00 £17.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +5.88% -4.06% +14.32%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Chesterfield

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Chesterfield

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in Chesterfield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Chesterfield citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Chesterfield

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Chesterfield citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chesterfield 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:

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) PuTTY
1 2 (100.00%) SSH
1 2 (100.00%) Telnet
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Break Fix Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Hardware Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Break/Fix
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 2 (100.00%) Line Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) BitLocker
1 2 (100.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Dell
1 2 (100.00%) Draytek
1 2 (100.00%) McAfee