Microsoft Contract Job Trends 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 22 April 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
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 7 15
Rank change year-on-year -7 +8 -13
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 9 4 7
As % of all contract jobs in Herefordshire 14.06% 20.00% 15.91%
As % of the Vendors category 81.82% 57.14% 46.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 4
10th Percentile £475 - £525
25th Percentile £525 - £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £900 £538
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +67.29% -17.23%
75th Percentile £750 - £578
90th Percentile - - £650
West Midlands median daily rate £468 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +16.88% -11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £60.08 - -
25th Percentile £60.20 - -
Median hourly rate £65.35 - -
75th Percentile £70.44 - -
90th Percentile £70.53 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £20.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +42.86% -13.71%

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 11 7 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Herefordshire 17.19% 35.00% 34.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 8
10th Percentile £475 £533 £533
25th Percentile £525 £769 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £900 £584
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +54.11% -10.15%
75th Percentile £750 - £650
90th Percentile - - £751
West Midlands median daily rate £470 £490 £450
% change year-on-year -4.08% +8.89% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.43 - -
Median hourly rate £64.07 £18.51 -
Median % change year-on-year +246.12% - -
75th Percentile £70.15 - -
90th Percentile £70.41 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £31.50 £18.51 £19.95
% change year-on-year +70.18% -7.22% +7.84%

Microsoft
Job Vacancy Trend in Herefordshire

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

Microsoft job vacancy trend in Herefordshire

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend in Herefordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing Microsoft

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram in Herefordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft in Herefordshire over the 6 months to 22 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft in Herefordshire

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend in Herefordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Herefordshire citing Microsoft

Microsoft
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 22 April 2026. 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 -1 4 £700 -22.22%
Hereford -9 2 - - 9
Ross-on-Wye - 1 £400 - 1
Microsoft
West Midlands

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Herefordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) Serverless
3 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Azure Key Vault
3 4 (44.44%) GitHub
3 4 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
4 2 (22.22%) AWS
4 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (22.22%) OpenShift
5 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (11.11%) Power Automate
5 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 1 (11.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
1 2 (22.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (44.44%) Redis
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (22.22%) InfluxDB
2 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
3 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) GitLab
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Backend Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Python Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Site Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Business Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) FastAPI
1 4 (44.44%) Flask
1 4 (44.44%) GraphQL
1 4 (44.44%) gRPC
1 4 (44.44%) REST
1 4 (44.44%) WebSockets
2 2 (22.22%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Native
2 2 (22.22%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 6 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Microservices
4 2 (22.22%) Case Management
4 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
4 2 (22.22%) Domain Models
4 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven
4 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (22.22%) ITIL
4 2 (22.22%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 2 (22.22%) Observability
4 2 (22.22%) Service Management
4 2 (22.22%) SIEM
4 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Situational Awareness
4 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Task Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Backlog Refinement
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 6 (66.67%) Go
2 6 (66.67%) Python
3 2 (22.22%) Java
3 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
4 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 7 (77.78%) SC Cleared
3 5 (55.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (22.22%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Grafana
1 6 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 6 (66.67%) Prometheus
2 2 (22.22%) Ansible
2 2 (22.22%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (22.22%) Progress Chef
2 2 (22.22%) Puppet
2 2 (22.22%) QRadar
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Splunk