Microsoft Contract Job Trends in Hereford

Microsoft
Herefordshire > Hereford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hereford 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 9 September 2026, 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
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 - 17
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Hereford 13.89% - 2.70%
As % of the Vendors category 55.56% - 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £550
Herefordshire median daily rate £500 £650 £635
% change year-on-year -23.08% +2.36% -5.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £60.14 - -
25th Percentile £60.34 - -
Median hourly rate £65.45 - -
75th Percentile £70.41 - -
90th Percentile £70.51 - -
Herefordshire median hourly rate £65.45 - -

All Vendors
Hereford

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 Hereford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 9 1 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hereford 25.00% 5.88% 24.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile - - £555
25th Percentile - £468 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £650
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -25.38% +18.18%
75th Percentile - £503 £738
90th Percentile - - £745
Herefordshire median daily rate £563 £575 £624
% change year-on-year -2.17% -7.78% +13.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.43 - -
Median hourly rate £63.14 - -
75th Percentile £70.11 - -
90th Percentile £70.37 - -
Herefordshire median hourly rate £63.14 - -

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Hereford

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Hereford

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in Hereford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hereford citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Hereford

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hereford citing Microsoft

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hereford 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Power Automate
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (40.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (40.00%) Billing
1 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Case Management
1 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (60.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 3 (60.00%) SIEM
1 3 (60.00%) Situational Awareness
2 2 (40.00%) Business Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Business Process Mapping
2 2 (40.00%) CRM
2 2 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (60.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Splunk