Microsoft Contracts in Coventry

Microsoft
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Coventry 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 20 July 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
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 10 3
Rank change year-on-year +8 -7 +2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 36 11 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Coventry 30.25% 10.78% 20.73%
As % of the Vendors category 59.02% 25.00% 36.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 7 32
10th Percentile £196 £195 £201
25th Percentile £217 £231 £274
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £289 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year -27.81% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £405 £513 £491
90th Percentile £600 £595 £661
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £420 £425
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.18% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £20.60
25th Percentile - - £21.50
Median hourly rate - - £23.50
75th Percentile - - £26.00
90th Percentile - - £27.20
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £14.00 £18.25
% change year-on-year +114.29% -23.29% +14.28%

All Vendors
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 61 44 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 51.26% 43.14% 57.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 32 88
10th Percentile £200 £258 £250
25th Percentile £228 £351 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £506 £538
90th Percentile £635 £690 £596
West Midlands median daily rate £460 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.22% -5.26% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £20.60
25th Percentile - - £21.50
Median hourly rate - - £23.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +88.00%
75th Percentile - - £26.00
90th Percentile - - £27.20
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £16.82 £21.60
% change year-on-year +78.36% -22.14% +23.44%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Coventry

Microsoft
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Coventry

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Coventry

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Coventry over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Coventry

Microsoft
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Coventry

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Coventry

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Coventry 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 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.78%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (16.67%) SAP PM
2 1 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.78%) Azure
2 9 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 7 (19.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 7 (19.44%) Power Platform
4 6 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (16.67%) Collibra
5 5 (13.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (11.11%) GitHub
6 4 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (8.33%) OneDrive
8 2 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (5.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
8 2 (5.56%) Power Automate
8 2 (5.56%) PowerApps
8 2 (5.56%) Serverless
9 1 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) Firewall
2 2 (5.56%) VPN
3 1 (2.78%) DHCP
3 1 (2.78%) DKIM
3 1 (2.78%) DNS
3 1 (2.78%) Network Security
3 1 (2.78%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (2.78%) SAN
3 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) Azure SQL Database
1 7 (19.44%) Delta Lake
1 7 (19.44%) Power BI
2 6 (16.67%) GIS
3 5 (13.89%) Oracle Database
4 3 (8.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.78%) Power Query
5 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) NUnit
General
1 15 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.78%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.78%) Automotive
4 1 (2.78%) Finance
4 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (22.22%) Analyst
2 6 (16.67%) Architect
3 5 (13.89%) Data Analyst
4 4 (11.11%) Data Architect
4 4 (11.11%) Deployment Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Data Migration Specialist
5 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Migration Specialist
6 2 (5.56%) Business Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Junior
6 2 (5.56%) Rollout Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Windows Deployment Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Windows Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Applications Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Junior Analyst
7 1 (2.78%) Junior Business Manager
7 1 (2.78%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.67%) Kafka
2 2 (5.56%) .NET
2 2 (5.56%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.78%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 1 (2.78%) Entity Framework
3 1 (2.78%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) IoT
1 6 (16.67%) SCADA
2 4 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.56%) Operational Technology
4 2 (5.56%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.78%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (30.56%) Windows
2 3 (8.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
1 8 (22.22%) Migration
2 7 (19.44%) Analytics
2 7 (19.44%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (19.44%) Data Governance
2 7 (19.44%) ITIL
3 6 (16.67%) Data Management
3 6 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 5 (13.89%) Collaborative Working
4 5 (13.89%) Data Mapping
4 5 (13.89%) Data Modelling
4 5 (13.89%) ETL
4 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (13.89%) RBAC
5 4 (11.11%) Agile
5 4 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
5 4 (11.11%) DevOps
5 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (8.33%) Validation
6 3 (8.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.22%) SQL
2 7 (19.44%) Kusto Query Language
3 6 (16.67%) Python
4 4 (11.11%) Bicep
5 3 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) MCSE
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.78%) Degree
2 1 (2.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (2.78%) NVQ Level 3
2 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 5 (13.89%) GDPR
3 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.78%) COSHH
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) SCCM
1 4 (11.11%) Terraform
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.78%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 8 (22.22%) Databricks
2 6 (16.67%) Informatica
2 6 (16.67%) SAP
3 5 (13.89%) Oracle
4 2 (5.56%) Dell
4 2 (5.56%) HP
4 2 (5.56%) VMware
5 1 (2.78%) Aruba
5 1 (2.78%) Cisco
5 1 (2.78%) Citrix
5 1 (2.78%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (2.78%) EMC
5 1 (2.78%) Meraki
5 1 (2.78%) Qualys
5 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.78%) SolarWinds