Microsoft Contracts in Herefordshire

Microsoft
West Midlands > Herefordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Herefordshire 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 4 May 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
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 17 2
Rank change year-on-year +10 -15 +12
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 4 7 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Herefordshire 17.39% 13.73% 51.06%
As % of the Vendors category 57.14% 41.18% 77.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 14
10th Percentile - £525 £619
25th Percentile - £534 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 £538 £650
Median % change year-on-year +67.29% -17.23% +40.92%
75th Percentile - £578 £700
90th Percentile - £650 £718
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £400 £450
% change year-on-year - -11.11% +5.88%

All Vendors
Herefordshire

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 Herefordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7 17 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Herefordshire 30.43% 33.33% 65.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 19
10th Percentile £533 £534 £492
25th Percentile £769 £538 £621
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 £585 £650
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -10.00% +32.65%
75th Percentile - £698 £694
90th Percentile - £775 £705
West Midlands median daily rate £490 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +8.94% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £18.51 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.51 £18.39 £19.60
% change year-on-year +0.68% -6.21% +13.44%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Herefordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft in Herefordshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Herefordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft in Herefordshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Herefordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft in Herefordshire

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Contract Job Locations in Herefordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Herefordshire region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
Ledbury - 3 £900 -
Hereford +11 1 - - 8
Microsoft
West Midlands

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Herefordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) General Ledger
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
2 3 (75.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Threat Modelling
1 3 (75.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Quantitative Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Security Management
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Bloomberg
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle